Harley MS 293

Contents:

ff. 1*recto-18v: Francis Thynne, The names and armes of the Earles Marshall of England, here entitled 'This book as Mr Robert Hare informed me was made in the tyme of Edward the ffourth', beginning 'Domus regis magni est Domus Coelestes dapiferi’ [not listed in Carlson, Francis Thynne (1989), pp. 203-72].

ff. 19r-27v: An account of the Lords High Chancellors of England, 1173-1455, with an addition dated to 1592.

ff. 28r-30v: Notes concerning payments to kings, treasury, munition and monopolies; and 'Contemptes for departing secretly over the Sea'.

ff. 31r-31v: A poem entitled ‘The Names of normannis and frenche, that cam in withe Kinge William the Conqueror’.

f. 32v: Chronological notes in the hand of John Stow.

ff. 33r-37v: Various texts listing the names of nobles that came into England with William the Conqueror; one is a letter from 'Thomas Haule' of Oxford to 'Mr Marshe', Stationer in London, dated 12 December; according to a note excerpted from a manuscript in All Souls College, Oxford, written by 'Matyewe of Westmynster'.

ff. 38r-38v: Two texts concerning sherrifs and the trailbaston commissions from 'the great booke belonging to William Biholt monke of St Augustines in Canterbury'.

ff. 39r-40v: A list of English nobility and guards under Richard II; followed by notes on the confession of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.

ff. 41r-41v: A Latin text about St Wilfrid; followed by a 'Cathologus reverendorum virorum' in Chichester from before the Norman Conquest up to the time of George Day, Bishop of Chichester (d. 1556).

ff. 42r-43v: Historical memoranda, featuring a table with the reigns of English kings.

ff. 44r-46v: Lists of names of nobility in Froissart's Chronicles.

ff. 47r-48r: The resignation of the crown by Richard II and acceptance by Henry IV, copied on 2 September 1612 from a record kept by Arthur Agarde, Keeper of the Records at Westminster.

ff. 49r-49v: Articles against King Richard II, imperfect.

ff. 50r-50v: A 'Submissyone of an Award betweene John of Gaunte kynge of Casteele and Duke of Lancastre of the one partie and William Gargrave and Higdon Slingesby Esquires of the other partie for Landes in the Countie of Yorke’; dated 20 July 1387.

ff. 52r-61v: Two English poems; ‘A Songe made in R. 2. his tyme of the Battelle at Otterburne betweene the lord henry Perrye Earle of Northomberland and the Earle Douglas of Scotland Anno 1388’; and ‘A ballate of the Battalle of ffloden ffeeld betweene the Earle of Surrey and the king of Skotes’.

ff. 62r-70v: The ‘Ordinaunces Toucheinge the Governmente of the Stewhoulders in Southwarke under the Direction of the Bishop of Winchester instituted in the Tyme of Henrye the Second’; followed by other mandates from other English Kings.

ff. 71r-90r: A collection of 16th-century mandates, charters, and historical tracts concerning the reigns of Henry I to Henry IV; featuring several items concerning alien merchants (e.g. ‘A Mandate of Kinge Edward the first concerning outlandish Marchants’, dated to 1276).

f. 91r: A short and fragmentary note on John Randolph, Franciscan friar of Shrewsbury, and Queen Joan, widow of Henry IV, 'ex libro manuscripto 15 feb. 1592'.

f. 92r: A copy of the will of King Henry IV; with a note that it was ‘Examyned by the origenall under the Privie Seale accordinge to the orthograffe in the said Origenall, which is in the handes of Mr Thomas Randolfe a Counselor of Lincolnes’; dated 12 April 1625.

ff. 93r-106v: A collection of 16th-century historical texts, including a letter from King Henry VII to the Lord Mayor and aldermen of London (1507); ‘Brittanes Lachrimae’; and articles of Henry VII.

ff. 107r-120r: A collection of 16th-century historical texts, including the Will of King Henry VIII, dated 1546; an account of the illness and death of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex; and 'The Songe of his Honour songe the nighte before he died'.

