A composite volume of state papers and tracts, principally relating to transactions between England and Scotland, in various hands.
Folio. 212 leaves (plus blanks). Modern morocco gilt.
Sir Simonds D'Ewes owned this manuscript in 1628.
The Harleian Library was founded by Robert Harley, First Earl of Oxford (1661-1724). According to Cyril Ernest Wright, Robert Harley ‘was primarily interested in English historical and political material and in volumes of sermons and theological controversy, sharing in the latter the taste of his Harley ancestors’. See Wright, p. xxxiv.
British Library online catalogue; Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. I, pp. 155-59; CELM; Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London, 1966), p. 324; Hannah Yip.