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Harley MS 677

Record Id:
040-002046506
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002046506
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 677
Title:
Collection of letters, speech, prose and poetry
Scope & Content:

Manuscript volume written in a number of different hands.

Contents:

ff. 1-31: Collections out of Plutarch’s Lives.

ff. 31-32: Extracts from a letter to Sir Edward Coke in the time of his trouble. Header ‘Witty Speeches collected out of a Letter sente to Sir Edward Cooke after he was Lord Chiefe Justice’.

ff. 33-36: Headed 'Advertisements of a Loyall Subject to his Gracious Soveraigne Drawn from Observations of the People's Speaches'.

ff. 37-38: Copy of a letter from the Lord of Leicester to Edmund Scambler, Bishop of Peterborough. 27 September 1578.

ff. 39-40: Letter from Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, to the Earl of Southampton when he was prisoner in the Lord Keepers House.

ff. 41-43: Speech of Anthony Rudd, Bishop of St Davids, in the Convocation House. 23 May 1604.

f.44: Petition for the continuation of their ministers presented near Royston, headed ‘Petition exhibited by the People neere adjacent unto the Towne of Roiston, Nov[ember] 1604’.

ff. 45-46: Letter from Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York, to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranbourne, afterwards Earl of Salisbury, showing his dislike of some points in the administration.

ff. 46-48: Letter from Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranbourne, later Earl of Salisbury, in reply to Matthew Hutton’s letter on the preceding folios (f. 45-46).

f. 48v-50r: Address of John Burgess a Puritan Minister, to the King on behalf of himself and others of his party.

ff. 50v-51r: ‘To the heretical Parson of Enboorne’. Verse condemnation by an anonymous Catholic writer, addressed to John Rhodes, Parson of Enborne, Berkshire, published by him in A briefe summe of the treason intended against the King & state, when they should haue been assembled in Parliament. Nouember. 5. 1605 (1606).

ff. 51v-52v: Speech of Edward Seymour, Earle of Hereford, made to his Officers and Servants, before embarking at Dover. 18 April 1601.

f. 53: Letter from Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York, to Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, complaining of the excessive wasting of the treasure of the Kingdom, etc.

ff. 54-57r: Speech William Holt member of the House of Commons, against the Union with Scotland. 1607.

f. 57v: Letter from King James 1 to the Vice-President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, requiring them to elect Dr Hardinge, for their President. 10 February 5.Jac. I.

f. 58r: Letter from Thomas Sackvile, Earl of Dorset and Chancellor of the University of Oxford, to the same Vice-President and Fellows, recommending Dr Hardinge to their choice. 12 February 1607.

ff. 58v-59: Letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury and Earl of Dorset, Lords of the Kings Council, to the Vice-President of Magdalen College, Oxford, and certain of the College Fellows, requiring them to come and answer for their opposition to the election of Dr. Hardinge. 15 February 1607.

f. 60: Letter from the Fellows of Magdalen College to the Archbishop and Privy Council, on behalf of their Vice-President. 19 February 1607.

f. 61: Order of the Queen that no College head shall be permitted to have a wife, children or nurses with the college precincts. Dated 19 August 3.Jac I.

ff. 62-67: 'Apology to James I' by Sir Charles Cornwallis. Petition to the King while prisoner in the Tower of London. 24 June 1614.

ff. 68-77: Index to the collections out of Plutarch’s Lives on ff. 1-31 of this volume.

f. 78: Collections from Solinus.

f. 79: Letter from King James I to the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, requiring him to cause the Heads of Houses there, to consult about restoring their Impropriations to the Church. 10 July 1603.

ff. 80v-86r: Selections from Arcadia, by Philip Sydney.

ff. 87-104: Mother Hubbard’s Tale, by Edmund Spenser.

f. 104r-104v: Verses written by a favourer of the Queen of Scots, from prison. Following on from Mother Hubbard’s Tale, on the same page, in a different hand.

f. 105: Verses on the death of John Hampshire one of the Queen’s servants, who died 14 March 1601.

f. 106r: Letter from King James I to the University of Oxford, exhorting them to restore their impropriations to the Church.

f. 106v: Verses. Opening words: ‘If I could shutt the gate against my thoughts’. Words set to music in Songs for the Lute, Viol and Voice, composed by John Danyel (1606).

f. 107: Letter from King James I to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 29 October 1603. Commanding him to require of the Bishops of his Province, certificates of the number and value of the several Churches within their Dioceses, and a character of the incumbents. With a hint of restoring the Impropriation, etc.

f. 108v: Letter from Francis Flower to his cousin, exhorting him to continue his studies. 29 June 1592.

f. 109: Letter signed John R.

f. 109v-111v: Letter from Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper, to the Earl of Essex, when he was committed on return from Ireland.

f. 111v-114r: Reply of the Earl of Essex to Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper.

ff. 114v-115r: Letter from Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, Earl Marshall, to Queen Elizabeth I, stating his intention to withdraw from Court upon her disfavour.

f. 115v: Medical recipes, including a treatment for moist eyes.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
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040-002046506
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 677 : Collection of letters, speech, prose and poetry
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[0677]/040-002046506
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:
1560
End Date:
1640
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 215 x 190 mm.

Foliation: 115 folios.

Binding: British Museum quarter leather binding, 1967.

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: Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1688), Bishop of Worcester.

Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 677.

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. 316.

Publications:

Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England (MPESE) https://mpese.ac.uk/m/BLHarleyMS677.html (Accessed 6 Feb 2023):

  • ff. 31r-32r: Letter to Coke in the Time of His Trouble'. 1617 https://mpese.ac.uk/t/LetterCokeTimeTrouble1617.html
  • ff. 33r-36v: 'Advertisements of a Loyal Subject to his Gracious Soveraign Drawn from Observations of the People's Speeches'. 1603 https://mpese.ac.uk/t/AdvertisementsLoyalSubject1603v1.html
  • ff. 41r-43v: 'Speech of the Bishop of St David’s in the Convocation House'. 1604https://mpese.ac.uk/t/SpeechBishopStDavidsConvocationHouse1604.html
  • ff. 45r-48r: 'Letters' by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, and Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York. 1604 https://mpese.ac.uk/t/CecilHuttonLetters1604.html
  • ff. 62r-67v: 'Apology to James I' by Sir Charles Cornwallis. 1614 https://mpese.ac.uk/t/CornwallisApology1614.html
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)