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Harley MS 6403
- Record Id:
- 040-002052252
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052252
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x0002f7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6403
- Title:
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A conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a Catholic lawyer
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-52v: An untitled work in English, describing a conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a lawyer, a Roman catholic, in the time of Elizabeth I. Beginning: 'The epistle dedicatorie: to Mr G.M. in gracious streate in London'. Touching on the subjects of the public justice done upon priests and 'papists' for treason; the Queen's match with the Duke of Anjou (1579); the alleged deaths by poisoning of Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, and a mistress, Alice Draycott in 1576; of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (b. c. 1515/1516, d. 1571), and Margaret Douglas (b. 1515, d. 1578), Countess of Lennox; and a discussion of the controversy between the Houses of York and Lancaster. The work ends imperfectly.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052252", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6403: A conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a Catholic lawyer" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052252 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6403 : A conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a Catholic lawyer - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6408]/040-002052252
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1608
- Date Range:
- c 1580-c 1603
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 210 x 145 mm (text space: 180 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 52 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Collation: Indicated by catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; re-bound on 29 March 1965.According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), p. 364, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MSS 397, 513 and 6387 in the Harleian Library.
- Custodial History:
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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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 364.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England