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Harley MS 1250

Record Id:
040-002047079
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002047079
MDARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1250
Title:

Copies and drafts of various parliamentary papers

Scope & Content:

Folio manuscript volume.

Contents:

  • f. 1: Incomplete table of contents.
  • ff. 2-27: An Act to punish mutiny, sedition and desertion in soldiers; for preventing false musters; and concerning soldiers’ pay. To take effect from 10 January 1691 [1692?].
  • ff. 29v-74: Copy of a Bill for regulating the coinage of the silver money of the Kingdom.
  • ff. 75-97v: (The following item has two titles inscribed on f. 97v) An Act for preventing the unnecessary charge of sheriffs, and for ease in passing their accounts. A Bill for the better ease of sheriffs in passing their accounts, and in the execution of their office. Amended and corrected in various places by Robert Harley.
  • ff. 98-99v: A clause for the Act of annuities.
  • f. 100: Another clause for the Act of annuities.
  • ff. 101-101v: Several clauses in an Act of Parliament ‘for taking the Accompts of the several sums of money therein mentioned’. Passed the 19th Year of King Charles II [1667/1668]. In the hand of Robert Harley.
  • ff. 102-103v: The preamble to an Act for punishing Tracy Pauncefoot and Edward Pauncefoot for corrupt practices in withholding money from the officers of the army. In the hand of Robert Harley.
  • ff. 104-104v: Clause of an Act for continuing the duties upon beer, ale and other liquors for 13 years after 17 May 1697.
  • ff. 105-105v: A Bill to prevent the English from being concerned in the Company of Scotland. Robert Harley has inscribed ‘The Draught given me by Cot. Perry: April 24 1696’ on f. 105v.
  • f. 106: Proposal for raising money for the war, etc. May 1696.
  • ff. 107-108: Abstract of an Act intended to be intituled: An Act for continuing several rates and duties upon salt etc. for securing certain recompenses and advantages to certain persons as shall voluntarily advance the sum of 2500000 l. towards carrying on the war against France; and for enabling the contributors thereunto to lend moneys on lands.
  • ff. 109-114: Draft of an Act for erecting funds and securities on land, in order to issue out bills of credit on the same. c 1695.
  • ff. 115-180v: A draft of another Bill for issuing bills of credit on funds of lands.
  • ff. 181-182v: The oath to be taken by all officers commissioned in the army, to prevent them obtaining their employments by bribery. 1 July 1693.
  • ff. 183-183v: Clause of a Bill to prevent false musters.
  • ff. 184-185v: Draft of a Bill, inscribed on f. 185v is ‘Self Denyal bill 1694 by Sir E. Hussey’, in the hand of Robert Harley.
  • f. 186: Amendments to some places in the self-denial Bill.
  • ff. 187-188v: Amendments to the mutineers Bill, 2 March 1694/5. In the hand of Robert Harley.
  • f. 189: A clause obliging agents or others paying the soldiers, to give sufficient security for their fidelity. Amended and corrected in places by Robert Harley.
  • f. 190: First draft of the above clause. In the hand of Robert Harley.
  • f. 191: Proviso for the continuance of some Bill or Act of Parliament.
  • f. 192: Proviso, in another Bill of Act of Parliament. Amended and corrected in places by Robert Harley.
  • ff. 193-194: Proviso in another bill.
  • f. 194v: Note touching the apology reported to the Commons by Sir Thomas Ridgeway, 20 June 1604, in order to be presented to King James I. In the hand of Robert Harley.
  • ff. 195-195v: Proviso in the Bill for supplying deficiencies.
  • ff. 196-197: A clause to enable King William III to borrow on tallies of loan, to make up the subscriptions.
  • f. 197v: An account of the above clause, in the hand of Robert Harley.
  • ff. 198-199: The Bill for disabling Tracy Pauncefoot from bearing any office; and for his imprisonment.
  • ff. 200-201v: An Act for the frequent meeting and calling of Parliaments.
  • f. 202-203v: An Act for the punishing Tracy Pauncefoot and Edward Pauncefoot for corrupt practices in withholding money from the officers of the army. Amended and corrected in places by Robert Harley.
  • ff. 204-206v: Clause empowering the commissioners of accounts to issue warrants to search ships for molten silver, money, or plate, or clippings. Amended and corrected in places by Robert Harley.
  • ff. 207-208v: Another clause for the same purpose as above. Amended and corrected in places by Robert Harley.
  • ff. 209-216v: Extract from the report made to the Commons touching the duties laid on paper, velum and parchment; upon the complaints of the stationers, the officers of the courts of Westminster Hall, the Universities, etc.
  • f. 217: Cover sheet for the following bill (which begins f. 219)
  • f. 218: Names of the committee to whom the Bill for raising the militia for the year 1692 was referred. 13 January 1691 [1692?].
  • ff. 219-319: Bill for settling the militia.
  • ff. 320-351v: A Bill for the better regulating, and making the militia of this Kingdom more useful. Presented 29 November 1690.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
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040-002047079
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 1250 : Copies and drafts of various parliamentary papers
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[1250]/040-002047079
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:
1690
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1690s
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 390 x 290 mm.

Foliation: 351 folios.

Binding: British Museum binding.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

On f. 1*v is the armorial bookplate of Robert Harley.

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 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), Volume I

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 80-82

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906