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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6147
Title:: Copy of Henry Lilly's Visitation-book of Hertfordshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page, ‘The Visitacion of Hertfordshire’. f. 2r: A title-page, ‘The Visitation of the Countie of Hertford made in Anno 1572’. f. 3r: ‘A note of thantiquity of the Gentlemen of Hartfordshire yet remaineing and as they came first into this shire’. ff. 3r-59r: A copy ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6152
Title:: The pedigrees of the families of Chasteleine, and Basset of Weldon
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-13v: The pedigrees (‘Historicall Descent[s]’) of the families of Chasteleine, and Basset of Weldon (‘Welledone’), featuring various drawn replicas of original charters with their contents written in imitative Gothic scripts from the 13th and 14th centuries, and containing seal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1632
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6153
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Welsh and Shropshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-27v: Pedigrees, mainly of families of Wales and Shropshire, going up to the year 1623; a blazon of the arms of Andrew Corbet, entittled: ‘Sir Andrew Corberts knight beareath these Coates quarterlye quarterlye as followeth’ (f. 23r) ff. 28r-31r: A tract on the ‘pedegree of Mr R...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1623-1629
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6156
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of English and Welsh kings, nobility and gentry
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A full-page drawing of the coat of arms of Navarre, with a comment in French. f. 2*recto: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. f. 3*recto: A Latin note on the origin of the word ‘honour’ from the Hebew Hon ('Riches') and the French Or ('Go...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1600-1609
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6159
Title:: The Visitation of Lancashire of 1567
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2*recto: A title-page for the Visitation of Lancashire of 1567, entitled: ‘The Visitacion of Lancashire etcaetera: Made in Anno 1567. Annoque 9 R. Eliz.’; with a full-page drawing of the arms of the house of Lancaster, surmounted above a family tree with coats of arms and the red r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1598
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6163
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. iii verso-134v: The arms of saints, emperors, kings, English nobility and gentry, beginning with the attributed arms of Prester John, the Trinity, the Virgin Mary, St George, St Denis, St Edward, St Edmund, Shield of Faith, St Albans, St Thomas of Canterbury, St Peter and St Paul....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1480-c. 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6164
Title:: The Visitation Book of the county of Sussex of 1634
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-98v: The Visitation Book of the county of Sussex, recorded by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Rouge Dragon Pursuivant and Somerset Herald, and George Owen (b. c. 1598, d. 1665), Clarenceux and Norroy King of Arms and York Herald, in 1633-1634; containing a tract (f. 83r) conf...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1634
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6171
Title:: Fragment of an Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-30v: A fragment of an Alphabet of Arms, with the arms of English families (‘A’ to ‘B’) blazoned with French heraldic terminology. Decoration: Heraldic elements drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6175
Title:: Kentish arms and pedigrees
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Coats of arms (35 per page) of Kentish nobility and gentry, alphabetically organised. ff. 8v-[81a]r: Pedigrees of Kentish families, featuring tricked arms and dates (the latest is the year 1619); also featuring a statute of All Souls College in Latin on f. 10r. ff. 84r-95...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6176
Title:: A treatise on the inheritance of baronies and earldoms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-18v: A treatise on the question ‘Whether a Barony by Writt being one involved into an Earledome, may be afterwards transferred into an-other family by a daughter and heire and the Earldome continue in the male heire’; with examples dated to 1640. The manuscript contains a la...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1640
Extent:: 1 volume

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