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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5848
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Shropshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Pedigrees of Shropshire families with their coats of arms; including a summon (f. 40v) for members of the Kynnaston family to appear before the king for disobedience, entitled: ‘Rot. Parliam. anno 3 Hen. 7 n. 32: An Acte against Thomas Kynnaston, and others’. ff. 42r-42v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6140
Title:: A miscellany of arms and grants of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. i verso: A printed poem, entitled: ‘The affection of a Friend – In memory of the right Worshipfull his deceased friend’. The letters of the first lines are an acrostic for the name of ‘Sir William Stone Knight’. f. ii recto: A title inscription in pencil: ‘Pedegrees quartering Cr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7550
Title:: Almanack of Allestree (1627), annotated by Symonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Printed Almanack of Allestree for the year 1627, with chronological notes in the handwriting of Sir Symonds D’Ewes. Also large collections in cypher. The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 7550/1.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher and English
Date Range:: 1627
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1091
Title:: Devonshire heraldry book
Scope & Content:: Devonshire arms and pedigrees, chiefly copied by Jacob Chaloner (1586-1631), arms painter, from the Visitation of Devonshire 1564, by William Harvey, with additions by John Saunders (died c. 1687). Includes: ff. 2-3r: Translation of the patent of King James I, creating Sir Thomas Ridgeway Kni...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 793-805
Title:: History and antiquities of Yorkshire
Scope & Content:: Yorkshire notes extracted from the collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), which are now in the Bodleian Library. The extracted notes are in English, including those originally transcribed by Dodsworth in other languages, and the contents are arranged by place. Mostly in the hands of two writ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 13 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2290
Title:: Robert Persons, Leicester's Commonwealth
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Robert Persons [Parsons] (b. 1546, d. 1610), Leicester's Commonwealth (1584).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1584-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 140
Title:: Catalogue of rolls from the time of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-344v: Calendarium literarum patentium Regis Henrici VIII. f. 348v: An inventory of possessions, beginning ‘A greate Chest’. ff. 349r-392r: Calendarium concessionum plurimarum Regis Henrici VIII. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 393r: A ‘memorandum’ about blan...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 429
Title:: Journal and office papers of the Office of Ordnance
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume, containing a journal and various office papers, including warrants and letters, of the Office of the Ordnance in the Tower of London, 26 June 1626-14 February 1636 [1637].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1626-1637
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1617
Title:: Freedoms and privileges of Guernsey, Jersey, Sark and Alderney
Scope & Content:: Copies of records concerning the freedoms and privileges of Jersey, Guernsey, Sark and Alderney. f. 1r: Brief of King Henry III appointing Drogo de Barantine guardian of Jersey and Guernsey. Latin. ff. 1r-2r: Inquisition of the services, customs and freedoms of the isle of Guernsey, and laws ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1656
Title:: Accounts of the Board of the Kings Works, 1660-1661
Scope & Content:: Manuscript office-book in folio containing monthly accounts of all charges for works and reparations done at the Tower of London, Whitehall, Westminster, St. James’s House, Somerset House, Hampton Court, and for General Monke [George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle], together with the accounts of a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1660-1661
Extent:: 1 volume

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