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251. Harley MS 300

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 300
Title:
Answer by John Bowdiche to a Bill of Complaint of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, with a catalogue of historical manuscripts in the collection of Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. On the rectos is the answer of John Bowdiche [Bowditch?] the younger, gentleman, to the Bill of Complaint of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Knight, Complainant. Starting from the back of the volume, on the versos, is a selected index of historical manuscripts found within the col...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

252. Harley MS 302

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 302
Title:
Notes and memoranda relating to abuses in the Royal Navy
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing, under various headings, a large number of facts, notes and memoranda relating to abuses done and committed in the Royal Navy. The manuscript appears to have been used by the House of Commons, or Committees within the House, when drawing out charges, either dur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

253. Harley MS 306

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 306
Title:
Collection of tracts relating to trade in England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16r: Copy of '[t]he victuellinge of the Kinge and the Queenes Majesties Shippes there [Portesmowth, London and Dovar], beginninge the firste of Januarie, 1556 / And ending the laste of Marche followinge, as well for the Seas as in Harborowe, which Victuallinge was made by Edw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1580-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

254. Harley MS 307

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 307
Title:
Printed copy of William Lambarde's 'Archaionomia' with manuscript annotations
Scope & Content:
Printed copy of William Lambarde, Archaionomia, Sive De Priscis Anglorum Legibus libri, Cambridge, 1644, a collection of Anglo-Saxon laws in Latin and Old English, with manuscript annotations. This copy is the second edition, edited by Abraham Whelock (1593-1653). The annotations consist of vari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

255. Harley MS 308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 308
Title:
‘Reeve’ or ‘Melford’ Register of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
Scope & Content:
f. 1*: Inserted slip of parchment, perhaps from a former cover; on the verso in faint red 16th-century book-hand, ‘Dompnus Edmundus Bury vestiarius – 1529; dompnus Edmundus Bury pitanciarius. 1530’. ff. 1r–139r: Indentures (1527–40), in chronological order. Later additions to 1546: leases, manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1517-1546
Extent:

1 volume

256. Harley MS 314

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 314
Title:
Andrew Horne, Mirroir des justices: vel Speculum justiciariorum
Scope & Content:
Transcript by Simonds D’Ewes of Andrew Horne’s Mirroir des justices, from Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 258. In D’Ewes hand, with a title page dated 1624: ‘La Somme apell Mirroir aux Justices, vel Speculum Justitiariorum, des droit leies de Persons solon les auncient usages d’angliterre, f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1624
Extent:
1 volume

257. Harley MS 316

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 316
Title:
Cartulary of the Cheddar family of Bristol
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–5v: Kalendar, the first leaf wanting, with additions relating to the births of the sons of Robert Cheddar (printed in Merriman, ‘Genealogical Notes’, 1836). ff. 6r–86v: Cartulary of the Cheddar family of Bristol, arranged topographically, relating to lands in Somerset, including Cheddar,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

258. Harley MS 317

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 317
Title:
Cartulary of Southwick Priory
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–5r: Brief cartulary, headed ‘Cophinus septimus’, containing copies of deeds, 1380–86, relating to the gift by Bernard Brocas of the manors of East Hoe, Hannington Lancelevy (Hampshire) and elsewhere. ff. 5r–6v: Miscellaneous additions at the end. f. 7r: Fragments from a former flyleaf w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

259. Harley MS 318

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 318
Title:
History and genealogy of the kings of Wessex, Essex, East Anglia, Northumbria, Mercia and England (to Henry VI)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a diagrammatic history and genealogy of the kings of Wessex, Essex, East Anglia, Northumbria, Mercia and England (to Henry VI). The manuscript is bound with Harley MSS 1632 and 6270. Henry VI (r. 1422, d. 1461), who married Margaret of Anjou in 1445, was in forced reti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1445-1461
Extent:
1 volume

260. Harley MS 319

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 319
Title:
Liber Recepta Liberationes et expensas in Hospicio Regis Henrici 4; Liber Jocalium ejusdem Regis Henrici IV tempore Ricardi Kyngestone Thesaurii Hospicij Regalis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-52v: Liber Recepta Liberationes et expensas in Hospicio Regis Henrici .4. ab ultimo die Septembris anno 7o finiente usque octavum diem Decembris anno 8o Regis eiusdem factas complectens. ff. 53r-58r: Liber Jocalium ejusdem Regis Henrici IV tempore Ricardi Kyngestone Thesaurii ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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