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Harley MS 4990

Record Id:

040-002050834

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050834

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4990

Title:

Collection of historical papers, including orations to Henry VIII and decrees of the Star Chamber

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. ii recto: 'Tracts of divers Natures vide Indicem. fo: VI'

f. iii recto: Table of contents.

f. iv recto: A title page: 'An Oration in Commendatioun of the Lawes cheiflye of the lawes of this moste noble Realme of Englande'.

ff. 1r-2r: An oration of John Hales (b. 1469/70, d. ? 1540), judge and master of the rolls, to Anthony Browne (d. 1548) in commendation of the Laws of England, entitled: 'To the Righte honorable Sir Anthonye Browne knighte of thorder, Counsailour to the kings maiestie and master of his horse John Hales wisheth prosperous health with moche honor'.

ff. 2v-4r: An oration of John Hales to King Henry VIII, entitled: 'To the moste excellente and victorious Prince our moste gratious sovereigne lorde Kinge Henrye theighte by the grace of god kinge of Englande and of ffraunce defendor of the faith lorde of Irelande and in Earth supreme hed of the Churche of Englande ymmediatlie under god'.

ff. 5r-48v: 'An Oration in commendacioun of Lawes'.

ff. 49r-55r: An account of the death of Walter Devereux (b. 539, d. 1576), 1st Earl of Essex, entitled: 'The Order of the moste Christian and honorable Earle of Essex his death'.

f. 55v: 'The Songe which he [Walter Devereux] Songe the nyghte before he dyed'.

ff. 56r-56v: The issue of Robert Waterhouse (b. 1544, d. 1584) of Shibden Hall, Halifax, Yorkshire, lawyer at York

ff. 57r-79v: 'Causes d'enforcer l'authorite del common ley d'Angleterre'.

ff. 80r-87v: The decree of the Star Chamber, 1582/1583, concerning Edwin Sandys (b. ? 1519, d. 1588), Archbishop of York.

ff. 88r-123v: Ambrose Gilbert (fl. 1556), of Lincoln's Inn, Reading on the statute of wills, 34 and 35 H. 8, ending: 'Finis 1586'; written in French.

ff. 124r-130v: Instructions to Francis Talbot (b. 1500, d. 1560), 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, when President of the Council of the North, entitled: 'Instructions given by the kinges heighnes to his right trustie and right welbelovid Cossne and counsellor ffraunces Earle of Salopia and lord president of his graces Counsell resident in the northern partes, and to all other hereafter named and appoynted by his highness to be of his said Counsell to be observed by the said Counsellors and everye of them according as the same hereafter is declared'.

ff. 131r-143v: Instructions to Henry Hastings (b. c. 1535, d. 1595), 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, when President of the Council of the North, entitled: 'Instructions given by the quenes maiestie unto her right trustie and right welbelovid Cossne Henry Erale of huntingdon of her highness counsel in the northern partes. And to all hereafter named, appointed by her maiestie to be of the said counsel to be observed by them, and everye other according as the same is hereafter declared'.

ff. 144r-145v: 'The othe of a Councellor'.

ff. 144v-145v: 'A note of the fees of the Counsell in the Northe begonne after the dissolucioun of the Ducke of Richmondes counsel before placed there and Immediately after the great commotion'.

ff. 146r-171r: Reading upon Magna Carta in English and French.

ff. 171v-173r: Decree of the Star Chamber, 1589/90, in the case of Francis Palmes v Sir Thomas Fairfax against the latter.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050834

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4990 : Collection of historical papers, including orations to Henry VIII and decrees of the Star Chamber

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4990]/040-002050834

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1580

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

1580s-1590s

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 290 x 210 mm (text space: 245 x 160 mm).

Foliation: ff. i-iv + 173 (+ 10 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 4 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. ii; 2 unfoliated blank paper stubs before f. iii; 7 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. iii; 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf after f. 48; 1 after f. 55; 5 after f. 56; 1 after f. 145; 1 unfoliated paper stub after f. [178].

Script: 16th-century cursive.

Binding: Post-1600: panelled brown calf with two frames from double fillets in blind, with the outer frame from double fillets in blind and the central frame from two rows of double fillets in blind intersected by a frame made with 'tooth'-shaped rolls; the outer corners of central frame decorated with floral motifs with small tools in blind; the spine is gold stamped with the Harleian shelfmark and the old title: 'Misselanys'.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Henry Powle (bap. 1630, d. 1692) of Shottesbrook, Berkshire, Master of the Rolls (1690) and Speaker of the Convention Parliament (1688): his signature an a memorandum by Thomas Baker (see below) on him on the inside of the upper cover: 'The same, I suppose, that was Speaker in the Convention. His hand is known by the Members of that Convention' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 278).

Thomas Baker (b. 1656, d. 1740), nonjuring Church of England clergyman and antiquary, Fellow of St John's College Cambridge 1680-1717: memorandum in his hand on the paper pastedown on the inside upper cover (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 60).

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), III (1808), pp. 235-36.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England