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Harley MS 1595

Record Id:
040-002047425
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002047425
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000066
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1595
Title:
North African trade and treaties
Scope & Content:

Papers on the port of Oran, arguments against a Morocco Company, treaties with Tunis, Tripoli, and Algier. With French poetry and songs on front and back end papers (ff. 1-2 and ff. 40-42).

ff. 1-2: French verse.

ff. 3-6: Discourse on the port of Oran. 7 January 1663. On its convenience as a port and strategic position for trade, and ways to gain control of it.

ff. 7-10r: Warrant of King Charles II for a commission to Henry Mordant, Earl of Peterborough, Governor of Tangier, and Captain General of forces in the area. With the text of the commission. 6 September 1661.

ff. 10-11v: Instructions for the Earl of Peterborough.

f. 12: Copy of the docket for the Marocco Company to be raised. July 1661.

ff. 13-19: Arguments against establishing a Morocco Company.

  • Mr Luke’s reasons against setting up a Marocco Company (ff. 13-14r).
  • Mr Percy’s reasons against setting up a Marocco Company (ff. 14v-16r).
  • The merchants’ reasons against setting up a Marocco Company (ff. 16v-18r).
  • ‘Humble reasons of all the marchants that have beene the antient traders to Barbary, without the Streights; against the patent endeavoured after by certaine persons, most of them strangers to that trade, under the title of the Morocco-Company; excluding all other his Majesties subjects’ (ff. 18v-19v).

ff. 20-22r: Description of the town and road of Tangier.

ff. 22r-27v: A letter on the same subject.

ff. 28-30: Extract on Oran from Relation Universelle de l’Afrique by De La Croix, à Lyon 1688. French.

ff. 31-32: Treaty between Great Britain and Tunis. ‘Articles of peace betwixt his sacred Majesty the King of Great Britaine &c and the most excellent Seignor Mahamet Bassa, the Duan of the most noble Citty of Tunis, Hadgie Mustafa Dije, Mahamet Bije, and the reste of the Soldiers in the Kingdome of Tunis: concluded by Sir John Lawson Knight, the 5 October 1662’.

ff. 33-35: Treaty between Great Britain and Tripoli. ‘Articles of peace betwixt his sacred majesty Charles the II King of Great Brittain, &c. and the most excellent Osman Bassa, and the People of the noble Citty & Kingdome of Tripoly; concluded by Sir John Lawson Kt. The 19th October 1662’.

ff. 36-38: Treaty between Great Britain and Algier. ‘Articles of peace between his sacred majesty Charles the II King of Great Brittaine, &c. and the Citty & Kingdome of Algier, and the territories thereof; concluded by Sir John Lawson Kt according to Instructions received in that behalfe from his Royal Highness the Duke of Yoke, &c. and Edward Earle of Sandwiche, &c 23 April 1662’.

ff. 39-42: End leaves, with French poems, songs, and pen trials.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
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040-002047425
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 1595 : North African trade and treaties
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[1596]/040-002047425
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 volume
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
French
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1660
End Date:
1669
Date Range:
1660s
Era:
CE
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User Conditions:
Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 200 x 150 mm.

Foliation: 42 folios.

Binding: Post 1600 Harleian leather 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.

Former owner: Henry Worsley, Governor of Barbados (d. 1747) (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 360).

Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 1595.

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. 360.

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