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Harley MS 6700

Record Id:

040-002052552

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002052552

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x0000e3

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6700

Title:

Copies of the Book of Knights’ Fees of Leicestershire; catalogue of the market and fair towns; Spiritual Receipts and Escheators and Inquisitors of Leicestershire

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-17r: ‘Computus Johannis Saunderstedd, vicecomitis Leicestrensis, Philippi Polwill, et Willielmi Nevill de Rearefbie, collectorum rationabilis auxilii in comitatu praedicto, domino regi Edwardo tertio concessi ad primogenitum filium suum militem faciendum, anno regni ejusdem regis vicesimo viz. 40s de singulis feodis militis in comitatu predicto’; edited in Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester (1795), I, p. [ciii]; with on f. 8r: ‘This note of the manor of Dalbie was taken out of an old note pynned to the booke therof this is a true Copie’.

f. 18r: A note on the foundation of the Priory of Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, by William d'Augbigny, 1st Earl of Arundel.

ff. 18r-19r: A catalogue of market and fair towns with their first establishment ‘Found by search in the Tower 1599’; followed by various historical notes.

ff. 20r-28v: ‘Spirituall Receaptes Com. Leic.’; with a note about the execution of William Brent, escheator, executed on 25 July 1601. This note is found verbatim in Nichols, Bibliotheca topographica Britannica (1790), VIII, p. 1486.

ff. 30r-49r: Escheators and inquisitors in Leicestershire from the second year of the reign of King Henry III until the end of the reign of King Henry VI.

ff. 49v-50r: Establishments of markets and fairs (continuing ff. 18r-19r) ‘found by search in the Tower 1600’; followed by various historical notes.

The manuscript contains a few additions:

f. 1*recto: ‘A true Copie of an old Booke Indorced a Copie of the Booke of Knightes fees within the Com. of Leicester Anno Regni Regis Edward Tertij xxth Anno Domini 1347’; added in the late 16th or early 17th century.

f. 1*verso: Fragment of an (?) indenture, including the words ‘of Leicest[er]’, ‘pasture’, ‘the sayde Countye of Le[icester]’, ‘also all howses’; written in the late 16th or early 17th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002052552

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6700 : Copies of the Book of Knights’ Fees of Leicestershire; catalogue of the market and fair towns; Spiritual Receipts and Escheators…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6708]/040-002052552

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:

1596

End Date:

1606

Date Range:

c 1601

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 305 x 200 mm.

Foliation: ff. 51 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1* is a blank paper leaf with an unfoliated parchment fragment mounted onto it; 1 unfoliated paper strip between f. 16 and f. 17

Script: 16th- or 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown leather with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; marbled endleaves.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

‘A. E.’, late 16th or early 17th century: his inscription on f. 51v: ‘For my Cosen [G]ecke / If he give you Contentment / A. E.’.

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:

John Nichols, Bibliotheca topographica Britannica, 8 vols (London: Nichols, 1780-1790), VIII: Antiquities in Leicestershire, p. 1486.

John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, 4 vols (London: Nichols, 1795), I, p. [ciii].

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), pp. 385-86.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England