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5 unusual facts about Harleian Miscellany


Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll

Some of his speeches, including the one delivered on the scaffold, were published and are printed in the Harleian Miscellany.

Calves' Head Club

The first mention of it is in a tract reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany entitled "The Secret History of the Calves Head Club".

George Peele

This was the Descensus Astraeae (printed in the Harleian Miscellany, 1808), in which Queen Elizabeth is honoured as Astraea.

Hugh Plat

In 1595 Plat gave further results in ‘A Discoverie of certain English Wantes which are royally supplied in this Treatise. By H. Plat, of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire,’ London 1595 (reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany, vol. ix.).

Thomas Gainsford

, 1618, dedicated to the Earl of Arundel; reprinted in "Harleian Miscellany," vol.



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Richard Niccols

It was reprinted in the ‘Harleian Miscellany’ (vii. 178 seq.) and by the Hunterian Club, Glasgow, in 1873, with an introduction by James Maidment.