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Add MS 46369
- Record Id:
- 040-002102286
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002102281
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000141.0x00000e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100152734611.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 46369
- Title:
- Journals and papers relating to Irish affairs, 1594-1599
- Scope & Content:
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Journals and papers relating to Irish affairs between 1594 and 1599. Compiled and partly composed by Sir John Harington, courtier and author (bap. 1560, d. 1612). With later additions. Volume IV of the Harington Papers (Add MS 46366-46384).
ff. 1r-2v, 64r-65v: Notes and pen-trials, on the verso of fragments of a letter, c. 1599.
ff.4r-5v: Notes of sermons in the shorthand of John Harington (1588/9-1654), lawyer and diarist.
f. 6r: Table of contents.
ff. 7r-18r: Sir John Harington’s journal of the Irish campaign led by Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, 9 May-30 June 1599. Partly in Harington’s hand. A different version was printed in Nugae Antiquae, 1804, vol. 1, pp. 268-93.
ff. 18v-19v: Copies of Harington’s metrical paraphrases of psalms 42 and 50. In the same hand as Egerton MS 2711, ff. 84v, 85r.
f. 19*r-19*v: Blank.
f. 20r: Copy of a letter from Macdermon, a captain in Hugh Roe O’Donnell’s army, to the constable of Boyle, county Roscommon. 15 August 1599. In Harington’s hand. See Harley MS 1291, f. 40r, and Tracts Relating to Ireland. Latin.
ff. 21r-23r: Account of Harington’s journey to the North of Ireland with Sir William Warren. Addressed to Sir George Carew, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. c. 1599. Printed in Nugae Antiquae, 1804, vol. 1, pp. 247-252, and McClure, The Letters and Epigrams of Sir John Harington (1980), pp. 76-79.
ff. 24r-28v: Notes of sermons in the shorthand of John Harington (1588/9-1654).
ff. 29r-34v: Ordinances of Queen Elizabeth I regarding musters and payment of the army in Ireland. 1 July 1597. With lists of apparel for an officer and a common soldier, printed in Nugae Antiquae, 1804, pp. 261-262, and McClure, The Letters and Epigrams of Sir John Harington (1980), pp. 75-76.
ff. 34v-36v: Paper titled ‘An abstracte of suche Journies as the righte ho[noura]ble Sir William Russell knight to Deputie of Ireland performed in his owne person duringe the tyme of his Governements’. 1594-1597.
ff. 37r-41r: Requests made by the Captains of Ireland to the Privy Council. With a preamble dated 27 January 1597/8.
ff. 41r-43v: Paper titled ‘The Cheefe causes of the wante of reformation of Irelande’. c. 1599. Printed in Nugae Antiquae, 1769, vol. 2, pp. 294-303.
f. 44r-44v: Notes of sermons in the shorthand of John Harington (1588/9-1654).
ff. 45r-48v: Letter from Harington to Thomas Combe, his servant. Trim, 24 or 31 August 1599.
ff. 49r-50v: Letter from Harington to Sir Anthony Standen. 7 August 1599. In Harington’s hand. With later notes of sermons in the shorthand of John Harington (1588/9-1654).
f. 51r-51v: Letter from Harington to Sir Anthony Standen. Kelston, 20 February 1600. With later notes of sermons in the shorthand of John Harington (1588/9-1654).
ff. 52r-63v: Notes of sermons in the shorthand of John Harington (1588/9-1654).
ff. 64r-65v: See ff. 1r-2v, above.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002102281
040-002102286 - Is part of:
- Add MS 46366-46384 : HARINGTON PAPERS
Add MS 46369 : Journals and papers relating to Irish affairs, 1594-1599 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002102281[0003]/040-002102286
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 46366-46384
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100152734611.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Arabic
English
Greek, Modern
Hebrew
Latin - Scripts:
- Arabic
Greek
Hebrew
Latin - Start Date:
- 1594
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 1594-1599
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England, Ireland.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 192 x 144 mm.
Foliation: ff. ii + 65.
Binding: Pre-1600. Vellum. Inscription: ‘Sr John Harringtons own Mss relating to the war in Ireland 1599’.
Script: Secretary, italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England, Ireland.
Provenance:
John Harington (1588/9-1654), lawyer and diarist: his notes, c. 1633-1654.
Henry Harington (1727-1816), composer and physician: his signature, inside front cover.
Richard Hastings Harington (b. 1831), naval captain: his note, inside front cover.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1946-1950: Part 1 Descriptions (London: British Library, 1979).
‘Add MS 46369’, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-45000.html [accessed 14 November 2019].
Harington, Henry, ed., Nugae Antiquae (London and Bath: Printed for W. Frederick, at Bath and sold by J. Robinson and Roberts, and J. Dodsley, 1769-75).
Hughey, Ruth, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th series, 15 (1934), 388-444.
Irish Archaeological Society, Tracts Relating to Ireland (Dublin: University Press, 1843), vol. 2, pp. 3-41.
McClure, N.M., ed., The Letters and Epigrams of Sir John Harington together with The Prayse of Private Life (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980).
Miller, R.H., ‘Sir John Harington’s Irish Journals’, Studies in Bibliography, 32 (1979), 179-86.
Park, Thomas, ed., Nugae Antiquae: being a miscellaneous collection of original papers… selected from authentic remains by the late Henry Harington (London: J. Wright, 1804).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)