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Harley MS 163
- Record Id:
- 040-002045991
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-003435451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000174
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 163
- Title:
- Journal of the House of Commons, by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, Volume 2
- Scope & Content:
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Folio manuscript volume containing a journal of the House of Commons which was collected and gathered, for the most part, by Sir Simonds D’Ewes.
The journal begins on 6 April 1641, and ends 6 October 1642. The dates within the volume are not sequential. Before the entry for 6 April 1641, two folios have been added containing an entry for 26 November 1640.
Index of dates on ff. 2-4v.
On ff. 6-6*, printed sheet titled ‘A letter directed to Master Bridgeman, the fourth of January, and a Letter inclosed in it, to one Master Anderton , were this day [11 January 1642] read, and ordered to be entered’. Printed in London for Joseph Hunscott, [1642].
Inscribed on f. 5v: ‘Mr Dier begunne to transcrib this Book in Tuesday Morning May ye 11th 1653. S. [Samuel?] Hartlib, Sworne Clearke’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
036-003435451
040-002045991 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 162-166 : Journal of the House of Commons by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, with various parliamentary papers
Harley MS 163 : Journal of the House of Commons, by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, Volume 2 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7787]/036-003435451[0002]/040-002045991
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1640
- End Date:
- 1642
- Date Range:
- 1640-1642
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 320 x 195 mm.
Foliation: 429 folios. This also includes the original foliation which begins f. 405, continuing from the previous volume.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), Volume I
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 131-137
- Publications:
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Notestein, Wallace, and D'Ewes, Simonds, Sir. The Journal of Sir Simonds D'Ewes from the Beginning of the Long Parliament to the Opening of the Trial of the Earl of Strafford. [3 Nov. 1640-20 Mar. 1640-1.] Edited by Wallace Notestein (New Haven: Yale Historical Publications, 1923)
D'Ewes, Simonds, and Coates, Willson Havelock. The Journal of Sir Simonds D'Ewes : From the First Recess of the Long Parliament to the Withdrawal of King Charles from London / Edited by Willson Havelock Coates ([S.l.]: Yale University Press, 1942)
Russell, Conrad. 'The Theory of Treason in the Trial of Strafford.' The English Historical Review (vol. 80, no. 314, 1965), pp. 30-50
Zagorin, Perez. The Court and the Country : The Beginning of the English Revolution (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1969)
Hetherington, M. S. 'Sir Simonds D'Ewes and Method in Old English Lexicography.' Texas Studies in Literature and Language (vol. 17, no. 1, 1975), pp. 75-92
Eales, Jacqueline. 'Sir Robert Harley, K.B., (1579-1656) and the 'character' of a puritan.' The British Library Journal (vol. 15, no. 2, 1989), pp. 134-157
Wright, Franklin M. 'A College First Proposed, 1633: Unpublished Letters of Apostle Eliot and William Hammond to Sir Simonds D'Ewes' Harvard Library Bulletin (vol. 8, no. 3, 1954), pp. 255-282
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- D’Ewes, Simonds, 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary, 1602-1650,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083393524,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12656415