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Harley MS 590

Record Id:

040-002046419

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046419

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000060

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 590

Title:

Collection of historical papers compiled by John Foxe

Scope & Content:

This composite manuscript of different historical papers was compiled by the martyrologist John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587).

Contents:

f. 1r: Part of an old roll, containing a survey of the Kent Marshes with drawings of the manor houses of 'Clyffe', 'Collynge', 'Halstowe', 'St Marys' and 'Alhallowes' belonging to the Lord Cobham and to Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (b. 1503, d. 1542); written in the (?) 1540s.

ff. 2r-5r: 'An Epistyll written wherin the novacious error now newly revised by the secte of Anabaptysts is Confutid and the tru dyffynyshon of the syne ageynst the Holy Gost playnly declaryde'

ff. 6r-63r: John Foxe's exorcism of a demon from Robert Briggs, a lawyer at Temple Inn in 1574.

ff. 64r-68r: 'A Report of the Last Disputacion of Doctor Taylor Parson of Hadley with the Byshopes assembled at St Mary Overeyes by a Gentleman that was present at hyt'; with a later note: 'This I think is not printed in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments'.

ff. 69r-69v: An account about the wife of 'Edmonde Kingesfielde' who was deemed to be possessed by the Devil, 1565.

ff. 70-75r: Copy of a bill in Order to an Act of Parliament, dating to 1 Elizabeth I, to confirm the Grants of Offices, Leases etc. of Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London; with marginal notes by Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London.

ff. 76r-76v: Account of Charles Lord Stourton's murder of William Hartgill Esquire, and his subsequent execution in 1557.

f. 77r: William Maldon's relation of how he has inhumanely persecuted by his own father for hearing and reading the New Testament in the time of King Henry VIII.

ff. 78v-79r: The sentence against Walter Appleby and Petronil Appleby (husband and wife), Joan Bradbridge, Joan Manning, Elizabeth Lewes, and Edmund Allin and Katherine Allin (husband and wife), who were condemned by Nicholas Harpesfield for heresy, and executed in 1557 during the Marian Persecutions; written in Latin.

ff. 80r-126v: Transcripts of many Records relating to the Town and Castle of Queenborough in Kent, examined and attested by Thomas Heneage in 1583.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. [76a]recto: Note from the British Museum: 'Harl. 590 f. 77: Taken out for Biblical Exhibition 9th February 1911'; and 'Returned, Jan 1912 - J. P.h.'.

Decoration:

A map of the Kent Marshes with manor houses, boats, and fish drawn in black ink (f. 1r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046419

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 590 : Collection of historical papers compiled by John Foxe

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0590]/040-002046419

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:

1535

End Date:

1590

Date Range:

c 1540-c 1585

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: Leaves of different sizes that have been mounted to fit a volume measuring 410 x 320 mm.

Foliation: ff. 126 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1 is large folded paper sheet that has been reinforced with fabric on it is reverse; 1 unfoliated paper strip between f. 76 and f. 77 (f. [76a]); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [129]verso (conservation notes).

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

Script: 16th-century Gothic cursive (Secretary).

Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587), martyrologist: his papers throughout the manuscript (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 157).

John Strype (b. 1643, d. 1737), historian and biographer, owned until 1709: purchased from him by Humfrey Wanley for the Harleian Library (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), p. 359.

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. 157, 321.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England