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171. Harley MS 1106

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1106
Title:
The Visitation of Kent of 1619
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A wisdom in Latin: 'Modica alteratio in membro principali magnam alterationem facit'; probably excerpted from John Guillim's A Display of Heraldrie (London: 1610). ff. 1v-223r: A copy of the Visitation-Book of Kent by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Rouge Dragon Pursuivant,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

172. Harley MS 1109

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1109
Title:
Coats of arms of Norfolk and Suffolk families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: The coats of arms and crests of Norfolk families (12 per page), tricked. ff. 3r-4v: The coats of arms and crests of Suffolk families (16 per page), tricked. f. 5r: A title page: 'Norffolke: and Suffolke:'. ff. 6r-23v: The arms of Norfolk families, blazoned; with some dr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

173. Harley MS 1111

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1111
Title:
Copy of William Harvey, Visitation Book of Wiltshire (1565), with original notes made by Harvey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Valuation of the estates of Wiltshire gentry, organised according to hundreds; written about 1565. ff. 7r-15v, 22r-26r: Original notebook of William Harvey (b. 1510, d. 1567), Clarenceux King of Arms, made in his Visitation of Wiltshire in 1565, recording the names and pl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1565-c 1623
Extent:
1 volume

174. Harley MS 1112

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1112
Title:
Coats of arms of Shropshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [v]recto: An inscription in pencil: ‘Charleton of Apeley [Baron Charlton of Apley Castle] in Co. Salop.’. f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘The Names and Armes of all the Knightes, Esquires, and gentlemen, that did appeare in the Visitation of Shropshire made by Robert Treswell Somerse...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1623
Extent:
1 volume

175. Harley MS 1116

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1116
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: ‘The copy of a dyde taken oute of the Evidences of thomas wolley of hamsted in the counte of Staffordshire Anno 1563’. ff. 3v-4r: Full-page drawings of a seven-headed dragon and St Michael the Archangel. ff. 5r-12v: Empty coats of arms (9 per page) in brown ink, circumscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

176. Harley MS 1125

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1125
Title:
Translations of charters granted by English kings to the City of London
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: An introduction to the manuscript, dated 1581. ff. 1r-46v: A collection of English translations of ten charters granted by King John, Henry IV, Edward IV and Edward VI to the City of London. f. 47r: ‘A Table of certaine Charters graunted by former Kinges to the Citie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1581
Extent:

1 volume

177. Harley MS 1127

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1127
Title:
Table of principal matters contained in the statute laws of England from the 1st year of the reign of King Edward III to the 23rd year of King Henry VI, 1327-1445
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-36r: A table of principal matters contained in the statute laws of England from the 1st year of the reign of King Edward III to the 23rd year of King Henry VI, 1327-1445. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 37v: Practice sentences and pen trials in English, including...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

178. Harley MS 1128

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1128
Title:
'A discourse of the Privilidge and Practize of the Highe Courte of Parleament in England, collected out of the Comon Lawes of this Land, etc'
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: 'A discourse of the Privilidge and Practize of the Highe Courte of Parleament in England, collected out of the Comon Lawes of this Land, etc'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

179. Harley MS 1129

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1129
Title:
An etymological glossary of Anglo-Saxon, Latin and English terms by William Dugdale
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-105r: An etymological glossary of Anglo-Saxon, Latin and English terms, mostly pertaining to law and property, organised according to alphabetical order; copied by William Dugdale (not dated). The manuscript has a few later additions, added in the 17th century: f. 52r: A let...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century-4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

180. Harley MS 1130

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1130
Title:
Thomas Smithe, 'The manner of government or pollicie of the Realme of England'; 'A Communication or Discourse of the Queenes Majestie her Marriage, debated by foure Gentlemen of the Court at Mount Hall in Essex, and reported by Sir Thomas Smith, knight to his neighbour Frauncis Wiat, Gentlemann, 1567, April 1'
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-40v: Thomas Smithe, 'The manner of government or pollicie of the Realme of England'; in 3 books. ff. 41r-73r: 'A Communication or Discourse of the Queenes Majestie her Marriage, debated by foure Gentlemen of the Court at Mount Hall in Essex, and reported by Sir Thomas Smith,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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