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Harley MS 1026
- Record Id:
- 040-002046855
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046855
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000214
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1026
- Title:
- Memorandum book of Justinian Pagitt
- Scope & Content:
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Private notebook of Justinian Pagitt (1611/2-1688) of Hadley, Middlesex, lawyer and Recorder of the Kings Bench.
Contents include:
ff. 1-3: Table of contents.
ff. 4-5: Notes from Dr Henshaw’s sermons, 1632-3.
f. 6: Notes on his health.
f. 7: Notes on dancing. Headed: ‘De Arte soltandi, a few short precepts’.
ff. 8, 10, 14v: Theological notes.
f. 9: On witchcraft and the ‘Unguentum Armamentarium’.
ff. 16-19: Miscellaneous meditations, notes on his humour, inclinations, resolutions, etc.
ff. 21-22: Daily journal from 26 November to 29 December 1633.
ff. 23-30: Notes from sermons of Dr Micklethwaite and others.
ff. 31-32: ‘Remarkable things which I observed in my Journy through Warwickshire, Darbyshire, Notinghamshire, Cheshire, Flintshire, etc. Anno 1630’.
ff. 33-36: Rough drafts of letters, with notes on letter writing.
f. 36v: Satirical letter from a clergyman seeking a benefice.
f. 37v: Ceremony used at creation of Doctors at the Commencement in Cambridge.
f. 38: Eye witness account of the Maundy Thursday ceremony in Whitehall, 18 April 1633.
ff. 39-41: Poems by William Stroad and Richard Corbet, Bishop of Oxford:
- Elegy by William Stroad on Sir John Waller.
- Poem by Richard Corbet to his three year old son, Vincent on his birthday, 10 November 1630.
- Verses by Richard Corbet in praise of the Lord of Dorset.
- Verses by Richard Corbet on Dr Ravis, Bishop of London.
- Sonnet by William Stroad.
- A Parallel ‘twixt Bowling and Preferment, by Will. Stroad.
ff. 42-43: Notes on tradesmen, household management etc. headed ‘Miscellanea Mechanica’.
ff. 44-52: Rough draft of letters from Justinian Pagitt, with news of public events, anecdotes, etc.:
- Letter to James Harrington. 27 January 1633. Includes mention of the publication of William Prynne’s Histrio-mastix
- Letter to his cousin Tremyl. 22 August 1633.
- Letter to his cousin Justinian Isham at Paris. 28 September.
- Letter to his uncle Dr Twysden.
- Letter to his cousin Tremyl.
f. 53: Concerning the controversy in St Johns College Cambridge between Mr Oldsworth and Dr Lane for the Mastership.
ff. 53-59: Historical notes of events around 1633, including:
- Extracts from Archbishop Abbott’s funeral sermon by the Bishop of Rochester.
- Passages on the Duke of Buckingham’s death.
- Dr Prideaux’s defence of what he spoke in a disputation at Oxford University Divinity School.
ff. 60-69r: Maxims and advice from a letter of Cardinal Sermonetta to his cousin Don Pedro Cajetano. Topics include Silence, Censure, Dissimulation, Scolding, Immoderate Drinking, Tricks. With anecdotes and observations by Justinian Pagitt, and a plan of studies.
ff. 69v-76v, 79-82: Beginning of diary for November 1633-May 1634.
ff. 77-78: Personal notes on family affairs.
ff. 83-113: Miscellaneous notes on legal topics etc.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046855", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1026: Memorandum book of Justinian Pagitt" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046855 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1026 : Memorandum book of Justinian Pagitt - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1026]/040-002046855
- 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:
- 1628
- End Date:
- 1638
- Date Range:
- c 1633
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 240 x 195 mm.
Foliation: 1*, 1-9, 9*, 10-113 folios (total 115 folios)
Binding: British Museum half leather binding.
- Custodial History:
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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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 1026.
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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Pagitt, Justinian, Recorder of the King's Bench, 1611/12–1668