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Harley MS 1248
- Record Id:
- 040-002047077
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047077
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0002f2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1248
- Title:
- Court precedents
- Scope & Content:
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Book of court precedents, largely manorial courts. For a selected list of contents, see the 1808 printed catalogue of Harley MSS (Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 1, pp. 628-630). Includes extracts from the Court-Leat and Court-Baron for the manors of Clacton Magna and Parva, Bently Magna, Dedham, Stepney, Aldham Hall, Stanway, Elmsted Hall; a rental of survey of Henry Lord Abergaveny’s lands in East-West and South Haningfield, Essex, surveyed by Samuel Walker, 1628; survey of the manor of Dale 1562; precedents and copies of court rolls; customary of Petehall Fingringhoe and West Mersey; customs of the manors of Kirkby, Thorpe and Walton within the Soken, Essex.
f. 1: Title page ‘Jolley Stone his Collection of Courte-P[re]sidents. Anno D[omi]ni 1673’. Annotation at head of folio: ‘Liber Presidentium Curiarum, 1673’.
Compiler of the printed catalogue (1808) notes that Sir John Shaw’s handwriting appears often, and that he was a steward of various courts and places; that this collection may have been made by his clerks at his order, and Jolley Stone, whose name appears on the title page, may have been one of these clerks.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047077", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1248: Court precedents" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047077 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1248 : Court precedents - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1248]/040-002047077
- 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:
- 1673
- End Date:
- 1673
- Date Range:
- 1673
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 375 x 280 mm.
Foliation: 338 folios.
Binding: British Museum 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: Jolley Stone (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 318).
Former owner: Humfrey Wanley (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 343).
- 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. 1248.
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. 318, 343.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)