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6431. Harley MS 6124

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6124
Title:
Arms and pedigrees of English earls
Scope & Content:
This manucsript contains the arms and pedigrees of English earls, organised according to county. Contents: f. 1*recto: An alphabetical index of the counties included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-17r: ‘Catalogus Comitum Herefordiæ’. ff. 18r-36r: ‘Catalogues Comitum Salisburiæ’. ff. 37r-53v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

6432. Harley MS 6125

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6125
Title:
The Visitation of Leicestershire of 1619
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-4*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-107v: A copy of or notes for the Visitation Book of Samson Lennard (d. 1633) and Augustine Vincent (b. c. 1584, d. 1626) for the Visitation of Leicestershire of 1619, here entitled: ‘The V...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6433. Harley MS 6126

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6126
Title:
Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Devon and Somerset from Henry III to Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2*recto: ‘Perambulatio Forestae de Exmore in Com. Somers. et Devon in Turri London remanens'. f. 3*recto: An unidentified coat of arms with crest in a lozenge. ff. 1r-12r: 'Inter Inquisitiones post mortem: Anno 28 Regis Henrici Tertii. in Turre London. remanentes'. ff. 13r-1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1617
Extent:
1 volume

6434. Harley MS 6128

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6128
Title:
The Visitation of Staffordshire of 1583
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-2*verso: An introduction to the Visitation of Stafforshire of 1583. ff. 3*recto-5*recto: Coats of arms of Stafforshire nobility (30 per page), entitled: ‘Arma Nobilium de Comitatu Stafford. ex Libro Antiquo in officio Armorum’. ff. 5*verso-109v, 111r-114r, 130v-131r: A ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1620
Extent:
1 volume

6435. Harley MS 6129

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6129
Title:
Arms of English and European kings and nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: The arms of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, kings of European countries, dukes, counts, and English nobility and gentry. Decoration: Coats of arms (16 per page), tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6436. Harley MS 6131

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6131
Title:
English pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: An index of names of families included in this manuscript. ff. 5r-32v: A book of ‘Pedigrees by Sir Henry St George’ [Henry St George (b. 1581, d. 1644), Richmond Herald] of families whose name begin with the letter 'S'. On f. 12r is a charter of the foundation of the mon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6437. Harley MS 6132

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6132
Title:
Henry St George, Successions of the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls and Viscounts of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Notes on heraldic customs by ‘Sir William Segar’, beginning: ‘The reason of officer of armes wearing the kings coates at buryalls is to testefye that the persons deceased declared dyed in the Kings allegiance’; and the note ‘posted Sir Edm Turner’ on 19 January 1663. ff. 1v-31...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd and 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6438. Harley MS 6133

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6133
Title:
Henry St George, Pedigrees of English earls and barons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Henry St George, Pedigrees of earls and barons of England. f. 44v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1644
Extent:

1 volume

6439. Harley MS 6134

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6134
Title:
Collection of texts relating to the de Vere family, Earls of Oxford
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: A Latin chronicle of the Lord Chamberlains of England (‘Camerarij Angliae’), from William the Conqueror until Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (4th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I [1561/2]). ff. 5v-12v, 15r-21v: 17th-century collections relating to the de Vere f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6440. 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

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