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6391. Harley MS 6066

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6066
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Northamptonshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A note by Sir John Cutts of Cambridge: ‘Mr Allen I pray bring to Ms Lady Cutts Ms Lady wilds house on the back side of the Drury Lane right agaynst the Cockpitt Sir Sir John Cutts Coate of Armes with all quart[er]ings [...] if you have them, the day [...] the Clocke, one M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1618-1629
Extent:
1 volume

6392. Harley MS 6068

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6068
Title:
English royal records and Welsh pedigrees
Scope & Content:
A manuscript copied by George Owen of Henllys from the collections of Richard Broughton. Contents: f. 1*: Title page. f. 1r-53v: Extracts from patent rolls, plea rolls, and other English royal records, including a list of the household officials and servants of Princes Mary, 1525-26. ff. 40r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
c 1597
Extent:
1 volume

6393. Harley MS 6075

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6075
Title:
The value of English benefices
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Sums of benefices included in this manuscripts, an addition for Christ Church, Canterbury, and a table of contents. ff. 2r-117v: Benefices organised according to counties and their deaneries, entitled: ‘Nomina et Valores omnium et singulorum Angliae Archiepiscopatuum, Espisco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6394. Harley MS 6076

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6076
Title:
Coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of the City of London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-6v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 7r-98v: Coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of the City of London until the year 1668, beginning with the note: 'Since the 1st Maiors of London to the yeare 1668 is 479 years'. The manuscript contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1668
Extent:
1 volume

6395. Harley MS 6077

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6077
Title:
A rental of the Diocese of St Davids
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Rental of St Davids' Pembrokeshire advowsons, 1594. f. 5r: Full-page drawing of St Davids cathedral. f. 5v: Rental of St Davids' recotries, tithes, and vicarages, 1558-59. ff. 6r-22r: Valuations and patronage in St Davids' diocese from records in the Office of First F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1594
Extent:
1 volume

6396. Harley MS 6078

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6078
Title:
A treatice concernynge the Nobilitie accordinge to the Lawe of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*verso: A table of contents. ff. 1r-74r: ‘A treatice concernynge the Nobilitie accordinge to the Lawe of England [added:] By Will[iam] Bird’; and ‘Much Enlarged by Sir John Doderidge’. The additional information apparently comes from ‘Cat. MSS Angl. tom. 2. inter Cod. Thomas Bar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6397. Harley MS 6081

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6081
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An introduction for a genealogical manuscript, beginning: ‘The lyneall dissent of the morgans from Blederye ap Kydenor Lord of St Clere and Tredegar’. A strip of parchment, together with ff. 158-159, taken from a genealogical manuscript or roll and reused for the manuscript’s ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1604
Extent:
1 volume

6398. Harley MS 6083

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6083
Title:
Charles Cavendish, Mathematical papers
Scope & Content:
Mathematical papers assembled and partially copied by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. 1595?, d. 1654). The manuscript consists of several sets of mathematical notes, treatises and loose papers, including a treatise on geometry, called Geometria phoronomica (ff. 236r-272v); a treatise...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1654
Extent:

1 volume

6399. Harley MS 6084

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6084
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Coats of arms of English gentry and nobility, 20 or less per page; all coats of arms feature birds, and are organised according to their aviary device. The manuscript opens with arms featuring a double-headed eagle. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6400. Harley MS 6085

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6085
Title:
William Segar, Book of royal arms, badges and achievements from Brutus to James I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: William Segar, 'The Variation of the Armes, and Badges of the Kings of England, from the tyme of Brute, untill this present Yeare of our Lord, 1604'; beginning with an address by William Segar to King James I; containing drawings and English descriptions with blazons in La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1604
Extent:
1 volume

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