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4151. Harley MS 6135

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6135
Title:
Genealogy of the earls Despenser and Spencer
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12r: ‘The Genallogie of the Ancientt Noble Family of the Le despencers and Spencers Earles of Winchester Glocester and Sunderland, Barons Spencers of Wormleighton and the Rest of the Branches of that Signall Faamily gathered out of Inquissions and other Records and Authenticke ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1660-1679
Extent:
1 volume

4152. Harley MS 6136

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6136
Title:
Pedigrees of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-46r: Various pedigrees of English families, including ‘A Genealogicall History of the very Ancient and Worshipfull Family of Hereford of Hereford’ (ff. 14r-19r); ‘A Coppy of the Register of the Parish of Mordiford in the County of Hereford’ (ff. 40r-40v); ‘A Coppy of the Regis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4153. Harley MS 6137

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6137
Title:
Collection of Richard Kimbey's copies of English rolls of arms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of medieval armorial rolls made by 'Richard Kimbey', possibly the arms painter Richard Kimbe. Among his transcripts is a copy of the 'Camden Roll', a 13th-century English roll with the coats of arms of English and European monarchs, lords, and knights, now Cotton ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1604-c 1618
Extent:
1 volume

4154. Harley MS 6138

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6138
Title:
The Visitation of Kent of 1619
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A wisdom in Latin: 'Modica alteratio in membro principali magnam alterationem facit’; probably excerpted from John Guillim's A Display of Heraldrie (London, 1610); followed by a note 'This visitation Taken 1619 & some part since'. ff. 1r-225v: The Visitation of Kent of 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1619
Extent:
1 volume

4155. Harley MS 6139

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6139
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and Gloucestershire families, some taken in the years 1633-1634
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10v: Coats of arms with crests (20 per page), most are empty escutcheons. ff. 11r- 35v: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire families, some taken in the years 1633-1634. f. 36r: Blazons of arms. f. 37r-39v: Pedigrees and coats of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4156. Harley MS 6140

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

4157. Harley MS 6144

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6144
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22v: An Alphabet of Arms, blazoned.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4158. Harley MS 6145

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6145
Title:
Pedigrees of English nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Pedigrees of English nobility. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A title for the manuscript: 'The original pedigree of armes of the englishe nobility'; added in the 16th or 17th century. f. 1*recto: Notes about payments in French; added in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4159. Harley MS 6146

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6146
Title:
English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-115r: Coats of arms of English families (9 per page). Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume

4160. Harley MS 6147

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6147
Title:
Copy of Henry Lilly's Visitation-book of Hertfordshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page, ‘The Visitacion of Hertfordshire’. f. 2r: A title-page, ‘The Visitation of the Countie of Hertford made in Anno 1572’. f. 3r: ‘A note of thantiquity of the Gentlemen of Hartfordshire yet remaineing and as they came first into this shire’. ff. 3r-59r: A copy ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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