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Harley MS 7581
- Record Id:
- 040-002053437
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002053437
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000984.0x0001e8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7581
- Title:
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Collection of religious texts and letters relating to English Puritanism
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a collection of texts relating to English Puritanism. These include letters from the theologian Thomas Cartwright (b. c. 1535, d. 1603) and Henoch Clapham (fl. 1585-1614), a preacher of an English church in Amsterdam, as well as a petition directed to Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603), attributed to the Brownist Henry Barrow (b. c. 1550, d. 1593), who was later executed for his religious views.
The final text in the volume is an early 17th-century copy of the 'Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York', by Sir John Davies (b. 1569, d. 1629), attorney-general for Ireland and poet, who also served as king's sergeant in England.
Contents:
f. 1*r: an added label, inscribed with the shelfmark and title of Barrow's petition below.
f. 1r-v: A fragment of an unidentified text in Latin, relating to Robert Dudley (b. 1532, d. 1588), 1st Earl of Leicester, dated 1588.
ff. 2r-49v: Henry Barrow, 'A petition directed to her most excellent majestie [Elizabeth I]'. A printed version of the petition circulated in England in 1591 (see English Short Title Catalogue, No. 1521).
ff. 50v-56v: A letter from Thomas Cartwright to Anne Stubbes, his sister-in-law, dated August 30 1590, superscribed, 'Mr. Cartwrights Letter to Mrs. Stubbes his Sister-in-lawe, to perswade her from Brownissme'; written in response to her letter, dated January 12 1589/90 (now Add MS 29546, f. 117r-v).
f. 57r-v: A letter from Henoch Clapham, dating to c. 1597, superscribed, 'Wisdom and direction from the Father of Light'.
ff. 58v-60r: Henoch Clapham, 'A Preface to Prayre, by way of Dialogue'.
ff. 61r-77r: Sir John Davies, 'Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [1619]'.
ff. 1*v, 31v, 50r, 58r, and 60v are blank.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002053437", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 7581: Collection of religious texts and letters relating to English Puritanism" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002053437 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 7581 : Collection of religious texts and letters relating to English Puritanism - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7593]/040-002053437
- 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:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1649
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 190/230 x 140/150 mm (written space: 180-200 x 100-120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 77 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 early modern paper leaf after f. 77 + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).
f. 1* is a paper label glued to an early modern paper flyleaf.
Script: 17th-century secretary hand.
Binding: Post-1600. Black leather, tooled in gold, with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.
- 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), no. 7581.
John Waddington, Congregational History (London: J. Snow and Company, 1874), pp. 20-22.
Cartwrightiana, ed. by Albert Peel and Leland H. Carlson (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1951), p. 63.
Leland H. Carlson, Martin Marprelate, gentleman: Master Job Throkmorton laid open in his colors (San Marino: Huntingdon Library, 1981), p. 375.
Keith L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism: A History of English and Scottish Churches of the Netherlands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 1983), pp. 62 n. 89, 79 n. 175.
Gordon Donaldson, The Scottish Reformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 184 n. 2.
David Michael Tanner, 'Conscience, Conviction and Contention: Religious Diversity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century English Church', unpublished PhD thesis (King's College London, 2014), p. 285 n. 1322.
Derek Dunne, Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law: Vindictive Justice (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), p. 185 n. 1.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Barrow, Henry, English Separatist Puritan, 1550-1593
Cartwright, Thomas, puritan, 1534/1535-1603
Clapham, Henoch, Theologian and preacher, fl 1585-1614
Davies, John, Knight, poet, lawyer and Attorney-General for Ireland, 1569?-1626 - Places:
- England