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1. Add MS 70001

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Title:
Papers of Sir Robert Harley of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, 1604-1630
Scope & Content:
This volume is largely composed of the papers of Sir Robert Harley (bap. 1579, d. 1656) of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, 1604-1630. However, it opens with a letter to his father Thomas Harley (c. 1543-1631) and with copies of a letter of the divine Samuel Ward (1603). It seems probable that the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1582-1630
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 70517

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Title:
Folding calendar
Scope & Content:
Recto: A sequence of seasons and months of year; a table of Latin numerals i-xxx. Verso: A perpetual calendar with saints' days; calculations of the number of years since biblical events, ending with 1412 years since the birth of Christ. Decoration: Miniatures in colours: the labours of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
? 1412
Extent:
1 folded calendar

3. Add MS 70518

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Title:
Miscellaneous letters and papers, 1540-1706
Scope & Content:
These letters are calendared in Historical Manuscripts Commission, Portland Manuscripts, II, 5-64. They form part of a section of miscellaneous manuscripts amongst the Portland Papers, which were originally held at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. The Portland Papers were deposited at the British...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1540-1706
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 70520

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Title:
George North, ‘A brief discourse of rebellion and Rebells’
Scope & Content:
Discourse by George North (fl. 1561–1581), translator, titled ‘A brief discourse of rebellion and Rebells, wherein is showyd, the treasur[e] that Traytors in the execution of theyr treason, by tym attayne to’. Part of the Portland Papers (Add MSS 70001-70523). With a dedication to Sir Roger Nor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1575-1576
Extent:
1 volume