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Harley MS 714

Record Id:

040-002046543

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046543

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0000dc

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 714

Title:

Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Edward II

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains copies of the Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Edward II. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), p. 423, the manuscript also contained an unbound paper with a text concerning the Parliament, but this item has not been found in cataloguing the manuscript.

Contents:

ff. 1r-10v: ‘Rotulus Coronationis Edwardi Secundi’.

ff. 11r-22v: ‘Processus factus ad Coronationem Domini Regis Anglie Ricardi Secundi post Conquestum Anno regni Sui Primo’.

ff. 23r-32v: 'Ex Rotulo Servitiorum die Coronationis Henrici Quarti’.

f. 32*recto: A title-page: 'Rot. Parl. 5. 8. 8 & 9. 9 & 19, Edw. Secundi'

ff. 33r-38v: 'Claus. 5 Edw. 2 m. 3. dorso'.

ff. 39r-62v: ‘Rotulus Parliamenti tenti apud Westmonasterium de Anno Quinto Edwardi Secundi’; ending with the note: ‘Convenit tum Recordo Fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles’]’.

ff. 63r-262v: ‘Rotulus Parliamenti tenti apud Westmonasterium in Octavis Sancti Hillarij Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Secundi Octavo’; ending with the note: ‘Convenit tum Recordo Fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles’]’.

ff. 263r-328r: ‘Processus habitus coram Concilio Regis Edwardo patris Regis Edwardo Quarto super petitione quam Huog de Curtenaye porrexit in Parliamento ipsius Regis apud Westmonasterium post Octavas Sancti Hillarij Anno Regni Regis Octavo et Nono’; ending with the note: ‘Convenit tum Recordo Fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles’]’.

ff. 329r-392v: Memoranda de Parliamento Domini Edwardi Regis Anglie filij Edwardi quondam Regis Anglie summonito et tento apud Lincoln. in Quindena sancti Hillarij Anno Regni dicti Regis Nono facta per Willelmum de Ayremynne Clericum de Canellaria prefati Regis per eundem Regem ad hoc nominatum et specialiter deputatum’; ending with the note: ‘Convenit tum Recordo Fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles’]’.

ff. 393r-396r: Ex Rotulo clausarum de Anno 19^o Regis Edwardi Secundi membr. 15. dors.’; ending with the note: ‘Convenit tum Recordo Fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles’]’.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046543

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 714 : Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Edward II

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0714]/040-002046543

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 325 x 205 mm.

Foliation: ff. 32* + 396 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 32 and f. 32*; f. 263 and f. 264; f. 392 and f. 393; and 2 between f. 32* and f. 33.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), Bishop of Worcester: his manuscripts were bought for £175 in 1707 by Robert Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316).

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. 422-23.

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. 385.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England