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181. Harley MS 1134

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1134
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2*r: Sketches of heraldic elements (including a griffon statant regardant, and a lion rampant in brown ink and highlighted in red); a pedigree of the ‘Rosseter’ family going up to 1637. ff. 3r-262v: An Alphabet of Arms, with the coats of arms of English nobility and gentry t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

182. Harley MS 1135

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1135
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-book of Sussex of 1633-1634
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-4r: An alphabetical index of the names of families included in this manuscript. f. 4r: ‘Memorandum that the booke that this was transcribed by was part of Northamptsh. ad ffoll. […]’. ff. 7r-: Pedigrees and coats of arms of the nobility and gentry of Sussex, copied from the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

183. Harley MS 1136

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1136
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-book of Suffolk of 1561
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Pedigrees and arms of Suffolk families, copied from the Visitation-book of Suffolk of 1561 by William Harvey (b. 1510, d. 1567), Clarenceux King of Arms; with misbound leaves from of a copy of the Visitation-book of Buckinghamshire of 1634 by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 164...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter or 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

184. Harley MS 1137

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1137
Title:
A copy of William Harvey’s Visitation-book of the county of Essex with additions by Jacob Chaloner and John Gough
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: An alphabetical table of the surnames of families whose pedigrees are described in this manuscript. ff. 3r-5r: An incomplete table of the arms of families represented in this manuscript. ff. 6r-6v: Pedigrees of Parker, Bugg, Ap Walter, and Hevingham. ff. 7r-10r: Sherif...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1615-1638
Extent:
1 volume

185. Harley MS 1157

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1157
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Shropshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A list of the order for a funeral procession (‘Order for funeralls’). ff. 2r-78r: Pedigrees of Shropshire families, with coats of arms; the latest date in the manuscript is 1612 (ff. 45r, 58v). f. 79: An unidentified coat of arms. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

186. Harley MS 1158

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1158
Title:
Copies from the Yearbooks of Edward II and Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5r: A list of the names of sheriffs of Lancashire (Henry II-17th year of the reign of James I). ff. 6r-22r: Coats of arms (16 to page) of Lancashire families, organised alphabetically. ff. 22*verso-160v: Pedigrees of Lancashire families copied from the Visitation of Lancash...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

187. Harley MS 1168

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1168
Title:
The Visitation Book of Durham of 1615
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-2v: A ‘note of al such Parsons as ware disclamed in the time of his Visitation 1615’. ff. 4v-56r, 61r: A copy of the Visitation Book of the county of Durham in 1615 by Richard St George, Norroy King of Arms, and Henry St George, Bluemantle Pursuivant. ff. 57r-60r: The “Armes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume

188. Harley MS 1170

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1170
Title:
Pedigrees and arms of Cheshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105r: Pedigrees of Cheshire families copied from different Visitation Books, including those of 1566, 1580, 1612 and 1613. ff. 106r-107r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. The manuscript contains an addition: f. 94r: A reference to a paymen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

189. Harley MS 1171

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1171
Title:
English pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A page with nine empty shields, one intended for the arms of Thomas Robson of Westmorton granted by Richard St George, Norroy King of Arms, in 1615. ff. 2r-4v: A copy of part of the Visitation-book of Yorkshire, made by William Flower, Norroy King of arms, in 1575; other part...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

190. Harley MS 1173

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1173
Title:
Copies of the Visitation-books of Staffordshire by Robert Glover and Richard St George
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*recto-5*recto: A table of surnames of families included in this manuscript. f. 6*recto: Inscribed with the title ‘Staffordshire’. ff. 1r-107v: A copy of the Visitation-book of Staffordshire as it was made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, in 1583. ff. 108r-111r: A collecti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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