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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6091
Title:: Sir Richard Maitland, Genealogy of the House of Setton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19r: ‘The Genologie and History of the Illustrious house and sirname of Seton Collected and Sett furth by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethingtoun a sisters sone of the said house - With a Table of the Kings Reigns of Sctoland Since King Malcom Canmore for the Clearing of the times ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1633
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6133
Title:: Henry St George, Pedigrees of English earls and barons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Henry St George, Pedigrees of earls and barons of England. f. 44v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1644
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6217
Title:: A history of the reign of King Edward III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-21v: A history of the reign of King Edward III. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘An historical relation of certain passages about the end of Kind Edward the 3rd & of his death’; added in the (?) 17th century; followed by a pencil note that st...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6745
Title:: Proceedings in the Queen's Bench, 35-38 Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-216v: Proceedings in the Queen's Bench from the 35th, 36th, 37th and 38th years of the reign of Elizabeth I; written in Law French. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1*recto-2*recto: Alphabetical index of cases; written in the late 16th or early 17th centur...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1592-1596
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 578
Title:: William Smith, Arms of Smith families in England and Germany
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-13v: William Smith (b. c. 1550, d. 1618), Arms of Smith families in England and Germany. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. [i]verso: A letter concerning an identical manuscript owned by Augustus W. Franks, dated 27 February 1889. f. [ii]recto: A title-page...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 872
Title:: Heraldry book of Thomas Jennings, with additions by Robert Greenhurst
Scope & Content:: Copy of an ancient book of arms in blazon written by Thomas Jennings, with additions by Robert Greenhurst, 1625. f. 1: Title at head of folio: ‘A true Coppie (taken out) of the Auncient booke of Armes written by Tho: Jennings, and by him delivered into the Office: truly examined by Norrey King...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1160
Title:: Baronage of England; with a collection of arms and pedigrees
Scope & Content:: Heraldry book in different hands. ff. 1*-5*: Preliminary folios with old shelf marks, sketches, etc. ff. 6*-46: Pedigrees of the nobility of England, by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, copied by William Smith Rouge Dragon. Title page: ‘Baronagium Angliae: Magnatum scilicet illius Regni Stemmat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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 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

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