Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6669
Title:: La comence le plé de la couronne (a legal treatise on duties of the seneschal)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-9r: La comence le plé de la couronne (a legal treatise on duties of the seneschal). Decoration: 1 puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (f. 1r). Smaller initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: Last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6670
Title:: Cartulary of Coldstream Priory
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Cartulary of Coldstream Priory of St Mary, founded before 1166 by Cospatric III (d. 1166), Earl of Lothian and Dunbar. The cartulary contains copies of one charter of King Alexander II (r. 1214-1249) and several of the Earls of Dunbar, including Cospatric III (d. 116...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1434
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6673
Title:: Law precedents in the time of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-56r: Law precedents, particularly from the reigns of King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I, up to the 39th year of her reign (1596-97).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6689
Title:: Copies of deeds and indentures to Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and his exchange of lands with King Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Copies of deeds and indentures relating to grants of honours, castles, lordships, manors, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, franchises, liberties, and other Hereditaments to Charles Brandon (b. c. 1484, d. 1545), 1st Duke of Suffolk, and of the exchange of lands between...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1539-c 1596
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6691
Title:: Journal of the proceedings of the assizes held at Sarum, Exeter and throughout South-West England, 7-42 Edward III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-70v: Journal of the proceedings of the assizes held at Sarum, Exeter and throughout South-West England, 7-42 Edward III. Written in Law French with headings in Latin in a 15th-century script. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r (inner margin): A list of place nam...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6692
Title:: Iter Londonensis; Vetera capitula itineris Cantuariensis; Placita Corone Kantuariensis; royal letters patent
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: 'Iter Londonensis'; written in Law French; imperfect at the beginning. ff. 4v-6v: 'Vetera capitula itineris Cantuariensis'; including 'Nova Capitula Corone' from the time of the reign of Edward I; written in Latin. ff. 6v-8v: 'Placita Corone Kantuariensis'; written in L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6697
Title:: Survey of the manors, lands and tenements of Edmund Tirrell, lord of the manor of Beaches in Rawreth, Essex
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-27r: Survey of the manors, lands and tenements of Edmund Tirrell [Tyrell] (b. c. 1510, d. 1576), lord of the manor of Beaches [Beches] in Rawreth, Essex, made by Israel Amyce [Ames] in 1597, entitled: 'The survaye of all and singular the Manors, Landes, Tenementes (and other H...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1597
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6698
Title:: Copies of indentures for leases of estates let and taken by John Wylde of Canterbury
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-15v: Copies of indentures in English and Latin, recording leases of estates let and taken by John Wylde of Canterbury (fl mid-16th century), a surveyor and auditor, during the reigns of Edward VI (r. 1547-1553) and Mary I (r. 1553-1558). f. 16r: an added inscription in a lat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6700
Title:: Copies of the Book of Knights’ Fees of Leicestershire; catalogue of the market and fair towns; Spiritual Receipts and Escheators and Inquisitors of Leicestershire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17r: ‘Computus Johannis Saunderstedd, vicecomitis Leicestrensis, Philippi Polwill, et Willielmi Nevill de Rearefbie, collectorum rationabilis auxilii in comitatu praedicto, domino regi Edwardo tertio concessi ad primogenitum filium suum militem faciendum, anno regni ejusdem reg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1601
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6707
Title:: Proceedings in the King's Bench and Exchequer from the time of the reign of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 6707/1. Contents: ff. 1r-110v: Proceedings in the King's Bench and Exchequer from the time of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; written in Law French. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 75v: Latin saying: 'Gutta c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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