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Harley MS 412

Record Id:
040-002046240
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002046240
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00033d
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 412
Title:

The offices of the nobility in England

Scope & Content:

Quarto manuscript volume containing lists of the offices of the nobility, the general musters, names of fugitives, and the amount of churches in England and Wales.

Inscribed on pasted pieces, probably from the original cover of this volume: ‘A book of offices in England’, ‘R. Harley’, and ‘This Book is supposd to be written about ye year 1605’ (f. 1*).

Inscribed in pencil on folio 1*: ‘fol. 13-6 When the E. of Dorset was Master of the Horse’, and ‘see pa. 4 – when Rob. Earl of Salisbury was M. of the Court of Wards & when Ld. Ellesmere was Ld. Chancellor’.

Contents:

  • ff. 1-22v: ‘A True Collectione as well of all the Kings Majesties offices & fees in any the Courts at Westminster, as of all the offices & fees of his Majesties honourable Howshould, together with all fees pertaineinge to Captaines & Souldiours haveinge charge of Castles, Bullworkes & Fortresses within the realme of England; and likewise the offices & fees of his Highness honourable Howses, Parks, Forrests, & Chases within the said realme’. Including ‘The placing of Estates & Degrees of Nobillitie in England’ and a list of ‘the Nobillitie of Englande, accordinge to their authorite & degrees’.
  • ff. 22v-25: ‘All the general Musters taken throughoute the whole realme of Englande and Wales’.
  • ff. 25-26v: ‘The Names of such as are certified into the Exchequer to be fugitives over the Sea; contrarie to the Statute of ye 13th of Elizabeth [1570/1571]’.
  • ff. 26v-27: Table showing the number of Churches within every county in England & Wales.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002046240
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 412 : The offices of the nobility in England
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[0411]/040-002046240
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:
1600
End Date:
1610
Date Range:
c 1605
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 230 x 150 mm.

Foliation: 1* + 27 folios.

Binding: British Museum binding.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

On f. 1 is pasted the armorial bookplate of Robert Harley.

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:

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. 80-82

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)