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541. Harley MS 699

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 699
Title:
Robert Vawdrey, Knights' Fees in Cheshire and Flintshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: An introduction, entitled: ‘The forme and order of this booke breiflie sett fourth by Robert Vaudray of Chester Collectour thereof to thentent to instructe the Reader to the true and perfecte knowledge of the making and meanynge of the same booke’. ff. 2r-70r: Book of Knight...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1555-1557
Extent:
1 volume

542. Harley MS 820

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 820
Title:
A table of contents for an heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-32v; 34r-43v: A table of contents for an heraldic manuscript, organised alphabetically according to surnames of English nobility and gentry; from the Conquest to the time of Elizabeth I: ‘A table wherbie to finde oute everie perticuler name contained in this booke accordinge un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

543. Harley MS 854

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 854
Title:
William Stamford, Exposition of the King's Prerogative
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Stamfordes boke of the prerogatyffe’. ff. 2r-72v: William Stamford (fl. 16th century), Exposition of the King's Prerogative (1567); here entitled ‘Prerogative of the kynge and Crowne of England’; introduced as ‘An exposicion of the kyngs prerogative collected o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1574-1575
Extent:
1 volume

544. Harley MS 1080

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1080
Title:
The Visitation of Devonshire of 1565 and 1620
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-440v: John Withie [Withy], copy of the Visitation of Devonshire of 1565, and 1620 by Henry St George, with additions; here entitled: ‘Visitation of Devonsheire made and taken by Henry St george Esquire Richmond Herauld, and Sampson Lennard Blew-mantle, Marshalls and Deputies t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume

545. Harley MS 1102

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1102
Title:
Copy of the Visitation-book of Buckinghamshire of 1634
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 2r-114r: Pedigrees and coats of arms, principally from the Visitation-book of Buckinghamshire of 1634 by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Rouge Dragon; also includes the tricked seal of Chepping Wyco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

546. Harley MS 1390

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1390
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Bedfordshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-29r: Descents and arms of Bedfordshire families, dated to 1582 and 1583; with continuations and additions by John Saunders (the latest date is 1687); featuring an epitaph poem for ‘John Welles late of Heath Esquire who departed this life in the year of our Lord God 1645’; commi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1687
Extent:
1 volume

547. Harley MS 1540

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1540
Title:
The Visitations of Durham of 1575 and 1615
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A note on the Visitations of Durham of 1575 and 1615. ff. 3r-4r: An alphabetical table of the family names included in this manuscript. ff. 5r-10v, 161r-162v: Arms of Durham families (20 per page), tricked in printed shields, mostly left blank. ff. 11r-160v, 163r-169r: Ped...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

548. Harley MS 1912

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1912
Title:
Grays Inn admission lists, members, officers and property
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-3: Historical notes on the Society of Grays Inn, with painted representations of old and modern arms. f. 4v: Numbers of gentlemen admitted to the Society, 1521-1674. ff. 5-84: ‘Admittances’. Alphabetical table of admissions into the Society, with dates, with references to the register-bo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1660s-1670s
Extent:
1 volume

549. Harley MS 5813

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5813
Title:
English, Welsh, Scottish and Lancashire coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Sketches of coats of arms and notes: ‘in the yeare 1453 Jo Norman Draper beinge maior and 32 of H. 6 the ridinge of the maiors of London was put downe’. f. 1v: Part of an alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript (‘B’). ff. 2r-72r: Coats of arms with cre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

550. Harley MS 5829

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5829
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Sussex families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*verso-2*verso: An alphabetical index of families included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-165r: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Sussex families, the latest is dated to 1636; featuring patents and confirmations of arms by officers of arms such as William Segar and William Camden; Chu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1635
Extent:
1 volume

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