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Harley MS 1727
- Record Id:
- 040-002047558
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047558
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0000eb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1727
- Title:
- Papers on the Court of Wards
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1-104: Decrees of the Court of Wards in Law French, 1553-1581. One of several copies of a selection of decrees 1553-1581 compiled by John Hare, one of the common attorneys of the court. Title: ‘Un breife Collection de touts tiels Decrees fait in Court de Gards, queux decidont ascun doubt in ley, ou auterment a expresse ou explayne ascun matter necessary pour estre conus, daver experience de mesme le Court. Les queux Decrees remayne enroll & enter en le Livers de Decrees del dit Court ; hors de queux Livers jeo aye fait cesty Collection pur mon experiente de mesme’. ‘Incipiunt Termino Trin. Anno Regni Regio Edwardi Sexti 7mo et ensuist’.
ff. 105-117: Occasional orders made in the Court of Wards, with minutes of proceedings, 3. Jac. I. Headed ‘Curia Wardorum’. English.
ff. 118-147v: Notes of cases resolved in the Court of Wards, 7-10. Jac. I (chiefly 1609-1610).
ff. 147v-149v: Observations on the practice in the Court of Wards, Mich. 7. Jac. I (1609).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047558", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1727: Papers on the Court of Wards" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047558 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1727 : Papers on the Court of Wards - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1729]/040-002047558
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- Early 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 310 x 200 mm.
Foliation: 149 folios.
Binding: British Museum in-house binding, 1967.
- 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: Henry Worsley, Governor of Barbados (d. 1747) (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 360).
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 1727.
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.
- Publications:
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Henry Esmond Bell, An Introduction to the History and Records of the Court of Wards & Liveries (Cambridge University Press, 1953).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)