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Harley MS 1954

Record Id:

040-002047785

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047785

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1954

Title:

Laws relating to Wales

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-4r: Tracts on making a testament in Latin; with examples dated to 1420-1426.

f. 4v: A draft indenture by Nicholas Bolnehyll, Eschaetor of Caernaerfon, concerning Jevan ap Gruffyth ap Hoelle, dated 1443/4.

f. 6r: 'Compositio monete et mensurarum'.

ff. 6r-7r: 'Assisa Panis'.

f. 7r: 'Assisa Servisie'.

ff. 7v-9r: Qualiter et quare pistores et Brasiatoris debent amerciari Judicium Pilloerie et Tumberelli

ff. 9r-9v: 'De Standardis Arcae, Bustelli, et Ulnae'.

ff. 10r-31v: Collection of laws and customs from North Wales, with the title: Statuta de Rothelan [12 Edward 1].

ff. 32r-39v: 'Omnes Peticiones Wallensium Northe Wallie exhibite domino principi et ejus consilio tempore parliamenti Regis prima dominica quadragesime Anno Regni Regis Edwardi 33'.

ff. 39v-43v: 'Articuli Escaetrie'.

ff. 44r-48v: Description of various statutes and ordinations for Wales.

ff. 49r-51r: 'Servicia et Custom. ad Castra domini Principis in Comitatu de Caernarvon debita'.

f. 52r: 'De Sessione Com. Caernarvon (Anglesey and Meryon) tenta apud Caernervon coram J. de la Pole Justiciario North Wallie, die Mercurij proxime post Festum S. Michaelis, Anno Regni Regis Richardi Secundi Sexto'.

ff. 52v-53r: 'Breve Edwardi Principis Walliae ad Majorem et Ballivos Libertatis Ville Belli Marisci directum super querelis communitatis Hominum Wallensium Northe Wallie dat. apud Caernervon 20 die Augusti anno Principatus sui quinto decimo'.

f. 53r: 'Judicium Carnificum et Coquorum transgredientium'.

f. 53v: 'Carta Belli Marsci. Qua scilicet Rex Edward III concedit communitati Villae praedictae, quod nullus Commotorum de Dyndaytho, Turkelyne, et Talebolyone, Mercatum querat aut exerceat aliquo loco, nisi in Villa predicta. dat. anno regni sui 39'.

f. 54r: 'Pro Communitate Ville de Caernervon: qua Edwardus Princeps Walliae confirmat Ordinationem quod proavus suus Edwardus Rex Angliae proclamari fecit (ad petitionem Communitatis Ville Anglice de Caernervon) quod omnes Homines Commotorum Vicinorum habere debent et uti mercatum suum ad citam Villam et nullibi alibi. dat. apud Caern. 20 die Januarij anno Principatus sui Allie, 28.'.

f. 54r: 'Adnotationes de Literis consimilibus scriptis pro Communitatibus Villarum de coneway et de Bello Marisco'.

f. 55r: Breve Domini Regis: contra Tudor ap Meredith qui injuste et sine judicio disseisaverat nonnullos de libero eorum Tenemento in Mayngoran, post Pacem Domini nuper Regis Angliae, in Wallia, proclamatam, anno Regni sui undecimo'.

ff. 56r-57r: 'Breve Regis Henrici VI. directum Escaetori suo in Comitatu Caernervon, super Liberatione Terrarum ac Tenementorum Meurici ap Gruffuth ap Cad. in Dynorwyke, Havet-Reke, Dolbaderne, Bonyrvall, Pentrecostogyone, Llanvayr nestryke, etc. Howello, David et Meredith, filiis ejusdem Meurici. Teste etc. apud Caernervon, 23 die Maij anno Regni 21'.

ff. 57v-58r: 'Scriptum Nicholai bolnehulle Escaetoris Domini regis in Comitatu Caernervon, qua[m] dimittit ad firmam Llewellyno ap Madoc ap David, Medietatem Casualium et Escaetriarum infra Commotum d eCruthyne, ad terminum quatuor annorum. dat. 8 die Februarij anno 22 Regni Regis Henrici VI'.

f. 59v: 'Breve Regis Henrici VI. quo illi precipit quod Gwladus viduae quondam Hoelli ap Meuric ap Gruffuth rationabilem dotem suam de Terris et Tenementis quondam viri sui in Dynorwyke, Dolbaderne, et Llanvair assignet et liberari faciat, secundum Legem et Consuetudinem Principatus sui North Wallie. Teste se ipso, apud Caernervon, 22 die Maij, anno regni sui 21'.

f. 59v: Note on a claim of land by Henricus de Lay from Johannes Kent.

The manuscript contains a few additions:

ff. 1r-1v: A fragment of a printed book, showing a genealogy of Adam and Eve.

ff. 61r-61v: A fragment of a printed book, showing a map of the Holy Land and Jerusalem, with a description of Canaan.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047785

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1954 : Laws relating to Wales

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1956]/040-002047785

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1425

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 15th century-2rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment; paper (f. 1 and f. 61 only).

Dimensions: 175 x 130 mm (text space: 145 x 100 mm).

Foliation: ff. 61 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); ff. 1 and 61 are paper leaves from a printed book that an owner reused as flyleaves for this manuscript; 3 unfoliated blank parchment leaves after f. 55.

Collation: Indicated by catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; re-bound in 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England or Wales.

Provenance:

Holme family of Chester, arms painters and antiquaries: acquired from them by Robert Harley in 1710; perhaps their pressmark 'E.5.ii.' inscribed in black ink on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 194-195).

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), p. 358.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 194-195.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England
Wales