Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7363
Title:: Statutes of Shrewsbury Grammar School, with Catalogue of books at Lincoln’s Inn
Scope & Content:: Statutes of the Grammar School at Shrewsbury, and other documents relative to it. Catalogue of books at Lincoln’s Inn, taken in September 1646.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7364
Title:: Book of military tactics
Scope & Content:: A book of tactics, very fairly transcribed, apparently in the time of Charles I. Divided into six chapters, with many large diagrams. Chapter 1: ‘Of the ordering of a file of a Bodie of Men or Company. And of the Duties of the Souldiers in their files’. Chapter 2: ‘Of Distances’. Chapter 3...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7365
Title:: General survey of the Post Office 1685, by T. Gardiner
Scope & Content:: T. Gardiner’s general survey of the Post Office, 1685, presented by the author to James, Duke of York. Includes route diagrams. Inscribed by Lord Oxford: ‘This Book did belong to King James, I had it from Coll. Grahame’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1685
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7367
Title:: 'The Humorous Lovers, A Comedy' by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Scope & Content:: Fair copy manuscript of the play 'The Humorous Lovers, A Comedy' by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle. This play was first performed in 1667 by the Duke of York's company, and the text was first printed in 1677. In the lower right corner of folio 1 is inscribed 'Humores, Mores, Res, jud...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1667
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7368
Title:: The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore, by Anthony Munday and others, possibly including William Shakespeare
Scope & Content:: A collaborative manuscript play concerning the life of Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), Lord Chancellor, humanist and martyr. Likely to have been written in the 1590s, primarily by Anthony Munday (bap. 1560, d. 1633), playwright and translator, possibly aided by Henry Chettle (d. 1603-07), printer a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1590-1604
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7371
Title:: Miscellany of English historical papers
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a miscellany of historical papers in English, French and Latin, written in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. They were part of two separate manuscripts (ff. 1-77; and ff. 80r-184v) that were joined together at a later point. The volume also contains fragments of a 13th-c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7376
Title:: An inventory of the jewels of Queen Mary I; accounts on the hundreds of Sussex and Kent
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains three parts: an inventory of jewels delivered to Queen Mary I (ff. 1r-42v); an early 14th-century description of the hundreds in Sussex and Kent (ff. 44r-58v); and a 16th-century inventory of tax payments from the hundreds in Kent (ff. 63r-220v). The three part...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1312-c 1553
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7382
Title:: Robert Cooke, A Baronage of England from the Conquest
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 8r-44r: Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms (1567-1592/3), A Baronage of England from the Conquest; up to the 14th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1572 [English]. ff. 44v-46r: A continuation of the Baronage of England for King James VI and I [Latin]. The manuscript ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7389
Title:: Monastic lands donated and exchanged, 1545-1549
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-51v: An account of ‘Monastery lands given and exchanged to and with sundry persons by the king Henry 8 and Edward 6 - vidilicet a 16 Novembris Anno 37 Henrici 8 usque 27 Junij Anno 2. Edwardi 6’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 52r: A note and the coats of arms o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7390
Title:: Account book of the Steward of William Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-124v: The account of the Steward of William Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath, of weekly expenses for several years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1 February 1566/7-2 October 1580). The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 125r-125v: A medieval end-leaf, traken from a 15th-cen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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