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Harley MS 427

Record Id:

040-002046255

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046255

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00034c

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 427

Title:

List of soldiers under Edward Whalley; valuations of the possessions of Charles I and Henrietta Maria of France

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-24r: An alphabetical list of soldiers, organised according to surname and rank.

ff. 25r-34v: A ‘list of Collonel Whalleys Troops with the severall summes of Arreares due to every respectinve person as they were delivered to Worster house and received againe from thence with the Reasons of Abbatements’.

ff. 35r-46v: A collection of lists of payments to soldiers ‘For servise under the Lord Fairfax’; beginning with a 'List of Colonel Whalleyes Troops with the severall summes of Arreares due to every respecting person'.

ff. 47r-47v: A copy of the ‘Letter of Attorney’; by Robert Swallowe and William Evanson, Major and Captain in the army of Edward Whalley.

ff. 47v-53v: A list of ‘Collonel Whaleyes Troops’.

ff. 54r-68r: The valuation of Bestwood, beginning ‘Parcell of the possessions of Charles Stuart late kinge of England’.

ff. 69r-77v: The valuation of Hemel Hempstead, beginning ‘Parcell of the possessions of Charles Steuart late Kinge of England’.

ff. 78r-94r: The valuation of ‘Tenements in the Strand’.

ff. 95r-104v: The valuation of 'The Mannour of Terrington'.

ff. 105r-126r: The valuation of West Walton and Terrington, beginning ‘Parcell of the Possessions of Charles Stewart & Henrietta Maria late kinge and Queene of England’.

ff. 127r-135v: The Valuation of Havering Park, beginning ‘Parcell of the Possessions of Charles Stuart and Hemeretta [sic] Maria late kinge and Queen of England’.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046255

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 427 : List of soldiers under Edward Whalley; valuations of the possessions of Charles I and Henrietta Maria of France

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0426]/040-002046255

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:

1645

End Date:

1655

Date Range:

c 1650

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 360 x 215 mm.

Foliation: ff. 135 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); ff. 1-24 have tabs with the letters of the alphabet; 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 46 and f. 47; f. 53 and f. 54; f. 67 and f. 68; f. 68 and f. 69; f. 73 and f. 74; f. 89 and f. 90; and f. 126 and f. 127; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 26 October 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

John Strype (b. 1643, d. 1737), historian and biographer, owned until (?) 1711: purchased from him by Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 321).

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. 250-51.

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. 379.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)