ff. 121r-131v: A ‘Table of all suche Proclematyones as were publyshed in the Rayne of the late Queene Elyzabethe’.

ff. 132r-151v: An English treatise entitled ‘Of Robert Devoreux Earle of Essex And Georg Villiers Duke of Buckingham’; signed on f. 132r: ‘By Sir Henry Wotton knight’.

f. 152v-168r: The 'Coppy of the booke of Houshold of Queen Elizabeth, as it was ordered in the 43 yeare of her Rayne delivered to our Soverayne Lord kinge James the fyrst yeare of his Raigne Contayning the Names of all the offyces and offyceres belonging to the same honorable housholde'; followed by a copy of the household from the reign of King James, dated 1624.

f. 169r: The ‘Ordinarie annuall Receiptes’ of King James I, dated 1612.

ff. 170r-178r: An English treatise entitled ‘The Danger wherin the Kingdom now standes, and the Remedye’; beginning ‘As soone as the howse of Austria had incorporrated it selfe with Spayne’; attributed to Sir Robert Cotton.

ff. 180r-181v: An English treatise entitled ‘Intermareiages betweene the Royall Stemmes of England and Scotland with those of ffraunce’; according to a note the treatise was ‘Collected by Sir Robart Cotton knight and Baront Aprill 1625’.

ff. 182r-182v: A list of ‘His Magestyes directions to Sir Henry Vanie Knight Cofferer for the Disbursements of the Severall Summes of moneye as rewards to hir Majesties late servants at theire departure oute of England August 1626’.

ff. 183r-200r: A booklet with the title ‘Placita in curia Constabularii pro Armis inter Scrope et Grosvenour’; and added title ‘Matters of President & Order For the Earle Marshall & Office of Armes’.

f. 201r: An English document with the added title ‘Names of Officers & Governors of places Anno 38 H. 8. Anno Domini 1546’.

f. 202r: A list of ‘Fees due to his Majesties servants’ for the knighting of Sir Simonds D’Ewes, 6 December 1626.

f. 203r: The end of the ‘Booke of orderes of Prince Henryes Howse As it was by him sygned the .9. of Maye Anno 1610’; followed by historical notes.

ff. 204r-205r: A tract on the lineage of Millicent Tibetot, wife of John Fastolf, from William the Conqueror; beginning ‘Remember well the whole drift of this writing is to try out the geneonegy of the vertuouse lady called Milcent’.

f. 206r: A copy of the grant of Queen Mary and King Philip to the Office of Arms, 18 July 1555.

f. 207r: Formula used for the investiture of a knight with the Order of the Garter (French).

ff. 208r-211r: Lists of knights and nobility; with a list of noblemen and knights created by James I on 21-22 July 1603; followed by a tract on the interment of the body of Mary Queen of Scots in Peterborough Cathedral on 14 August 1587.

ff. 212r-214r: The ‘order of the Knights of the bathe at the Cronosyone of Queene Marye’; followed by texts concerning the kings and queens of England and France.

ff. 215r-216r: ‘Proclamacion by the kinges Majesties Comissioners ffor the Hearinge and adiudginge of all Claymes and Peticions of such as pretende Right to doe anye Servyce at the Kinges and Queenes Majesties Coronacions’; dated 14 July 1603.

ff. 217r: A text on the 'manore and Charge of the makynge of the greate Banketynghouse at Whythall at the Intertaynment of Mounsere by Queene Elyzabethe 1581’.

ff. 218r-218v: Creation of Charles Lord Howard of Effingham, as Earl of Nottingham, 23 October, 1597.

ff. 219r-220r: 'Projecte for inrolinge of Pedegrees of such as sue their Lyveries - the Court of Wards'.

ff. 221r-236r: A collection of 16th-century historical texts, beginning with 'A Discourse of differences of Knyghtes and ther presedencyes'; including political texts concerning the reigns of different English kings, including 'Officers Names and Governors of Places'.

ff. 237r-242v: A collection of 16th-century historical texts, containing a letter of Richard I to Canterbury, other texts concerning the reigns of English kings (Henry III, Edward I, Edward II), and Domesday Book.