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541. Harley MS 6178

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6178
Title:
Coats of arms from Devon, Dorset and Somerset; coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of London, from 1189 to 1705
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Coats of arms (9 per page) of families in Devon, Dorset and Somerset; some featuring dates going up to 1620. ff. 22r-108r: Coats of arms (9 per page) of mayors and sheriffs of London, from 1189 to 1705. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A titl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1620-c 1705
Extent:
1 volume

542. Harley MS 6183

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6183
Title:
The Visitation of Leicestershire in 1619
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*verso: The beginning of a draft or copy of an indenture: 'Know all present and to come that wee John de Verdon Lord of Brikilasworth Knight, and Maud my wife; doe give and grant, and by this our present writeing doe confirme unto John the sone of Walter de Howby and to william d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

543. Harley MS 6185

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6185
Title:
English pedigrees and arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-160v: Pedigrees and arms of families in the county of Gloucestershire. Several pedigrees end with indications of the ages of family members in the year 1623. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘Glocester’; written in the 17th century....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1623
Extent:
1 volume

544. Harley MS 6186

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6186
Title:
English coats of arms from the reign of James I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-7v: Coats of arms of English peerage (about 9-12 per page). ff. 12v-45v: Coats of arms of English families (12 per page). The manuscript contains a later addition: ff. 1r-1v, 48r-48v: Fragments of Peter Lombard, Commentarium in Psalmos; written in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1603-1625
Extent:
1 volume

545. Harley MS 6203

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6203
Title:
Transcript of a cartulary of Hereford Cathedral
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Transcript of a medieval cartulary of Hereford Cathedral, entitled: 'Collections out of an Old Imperfect Registre of the Church of Hereford, on Vellom [sic], Folio MS in the Library of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Viscount Weymouth [Sir Thomas Thynne (d. 1714), 1st Vis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1718
Extent:
1 volume

546. Harley MS 6219

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6219
Title:
The life and acts of William the Conqueror; fragment of a history of Scotland (1291); Metrical History of the Deposition of Richard II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-4r: A tract on the acts of William the Conqueror, beginning: ‘These thynges whiche folow of the lyfe and actes of the gloryous William Duke of Normandye , and victoryous Kynge of Englande were detracted out of a certen auncyent boke of the monasterye of St Stephen of Cane [Abbe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

547. Harley MS 6222

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6222
Title:
Petition of Richard Troughton, Bailiff of South Witham, Lincolnshire, to the Privy Council in the reign of Queen Mary, relating to the share taken by him in the Duke of Northumberland's Plot
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A letter by Richard Throughton, beginning: ‘To the Kinge and Quenes maiesties moste honorabili councell’; ending ‘Uppon mundaye beffor The Duke of Suffolk’; ending with a declaration: ‘I was never in any commocion or otherwise against the Crowne of Englond in all my liffe b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1555
Extent:
1 volume

548. Harley MS 6281

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6281
Title:
A transcript of a Latin census of the names of cities, boroughs, villages, hundreds and the lords of manors throughout England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-239r: A transcript of a Latin census of the names of cities, boroughs, villages, hundreds and the lords of manors throughout England. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 1r: A note: ‘A transcript of the booke called Nomina Villarum – Kept in the Office of the Treasur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

549. Harley MS 6360

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6360
Title:
Astrological texts; texts on high treason
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts. The first part (ff. 3r-31r) contains astrological texts copied in the 16th century; the second part (ff. 4r-133r) contains texts concerning high treason that were most likely copied in the late 16th century. Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Astrol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

550. Harley MS 6362

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6362
Title:
William Roper, The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore sometyme Chancellor of Englande written by the sonne in lawe William Roper of Eltham in the Counye of Kente esquier’. ff. 3r-47v: William Roper (b. 1495x8, d. 1578), The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, here entitled: ‘The Lyfe of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

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