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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6178
Title:: Coats of arms from Devon, Dorset and Somerset; coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of London, from 1189 to 1705
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Coats of arms (9 per page) of families in Devon, Dorset and Somerset; some featuring dates going up to 1620. ff. 22r-108r: Coats of arms (9 per page) of mayors and sheriffs of London, from 1189 to 1705. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A titl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1620-c 1705
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6183
Title:: The Visitation of Leicestershire in 1619
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*verso: The beginning of a draft or copy of an indenture: 'Know all present and to come that wee John de Verdon Lord of Brikilasworth Knight, and Maud my wife; doe give and grant, and by this our present writeing doe confirme unto John the sone of Walter de Howby and to william d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6185
Title:: English pedigrees and arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-160v: Pedigrees and arms of families in the county of Gloucestershire. Several pedigrees end with indications of the ages of family members in the year 1623. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘Glocester’; written in the 17th century....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1623
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6186
Title:: English coats of arms from the reign of James I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 5r-7v: Coats of arms of English peerage (about 9-12 per page). ff. 12v-45v: Coats of arms of English families (12 per page). The manuscript contains a later addition: ff. 1r-1v, 48r-48v: Fragments of Peter Lombard, Commentarium in Psalmos; written in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1603-1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6203
Title:: Transcript of a cartulary of Hereford Cathedral
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Transcript of a medieval cartulary of Hereford Cathedral, entitled: 'Collections out of an Old Imperfect Registre of the Church of Hereford, on Vellom [sic], Folio MS in the Library of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Viscount Weymouth [Sir Thomas Thynne (d. 1714), 1st Vis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1718
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6204
Title:: Summons to Parliament, 1264/5-1529/30, preceded by a copy of the will of Henry II; Carta Conventionis et finis facta inter Henricum Regem Anglie filium Matilde Imperatoris et William Regem Scottorum; Litterae Papae Alexandri pro regimine Hiberniae; Litterae Papae Alexandri ad Episcopos Barones et Nobiles Hiberniae; Carta Conventionis facta inter Henricum Regem Anglie et Robertum Comitatum Flandriae; Carta recognitionis servicii quod Barones et caeteri Homines Comitis Flandriae debent Henrico ...
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: The will of Henry II. ff. 2r-3r: Carta Conventionis et finis facta inter Henricum Regem Anglie filium Matilde Imperatoris et William Regem Scottorum. ff. 3r-4r: Litterae Papae Alexandri pro regimine Hiberniae. f. 4r: Litterae Papae Alexandri ad Episcopos Barones et Nob...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6206
Title:: Letters and tracts concerning Emperor Charles V
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents: ‘Les tiltres de ce que est contenui en ce livre’. ff. 2r-7r: ‘Une Epistre de la tressacree maieste Imperialle aux elateurs de saint empire de Romme’. ff. 7r-13r:‘Apollogie ou contradiction du Roy de France alemontre du tractat entre luy faict et Limperi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1526-1527
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6219
Title:: The life and acts of William the Conqueror; fragment of a history of Scotland (1291); Metrical History of the Deposition of Richard II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-4r: A tract on the acts of William the Conqueror, beginning: ‘These thynges whiche folow of the lyfe and actes of the gloryous William Duke of Normandye , and victoryous Kynge of Englande were detracted out of a certen auncyent boke of the monasterye of St Stephen of Cane [Abbe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6222
Title:: Petition of Richard Troughton, Bailiff of South Witham, Lincolnshire, to the Privy Council in the reign of Queen Mary, relating to the share taken by him in the Duke of Northumberland's Plot
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A letter by Richard Throughton, beginning: ‘To the Kinge and Quenes maiesties moste honorabili councell’; ending ‘Uppon mundaye beffor The Duke of Suffolk’; ending with a declaration: ‘I was never in any commocion or otherwise against the Crowne of Englond in all my liffe b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1555
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6225
Title:: Richard Cosin, Ecclesiae Anglicanae politeia in tabulas digesta (tables)
Scope & Content:: Contents: Richard Cosin (b. ? 1548, d. 1597), ecclesiastical lawyer, tables from the EcclesiaeAnglicanae politeia in tabulas digesta; here entitled ‘Lineamenta presentis Politiae Ecclesiasticae Angliae .1597.’; the work was drawn up in the 1590s but not published until 1604.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

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