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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1223
Title:: Papers on trade and coinage
Scope & Content:: Composite volume of tracts on trade, coinage, taxation and national finance, by Charles Davenant and others. Contents: 1*: List of contents ff. 1-6: Tract on the decay of foreign trade. ‘Some Remarks on the Decayes of that so useful trade the England had before the year 1661, to Newfound L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1224
Title:: Alphabet of Acts of Parliament, with an index to the journals of the House of Lords
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 2-91: Alphabet to the calendar of the Acts of Parliament in the Parliament Office, containing acts from 12 Henry VII [1496/1497] to 32 Charles II [1680/1681]. ff. 92-117: Index to the journals of the Lords, for the first, second and third Parliaments of Ch...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1680?
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1225
Title:: Treatise on wills and executors; treatise on 'Parsons Law'
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A table of contents for the manuscript, entitled: ‘Manuscript Collections’. ff. 2*recto-246v: ‘A Treatise: Of wills and Executors directorie to Testators in the choyse of theire Executours and contrivance of theire Wills, and to Executors in the execution of theire offic...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1226
Title:: Treatise concerning the court of the Star Chamber
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing a treatise written by William Hudson of Gray's Inn, in the hand of his son Christopher Hudson, concerning the court of the Star Chamber. The treatise is divided into three parts: Concerning the court itself i.e. the judges, officers and ministers. Concerning t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1621-1635
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1227
Title:: Collections of legal precedents
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-66r: Collection of precedents for pleadings etc. in the Court of Chancery. ff. 66r-69: Table to the above collection. ff. 70-180: Collection of precedents, such as conveyances, bonds, leases, assignments, useful to counsellors, attorneys etc. Including: The Style of George Villie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1229
Title:: Missal
Scope & Content:: This Cistercian missal was written in England around 1200, possibly at the Cistercian abbey St Mary the Virgin at Waverley (Surrey): the abbey, founded in 1128, was the first Cistercian monastery in England. The missal’s size indicates that it was probably intended for use at the high altar. The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1230
Title:: Henri, Duc de Rohan, Mémoires sur les choses qui se sont passées en France and other treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-101r: ‘Memoires du Duc de Rohan Sur les choses advenues en France depuis la mort de Henry le Grand iusques a la paix faicte avec les Reformes Au mois de mars Anno Domini 1628’. ff. 101v-134r: ‘Divers Discours ou traittes du Duc de Rohan Sur Divers Subiects’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1231
Title:: A copy of the testament of John Rudston, Lord Mayor of London, with an inventory of his goods, funeral expenses, and other arrangements made following his death
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6r: A copy of the testament of John Rudston (b. 1480, d. 1531), Lord Mayor of London in 1528-1529, dated 1530. ff. 7v-13v: The ‘bying of pewkes and blakes Clothes for gownes whiche were gevyn And bequethede be Sir John Rudstone late knyght And Alderman of London whiche discea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1530s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1233
Title:: Heraldic miscellany
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous collection of pedigrees and descents, with some anecdotes and other material, in various hands. Contents: f. 1v: A Jest of the Duke de Joyeuse on King Henri IV of France himself, and other Lords present. Account of a great treasure revealed to Christian Duke of Brunswick by th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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