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Harley MS 1223

Record Id:
040-002047052
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002047052
MDARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1223
Title:
Papers on trade and coinage
Scope & Content:

Composite volume of tracts on trade, coinage, taxation and national finance, by Charles Davenant and others.

Contents:

1*: List of contents

ff. 1-6: Tract on the decay of foreign trade. ‘Some Remarks on the Decayes of that so useful trade the England had before the year 1661, to Newfound Land, and Nova Scotia, &c in the Northern Parts of America; to Italy, Spain, Portugal, and South France: and how thereby the great Nursery of English Seamen is lost to this Nation, which threatens its destruction ... Most Humbly offered to the Parliament of England for Redress.’

ff. 7-69: Essay on public virtue, by Charles Davenant, 1697. ‘An essay on publick Virtue. Part 1st’. On the war with Ireland, the war with France, trade, the revenues, and the coin of the kingdom. Addressed to the Duke of Shrewsbury and Sidney Lord Godolphin.

ff. 71-95: Memorial concerning credit, by Charles Davenant, 1696. ‘Memoriall concerning Creditt and the means and methods by which it may be restored’. Directed to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. 15 July 1696.

ff. 96-114: Reflections on the English coin. ‘Reflections upon the Coyne or Money of England’. Concerning raising the standard, preventing its export, a method for calling in clipped money and setting the Mint to work.

ff. 115-156: Memorial concerning the English coin. ‘A Memorial Concerning the Coyn of England’. Regarding raising its value; coining new money during the war; the possibility of paying the army and maintaining foreign and domestic trade with the present state of coinage; and what can be done to help the public until the true species of money can be restored. Annotated in Robert Harley’s hand: ‘Written by Charles Davenant LL.D. Nov. 1695’’.

ff. 157v-168: Memorial concerning the East India trade. On preserving the trade in a company to be set up by authority of Parliament, addressed to Sir William Trumbal Secretary of State. Inscribed on f. 157v: ‘Feb 6 1695/6 by Dr Charles Davenant’. Annotated and corrected in many places in Robert Harley’s hand.

ff. 169-175: Quantulumcunque, or, a Discourse about the money of England, consisting of 32 questions and their resolutions, by Sir William Petty. Inscribed to the Lord Marquis of Halifax, 1682. Later published as Sir William Petty’s quantulumcunque concerning money, 1682 (1695).

ff. 176-180: ‘Reflections on the coin now currant’, by Abraham Hill. 1695

ff. 181-182: ‘Additional Reflections on the Coin Now Currant 1695’, by Abraham Hill. Dated 26 November 1695.

ff. 184-189: Memorial concerning a Council of Trade, probably by Charles Davenant.

ff. 190-199: Essay on the excise of beer and ale by William Stockton. Titled: ‘The humble informations and Motions of William Stocton Gent. touching the present state of the Excise of the Beer & Ale in England’. Inscribed to the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury.

ff. 200-246: On King Charles II’s revenue, with accounts of receipts and payments of the first years of his reign. Signed by Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, Lord High Treasurer. With some annotations by Robert Harley, when Lord High Treasurer. At end: ‘Examined with the Original signed by the Earl of Southampton’s own hand, by me R.H. Nov. 9, 1693’.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
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Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 1223 : Papers on trade and coinage
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[1223]/040-002047052
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:
1650
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 335 x 245 mm.

Foliation: 1*1-75, 75*, 76-246 folios.

Binding: British Museum binding.

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. 1223.

Publications:

Two Manuscripts by Charles Davenant, edited by Abbott Payson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1942). Includes ff. 71-95, Memorial concerning Credit.

Ming-Hsun Li, The Great Recoinage of 1696 to 1699 (London: Wei denfeld and Nicolson, 1963), p. 200-216. Reprints part of ff. 7-69, Charles Davenant, An essay on publick Virtue

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