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Harley MS 70
- Record Id:
- 041-003436732
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045898
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100074343664.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 70
- Title:
- Accounts of the Leonard estate, with later inventories of Paul D’Ewes
- Scope & Content:
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Manuscript accounts, 1581-1593, of William Leonard of Taunton, with papers relating to administration of his estate, 1598-1603, followed by inventories of goods belonging to Paul D’Ewes, 1618-1626. The entries formerly began at each end of the book, so that folios currently numbered 82-116 were formerly described in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (1808-1812) as folios 1-35, but the folios have apparently since been re-arranged. The manuscript is bound with another unrelated manuscript, Harley MS 7369.
Contents:
f. 1v: Family notes including the birth of two of William Leonard’s daughters.
f. 2r: Prayer of William Leonard.
f. 2v: Notes concerning the death of William Leonard’s wife.
f. 3: Index to the accounts for 1581 (the first year of entries following).
ff. 4-53: William Leonard’s ‘booke of debitor & creditor’, 1581-1591.
ff. 54-59: Letter of William Leonard, with an account of the debts he owed. 25 March 1593.
f. 60: Account of the administration of William Leonard’s estate by his executors, Richard Symonds (grandfather to Sir Simonds D’Ewes) and his brother Thomas Simonds, brothers-in-law to William Leonard. Includes an inventory of debts (f. 61), account of what was received by Richard Symonds (f. 62), and disbursements by him (ff. 63-67).
ff. 68v-75: Inventory of goods (plate, linen, furnishings, bedding, etc.) belonging to Paul D’Ewes at Stow Hall, Suffolk, 1618, with marginal notes dated 1622-1630.
ff. 75v-77r: Inventories of plate, 1623 and 1624.
ff. 77-79: Inventories of linen and other items, 1626.
ff. 80-81: Inventories of goods in various rooms, probably at Stow Hall, Suffolk.
f. 82: Former preliminary page with Harley manuscript number, former shelfmark and other MS annotations, including ‘Thomas Gibbes’ and a medical recipe against the cough.
ff. 83-99r: ‘An inventory of such lynning and goodes as I founde in my House at Cockesden the laste of February 1610 after the Death of my Wife’, followed by lists of household goods.
ff. 99v-100: Catalogue of Paul D’Ewes’s books.
ff. 101-104: The charges of all Paul D’Ewes’s buildings at Stow Hall, begun March 1615, and other accounts.
ff. 105-116: Inventories of goods, 1626.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045898
041-003436732 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 70 and 7369 : Harley MS 70 and Harley MS 7369
Harley MS 70 : Accounts of the Leonard estate, with later inventories of Paul D’Ewes - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0069]/040-002045898[0001]/041-003436732
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1581
- End Date:
- 1626
- Date Range:
- 1581-1626
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions 310 x 205 mm.
Foliation: 116 folios.
Binding: British Museum binding. Original title cut out and pasted on front flyleaf verso.
- Custodial History:
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Former owner: Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1602-1650).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), vol. 1, no. 79.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 131.
A G Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), p. 318.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- D’Ewes, Simonds, 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary, 1602-1650,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083393524,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12656415