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Harley MS 1878

Record Id:

040-002047709

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047709

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000182

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1878

Title:

Customs on trade

Scope & Content:

A collection of 103 original and copied documents relating to customs on trade and their regulation in England, particularly in London.

Contents:

f. 1v: List of counties in an arbitrary order, late 17th century, pastedown.

ff. 2r-21r: Original petitions, licences, writs, warrants, and charters regarding customs, late 14th century to late 15th century.

ff. 22v-178v: Originals and copies of letters, accounts, lists, and short texts regarding customs, including instructions from the Exchequer in 1577 for regulating the custom-house of London (ff. 37r-43r) and an early 17th century text on combating the corruption of customs officers (ff. 114r-123v), notes on reforming customs officers (ff. 167r-169v), orders for regulating the port of London inwards (ff. 171r-174v).

ff. 177r-178v: A Cautionary Conceit of the Farming out of his Majesties Customes, Effects of Trafficke. Printed pamphlet.

1 blank leaf between ff. 123 and 124.

ff. 1r, 6r, 10v, 21v-22r, 23v-24r, 26r, 28v, 29v-30r, 31v, 33r, 43v-44r, 48v, 49v, 55v-56r, 58v-59r, 62r, 64r, 66v-67r, 68v-69r, 70v-71r, 72v-73r, 77v, 80v, 89v-90r, 95r, 97r, 98r-99v, 102v-103r, 104r, 107r, 111r, 112v-113r, 115r, 116r, 117r, 118r, 119r, 120r, 121r, 122r, 123r, 124v, 125v-126v, 128v, 130v-131r, 133r, 136v-137r, 138v, 141v, 142v-143r, 146v, 147v, 149v-150r, 153r, 155v, 156v-157r, 161v, 163r, 170r, 175r are blank.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047709

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1878 : Customs on trade

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1880]/040-002047709

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
English, Middle
French, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1360

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

Late 14th century to late 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment (ff. 2r-21r); paper.

Dimensions: 330 x 200 mm.

Foliation: ff. 178 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled brown leather.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 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 (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 1878.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)