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Harley MS 306

Record Id:

040-002046134

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046134

MDARK:

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 306

Title:

Collection of tracts relating to trade in England

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-16r: Copy of '[t]he victuellinge of the Kinge and the Queenes Majesties Shippes there [Portesmowth, London and Dovar], beginninge the firste of Januarie, 1556 / And ending the laste of Marche followinge, as well for the Seas as in Harborowe, which Victuallinge was made by Edward Bashe Generalle Surveiour of the Victuellys for the Marine Cawsys'; signed in almost every lease by 'W[illiam] Wynter' and 'W. Broke'.

ff. 17r-25v: 'Previledge or Charter for the Englishe Marchants tradinge to the Est Indies' by Queen Elizabeth dated Westminster, 31 December 1600.

ff. 26r-30v: 'Account of the grain exported to foreign lands from the Ports of Bridgewater, Boston, Gloucester, Kingston upon Hull, Lynne, Plymouth & Fowey, Poole & Yarmouth, for the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th years of Queen Eliabeth's reign; signed by Thomas Moryson [Morrison] (d. 1592), Deputy Clerk of the Pipe.

ff. 32r-36v: Account of goods imported into Bristol, Bridgewater, Boston, Chester, Exeter and Dartmouth, Gloucester, Kingston upon Hull, Newcastle, King's Lynn, Plymouth & Fowey, Poole & Yarmouth, during the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th years of Queen Eliabeth's reign, with the Customs accruing by the same ('1585 - Book of Custome').

ff. 37r-38v: Thomas Moryson's certificate of 21000 l., answered Francis Walsingham for his 'Farme of Custome and Subsidies in the Porte of Kingston opon Hull' for 3 years ending at Michaelmass, 1588; dated 9 April 1589.

ff. 39r-39v: The State of Francis Walsingham's debt, by his Farm of the Ports, 30 Elizabeth I.

ff. 41r-45v: 'Colectyone of Costomes at severall Portes [Chester, Newcastle, Bristol, Bridgewater, Boston, Exeter & Dartmouth, Kingston upon Hull, London, King's Lynn, Plymouth & Fowey, Poole, Yarmouth & Gloucester ,Chichester, Ipswich, London, Sandwich, Southampton] expressynge the Difference for 6 yeares, from the 20th to the 25th of Elizabeth - Certefyed the 17 of November 1584 Anno 27 Elizabeth'.

ff. 46r-54v: Charter of Liberties and Privileges granted to the Cinque Ports, with the several Confirmations thereof to Queen Elizabeth.

ff. 55r-62v: Copy of 'The Customall of the Towne and Porte of Dover made or agreed to on 8 September 4 Edward VI'.

ff. 63r-64v: Copy of an Act made in the 'Brotherild' at Romney, 23 August, 17 Henry VIII.

ff. 65r-71r: Charter of Queen Elizabeth granted to the Levant or Tureky Merchants, Westminster, 7 January 1591/2.

ff. 72r-74v: 'Standing Ordenaunces both penall and otherwise' in in the company of the Turkey Merchants [Levant Company].

ff. 75r-80r: Queen Elizabeth's Patent granted to the Levant Company from the feast of St Michael, 1600, for 15 years, dated Westminster, 30 December 1600.

f. 81v: Short notes concerning the Privileges granted to the Merchants of the Hanseatic League by Kings of England.

ff. 82r-93r: Copy of a charter of King Henry VII granted to the Merchants of the Hanseatic League wherein their former charters are recited, 1 Henry VII.

f. 94v: 'Grauntes of Priviledges by Kings of England, from Kinge Henry the third to Edwarde the sixte to the Haunses or the Styllyarde, alias Guildhall Teutonicorum'.

ff. 95r-95v: 'A note of all the Kyngs that have reygned in Ingland since the Conqueste'; from William the Conqueror until Queen Elizabeth.

f. 96v: 'A Reductione of diveres soartes of waightes of a .100. severall Tounes whearby the difference dothe Apeare from the .100. waighte of Andwerpe as followthe'

f. 97r: 'The Reductione of Sundrie mesewres of severalle Landes as followethe'.

