Robert Harley 1579-1656
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Sir Robert HARLEY 1579-1656
Biographical Note
Of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire; MP, Master of the Mint.
Books
A 1637 library catalogue reveals a quantity of literary works; when the library was lost after pillaging by Royalist troops in 1644, Harley estimated the value of the lost books at £200.
Sources
- Cliffe, J. The world of the country house in seventeenth-century England, 1999, 164-5.
- Eales, Jacqueline. "Harley, Sir Robert (bap. 1579, d. 1656), politician." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.