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Harley MS 1218

Record Id:
040-002047047
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002047047
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1218
Title:
Impeachment of the Earl of Clarendon and other political tracts
Scope & Content:

Composite volume of political tracts in several hands. Parliamentary debates and other papers on the impeachment of the Earl of Clarendon, the deposition of King James II and the accession of William of Orange, etc.

f. 1v: Contents list.

ff. 2-8r: Articles of High Treason and other heinous misdemeanours against Edward Hyde Earle of Clarendon, exhibited by George Digby Earl of Bristol, in the House of Lords 10 July 1663.

ff. 8v-18v: Parliamentary debates related to the articles of high treason brought by George Digby.

ff. 19-33: Impeachment proceedings against Clarendon in 1667. Copy.

ff. 34-131: Debates and speeches in the House concerning the impeachment. With several arguments concerning the nature of treason by Sergeant John Maynard, John Vaughan, Heneage Finch (Solicitor General) etc. 1667. For names of the speakers, see the printed catalogue of Harley MSS 1808 (Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 1, pp. 602-603).

ff. 132-158: Proceedings of the Lords of the Council 11 December 1688 to 22 January 1688/9. Title: ‘The Interregnum, or the Proceedings of the Lords of the Councell and others, from the withdrawing of King James the Second to the Meeting of the Convention’.

ff. 159-167: Heneage Finch’s speech to the Convention against William Prince of Orange taking the crown, 1688.

ff. 168-280: Debate between Lords and Commons in conference 1688-1689 concerning the word ‘Abdicated’.

ff. 281-286r: Reasons given by Dr William Oldys, King’s Advocate of the Admiralty, for refusing to proceed on a charge of piracy against the Irish privateers commissioned by King James to raid English shipping, 1692. With a brief account of what followed.

ff. 286v-297: Petition to the House of Lords by Thomas Jones and others, prisoners in the Marshalsea, after being tried and condemned as pirates and traitors.

ff. 298r-298v: A Clause of an Act of Parliament relating to the timely summons of peers, and others, and their votes in the trials per pares.

ff. 298v-326: Report of the free conference between the Lords and the Commons, 5 January 1691 on the Bill for Treason.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
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040-002047047
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 1218 : Impeachment of the Earl of Clarendon and other political tracts
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[1218]/040-002047047
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:
1700
End Date:
1740
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 310 x 210 mm.

Foliation: 326 folios

Binding: Harleian leather binding, repaired, with Robert Harley’s heraldic stamp on front and back boards, and his bookplate pasted inside front board.

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.

Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 1218.

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_id350466 [Accessed 26 May 2023]

  • Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Articles of High Treason and other hainous misdemeanours agst Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, exhibited by Earl of Bristol, 10 July 1663. ff. 2r-8r. CELM CIE 61.
  • Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667. ff. 19r-31r. CELM CIE 109.

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