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Harley MS 1065

Record Id:
040-002046894
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002046894
MDARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1065
Title:
On the offices of Lord Steward, Lord High Constable, and Earl Marshall, and their jurisdictions; and a collection of extracts from records in the Tower of London 1323-1327
Scope & Content:

Composite volume of antiquarian tracts in several professional hands, belonging to John Anstis (1669-1744), Garter King of Arms. In two main parts.

f. 1*: Dedication from John Anstis to Robert Harley. Latin.

Part 1 (ff. 1-90). Collected extracts on the office of Lord Steward, Lord High Constable, and Earl Marshall. Contents list (f. 1v) suggests that this is incomplete.

Contents:

f. 1v: List of contents of the first part. Lists 13 sections, of which 12 and 13 are not to be present.

ff. 2-7: A discourse of the office of the Lord Steward, by Sir Robert Cotton. c. 1620s.

ff. 8-11r: Of the steward of the King’s Household, by Sir Robert Cotton. c. 1620s.

ff. 11v-14r: A discourse of the office of Lord Steward of England, by William Camden. c. 1620s.

ff. 14v-16: A discourse of the office of Lord High Constable of England, by Sir Robert Cotton. c. 1620s.

ff. 17-22r: The Antiquity and Office of Earl-Marshall of England, by Sir Robert Cotton. c. 1620s.

ff. 22v-24v: A discourse of the Antiquitie and office of the Earle-Marshalls of England, by Sir Robert Cotton, at the request of Lord Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. c. 1620s.

ff. 25-27: ‘Reasons the Courte of Marshalsey may fitly be enabled in certaine cases to hould Plea of all manner of trespasses, as well upon the Case, as others; albeit neither Party be of the King’s Houshold’.

ff. 27-32: ‘The manner, forme, and usage of Gilbert de Strigull Marshall of England in the execution of that office, at the Coronation of King Henry II, with all the pointes thereunto belonging, taken out of an Auncient Booke belonging to Sir Edward Windham who served at Bulloigne in that Office, and had that Booke, as appeareth, of the Earle of Surrey father to the Duke of Norfolke’.

ff. 32*-33: ‘New Ordinances propounded by Kinge Henry the Eight, touching the service of the Knight Marshall’.

ff. 34-41r: The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England, by William Camden. Headed ‘The Etimology, Antiquity, and Office of the Earle-Marshall of England’.

ff. 41r-43v: ‘A Comission unto the Lord Treasurer of England and others, to exercise the Office of Earle-Marshall of England’. Dated 26 December, ann. 44. Elizabeth.

ff. 43v-45: ‘A Comission unto the Lord Treasurer of England and others, to exercise the Office of Earle-Marshall of England’. Dated 25 September, ann. 14. James I.

ff. 46-48r: ‘Certaine Observations concerning the Earles Marshalles of England, and their Jurisdictions.

ff. 48r-50: ‘The Jurisdiction of the Lord High Constable and Mareshall of England’.

ff. 50-51r: ‘The Letters Pattentes made by Kinge James to Thomas Earle of Arundell, for enlargeing the power of his Office of Earle Marshall of England’. 1 August, ann. 20 James I.

ff. 51r-57v: ‘The Manor of the Judicial Proceedinge in the Court-Marshall’.

ff. 57v-63r: ‘Orders to be observed in the Earle Marshalls Courte’.

ff. 63r-81r: ‘Collections out of Records touchinge the usage and practise of the Constable and Marshalls Court in England’.

ff. 81r-90v: ‘The manner of Proceedinge in a Case of Armes betweene John Lord Lovell and Thomas Lord Morley; before the Conestable and Marshall. Anno 1395’.

Part 2 (ff. 91-147). Extracts from records kept in the Tower of London, on various subjects, 16-20 Edward II (i.e. 1323-1327).

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002046894
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 1065 : On the offices of Lord Steward, Lord High Constable, and Earl Marshall, and their jurisdictions; and a collection of extracts…
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[1065]/040-002046894
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 volume
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1740
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 345 x 250 mm.

Foliation: 1*, 1-147 folios.

Binding: British Museum in-house half leather binding, 1966.

Custodial History:

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.

Given to Robert Harley by John Anstis (1669-1744) (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 51).

Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 1065.

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. 50-52.

Publications:

Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: https://celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-harley-1000.html#british-library-harley-1000_id351228 [accessed March 2023].

  • Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse of the Office of the Lord Steward of England, ff. 2r-7r: CELM CtR 255.
  • Sir Robert Cotton, Of the steward of the King's household, ff. 8r-11r: CELM CtR 329.
  • William Camden, The Antiquity, Authority, and Succession of the High Steward of England, ff. 11v-14r: CmW 38.
  • Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Office of the Lord High Constable of England, ff. 14v-16v: CtR 240.
  • Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquity and Office of Earl Marshall of England, ff. 17r-22r: CtR 57.
  • Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse of the Antiquity, and Office of the Earl Marshall of England, ff. 22v-24v: CtR 222.
  • William Camden, The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England, ff. 34r-41r: CmW 28.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)