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Harley MS 737

Record Id:

040-002046566

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046566

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0000f3

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100165897930.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 737

Title:

A collection of political papers, largely concerning the King's right to impose taxes without parliamentary consent

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-2r: ‘A Remonstrance delivered to his Majesty in writeing after the Inhibicion given by him to the lower howse of Parliament as well by word of mouth as by letters not to proceede in the examining his right to impose without essente of Parliament’.

ff. 3r-31r: ‘The Questiones whether the king without assent of Parliament may sett imposicions uppon the wares and goodes of Merchants exported and imported out of and into his Realme’.

ff. 31v-32r: 'After the Kings right to impose had bin throughly examined in parliament and here determined not to be in him alone without assent of parliament [...]’.

ff. 33r-35v: Robert Cecil, 1st Earl Salisbury, ‘A Collection of such things, as Roberte [Cecil] Late Earle of Salisburye thought ffitt to offerr unto Kinge James his Majestie Touchinge the necessitye of Callinge a Parliamente’.

ff. 35v-55r: ‘A Coppie of your Lordshipps first Speeche delyvered to the Lower Howse of Parlayment’.

ff. 56r-65v: ‘A reporte made by Sir Howard Rowe to the Commone house of Parliament made by the Earle of Bristoll to a Comittee of both houses touching the Scotts buisnesse’.

ff. 66r-72r: ‘The Accusations and Impeachment of John Lord Finch, Baron of Fordich, Lord Keeper of the Greate Seale of England by the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled, Charging him with highe Treason and other Misdemeanours as ensue’ [1641].

f. 73r: A title page: ‘The late Proceedings in Scottland’.

ff. 74r-75r: ‘The Copie of a Letter from the Lords of the Privy Councell of Scotland unto the Kings most Excellent Majestie upon the first assembling of the People of Scottland for opposing the Service Booke then imposed upon them’ [1637].

ff. 75v-78v: ‘The Humble Supplication or Remonstrance of the Noblemen, Barons, Burgesses, Ministers and Commons of Scotland to the Lords of His Majesty’s Privy Council There’.

ff. 79r-83r: ‘The Scotts first Reasons against the Service Book'.

ff. 83v-87r: ‘The Protestacion made by the Noblemen etcaetera Scotland at Starling 9^o die Februarij 1637’.

ff. 88r-134v: ‘A Breife Survey of the Errors of the Service Booke now imposed upon us the nobilitie Ministere, gentrie, and the Whole Cominaltie of Scottland’.

ff. 135r-150r: ‘The Confession of Faieth subscribed by King James of blessed memory and his Councell and houshould in the yere of god 1580 [and again in 1581, 1590, and 1638]’.

ff. 151r-158v: Sir Robert Cotton, 'That the Kinges of England have beene pleased usually to Consult with their Peeres in their greate Councells of Marriadge, Peace and Warr’.

ff. 159r-163r: William Coryton, 'The Passages at the councell Table betweene the Councell and William Corriton Esquire about refussinge to pay the Loane'.

ff. 164r-167v: ‘A Remonstrance Delivered to his Majestie in writinge after the Inhibicion given by him to the Lower House of Parliamente as well by wordes of mouth as by Letters not to proceede in examinings his right to impose without assent of Parliament’.

ff. 168-251v: ‘The Question is whether the Kinge without Assent of Parliament may sett Impositions uppon wares and goods of Merchants exported and imported out of and into this Realme’.

ff. 252r-315v: William Prynne, ‘An humble Remonstrance to his Majestie against the Tax of Shippmoney imposed, laying open the illegality Iniustice abuse and inconvenience thereof’.

ff. 316r-332r: ‘The Passages against Mr [Thomas] Harrison for sayeinge Judge Hutton spake Treason [1638]’.

ff. 334r-355v: Sir John Fynch, ‘His Argument [concerning ship money, 1638]’.

ff. 356r-404v: Sir Edward Littleton, 'L’Argument del Mr. Solicitour Littelton de inferiori Templo fait par celuy in Camera Scaccarij devant toutes les Judges’ [English treatise on ship money]

ff. 405r-412r: ‘The Copye off a letter written to the Lower House of Parliament Touchinge divers Inconveiniences and greivances of the State’.

ff. 413r-417r: Articles against the Duke of Buckingham.

ff. 418r-455r: ‘The Manner of Donnald Lord Rey and David Ramsey Esquier their Comminge to and carriage at tryall uppon munday the 28th of November [1638] before Robert Earle of Lindsey Lord high Constable, Thomas Earle of Arundle, Marshall, Phillipp Earle of Pembrooke, and Montgomery Lord Chamberline, Edward Earle of Dorsett, James Earle of Mulgrave, Earle of Carlisle, Earle of Mourton, Viscounte Wentworth, Viscount Faulkland, Sir Henry Marten Knight’.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. i recto: A table of contents (listing only ten items); added in the 17th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046566

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 737 : A collection of political papers, largely concerning the King's right to impose taxes without parliamentary consent

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0737]/040-002046566

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

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Languages:

English
French

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1637

End Date:

1641

Date Range:

1637-1641

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 320 x 200 mm.

Foliation: ff. i + 455 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 65 and f. 66; f. 87 and f. 88; f. 134 and f. 135; f. 163 and f. 164; f. 332 and f. 333; f. 404 and f. 405; 2 between f. 72 and f. 73; and f. 158 and f. 159; 3 between f. 417 and f. 418; 4 between f. 412 and f. 414.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled mottled brown half-leather binding with marbled paper on the outsides of the upper and lower covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), Bishop of Worcester: according to Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316.

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; inherited his father’s collection; 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. 426-27.

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