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Harley MS 849
- Record Id:
- 040-002046678
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046678
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000163
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155078911.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 849
- Title:
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Edmund Plowden, A treatise proving Mary Queen of Scots' right to the English throne, 1566
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–30v: 'A treatice prouing that if our Soueraigne Lady queen Elizabeth (whom god blesse with long lyffe & many children) shoulde die without issue; that the Quene of Scottes by her birthe in Scotlande is not disabled by the lawe of England to receiue the crowne of Inglande by discent.'
ff. 30v–38r: 'A briffe declaration of the invaliditie of the laste will of the late kyng of famous memory king henry the viiith to make the imperiall crowne of this realme to passe to those named in the same...'
Plowden's treatise was probably written at the request of Thomas Howard, the Duke of Norfolk. It contains two articles, with a prologue to each part explaining how he came to write it. The first refutes the claim that Mary Queen of Scots was barred from the English throne because of her foreign birth. The second dealt with the validity of Henry VIII's will: Plowden concluded that Henry's will had been signed with the stamp rather than his hand as required by statute, and so it was not validly executed for the purpose of disposing of the crown.
This manuscript contains both prologues and articles, whilst the Cottonian manuscript does not contain the second article or the first prologue. In the Bodleian Library copy, the first prologue differs in several respects.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046678 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 849 : Edmund Plowden, A treatise proving Mary Queen of Scots' right to the English throne, 1566 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0849]/040-002046678
- 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_100155078911.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1560
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 365 x 275 mm.
Foliation: ff. 38.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester and theologian (1635–1699).
Robert Harley bought Stillingleet's manuscripts in 1707.
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.
- 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), p. 456.
Marie Axton, 'The Influence of Edmund Plowden's Succession Treatise', Huntington Library Quarterly, 37 (1974), 209–26.
Geoffrey de C. Parmiter, Edmund Plowden: An Elizabethan Recusant Lawyer (Southampton: Catholic Record Society, 1987), pp. 90–95.
Geoffrey de C. Parmiter, 'Edmund Plowden as advocate for Mary Queen of Scots: some remarks upon certain Elizabethan succession tracts', Innes Review, 30 (1979), 35–53.
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), p. 316.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)