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21. Harley MS 424

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 424
Title:
John Foxe's papers, Volume 9
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–169v: The ninth volume of John Foxe’s papers, bought from John Strype; ff. 116r–169v clearly date from after Foxe’s death. f. 1r: If a man have stolen any thyng of thyne. A charm written on parchment. f. 2r: If any maner of womane haue done the thefte. Another charm written on parchment...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

22. Harley MS 1419/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1419/2
Title:
Inventory of King Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Along with Harley MS 1419/2, this manuscript forms the second part of King Henry VIII's inventory; the first part is Society of Antiquaries MS 129 A and B. From the absence of signatures, it is clear that both volumes are fair copies. Instructions were given to draw up an inventory of Henry's mo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1547-1548
Extent:
1 volume

23. Harley MS 1582

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1582
Title:
State papers, 1553-1596
Scope & Content:
This volume is entitled on the spine, 'Original Letters and Papers on State Affairs'. It contains a wide range of materials on English relations with, and intelligence on, France, the Low Countries and Germany in the late 16th century. It has also been termed, not entirely happily but with a g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1553-1596
Extent:

1 volume.

24. Harley MS 3444

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3444
Title:
Miles Huggarde, ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ…was banished out of this realme’
Scope & Content:
Treatise by Miles Huggarde (fl. 1533–1557), poet and religious polemicist. Titled ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ by perverse preachyng was banished out of this realme, and howe it hath pleased God to bryng Christ home againe by Mary our moost gracious Quene’. With a dedicatory verse epistle ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
July 1553-July 1554
Extent:

1 volume

25. Harley MS 5087

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5087
Title:
Edward VI's letters and declamations
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–30v: ‘Epistolae Edouardi principis illustrissimi quas suopte marte composuit & scripsit anno aetatis sue nono.’ Forty-three letters written by Edward to Henry VIII, Katherine Parr, his sisters Mary and Elizabeth, his tutor Richard Cox, Edward Seymour, and the King of Poland’s envoy. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1546-1553
Extent:
1 volume

26. Lansdowne MS 1045

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 1045
Title:
Papers on Archbishop Cranmer collected by John Strype
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous papers, mainly concerning Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), archbishop of Canterbury, collected by John Strype (1643–1737), historian and biographer. Containing an autograph poem by John Dryden (1631–1700), poet, playwright, and critic, on the death of Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), lord...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1556-1659
Extent:

1 volume

27. Sloane MS 718

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 718
Title:
John Clapham, 'Observations concerning the life and reign of Elizabeth Queen of England'
Scope & Content:
Digest of Elizabethan history, compiled by John Clapham (1566-1619), poet and historian. Containing an account of the life and death of Sir William Cecil (1520/21-1598), first Baron Burghley, Clapham’s former master. With corrections and deletions. f. 1r Title page: ‘Certain Observations concer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1603
Extent:
1 volume

28. Stowe MS 557

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 557
Title:
Inventory of the royal wardrobe, 1600
Scope & Content:
Inventory of the robes and jewels owned by Queen Elizabeth I in July 1600. Beginning with items from the reigns of King Edward VI and Queen Mary I. Includes notes of articles being given away by the Queen, with signatures of the recipients. With extracts from records relating to the Royal Wardro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1600
Extent:
1 volume

29. Wolley Ch iii.70

Reference (shelfmark):
Wolley Ch iii.70
Title:
Extract from Court Roll
Scope & Content:
At a court held at Chesterfield Thomas Gyles came in his own person and received from the hands of the lord king and queen the moiety of his estate in one messuage, toft and croft and divers lands in Bagthorpe [in Brampton] to hold according to the custom of the manor, and was admitted; entry-fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
[30 Sep 1555]
Extent:
1 deed

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