ff. 98r-99r: William Borough (bap. 1536, d. 1598)'s tables of the 'prices of Masts in proporsyon answerable to their solyde nombres produced by multeplyenge the Circomference at partonores in the Circomference at tope end and the producte by the lengthe of the Maste after suche Rate as the Maste of 20 hands is prised'.

f. 99v: Table of '[t]he Length of Masts proportyonably to ther Greatenes accordynge to their usualle Standard'.

f. 100v: Descent of some of the family of Starkey.

f. 100v: A medicinal recipe: 'Mr Anthony Dyole, a Counselore of the Temple, his Medesene for the Goute'.

ff. 101r-114*verso: 'Instytutyones and ordere made by the Masteres and Wardenes of the Trinetye House for the Government of the society of the said Felloshipe'.

ff. 115r-115*verso: 'A Remembrance that Wynes brought from the parties of beyonde the Seas are not unproffytable to the Comenwelthe of this Realme'.

ff. 116r-117v: 'A Breviat opening abuses practised by sundry procurers and takers of her Majesties Licenses and Warraunts for Provisions, Purveyaunce, and Transportation of Corne, Victualls, Marchaundises, etc.'; signed as 'The humble peition of Burnam,Peter Bales and John Wilcocks'.

ff. 118r-118v: 'A Breviat openinge certeyn abuses commonly practized by sundrye Procurers and takers of her Majesties Licenses and Warrantes for provision, purveyaunce and transportacion of corne, grayne, victualls, tymber, and other goods and marchaundizes, with remedy for the same'; signed as 'A breviat of John Wilcocks [?]sute'. ff. 119r-120v: 'A Breife of all the paymentes made into the Receipt of th'Eschequer by Sir Francis Walsingham knight since he was ffarmer of the Customes as money growing of the same: and of the Sommes Assigned to hym by Tallies unto the 12th day of Aprill, 1589 [31 Elizabeth]'.

ff. 121r-122v: 'Declaratio quo cursu sit navigandum ex Boreali Mari in Australe ut sic perveniatur in Regiones quae Sepango et Mangi vocantur et in inde in Catayam et Moluchos ubi Aromata petuntur'; composed 1496-1541.

ff. 123r-129r: 'The Reasons of the Merchants Adventurers in Answeare of a Petition delivered to his Majestie by the Cloath workers and Dyers of London for the dyeing and dressing of all Cloaths and Kersies before they bee Transported out of the Kingdome': with the Answers of Alderman Cockayne and the Projectors to the same.

ff. 130r-131v: 'Brief of the Accompt of Thomas Meddelton gent. from our Lady daie 1590 to our Lady day 1591'.

ff. 132r-136v: 'Certaine reasons to approve meanes that fostered and contynued all the abuses committed in the office of the shippes and after followe the pertyculers of those abuses and the remedies in my opnions how to avoyd them'; signed as 'Enquire of Machia[...] Br[...]es - Abuses and Reformacions of The Office of the Shipps with the resons, and accidents of the same'; with the added note by Sir Simonds D'Ewes: 'A rare peice for Sir Robert Cotton'.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

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040-002046134

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 306 : Collection of tracts relating to trade in England

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0305]/040-002046134

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1575

End Date:

1585

Date Range:

c 1580-c 1600

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: leaves of different sizes mounted to fit a volume measuring 360 x 300 mm.

Foliation: ff. 114* + 115* + 136 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 114* and f. 115* are paper leaves.

Collation: Each leaf has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: 16th-century cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1969.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Ralph Starkey (d. 1628) of Darley Hall in Oulton, owned ff. 1-80 and ff. 96-138 and partially written by him: items 18-19, 22, and 22 are in his hand, and his hand also occurs on items 4-7, 17, 25, *27, and 29; the items are as listed in the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), I, pp. 188-189; acquired from him in 1628 by Sir Simonds D’Ewes (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 325; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 314).

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: recorded in his catalogues as A.419 [ff. 81-95] and X62 [ff. 1-80, 96-138]; and his hand on f. 81r ['Marchants'] and f. 136v (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), pp. 152, 325; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), 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 Additional 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, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, 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), pp. 188-89.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. xviii n. 3.

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 60, 91 n. 308, 152, 352.

Cyril Ernest 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)

Places:

England