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6461. Harley MS 6208

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6208
Title:
Dissertatio de scriptore Pentateuchi; Thomas More, A Treatise: To Receive the Blessed Body of Our Lord; Expositio precationes dominicae per Henricum Stile monachum ab utero matris rarum; sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-42v: Dissertatio de scriptore Pentateuchi; written in the 17th century. ff. 43r-50r: Thomas More (b. 1478, d. 1535), A Treatise: To Receive the Blessed Body of Our Lord; here introduced as ‘A Tretice howe to Receave the Blessid Sacrament writene by Sir Thomas Moore Knighte (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6462. Harley MS 6215

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6215
Title:
Archeion, or the high Court of Justice in England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-21v: An English treatise, entitled: ‘Archeion, or the high Court of Justice in England’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

6463. Harley MS 6216

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6216
Title:
Annals for English kings, from Edward I to Henry V
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Memorandums or Annals of several Kings Reignes from 1273’. f. 1v: A table of contents: ‘Comone places for toe be observed in the affayres of the Estate of England’. ff. 2r-23r: Annals from Edward I to Henry V; beginning: ‘All Contributions and the Causes whe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

6464. Harley MS 6217

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6217
Title:
A history of the reign of King Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-21v: A history of the reign of King Edward III. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘An historical relation of certain passages about the end of Kind Edward the 3rd & of his death’; added in the (?) 17th century; followed by a pencil note that st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

6465. Harley MS 6218

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6218
Title:
A copy of the will of King Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘H: 8th Will’; ‘King Henry the 8ths Will’. ff. 2r-7r: A copy of the will of King Henry VIII, beginning: ‘In the name of God and of the glorious and blessed virgyn our Lady St Mary and of all the holy Company of heaven we Henry by the grace of god kinge of Englan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

6466. Harley MS 6219

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6219
Title:
The life and acts of William the Conqueror; fragment of a history of Scotland (1291); Metrical History of the Deposition of Richard II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-4r: A tract on the acts of William the Conqueror, beginning: ‘These thynges whiche folow of the lyfe and actes of the gloryous William Duke of Normandye , and victoryous Kynge of Englande were detracted out of a certen auncyent boke of the monasterye of St Stephen of Cane [Abbe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

6467. Harley MS 6220

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6220
Title:
Instructyons yeven by the king of England to his trustie and welbeloved son Arthur shewinge howe they shall order themselves when they shall come to the presens of the olde Queene of Naples and the younge Queene her daughter
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-6r: A treatise entitled ‘Instructyons yeven by the king [of] England to his trustie and welbeloved son [Arthur] shewinge howe they shall order themselves when they shall come to the presens of the olde Queene of N[aples] and the younge Queene her daughter’. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

6468. Harley MS 6221

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6221
Title:
An account of the voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1585; documents relating to Francis Drake's proceedings against Thomas Doughty
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-6v: An account of the voyage of Sir Francis Drake (b. 1540, d. 1596) in 1585, entitled: ‘Sir Frauncys Drakes voyage’. ff. 7r-13r: Documents relating to Francis Drake's proceedings against Thomas Doughty (b. 1545, d. 1578); written in a different 16th-century hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

6469. Harley MS 6222

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6222
Title:
Petition of Richard Troughton, Bailiff of South Witham, Lincolnshire, to the Privy Council in the reign of Queen Mary, relating to the share taken by him in the Duke of Northumberland's Plot
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A letter by Richard Throughton, beginning: ‘To the Kinge and Quenes maiesties moste honorabili councell’; ending ‘Uppon mundaye beffor The Duke of Suffolk’; ending with a declaration: ‘I was never in any commocion or otherwise against the Crowne of Englond in all my liffe b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1555
Extent:
1 volume

6470. Harley MS 6223

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6223
Title:
Arthour and Merline (excerpt); History of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-2v: A transcript of the first 62 lines of Arthour and Merline by John Stow (b. 1524/1525, d. 1605), beginning: ‘[H]e that made withe his honde / wynde wode watar and londe’. ff. 3r-21r: A transcript of a history of England ‘Taken out of the cronicle that sumtyme belongyd to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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