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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 894
Title:: Collection of tracts on heraldic matters
Scope & Content:: Several tracts written in different hands, including lists of peers created by James I, the Queen’s procession to St Paul’s 1588, two alphabets of arms in blazon, and an account of the nobility to 1572. Contents: f. 1: Peers of England created in the first seven years of King James I’s reign...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 895
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: An index of names, entitled: ‘Table to this Booke of the Armes of the Barons of England from Kinge William the Conquerour’; added in the 17th century. ff. 4r-24v: The arms of English nobility from William the Conqueror to the end of the reign of Queen Mary I, tricked. f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 896
Title:: The Fyve Conquestes of this Land with the Names and Armes of the Conquerers; The Names and Armes of all the noble men since the Conqueste of Englande and by whome they weare created
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A memorandum ‘that Thirde of March 1597 I Edward Stanhope Esquire have receyved backe againe of John Manwood the booke called Secretum domini which I lente him as appreth by a note of [unidentified signature]’. f. 1v: A tract on ‘The Fyve Conquestes of this Land with the Name...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 897
Title:: English pedigrees and arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6r: A table of family names. ff. 6v-74r: A collection of notes on English nobility, including obits, pedigrees, coat of arms (tricked), and church notes; with some additions by Ralfe Brooke (b. 1553, d. 1625), Officer of Arms. ff. 75r-87r: Notes about the deaths of noblemen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 898
Title:: Summary of writs issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1589-1593
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-246r: Summary of writs issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1589-1593; in Latin, but featuring some English on f. 136r. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘De Annis 36. 37. 38. 39. 40 & 41 Elizab.’; added in the 17th or 18th cen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1589-1593
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 899
Title:: An Alphabet of Arms of English nobility and gentry
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-34r: An Alphabet of Arms of English nobility and gentry, blazoned.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 900
Title:: Legal commentaries compiled by William Hughes of Grays Inn
Scope & Content:: Two apparently unpublished text books for law students and others compiled by William Hughes of Grays Inn. ff. 1-65: Legal writings, commentaries on Anthony Fitzherbert’s treatise on English law, New Natura Brevium (1534). Title page: ‘The first parte of the Commentaries upon Mr FitzHarbert h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1647
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 904
Title:: An English translation of Tommaso Fazello's De Rebus Siculis Decades Duae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-396v: An English translation of Tommaso Fazello's De Rebus Siculis Decades Duae (History of Sicily).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 905
Title:: Arms of the Viscounts and Barons of England in the time of James I [1603-1625]
Scope & Content:: Duodecimo manuscript volume, written and tricked by Mr John Withie. Contents: ff. 1-4: Arms of the Viscounts of England in the time of James I [1603-1625]. ff. 5-44, 46: Arms of the Barons of England, for the most part, in the time of James I [1603-1625]. ff. 44v-45v: A few medicinal recipes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 906
Title:: Arms of the gentlemen of Sussex and gentry of Surrey
Scope & Content:: Duodecimo manuscript volume, written and tricked by Mr John Withie. Contents: ff. 3-57: Arms of Sussex gentlemen. At the beginning of the volume are the arms of those Sussex families that Mr Withie took to be doubtful, after this the arms are placed alphabetically by surname. ff. 58v-81: Arms o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1631-1633
Extent:: 1 item

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