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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1927
Title:: Poems by the Chester arms-painters Thomas Chaloner and Randle Holme
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-53v: A collection of English poems and Latin sayings by Thomas Chaloner (d. 1598), dated to 1575-1577. ff. 54r-120v: A collection of English poems and notes by Randle Holme I (b. 1570/71, d. 1655), dated to 1616-1638. One poem on ff. 60v-61r (‘The Songe called the Buttned smo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1575-1638
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1935
Title:: Welsh pedigrees
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: A reused leaf of part of a manor court record. ff. 2r-109v: Pedigrees, mostly of south-east Wales, particularly Breconshire, but also for Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire, in Welsh, on the pattern of achau’r mamau. f. 110r: Another reused leaf from a manor court record. ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Welsh
Date Range:: 1589-1630
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1937
Title:: Ceremonies of the Catholic Church; collection of George Bellin, ironmonger and clerk of Chester; Guido de Monte Rochen, Manipulus Curatorum; sermons by Thomas Watson
Scope & Content:: A composite manuscript consisting of three separate parts. The first part (ff. 1r-116r) contains texts on the ceremonies of the Catholic Church, and was written down around 1600. The second part (ff. 102r-116r) contains a collection of thanksgivings, prayers, letters and medical recipes by Ge...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1554-c 1617
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1938
Title:: Law reports, instructions and charges
Scope & Content:: Manuscript law papers bound together with Harley MS 1941, another set of legal notes. The first two parts of the manuscript (Reports of Kings Bench cases 1612/13; Instructions for various legal processes and legal charges) are in the same hand. The third part (case of James Doe v Thomas Halewood...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1940
Title:: Heraldic book of Cheshire and Lancashire families
Scope & Content:: Lists of Earls of Chester, Cheshire and Lancashire families and their arms, with additions in another hand. f.1: Flyleaf with arms of one John Coventrey. f. 2: Epitaph of Tomson, died 7 May 1579. Ownership inscription of Randle Holme on verso. f. 3: ‘Earles of Chester’. List of the Earls, wit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1941
Title:: Copies of legal documents
Scope & Content:: Copies of various documents for use by a trainee clerk or lawyer, dated from 1590s to 1635, including bonds, wills, indentures, etc. With a document dated 1651 hinged in (f. 18). Folios 1*-3* and 33-38 are written in a different hand on larger folios, now cut up, possibly former wrappers. Boun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1590s-1650s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1942
Title:: Constitution of Freemasonry
Scope & Content:: Manuscript constitution, in the form of an address to a new member of the Freemasons, starting with a history of masonry, the Articles to be observed, the New Articles and oath.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1660
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1943
Title:: Accounts of levies, sequestrations, damages and losses by plunder in the parish of Church-Lawton, Cheshire
Scope & Content:: f. 1: Title inscription: ‘Church Lawton’.Paper label pasted at head of folio: ‘Levies, Sequestrations &c in Lawton Cheshire’. ff. 2-76: Accounts of levies, sequestrations, damages and losses to plunder by the Scottish army suffered by inhabitants of the parish for 1642, 1643, 1644, 1645 and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1642-1646
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1944
Title:: Breviary of Chester collections, by Archdeacon Robert Rogers
Scope & Content:: Copy of Robert Rogers’s Breviary of Chester collections, condensed by his son David Rogers. In the hand of David Rogers. Chapter VII includes painted coats of arms. With alphabetical table at front of volume, and matters relating to the cases of Hugh Dod and Robert Brerewood, clerks of the Penti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1609-1652
Extent:: 1 volume

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