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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5864
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Single Coats and Crests and some Irish Armes’; a fragmentary list of surnames with page references. ff. 2r-89v: A collection of English coats of arms (16 per page), some with crests and Latin and French mottoes, beginning with the arms of St George, ‘The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5865
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Hampshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: Inscriptions of the names 'Cufeild' and 'Cufaulde', perhaps referring to a location in Bramley, Hampshire. ff. 2*recto-3*recto: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-6v: Coats of arms of Hampshire families (20 per page), some with cre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1623
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5866
Title:: Coats of arms of Irish nobility and gentry
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A list of ‘The names of the governors, Lieutenants, Lord iustices and Deputies of Ireland, since the conquest thereof by King Henrie the second’; ending in 1541. f. 2r: A list of ‘The names of all the Lords Deputies and Justices in Ireland, since the deathe of King Henrie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5868
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Buckinghamshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-63r: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Buckinghamshire families; featuring notes in English and Latin; partially based on the Visitation of that county in 1566; the latest date to feature in the manuscript is 1618. ff. 64v-65r: An alphabetical index of family names included in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1618
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5873
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Coats of arms (30 page), of English nobility and gentry; featuring the dates the date 1675 (f. 5r), 1676 (f. 8r), 1676 (f. 14r); and sections headed: ‘Coates done att the Publique worke house 1687-1690’ (ff. 15r-22r); and ‘Coates don since I breake off from the worke house...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1676-1690
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5874
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Lincolnshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: A collection of coats of arms and crests of Lincolnshire families (6-10 per page) with (?) page references. ff. 4r-7v, 9r-29v: Coats of arms with crests of Lincolnshire families (4 per page), some or all drawn from architecture, such as Theobalds House [demolished in 1649...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5876
Title:: A treatise concerninge the Nobillitie of England accordinge to the Lawes of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-136v: ‘A treatise concerninge the Nobillitie of England accordinge to the Lawes of England’; a 17th-century copy of Harley MS 6078. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: 'The Magazen of Honour or A treatise concerninge the Nobillitie of E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5883
Title:: English pedigrees and coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-173v: Collections of pedigrees of English families, some featuring coats of arms; with excerpts from charters and inscriptions of tombstones; one of the latest dates featuring in this manuscript is 1615 (f. 46v). ff. 174r-174v: Copies of indentures in French and Latin. The m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5884
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-12r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 13r-16v: Letters of patent (copies), dated to 1539/40, 1592 and 1613. ff. 17r-105r: Coats of arms of English families (mostly 12 per page), one featuring the date 1618 (f. 87r). Decoration: Coats...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5888
Title:: Knights made by King James I and King Charles I, 1603 to 1636
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Knights made by King James and King Charles, From 1603, to 1636: With an Alphabetical Table by Sir Richard St George’. ff. 2r-38r: A ‘List of such Knights as have bene made by King James in the times of his Most happy Reigne – Rolle of all the Knights ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603-1636
Extent:: 1 volume

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