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4071. Harley MS 5840

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5840
Title:
A copy of William Harvey's Visitation of Devonshire in 1565
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-7*recto: An index of surnames. f. 8*recto: A title-page: ‘The Armes and pedegrees of the Gentry of Devonshire as they were set downe in the Survye of William Harvy Clarenceulx king of Armes in the yeare of our Lord 1565’. ff. 1r-120v, 121v-126v: William Harvey (b. 1510...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4072. Harley MS 5841

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5841
Title:
Pedigrees of Worcestershire families with coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘The Visitacion of Worcestershire taken in Anno Domini 1569’. ff. 1r-32r: Pedigrees of Worcestershire families with coats of arms. ff. 33r-33v: An alphabetical index of families included in this manuscript. f. 34v: A coat of arms in brown ink. D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4073. Harley MS 5842

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5842
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Suffolk families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*recto-3*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-117r: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Suffolk families, beginning with the seals of towns in Suffolk; with a copy of a patent of arms (f. 4v) granted by Thomas Hawley (d. 1557), entitled: ‘...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4074. Harley MS 5843

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5843
Title:
Coats of arms of Kentish families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-59r: Coats of arms of Kentish families; the latest one, added in pencil (by the same or another arms painter) on f. 58r, is dated to 1680. ff. 60r-64r: An alphabetical index of family na...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4075. Harley MS 5845

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5845
Title:
Coats of arms and pedigrees of Lincolnshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 2r-3v: Coats of arms of Lincolnshire families (30 per page). ff. 4r-21r: Coats of arms of Lincolnshire families (4 per page), with empty escutcheons drawn in pencil towards the end. f. 21v: Part of a pe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4076. Harley MS 5846

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5846
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [v]recto: A note in pencil: ‘Barkers grants’. f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Armes given by Christopher Barker alias Garter knight with some other auntient armes. who died the second day of January being thursday about 8. of the Clock at night in Pater noster rewe in London anno 3.o Edwar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1663
Extent:
1 volume

4077. Harley MS 5847

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5847
Title:
Coats of arms granted by Sir Gilbert Dethick
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘Sir Gilbert Dethicks Grants etctaetera’. ff. 2*recto-3*recto: An alphabetical index of families included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-55r: Coats of arms granted to English nobility, gentry, and corporations by Sir Gilbert Dethick (b. 1499/1500, d. 15...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4078. Harley MS 5848

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

4079. Harley MS 5849

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5849
Title:
English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-69v: Coats of English families arms (mostly 9 per page), many with crests and mottoes (in French). ff. 70r-72v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 73r: A note (crossed out): ‘The remaining part of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4080. Harley MS 5850

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5850
Title:
Alphabets of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: Frontispiece decoration, left empty. ff. 1r-43r: An Alphabet of Arms (incomplete), featuring drawings of coats of arms of English families (56 per pages) in alphabetical order, covering the letters ‘A’-‘H’. ff. 43v-92v. An Alphabet of Arms, with the arms blazoned in Eng...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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