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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1331
Title:: Edward Henden, Reports of trials at Westminster Hall and elsewhere
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-81v: Edward Henden, Reports of trials at Westminster Hall and elsewhere, extracted from or referring to the public rolls of these trials, in the 27th-30th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I [1584-1588]; and other law notes. f. 82r: The 'Intituling of Bills into: The Exch...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1584-c 1588
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1341
Title:: A Dialogicall Discourse of Marine Affaires; distributed into six Dialogues, by Nathanael Boteler
Scope & Content:: Draft of A Dialogical discourse of marine affairs, with additions in another hand, by Nathanael Boteler or Butler. Six dialogues between an admiral and a captain, including a glossary of maritime vocabulary (dialogue four). With additions in another hand. Later printed as: Six dialogues about se...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1634
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1351
Title:: Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-145r: An Alphabet of Arms, written in English but blazoned in French heraldic terminology, with coats of arms drawn in the outer and inner margins throughout; on f. 100*verso the note: ‘From London the xvth of June 1561’. f. 145v: Pedigree of the family of FitzGerald. f. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1352
Title:: Copy of the Visitation-Book of Worcestershire by Robert Cooke, 1569
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-37v: A copy of the Visitation-Book of Worcestershire, made by Robert Cooke (d. 1593), Clarenceux King of Arms, in 1569; with some continuations; the pedigree of Vernon of Hanbury goes up to 1634. Decoration: Coats of arms and crests, tricked, drawn in black ink throughout th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1634
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1354
Title:: Collection by a painter of heraldic arms, including funeral arrangements
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5r: 'The orderinge and placinge of all Estates according to their degrees'. ff. 5r-5v: 'The placinge of all Estates of men accordinge to their degrees' ff. 5v-6r: 'The placinge of all estates of women according to there degrees'. f. 6v: 'Estates of the bloode Royale'. f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1590-c 1605
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1356
Title:: Statutes of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A list of names of ‘King Edward the 3d and the first Founders of the most noble order of the Garter In the 23th yeare of his Reigne 1348’. ff. 1r-20v: ‘The Statutes and Ordynances of the Most noble Order of St George named the Garter reformed, Explayned, declared, and renewed...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1570
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1357
Title:: A generall Cathologe of all the Names and Armes of the Lord Chauncellors and Keepers of the great Seal of England ffrom the tyme of William the Conqueror, untill this present yeare Anno 1646
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title page: ‘A generall Cathologe of all the Names and Armes of the Lord Chauncellors and Keepers of the great Seal of England ffrom the tyme of William the Conqueror, untill this present yeare Anno 1646’. ff. 2r-98v: A work listing the Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers, bu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1646
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1358
Title:: Coats of arms of London citizens
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Coats and Creasts done in the tyme of the Visitacion of London Anno 1633 & 1634’. f. 2*recto: A list of ‘London Wards’. ff. 1r-97v: Coats of arms (mostly 4-6 per page) from the Visitation of London in 1633 and 1634, organized according to the city's ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1634-1679
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1361
Title:: Achievements, coats of arms and badges of the Earls of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-55r: The achievements of most of the earls of England, the last being Hay Earl of Carlisle (with mottos in French and Latin), intersected with tables containing coats of arms belonging to them, and their heraldic badges. Decoration: Full-page achievements, coats of arms of a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1365
Title:: A collection of Alphabets of Arms in blazon
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A blazon of the arms of 'Laurence Breterghe of Bretegheholt' in French heraldic terminology. ff. 1r-21v: An Alphabet of Arms in blazon (French heraldic terminology), including English families and attributed arms such as those of of King Arthur, Godfrey of Bouillon, and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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