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Harley MS 607
- Record Id:
- 040-002046436
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046436
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000071
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163609989.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 607
- Title:
- The second of two volumes from the Court of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office, containing certificates concerning the value of lands sold by Mary and Philip during the 3rd and 4th years of their reign
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: A parchment strip with the title: ‘Liber secundus de lez Rates’; a second parchment strip with a Latin inscription: ‘[...] lave p[ar]cell[e] de de [sic] Scyton’]
f. 2v: An alphabetical index of counties included in this manuscript.
ff. 3r-191r: The second of two volumes from the Court of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office, containing certificates of the annual value of crown lands proposed for sale by Mary Tudor [Mary I of England] (r. 1553-1558) and Philip, during the 3rd and 4th years of their reign, organized by county [the first volume is Harley MS 606]; featuring signatures of John Baker, William Cordell, Francis Englefield, William Petre, and Edward Waldegrave [copied signatures]. The collection also contains copies of letters ‘By the kinge and quene’ (ff. 112r, 187r); and William Petre (f. 153r), dated to 1557; and a large folded paper (f. 190r), containing ‘A breiff Declaracion of all the Leade remanyng within the Surveye of the Courte of Augmentacion as apperith by several declaracions therof made’, featuring surveys of the lead remaining on religious houses ‘as yett not defaced’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046436 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 607 : The second of two volumes from the Court of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office, containing certificates concerning the value… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0607]/040-002046436
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163609989.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1555
- End Date:
- 1557
- Date Range:
- 1555-1557
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (ff. 5, 187).
Dimensions: 375 x 270 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1-191 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); f. 5 is a parchment leaf with a fold-out at its lower margin; ff. 30, 41, 48, 65, 87, 108, 129, 131, 138, 146, 153, 154, 165, 167, 171 are smaller paper leaves or paper strips; f. 112 has a paper foldout at its lower margin; f. 187 is a small parchment leaf; f. 190 is an oversized paper that has been folded twice to match the dimensions of the manuscripts leaves; 2 unfoliated pieces of parchment pasted onto f. 1r; f. 91 is a folded paper leaf mounted onto a paper guard; each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 22 February 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The Court of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office, wrote the manuscript in : indicated by the manuscript’s contents.
Ralph Starkey (d. 1628) of Darley Hall in Oulton, owned the manuscript: his hand occurs on f. 190r (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 141); acquired from him in 1628 by Sir Simonds D’Ewes (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 314).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131); his hand is on f. 190r; recorded in his library as X.318 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 141; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 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.
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pp. 376-85.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), p. 141 [X.318].
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. 383.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)