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281. Harley MS 339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 339
Title:
Papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume containing various papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes. Contents: ff. 1-2v: 'A breife meaning of God's law', seemingly written by Simonds D'Ewes as a school boy to his mother, along with other notes in English and Latin. ff. 3-3v: Part of a letter from Simonds D'Ewes to a cler...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1547-1650?
Extent:
1 volume

282. Harley MS 352

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 352
Title:
An abridgment of the Acts of the Privy Council of King Edward IV
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume, containing an abridgement of the book of the Acts of the Privy Council of King Edward IV, transcribed by Mr Ralph Starkey, and signed and dated, August 1620, by him on f. 256v. ff. 257-266 contains an index to this volume created by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, which follows the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1620
Extent:
1 volume

283. Harley MS 355

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 355
Title:
Law reports of William Bendlowes, Serjeant-at-Law
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume, containing law reports of William Bendlowes, here written Benlows, Serjeant-at-Law. The reports are indexed at the front of the volume.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

284. Harley MS 356

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 356
Title:
William of Malmesbury, De Gestis Pontificum Anglorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-231v: William of Malmesbury, De Gestis Pontificum Anglorum.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

285. Harley MS 357

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 357
Title:
John of Worcester, Chronicon; Eadmer, Historiae novorum in Anglia; Ordo succesionis archiepiscoporum Canutariensis ecclesiae a sancto Augustino Anglorum apostolo; Thomas Stubbes, Historia archiepiscopourm Ebarocensium ad Thomam Wolsey; John Philippson (Sleidanus), Latin abridgement of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17v, 99*recto-107v: John of Worcester, Chronicon (1057-1118); this copy may originally have been part of the same manuscript as Harley MS 96, ff. 121-180; Harley MS 397, ff. 2-8r; and Harley MS 359, ff. 9-14 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), p. 217 [X.75])....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

286. Harley MS 359

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 359
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Cambriae; Expugnatio Hibernica; Topographia Hibernica; and Itinerarium Cambriae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Gerald of Wales [Giraldus Cambrensis], Descriptio Cambriae. ff. 9r-14r: Gerald of Wales [Giraldus Cambrensis], Descriptio Cambriae; excerpts; including references to an exemplar on f. 11r: ‘Ex libro quodam veteri in quo continentur aliqua scripta Gyraldi Cambrensis et nun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

287. Harley MS 361

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 361
Title:
The queries of Sir Edmund Plowden, lawyer, and other legal texts
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-67v: 'Les Quæres dle Monseiur Edmond Plowden, Apprentice dle Melieu Temple'. The queries of Sir Edmund Plowden, lawyer and legal theorist, of Middle Temple. ff. 68-74v: A judges charge to the jury, on the arraignment of some authors of the Martin Marprel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

288. Harley MS 363

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 363
Title:
Cases tried at the Court of Common Pleas
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume, containing reports of cases tried at the Court of Common Pleas, 1624-1625, transcribed by Sir Simonds D'Ewes. Some of the cases are incomplete.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

289. Harley MS 364

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 364
Title:
Anselm of Canterbury, Epistolae; transcripts of charters from the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI; English translation of Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe; 'Of Predestinacion and the Providence of God'; English translation of Pierre Boitel's Défaite du faux amour par l'unique des braves de ce temps;Paul D'Ewes, theological discourses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a large composite miscellany, consisting of historical papers and literary works that were copied separately at different periods of time from the late 16th to the early 18th century. Contents: f. 1r: A tract, entitled: 'Howe a man shal be armed at his ease when he shall fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

290. Harley MS 365

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 365
Title:
Papers concerning the levying of ship-money in Suffolk, 1639-40, with other earlier papers
Scope & Content:
Manuscript papers concerning the levying of ship-money in Suffolk 1639/40, after the appointment of Simonds D’Ewes to the office of High Sheriff of Suffolk. Preceded by other papers relating to levies by King Charles I, 1626-1629, and legal arguments. Separate papers, mounted and bound together....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1626-1640
Extent:
1 volume

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