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Harley MS 1291

Record Id:
040-002047120
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002047120
MDARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1291
Title:

A Treatise on Ireland, by John Dymmock

Scope & Content:

Report on Ireland, and its inhabitants, government, provinces and recent military conflicts with the English, by John Dymmock. Addressed to to Sir Edmund Carye (f. 1v).

Contents:

  • f. 1v: Dedication from John Dymock to Sir Edmunde Carye.
  • ff. 2-4r: Title: ‘A treatice of Ireland’. General description of the country and its inhabitants.
  • ff. 4-5: ‘The services of the Irishrie due to her majesty; the severall exactions levied by the irish lords upon their tenants and of what nature and quallityes they be’.
  • ff. 6-7r: ‘The present government of that Cuntry’.
  • f. 7v: ‘Of the Devision of theat Cuntry’.
  • ff. 8-10r: Description of the province of Leimster, and its seven counties.
  • ff. 10v-11: Description of the province of Meath.
  • ff. 12-13: Description of the province of Munster and its five counties.
  • ff. 14-15: Description of the province of Connaught and of its six counties.
  • ff. 16-20r: Description of the province of Ulster and of its nine counties.
  • ff. 20v-21r: ‘A perticuler of such strengths and fastness of woode and bogge as are in every province of Irelande’.
  • ff. 21v-24r: ‘A perticuler of the Rebells forces of Horse and Foote, ordinarily employed in the rebellion, 28th April 1599’.
  • f. 24v: ‘A particuler of such horse and foote as the erle of tyrone hath very lately plotted to be cessed and waged by the severall captaynes, and lords of cuntries, in the province of Ulster’.
  • ff. 25v-37r: ‘A jornall relation of the principall accidents which have happened in the Kingdom of Irelande, from the 10th of Maye untill the 9th of September 1599’.
  • ff. 37-40r: ‘A brief relation of the defeat in the Corleus, the 15th of August 1599.
  • ff. 40v-43: ‘A brief relation of that which happened in the expedition of the lo[rd] lieut[enant] Generall of Ireland [Robert Devereux Earl of Essex] towards the north parte of that kingdom from the 28th of August, untill the 9th of September 1599.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002047120
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 1291 : A Treatise on Ireland, by John Dymmock
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[1291]/040-002047120
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 volume
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1594
End Date:
1604
Date Range:
c 1599
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 207 x 155 mm.

Foliation: 43 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 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), vol. 1, no. 1291.

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