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Harley MS 829

Record Id:
040-002046658
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002046658
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 829
Title:

Collection of texts, mostly concerning law

Scope & Content:

Manuscript volume containing mostly legal texts of different authors, in many different hands.

Contents:

  • ff. 1-17v: ‘A little Treatise of Baile and Mainprise, written at the request of Sir William Heydon by Sr. Edward Cooke’.
  • ff. 18-28v: ‘Lectio Magistri Nowell, sur le Statute de Willes’.
  • ff. 29-48v: ‘Les Lectures de Mr Jean Brograve, eue in Grais Inne, in Sommer, 1576, 18. Eliz., sur le Branch de Statute de 27. Hen. VIII. Cap. 10. de Uses concernant Jointures’.
  • ff. 49-52v: Part of another copy of the treatise of bail and mainprise by Sr. Edward Cooke.
  • ff. 53-59v: ‘A Replicacion of a Serjaunte at the Lawes of Englond, to certain poyntys alleged by a Student of the said Lawes [Christopher St. Germain] yn a dialog yn Englishe, between a Doctour of Divinytie and the said Studente’.
  • ff. 61-81v: ‘A little treatise concerning wrytts of Sub-Pena’, written by the same author as the previous text.
  • ff. 82-96v: ‘The Practice of the Sheriffs Court, London: conteyning the manner of entring of Actions, making of Attachments & Sequestrations, with all Proceedings thereon, with their several Fees; likewise the Garnishees & Defendants Fees upon an Attachment’.
  • f. 97: ‘The Placing of Estates & Degrees of the Nobilitie within the Kingdom of England’.
  • ff. 97v-98v: ‘List of the Nobilitie of England, made temp R. Eliz.’.
  • ff. 99-110v: ‘A true collection as well of all the Kings Majesties Offices & Fees [salaries] in any the Courtes at Westminster, as of all the Offices & Fees of his Majesties Honorable Household; togeather with all Fees appertaineinge to Captaines & Souldiers, haveing Chardge of Castells, Bulwarkes & Fortresses within the Realme, and likewise the Offices of his Highness, honorable Houses, Parkes, Forests, & Chases, within the said Realme’.
  • ff. 111-112: ‘All the generall Musters taken throughout the whole Realme of England and Wales’.
  • f. 113: ‘All the churches within every shire in England and Wales’.
  • f. 114: ‘The Chardges of the Greate Seale of England’.
  • f. 114: ‘The Chardges of the Exemplification of a Recoverye, under the Greate Seale of England’.
  • ff. 114-115v: ‘The Order to sue forth a Fyne, and the Chardges thereof’.
  • ff. 116-117: ‘The Causes wherein a Wager of Law lieth’, including the charges.
  • f. 117v: ‘Fees in the Marshalls Courte’.
  • f. 117v: ‘The Chardges of a Subpena in the Starre Chamber’.
  • f. 117v: ‘The Charges of a Charter Warrant’.
  • f. 117v: ‘The charges of a Quietus est, in the Exchequer’.
  • f. 118: ‘The Charges of a Commission of Rebellion out of the Chauncery’.
  • ff. 118-118v: ‘The charges of a Nisi-prius in the Countrye’.
  • ff. 121-136: ‘An abstract of the lawes of new England’.
  • ff. 137-141: Part of a law lecture on the raising of uses.
  • ff. 142-144: Proceedings at the intended trial of Richard Weston for the murder of Sr. Thomas Overbury, 19 October 1615.
  • ff. 145-177v: Extracts from newsletters, January 1663-May 1663.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002046658
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 829 : Collection of texts, mostly concerning law
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[0829]/040-002046658
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 volume
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
French
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
17th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 310 x 240 mm.

Foliation: 177 folios.

Binding: British Museum binding.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

This volume was previously owned by Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester.

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 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), Volume I

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 316-318

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)