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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1643
Title:: Accounts of Sir George Henry Carteret, 1st Baronet, Treasurer of His Majesties Navy
Scope & Content:: Manuscript volume, containing the accounts of Sir George Henry Carteret, 1st Baronet, Treasurer of His Majesties Navy, as to all sums of money received and disbursed by him from 1 January 1664 [1665] to 31 December 1665. Each page is signed by many different hands to authorise the accounts, inc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1665
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1644
Title:: Accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage, Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber, Michaelmas 1581-Michaelmas 1582, with the Queen's New Year cash payments, 1582
Scope & Content:: These are the accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage (b. in or before 1532, d. 1585) as Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber for the year Michaelmas 23 Elizabeth-Michaelmas 24 Elizabeth (i.e 29 Sep 1581-29 Sep 1582). A rich source for the array of officers paid by Heneage for the necessary functioning of th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1581-1582
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1645
Title:: Accounts of Sir Robert Mansell, Treasurer of the Navy
Scope & Content:: Account book of Sir Robert Mansell, Treasurer of the Royal Navy, January 1603/4-December 1604. Each page of disbursements signed by Sir Henry Palmer, Sir John Trevor, and Sir Peter Buck, Commissioners of the Navy.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1604
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1646
Title:: Collection of copies of Letters Patent of Queen Elizabeth I concerning leases of land
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-151v: Collection of copies of Letters Patent of Queen Elizabeth I concerning leases of land, from the 33rd and 34th years of her reign.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1590-1592
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1647
Title:: Thomas Busshe, A ledger book for expenses made for the construction of Sandgate Castle by Henry VIII (Volume 1)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: ‘The fyrst. the iide. iiide. iiiith. vth. vith. viith. viiith. and the .ixth. boke of the leger of the Workes of the Kynges Castell at Sandgate in the tyme of Thomas Corkes and Rychard Keys Esquyres Commyssioners there [...]’. f. 2*recto: A Latin inscription: ‘Castrum dom...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1540
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1648
Title:: Tabula de Utilitate Orationis Dominicae; Bona et Utilis Tabula Fidei Christianae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-7r: Tabula de Utilitate Oracionis Dominice, a diagrammatic commentary on the Lord's Prayer, beginning: 'Dicit Pater noster tanquam caput omnium orationum evidenter approbatur' [Bloomfield, Incipits (1979), no. 8834; including this manuscript, and listing 4 other copies in Engli...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1649 A
Title:: Naval Accounts of Sir William Russell, Treasurer of the Navy, 1628-1630
Scope & Content:: Part of a manuscript office book, in folio, containing the accounts of money received and disbursed by Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Chippenham, Treasurer of the Navy. Contents: ff. 1-10v: Ordinary and extraordinary expenditures for Chatham (Michaelmas and Christmas Quarters 1629). ff. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1628-1630
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1649 B
Title:: Naval Accounts of Sir William Russell, Treasurer of the Navy, 1629-1631
Scope & Content:: Part of a manuscript office book, in folio, containing the accounts of money received and disbursed by Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Chippenham, Treasurer of the Navy. Contents: ff. 1-3v: Particulars of the charges of Sir William Russell (1630-1631). (the charges on folios 2-3 have been ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1629-1631
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1650
Title:: Inventory of Queen Elizabeth I's jewels and plate, 1573-1574
Scope & Content:: Inventory of Queen Elizabeth I’s jewels and plate in the custody of John Astley, courtier (c. 1507-1596), and the Treasurers of her Majesty’s jewels. 13 March, 1574. Each page signed by John Astley. f. 1*r Title-page. ff. 1r-6v ‘Juelles of golde’: list of jewels. ff. 7r-21r ‘Cuppes and Bolles...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1573-1574
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1651
Title:: Thomas Busshe, ledger book for expenses made for the construction of Sandgate Castle by Henry VIII (Volume 2)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A Latin inscription on a strip of parchment: ‘thes vi bookes be truly examined’. f. 1r: A Latin inscription: ‘Castrum domini Regis de Sandegate’. f. 1r: A title inscription on a parchment fragment: ‘The .xth. the .xith. xiith. xiiith. xiiiith. xvth. xvith. xviith. xviiith. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1540-1541
Extent:: 1 volume

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