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Harley MS 280

Record Id:

040-002046108

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046108

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000249

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 280

Title:

A collection of miscellaneous tracts, including accounts of the naval expeditions of Sir Francis Drake and Sir George Clifford

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1*r: Added pen-trials.

f. 1*v: A note by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650) concerning the first item in the manuscript (ff. 1r-30v); dated 1637.

ff. 1r-30v: A collection of notes made by Mr Paul D'Ewes on sermons preached by a certain Mr Chatterton, living in Cambridge.

ff. 31*v-31r: Added pen-trials and inscriptions, including the Latin phrase, 'Hic iacet in tumulo rosa mundi non rosa munda', repeated several times in different hands.

ff. 32r-45r: The book of mises for the county palatine of Chester, written in the hand of Ralph Starkey (d. 1628).

ff. 46r-47r: A table recording the reigns of kings and queens of England, from William Conqueror to James I, including the beginning and end dates of their reigns, the length of their reigns, and the time passed since each of their reigns ended; dated 1605 (according to the calculations in the table).

ff. 47v-50r: A calendar, in which the births of saints and other feast days are recorded.

f. 50v: A list of the earls of Chester after the Norman Conquest.

f. 51r: A list of the abbots of Chester.

ff. 51v-52v: A list of the constables of Chester.

ff. 53r-63r: A list of the justices of Chester.

ff. 64r-67v: A list of the chamberlains of Chester..

ff. 68r-73v: A list of the viscounts of Chester.

ff. 74r-77r: A list of the escaetores of Chester.

ff. 77v-79r: A record of the names of some of the abbots or priors of Basingwerk, Furneis, Hilton, Rochester, Norton, Berkenhead, Salope, Wenlock, Combermere, Pulton, Dieulacres, Stanlow, Crokesden, Darnhall and De Valle Regali, with a list of their founders.

f. 80r: A list of the mayors of Chester.

f. 81r: A note of treasure found in America and taken from the Spanish, with an added note in the hand of Ralph Starkey.

ff. 81v-82r (lower margin): An account of the excommunication of the priest Francis Fletcher (b. c. 1555, d. c. 1619) by Sir Francis Drake (b. c. 1540, d. 1596) in 1580.

f. 82r: An account of Sir Francis Drake's capture of a haul of silver treasure between Coquimbo and Payta.

ff. 83r-90v: An account of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the world (1577-1580), his passage through the Straits of Magellan, and his return voyage to England in 1580.

ff. 91r-98v: Relatione delle cose piu notabili dello Stato di Napoli, an account in Italian of the most notable things about the state of Naples.

ff. 99r-101r: A catalogue of the poems contained in Englands Helicon, an anthology of Elizabeth pastoral poems compiled by John Flasket and first published in 1600.

f. 101*v: A note in English, 'Catalogue of Englands Helicon & A. W. Poems'.

ff. 102r-105v: A catalogue of the poems written by 'A. W.', an anonymous author who was featured in A Poetical Rhapsody, an anthology compiled by Francis Davison and first published in 1602.

ff. 106r-114v: A sermon in English on the Book of Matthew 5: 6.

ff. 115r-126r: A copy of the same sermon. A note by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (f. 115r) states that ff. 115-119 were written in the hand of Richard Simonds (d. c. 1611), his maternal grandfather.

f. 127r-v: A fold-out draft petition of Ralph Starkey to Sir Francis Bacon (b. 1561, d. 1626), Lord Keeper, concerning his suit against Henry Starkey and David Massey, inscribed with numerous pen-trials.

f. 127*r: An inscribed title, 'The earl of Cumberlands voiage', with the text left blank. An account of the expedition appears on ff. 177r-216r.

ff. 128r-141v: A speech delivered by Robert Cecil (b. 1563, d. 1612), Earl of Salisbury and Lord High Treasurer, to the lords, knights and burgesses of both Houses of Parliament at their meeting in The Painted Chamber; dated 1609.

ff. 142r-144r: The propositions of James I (r. 1603-1625) concerning the marriage of Prince Charles (later Charles I, r. 1625-1649) and the Infanta Maria Anna of Spain (b.1606, d. 1646).

ff. 145r-151v: A speech of James I given in Parliament, dated 5 April 1514, with a note in the hand of Ralph Starkey.

ff. 152r-155v: A second speech of James I given in the same Parliament, undated.

f. 156r: A list of the dioceses of England.

ff. 157r-172v: A brief summary of all the parishes, impropriations, preachers, communicants and recusants, certified within the dioceses of Canterbury and York.

ff. 173r-176v: A treatise on the inconveniences caused by the importation of tobacco from Spain into England.

ff. 177r-216r: An account of the voyage and expedition of Sir George Clifford (b. 1558, d. 1605), Earl of Cumberland, to the Azores in 1589, subscribed by Thomas Mann, beginning with a title page (f. 177r).

ff. 30*r, 44v, 45v, 62v, 63v, 79v, 80v, 82v, 89v-90r, 91v, 101v-101*r, 102v, 126v, 127*v, 144v, 170r, 173v-174r, 177v, and 216v are blank.

Decoration:

A small drawing in pen and ink of a man in Jacobean dress, holding a sword in one hand and a dagger in the other (f. 31r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046108

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 280 : A collection of miscellaneous tracts, including accounts of the naval expeditions of Sir Francis Drake and Sir George Clifford

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0279]/040-002046108

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Italian
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1575

End Date:

1624

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 190-195 x 135-145 mm; 200 x 303 mm (f. 127 only).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 216 + 30* + 101* + 127* (+ 1 unfoliated early modern and 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

ff. 1*, 30*, 101* and 127* are paper leaves; f. 127 is a paper fold-out.

Script: Late 16th- and early 17th-century secretary hand.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown half-leather binding, tooled-in gold, with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Ralph Starkey (d. 1628), merchant and archivist, owned and partially written by him: wrote the second item in the manuscript (ff. 32r-45r) and added notes to a number of others (ff. 81r, 145r); his collections acquired by Sir Simonds D'Ewes in 1628.

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton, acquired in 1628: added notes in his hand (ff. 1*v, 115r); not listed in his catalogues (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 322 [X.47]; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131).

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450; according to a receipt in Add MS 70478 (Portland Papers) [formerly Loan 29/254 packet 2] (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), pp. 60, 91 n. 308; Diary (1966), p. xviii n. 3).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 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 (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 280.

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), p. 322 (no. X.47).

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 131, 314.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

D'Ewes, Simonds, 3rd Baronet, grandson of the Antiquary, c 1670-1722
D’Ewes, Simonds, 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary, 1602-1650,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083393524,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12656415
Starkey, Ralph, antiquary, d 1628

Places:

England