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Harley MS 377

Record Id:

040-002046205

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046205

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00031a

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 377

Title:

Letters from Simonds D’Ewes

Scope & Content:

Collected letters written by Sir Simonds D’Ewes to recipients in England and the Continent, 1620-1650. In his own hand or the hand of his secretaries. The first part of the volume (ff. 1-193) consists of fair copies, and the second part (ff. 194-313) consists of drafts, some marked for copying. There is an incomplete set of headings throughout the first part, indicating an intended arrangement into volumes and books.

Contents:

f. 1: Heading for volume 1, book 1.

ff. 1-5: Letter to King John of Portugal.

ff. 6-7: Two letters to Richard Holesworth, Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. 18 Jan 1620 and Calends March 1641/2.

ff. 8-15: Ten letters to William Gurnall, Sudbury, Suffolk. 1644-1648/9.

ff. 10v-f. 11r: Letter to Cornelius Burges, Doctor of Divinity. 11 Calends November 1644.

ff. 16-18: Five letters to Robert Boremann, Trinity College, Cambridge. 1643/4-1644/5.

ff. 19-23: Six letters to George Speed, rector of Stowlangtoft, Suffolk (the last of them in draft). 1644-1649/50.

f. 24: Letter to Sir Philip Parker, Arwerton, Suffolk. October 1640.

ff. 25-26: Letter to King Christian IV of Denmark. 1644.

ff. 27-33: Three letters to M. André Duchesne of Tours, Paris (together with a genealogy and some papers on the Bassett family). 1638-1639.

ff. 34-39: Two letters to Jacques Sirmond, Paris. 1648.

f. 40r: End of a letter to an unidentified recipient.

ff. 40r-40v: Letter to Lord Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, Baron Kensington, etc. 1645.

f. 40v: Beginning of a letter to Antão de Almada, son and future heir of John of Almada, Knight of the Order of Christ, Lisbon, Portugal.

f. 41: Letter to Johannes Tristanus Santamantius. 1649.

ff. 43-47: Two letters to Daniel Heinsius, Leiden (the second in draft). 1640-1643.

f. 48: Heading for volume 3, book 11.

ff. 48-100v: 26 letters to Charles Louis, Elector Palatine, Hague. 1643-1644.

f. 100v: Heading for volume 3, book 12.

ff. 100v-133: 18 letters to Charles Louis, Elector Palatine, Hague. 1644-1646.

ff. 134-135: Rough draft of Simonds D’Ewes letter to the Queen of Bohemia. 1638. Written on the back of old legal documents.

f. 134v: Bill of Christopher Allenson plaintiff, against Paul D’Ewes & Isaac Woder Esquires defendants, circa 1620 with the defendant’s response.

f. 135v: unidentified legal scrap.

f. 136: Heading for volume 4, book 16.

ff. 136r-136v: Letter to Prince Charles Duke of Lorraine, Brussels. 10 September 1644.

f. 136v: Letter to the Duke of Orléans. 1645.

ff. 137r-137v: Letter to Prince Charles Duke of Lorraine, Brussels. 1645.

ff. 137v-138v: Letter to his nephew William Elyot, oldest son of Sir William Elyot, Godalming, Surrey. September 1646.

ff. 138v-144v: Two letters to John Harmar, doctor of Westminster College. 1646-1646/7.

ff. 144v-145r: Letter to Edward Pocock, Professor of Arabic at Oxford. 1648/9.

ff. 146-147v: Two letters to Reverend Father Ralph Bromrigg, Bishop of Exeter, Master of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. 1644.

ff. 147v-148v: Letter to Lord Edward Montagu, Earl of Manchester. 1644.

ff. 148v-150r: Two letters to Reverend Father Joseph Halley, Bishop of Norwich. 1644.

ff. 150r-151v: Letter to Lord Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, Earl Marshal of England, Knight of the Garter, Hague. 1644.

ff. 151v-152v: Letter to Lord Basil Feilding, Earl of Denbigh etc., Uxbridge. 1644/5.

ff. 152v-153r: Letter to Roger Twisden, Knight and Baronet, Lambeth Palace.

ff. 153v-154r: Letter to John Hind of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Lambeth Palace. 1644/5.

ff. 154r-155v: Two letters to Lord Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, Baron of Kensington, Knight of the Garter and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. 1645-1647/8.

ff. 155v-156v: Letter to Antão de Almada, son and future heir of John de Almade, Knight of the Order of Christ, Lisbon Portugal.

ff. 156v-157r: Letter to John Selden, London.

ff. 157r-161r: Four letters to Anthony Tuckney, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge. 1648/9

ff. 162-193: 18 letters to Johannes Smetius, Nijmegen, Duchy of Guelders. 1643-1650.

f. 194: Letter to Sir Hamon L’Estrange, Hunstanton, Norfolk. 1636/7.

ff. 195-196: Letter to Lord Henry Earl of Bath, Tawstock. 24 Sept 1639.

ff. 197-202: Panegyric oration addressed to Sir Simonds D’Ewes of Suffolk, by a young student at Bury School, 3 March 1640.

ff. 199-202: Four letters to Prince Louis, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavre, Duke of Guelders, etc. 1641-1642.

ff. 203-208: Seven letters to Abraham Wheelocke, Cambridge University Library. 1641-1642.

f. 204v: Letter to his young relative John Knyvet, alumnus of the Benedictine College. 26 Oct 1640.

f. 209: Letter to his Royal Majesty from the Privy Council at Whitehall. 13 Calends Martiis, 1639/40.

ff. 210-232: 14 letters to John de Laet. 1640-1643.

ff. 233-313: 73 letters to Sir Albertus Joachim, Knight, ambassador of the States General of the United Provinces to Charles I, King of Great Britain. 1634-1642.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046205

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 377 : Letters from Simonds D’Ewes

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0376]/040-002046205

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1620

End Date:

1650

Date Range:

1620-1650

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 335 x 230 mm.

Foliation: 313 folios. Folios 134-135 folded.

Binding: British Museum binding, speckled calf with gold tooling.

Custodial History:

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 (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.

Former owner: Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1602-1650).

Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 377.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 131.

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