Search

Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Digitised Content No

1051. Harley MS 1218

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1218
Title:
Impeachment of the Earl of Clarendon and other political tracts
Scope & Content:
Composite volume of political tracts in several hands. Parliamentary debates and other papers on the impeachment of the Earl of Clarendon, the deposition of King James II and the accession of William of Orange, etc. f. 1v: Contents list. ff. 2-8r: Articles of High Treason and other heinous mis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

1052. Harley MS 1220

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1220
Title:
Political tracts
Scope & Content:
Composite volume of political tracts in several hands. ff. 1-6: Concerning the decay of rents, and how to improve them. Headed ‘Decay of Rents’. ff. 7-9: Proposals for the better ordering the poor of an unidentified parish. ff. 10-20: Proposals for settling the peace of England, both in Ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1053. Harley MS 1221

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1221
Title:
Moral, literary, and political tracts
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous collection of essays, verse, speeches, and political papers. Includes two printed tracts on the death of Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex. Contents: f. 1*: Contents list ff. 1-12v: Copy of A System of Ethicks, by Charles Morton (1627-1698), minister and teacher at Newington Green Dis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1054. Harley MS 1222

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1222
Title:
Political and legal tracts
Scope & Content:
Various tracts bound together: ff. 1-23: Sir John Davies (1569-1626), ‘Charge to the jurors of the Grand Inquest at York, 1619, for the mainteyning and contynueing the publique Peace by the Execution of Justice’. ff. 24-52: ‘A Catt may look at a King’. Tract on the tyranny of kings from Kin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1055. Harley MS 1223

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1223
Title:
Papers on trade and coinage
Scope & Content:
Composite volume of tracts on trade, coinage, taxation and national finance, by Charles Davenant and others. Contents: 1*: List of contents ff. 1-6: Tract on the decay of foreign trade. ‘Some Remarks on the Decayes of that so useful trade the England had before the year 1661, to Newfound L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

1056. Harley MS 1224

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1224
Title:
Alphabet of Acts of Parliament, with an index to the journals of the House of Lords
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 2-91: Alphabet to the calendar of the Acts of Parliament in the Parliament Office, containing acts from 12 Henry VII [1496/1497] to 32 Charles II [1680/1681]. ff. 92-117: Index to the journals of the Lords, for the first, second and third Parliaments of Ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1680?
Extent:
1 volume

1057. Harley MS 1225

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1225
Title:
Treatise on wills and executors; treatise on 'Parsons Law'
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A table of contents for the manuscript, entitled: ‘Manuscript Collections’. ff. 2*recto-246v: ‘A Treatise: Of wills and Executors directorie to Testators in the choyse of theire Executours and contrivance of theire Wills, and to Executors in the execution of theire offic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1058. Harley MS 1226

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1226
Title:
Treatise concerning the court of the Star Chamber
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing a treatise written by William Hudson of Gray's Inn, in the hand of his son Christopher Hudson, concerning the court of the Star Chamber. The treatise is divided into three parts: Concerning the court itself i.e. the judges, officers and ministers. Concerning t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1621-1635
Extent:
1 volume

1059. Harley MS 1227

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1227
Title:
Collections of legal precedents
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-66r: Collection of precedents for pleadings etc. in the Court of Chancery. ff. 66r-69: Table to the above collection. ff. 70-180: Collection of precedents, such as conveyances, bonds, leases, assignments, useful to counsellors, attorneys etc. Including: The Style of George Villie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1060. Harley MS 1230

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1230
Title:
Henri, Duc de Rohan, Mémoires sur les choses qui se sont passées en France and other treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-101r: ‘Memoires du Duc de Rohan Sur les choses advenues en France depuis la mort de Henry le Grand iusques a la paix faicte avec les Reformes Au mois de mars Anno Domini 1628’. ff. 101v-134r: ‘Divers Discours ou traittes du Duc de Rohan Sur Divers Subiects’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

Limit your search

more »
more »
more »
more »