Harley MS 1217

Brief descriptions of papers preserved in the Paper Office.

Contents:

f. 1: Title page: ‘An Abstract of remarkable things lying in the Paper Office’. Dated 7 February 1697.

ff. 2-24: Letter describing the papers, under the following headings:

Admiralty; goods brought from a friendly country; visiting ships; anchorage; ballastage; pilotage; tobacco; shipwrights; clerks of the passage; prests; groundage; bona peritura; ships fighting in our seas; convoy-money; stooping of the flag; salutes; fees; enemies ports; standard; ambassadors; Amboyna; triple alliances; Barbados; Bombyn; custom house Chester; criminalia, or offences against the crown; ceremonies; credentials; council board; corporation; chapel royal; coalmines; Candia; Cologne; Chatleroy; Commission for discovering revealers of secrets in council; Dover; scavage; head money; discoveries; German empire; Exchequer; Elbe; East-India; expedition of Sir Thomes Allen; fugitives; French camp; friendship of England; forests; fishing; Gulf of Venice; Gravelines; government of England; Powder Plot; Holland; Household-Royal; Ireland; Jersey; Guernsey; indulgence; Indies; Inquisition; Jamaica; Italy; lawyers; London-Tower; libels; mortmain; mintage; parliamentary affairs; state memorials; Scotland; trade and commerce; negotiations and treaties. And papers on ecclesiastical matters including: arms; Arminians; papal bulls; submission of the clergy; universities; King Henry VIII’s marriage with Queen Katherine; the See of Canterbury; French and Dutch congregations; catechising; church government; clergy of England; canons; convocations; divorces; dilapidations; episcopacy; Eton College; Plij House; faculties; schools; consecrations of bishops;; hospitals; High Commission Court; instructions; institutions; lectures; marriages; non-residence; puritans; probate of wills and testaments; processes; prohibitions; Reformation; recusants; residence; supremacy; Socinianism; stationers; toleration; tithes; visitations metropolitical; visitations primary; visitation triennial; vows;; wakes and revels; together with everything relating to cathedrals (Bristol, Chichester, Coventry, Canterbury, Chester, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Lincoln, London, Norwich, Salisbury, Worcester, Winchester, York, etc.) and much more.

ff. 25-27: Noteworthy papers in the Paper Office relating to ecclesiastical, civil and military affairs in Ireland; received 3 September 1692 from Mr Bridall.

ff. 28v-46r: Admiralty and other maritime matters, including papers relating to foreign trade.

ff. 46v-52: Trade, plantations, discoveries, etc.

ff. 53-55r: Greenland, fishing, etc.

ff. 55v-56r: Consuls and consulage.

ff. 56v-58: Trade or domestic commerce.

ff. 59-66r: Ambassadors, privileges, allowances, credentials, affronts offered them, etc.

ff. 66v-73: Contests for precedency amongst ambassadors and others.

ff. 74-80: Ceremonials: visits, entries, titles, etc.

ff. 81-89r: Pretensions of princes, government, succession, resignations, renunciations, marriages, mortmain, state papers, etc.

ff. 89v-100: Ecclesiastical matters: marriages and divorces; papal power and primacy; metropolitical and tribunal visitations, papal nuncio; dilapidations; bishops’ sees; toleration; puritanism; Arminianism; Socinianism; vows; sole residence; congregations; High Commission; Court episcopal; canons; convocations; recusancy, etc.

ff. 101-108: Universities; colleges, hospitals, schools, vicarages, fees and offices; together with matters particularly concerning the Archbishop, Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.

f. 109: Nobility and heraldry.

ff. 110-112r: Fugitives or criminals fleeing abroad.

ff. 112v-116r: Criminal matters: treasons, felonies, libels and criminalia.

ff. 116v-117: Military affairs.

ff. 118-120: Civil and ecclesiastical affairs of Jersey, Guernsey, etc., Isle of Man and Isle of Wight.

ff. 121-123r: Parliamentary affairs; royal prerogative in the cases of bastardy, presting soldiers; dispensing with statutes, etc.

ff. 123v-125r: London, Tower of London and Custom House.

ff. 125v-131: List of English diplomats, representatives and agents abroad since 1521, by place and date.

ff. 132-133r: Names of kingdoms and states with which England had treaties preserved in this repository, with titles of some of the treaties.

ff. 133v-136v: Instruments and treaties between England and France.

f. 137r: Instruments and treaties between England and Denmark.

ff. 137v-139r: Instruments and treaties between England and Spain and Portugal.

ff. 139v-142: Instruments and treaties between England and Holland.

ff. 143-146v: Treaties between England and Poland and Russia; Flanders; Morocco; Santa Cruz; Sally; Persia; Tetuan and Assovia; Gayland the Usurper; Algier; Tripoli; Tunis; the Grand Seignior; Burgundy.

ff. 146-147r: Account of treaties between England and France, showing which are in Latin and which in French.

ff. 147v: Papers relating to the Triple Alliance.

ff. 149-153: Treaties between England and Holland.

ff. 154-157: Papers relating to particular affairs between England and France.

ff. 158-160v: Papers relating to particular affairs between England and Spain.

ff. 160v-162: Papers relating to particular affairs between England and Portugal; Papers relating to particular affairs between England and the Princes of Germany.

ff. 163-165r: Papers relating to transactions with Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, Turkey, Sally, Bantam, Muscovy, Persia, etc.

ff. 165v-166r: Treaties between England and Sweden.

ff. 166v-167r: Treaties between England and Denmark.

ff. 167r-167v: Treaties between England and Savoy.