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Harley MS 1938

Record Id:
041-003441424
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002047772
MDARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1938
Title:
Law reports, instructions and charges
Scope & Content:

Manuscript law papers bound together with Harley MS 1941, another set of legal notes. The first two parts of the manuscript (Reports of Kings Bench cases 1612/13; Instructions for various legal processes and legal charges) are in the same hand. The third part (case of James Doe v Thomas Halewood) is in a different hand.

Contents:

  • ff. 1-7: Reports of cases tried on the Kings Bench in Michaelmas term, 10 James (1612/3).
  • ff. 8-9: Table of contents: ‘A table of all thinges contained in this booke’.
  • f. 10: ‘The oath of an Attorney’.
  • ff. 10-18r: Instructions for suing of process in the Common Pleas.
  • ff. 18v-21v: What pleas an attorney may and may not plead.
  • ff. 21v-22: ‘Instructions to sue out a Recoverie’.
  • ff. 23-25: ‘The order to sue forth a Fyne’.
  • ff. 25-26r: ‘The Cause wherein Wager of lawe lyeth’.
  • f. 26: ‘The order to sue forth a Nisi Prius’.
  • f. 27r: ‘Breve de non Molestand’.
  • f. 27: ‘The Way to sue out a Supplicavit wherby the partie against whom it is sued shall not be released till the partie grieved please’.
  • ff. 27v-28r: ‘The way to sue out a supersedeas; and the meanes for the best Commoditye & safest way for him that sueth the same’.
  • ff. 28-29r: ‘Instructions to sue for A Lunatick’.
  • ff. 29r-30r: ‘Instructions to begge a Warde’.
  • ff. 30: ‘The Charge in the obtayninge the grante of a Warde’.
  • f. 30v: ‘The order of suinge in the Exchequer’.
  • ff. 30v-31r: ‘The Charge of Appearance to a Subpena out of the Exchequer’.
  • f. 31r: ‘The Charges of an Enrollm[en]t in the Exchequer’.
  • f. 31r: ‘The Charges of a Quietus est in the Exchequer’.
  • f. 31v: ‘The Charges of a Charter Warrant’.
  • f. 31v: ‘Feod. Cur. Marescalli’.
  • ff. 31v-32v: ‘The Charges of a Sheriffes Accompt in the Exchequer’.
  • ff. 32v-33r: ‘The Charge of a Recoverie at the Barre’.
  • f. 33r: ‘The Charge of the Exemplification of a Recoverie under the great seale of England’.
  • f. 33v: ‘The Charge of a great seale’.
  • f. 33v: ‘The Charges for a Fine for licence of Alienation’.
  • f. 34r: ‘The Charge of a fine taken by Dedimus Potestatem’.
  • f. 34v: ‘The Charges of a Fine Acknowledged before my Lord Chiefe Justice of the Common Pleas’.
  • f. 34v-35r: ‘The Charge for acknowledging the same at the Barre’.
  • f. 35r: ‘The Charge of pleading of a licence of Alienation in the Exchequer upon a Fyne’.
  • ff. 35v-36r: Fines of writs of covenant, entry, assize, nature of assize; and writs of debt and trespass.
  • ff. 36v-37r: Feod. omnium Brevium original. & sigillat. in Cur. Cancellar.’.
  • f. 37: Charges for original writs at the Court of Common Pleas: ‘Original Writts in Comuni Banco’.
  • ff. 37v-38v: ‘The ordinarie charges in an utlawrie upon a single writt’.
  • f. 38v: ‘The charge of a nisi prius at Guildhall in London taken by Desalte’.
  • f. 39r: ‘The charge of a nisi prius in the cuntrey’.
  • f. 39v: ‘Fees belonging to the Custos Brevium’.
  • f. 40r: ‘The Fees in the Treasury House’.
  • f. 40v: ‘The Fees of the Clarke of the Essoynes’.
  • f. 40v: ‘The Cryers Fee’.
  • f. 40v: ‘The Charges of a generall pardon Uppen the Outlawrie’.
  • f. 41r: ‘The forme of a proceeding uppon the Indictem[en]t in trespas’.
  • f. 41r: ‘Fees belonginge to the Clarke of the Utlawries’.
  • f. 41r: ‘The way to cause an Utlawrie to be certified which is not retorned for that the parties are agreed’.
  • f. 41r: ‘The Charge of Traves of an Utlawry & Pardon upon the same’.
  • f. 41v: ’The Charge of a supplicavit’.
  • f. 41v: ‘Fees belonging to the Shiriffe’.
  • f. 42: ‘The Charges of a Supersedeas out of the chancery & then out of the Kinges Bench’.
  • ff. 42v-43r: ‘Fees belonginge to the Clarke of the Peace’.
  • f. 43r: ‘The Charge of A commission of Rebellion out of the Chancery, upon a Contempt’.
  • f. 44v: The Charges of provinge of a Will in the Arches the Inventory not beinge above 40 l’.
  • f. 40v: ‘The Charge for enrollinge a Recognizance in the Chancerie’.
  • f. 40v: ‘The order of suinge of Proces, in the Kinges Bench’.
  • f. 44r: ‘The Charge of a Special Bayle in Banco Regis’.
  • f. 44r: ‘The Charge for tryall of a matter in the Kinges Bench’.
  • f. 44r: The order of suinge proces out of the Kinges Court of Wards ‘.
  • f. 44v: ‘The Forme of a process out of the Kings Court of Wards’.
  • ff. 44v-45v: ‘The Order for suinge out a Subpena out of the Chancery’.
  • f. 45v: ‘The Charges of a subpena in the Exchequer’.
  • f. 46r: ‘The Charge of a Special dedimus Potestatem’.
  • f. 46r: ‘The relieffe of a knights Fee from an Acre of land to 4 hydes of lande’.
  • f. 46v: ‘The ordinary charges in passinge an Accompt’.
  • ff. 46v-47r: ‘A note of the charges of a licence of Alienation’.
  • f. 47r: ‘A note of the Charges of the in the Court of Writts in the Court of Requests’.
  • f. 47r: ‘The Charges of a Commission to take an Answere in Camera Stellata’.
  • f. 47v: ‘The Charges of a Commission to reverse a general Outlawry uppon an ordinary Capias Utlagat’.
  • ff. 47v-48r: ‘A noate of the Charges of the honor of Baronett bestowed upon any man by the prince’.
  • Blank pages
  • f. 49: ‘A Declaration upon an Action of the Case for slanderous Words’.
  • ff. 49v-50r: ‘Placitum in Dote’.
  • f. 50: ‘Replica[tio] ad eund[em]’.
  • ff. 50v-51r: ‘A Declaration upon an Action of Debt; upon several obligations’.

In another hand:

  • ff. 51v-54: ‘Pro Jacobo Doe, Quer. Versus Thomam Halewood, in Bre[ve] Conventiones’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002047772
041-003441424
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1938 and 1941 : Two law manuscripts

 

Harley MS 1938 : Law reports, instructions and charges
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[1943]/040-002047772[0001]/041-003441424
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Record Type (Level):
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Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1640
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 195 x 155 mm.

Foliation: 54 folios; blank folios unnumbered.

Binding: British Library binding, 1977, bound with Harley MS 1941.

Custodial History:

Former owner: Holme family.

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), vol. 2, no. 1941.

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. 194.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)