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Harley MS 3873
- Record Id:
- 040-002049709
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049709
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000180
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3873
- Title:
- Registra brevium for 1654 and 1655, and ‘A Breviary of Suffolk’ by Robert Ryece
- Scope & Content:
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Manuscript containing collections of writs for 1654-1655 and Robert Ryece’s ‘Breviary of Suffolk’.
Contents:
ff. 1, 1*, 1**: preliminary pages with pen trials, doodles and names. Names: ‘Mr Thomas Ruse’ (f. 1*), Richard Hankbee… 1664’ (f. 1**).
ff. 2-9: Collection of writs for 1654 and 1655. At end of text in a different hand: ‘My daughter Mary was borne the five and twentieth day of July 1671 about six a clocke in the morning and was baptized the first day of Aug: following’, in a different hand, similar to that of the Breviary of Suffolk (ff. 11-79).
f. 10: Mainly blank folio preceding the Breviary of Suffolk, numbered ‘2’ and annotated ‘Oxford S.M. bought in an Auction 1728/9’.
ff. 11-79: ‘A Breviary of Suffolk, or a plain and familiar discription of the Country, the fruits, the buildings, the people and inhabitants, the customs, the division politicall, and ecclesiasticall, houses of Religion, with all their severall valuations, the cheifest men of learning, as of Divines, privy Councellours, Martiall men, and Navigators of Former times, with severall other things of memorable note, and observation within this County of Suffolk.’ Description of Suffolk by Robert Ryece of Preston Suffolk, with copies of records, genealogies and descriptions of monuments in seven churches, Lavenham, Preston, Bures, Long Melford, Wingfield, Dinnington and Letheringham. Preceded by a letter to Sir Robert Crane, signed ‘Reyce’ 9 February 1618. Mainly written on the recto side of the folios, with versos blank, but with annotations. Later folios ff. 68v-69r and ff. 75-79r have monument transcripts and genealogical charts on double page spread. Text includes later annotations, including reference to Sylvanus Morgan’s Sphere of Gentry (1661). Not in the hand of Robert Ryece, according to C G Harlow (C G Harlow, ‘Robert Ryece of Preston, 1555-1638’ in Suffolk Archaeology and History, volume XXXII, part 1 (1970)).
f. 79*: Pen trials. f. 79**: Single folio from a collections of writs, 1654.
f. 80: Folio from an unidentified Latin text.
ff. 81-82: Further notes on Suffolk, and Melford Church 1688.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049709 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3873 : Registra brevium for 1654 and 1655, and ‘A Breviary of Suffolk’ by Robert Ryece - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3865]/040-002049709
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1650
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 200 mm.
Foliation: 1, 1*, 1**, 2-79, 79*, 79**, 80-83 folios (total 87 folios); blank folios unnumbered.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- 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 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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), vol. 3, no. 3873.
- Publications:
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Suffolk in the XVIIth Century: the Breviary of Suffolk by Robert Reyce, 1618, now published for the first time from the MS in the British Museum, edited by Francis Hervey (Murray, 1902).
C G Harlow, ‘Robert Ryece of Preston, 1555-1638’ in Suffolk Archaeology and History, volume XXXII, part 1 (1970).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Crane, Robert, 1st Baronet, of Chilton, politician, 1586-1643
Ryece, Robert, of Preston, Suffolk, d 1638