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1391. Harley MS 256

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 256
Title:
Acts of the Privy Council, 1545 and 1546
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the acts of the Privy Council between 1545 and 1546. Originally, it may have been bound together with Harley MS 169, ff. 1-31, containing the acts of the Privy Council from 1558. Contents: ff. 1r-292r: Acts of the Privy Council, 1545-1546, beginning ‘A Book of the Act...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

1392. Harley MS 571

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 571
Title:
Annals of legal matters under King Edward II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-184v: Annals of legal matters under King Edward II (reigned 1307-1327), written in French.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1393. Harley MS 590

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 590
Title:
Collection of historical papers compiled by John Foxe
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript of different historical papers was compiled by the martyrologist John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587). Contents: f. 1r: Part of an old roll, containing a survey of the Kent Marshes with drawings of the manor houses of 'Clyffe', 'Collynge', 'Halstowe', 'St Marys' and 'Alha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1540-c 1585
Extent:
1 volume

1394. Harley MS 656

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 656
Title:
Henry Bratton (Bracton), De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-11r: A table of contents. ff. 12r-315r: Henry Bratton [Bracton] (d. 1268), justice and supposed author of the legal treatise known as Bracton, De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, Books I-V. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: Three small pastedowns with var...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1395. Harley MS 813

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 813
Title:
Collection of tracts on political and other matters
Scope & Content:
Volume of tracts in different hands bound together. Contents: ff. 1-3r: ‘An Answer unto the Quaeres propounded by certain Ministers concerning the Oath’. Folios 1-13 are in the same hand. f. 3v: English translation of part of a letter from Father Paul Sarpi to the Abbot of St Medard in Fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1396. Harley MS 842

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 842
Title:
John Leland, Itinerary in England and Wales (excerpts)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-93v: Excerpts from John Leland's Itinerary in England and Wales (1539-1543); in Stillingfleet’s catalogue entitled 'Dodderige's Geographical Description of several Counties in England'. Decoration: A drawing of a cross purporting to be King Arthur’s gravestone (‘Hic iacet ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1397. Harley MS 1039

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1039
Title:
Arms of rulers and nobles of foreign countries
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 3: contents list headed ‘1566’. Signed at the bottom of the folio, ‘John Withie Ano 1630’. ff. 4-11: Arms of the King of Spain, of the several kingdoms under his government, and of Spanish nobility. ff. 12-21: Names of the provinces of France; arms of the King and peers of Fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1398. Harley MS 1072

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1072
Title:
Book of heraldry, with coats of many families
Scope & Content:
Arms of many families, mainly hastily tricked in printed escutcheons; with some other papers. f. 1: Alphabetical table of arms, with former folio numbers. f. 2: Arms of families whose surnames begin with Fitz. ff. 3-49: Coats of various families (includes a number of unnumbered folios wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1399. Harley MS 1188

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1188
Title:
Copy of the Visitation book of Northamptonshire 1618-1619
Scope & Content:
Copy of part of the Visitation book of Northamptonshire as taken 1618-1619 by Augustine Vincent, Rouge-Rose, Marshall and Deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux. Written in the same hand as Harley MS 1187. With pen and ink sketches. ff. ii-iii: Index of families, in the hand of Henry Parker. ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1400. Harley MS 1308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1308
Title:
Papers relating to the payment of the army
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume, written by the order of Robert Harley. Contents: ff. 1-2v: A general list of the land forces which His Majesty demanded for the service of the year 1695, and were accordingly voted for by the House of Commons. f. 2v: An abstract of the above list, in relation to the re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1695
Extent:
1 volume

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