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691. Harley MS 812

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 812
Title:
Elizabethan miscellany of records and letters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Forms of indentures in English from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. ff. 9r-60v: Transcripts from public records and rolls of Parliament, from the time of King Edward II to that of Queen Elizabeth I (Latin and English). ff. 61r-63r: Letters Patent by Queen Elizabeth I, s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

692. Harley MS 813

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 813
Title:
Collection of tracts on political and other matters
Scope & Content:
Volume of tracts in different hands bound together. Contents: ff. 1-3r: ‘An Answer unto the Quaeres propounded by certain Ministers concerning the Oath’. Folios 1-13 are in the same hand. f. 3v: English translation of part of a letter from Father Paul Sarpi to the Abbot of St Medard in Fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

693. Harley MS 814

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 814
Title:
A book on forests
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A treatise on ‘A Forest’. ff. 2r-2v: A treatise on ‘A Chase’. ff. 2v-4v: The ‘differences betwene beasts of the forest and beast of the chace’. ff. 4v-6v: A treatise ‘Of Verte’. ff. 6v-8r: A treatise on the 'Swanimote'; ff. 8r-17r: A treatise on 'Matters taken out...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

694. Harley MS 815

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 815
Title:
Certificatio Debitorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-21r: Certificatio Debitorum.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1610
Extent:
1 volume

695. Harley MS 816

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 816
Title:
Sir Robert Cotton, An aunswer made by Command of Prince Henry, to certaine propositions of Warr and Peace deliuered to his Highnes by some of his Millitarie Servants
Scope & Content:
King James I and VI commissioned Sir Robert Cotton to write this fourteen-point treatise based on classical authorities and recent historical examples. It refutes the claims made in the pamphlet entitled 'Arguments for Warre', produced by Prince Henry's military advisors in 1608. These works cam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

696. Harley MS 817

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 817
Title:
Henry of Bratton [Bracton], De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-236r: Henry of Bratton [Bracton], De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1v-3v and 236v-239r: Annotations on the text and explanations of various terms, featuring a Middle English inscription that seems to have accompanied a map of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

697. Harley MS 819

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 819
Title:
An Ordinary of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Tables of Blazoning most Coates of Armes of all Families in Eng[land]’. ff. 1r-97v: An Ordinary of Arms, with the arms of English families in blazon. Decoration: A coat of arms with a design in brown ink (some with colours) at the centre of the top marg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

698. Harley MS 820

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 820
Title:
A table of contents for an heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-32v; 34r-43v: A table of contents for an heraldic manuscript, organised alphabetically according to surnames of English nobility and gentry; from the Conquest to the time of Elizabeth I: ‘A table wherbie to finde oute everie perticuler name contained in this booke accordinge un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

699. Harley MS 821

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 821
Title:
Names of men in service under Edward III; escheatorships under Edward I, Edward II and Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Nomina eorum qui de Rege Edwardo tertio tenuerunt in capite per servicium militare aut in Socagio ad terminum vite vel in Burgagio. ff. 12r-25v: Escheatorships under Edward I. ff. 26r-41v: Escheatorships under Edward II. ff. 42r-43r: Escheatorships under Edward III; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

700. Harley MS 822

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 822
Title:
Notes by James Ussher for his Bibliotheca Theologica
Scope & Content:
Notes by James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, for his Bibliotheca Theologica. In his own hand. With some damage and loss of text. At the end of the volume is an incomplete table of authors' names whose works are considered by Ussher. Interspersed are included the following letters: ff. 141-14...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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