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1121. Harley MS 889

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 889
Title:
Arms of the Gentlemen of Devon
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Inscribed on f. 1 is the title 'The Arms of the Gentilmen of Devonshire, as they were set downe in the Survey of William Harvey alias Calrentius Kinge of Armes [Clarenceux King of Arms] in the yeare of out Lord God 1565: 7 El: R: with their Pedegrees. Copied out of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1628
Extent:
1 volume

1122. Harley MS 890

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 890
Title:
Visitations of Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37r: A Visitation of Northamptonshire by ‘Richmond Herald’. ff. 38r-48v: A Visitation of Huntingdonshire by ‘Richmond Herald’. ff. 49r-50r: ‘Kallender of the contents of these Visitations of the Counties of Northampton and Huntington, taken in the yeare 1566 by Richmond Heral...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1566
Extent:
1 volume

1123. Harley MS 891

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 891
Title:
Visitations of Suffolk and Lancashire, with other heraldry tracts
Scope & Content:
Collection of heraldry papers in different hands, including visitations of Suffolk and of Lancashire. ff. 1-5: Alphabetical list of Cornish families with arms emblazoned. Not all completed. Headed ‘Certayne Cornishe Arms’. f. 6: Table of names mentioned in the visitation of Suffolk on ff. 7-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1124. Harley MS 892

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 892
Title:
Thomas Cole, The Visitation of Sussex; An Alphabet of Arms of Sussex and Surrey
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title page: ‘Pettigrees and Armes taken out of an old visitation of Sussex etcaetera with some new additions’. ff. 1r-37r: The Visitation of Sussex, ‘Oute of Mr Pensons booke’. ff. 38r-40r: Notes taken ‘In the parishe Church of Glyn’; Glyn, Stopham, West Sussex, with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1125. Harley MS 893

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 893
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms of Cheshire and Lancashire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-35r: An Alphabet of Arms of Cheshire and Lancashire families, blazoned. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 36v: Notes concerning the creations of nobility under James I, dated to 1616, 1620, 1622 and 1627.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1126. Harley MS 894

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 894
Title:
Collection of tracts on heraldic matters
Scope & Content:
Several tracts written in different hands, including lists of peers created by James I, the Queen’s procession to St Paul’s 1588, two alphabets of arms in blazon, and an account of the nobility to 1572. Contents: f. 1: Peers of England created in the first seven years of King James I’s reign...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1127. Harley MS 895

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 895
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: An index of names, entitled: ‘Table to this Booke of the Armes of the Barons of England from Kinge William the Conquerour’; added in the 17th century. ff. 4r-24v: The arms of English nobility from William the Conqueror to the end of the reign of Queen Mary I, tricked. f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1128. Harley MS 896

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 896
Title:
The Fyve Conquestes of this Land with the Names and Armes of the Conquerers; The Names and Armes of all the noble men since the Conqueste of Englande and by whome they weare created
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A memorandum ‘that Thirde of March 1597 I Edward Stanhope Esquire have receyved backe againe of John Manwood the booke called Secretum domini which I lente him as appreth by a note of [unidentified signature]’. f. 1v: A tract on ‘The Fyve Conquestes of this Land with the Name...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1129. Harley MS 897

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 897
Title:
English pedigrees and arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: A table of family names. ff. 6v-74r: A collection of notes on English nobility, including obits, pedigrees, coat of arms (tricked), and church notes; with some additions by Ralfe Brooke (b. 1553, d. 1625), Officer of Arms. ff. 75r-87r: Notes about the deaths of noblemen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1130. Harley MS 898

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 898
Title:
Summary of writs issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1589-1593
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-246r: Summary of writs issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1589-1593; in Latin, but featuring some English on f. 136r. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘De Annis 36. 37. 38. 39. 40 & 41 Elizab.’; added in the 17th or 18th cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1589-1593
Extent:
1 volume

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