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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 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 1954
Title:: Laws relating to Wales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Tracts on making a testament in Latin; with examples dated to 1420-1426. f. 4v: A draft indenture by Nicholas Bolnehyll, Eschaetor of Caernaerfon, concerning Jevan ap Gruffyth ap Hoelle, dated 1443/4. f. 6r: 'Compositio monete et mensurarum'. ff. 6r-7r: 'Assisa Panis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-2rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2015
Title:: Statutes of Chester Cathedral; Procurations and Synodalls in the Archdeaconries of Chester and Richmond
Scope & Content:: This composite manusript consists of four separate parts. Part 1 (ff. 1*recto-2*verso) was written in England in the late 14th or early 15th century. Parts 2-4 were written in England in the early 17th century. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1*recto-2*verso: Fragment of a commentary on the Psalms,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2019
Title:: Commentary on excerpts from the Bible
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v, 159r-162v: Account notes, 1592-1597, referring to persons located in Wales, including Beaumaris, Caernarfon, (?) Llanbadrig ('Llanbeddrey'), Wrexham ('Wrexen'). f. 5r: Notes relating to guests and a dinner on 26 November 1576; Sir John Savage of Baraver in Cheshire or hi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1580-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2036
Title:: Collection of law cases argued in Westminster Hall or extracted from the Plea Rolls from the reign of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-157r: Collection of law cases argued in Westminster Hall or extracted from the Plea Rolls from the reign of Elizabeth I (up to 33 Elizabeth I [1590-1591]); written in Law French. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. [iv]recto-[iv]verso: Fragment of a (?) Latin legal document, w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1590s-1600s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2086
Title:: A copy of the Visitation Book of Lancastershire by William Flower in 1567
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2*recto-2*verso: A ‘table of the Pedegrees conteyned in this booke’; ‘Lancaster’ on a paper pastedown. f. 7r: A title-page: ‘The visitacion of the Countie of Lancastre made by William fflower Esquire alias Norroy kinge of Armes: Anno Domini .1567.’. ff. 8r-104v: A copy of the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2087
Title:: Inquisitions post mortem for tentants-in-chief from Henry III to Edward IV
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: The title for an index planned on ff. 1r-[1i]verso but never finished: ‘Index Locorum’. f. 1r: On a parchment pastedown: ‘Decl[ar]ed and delivered in the presence of: Richard [...]hull, Richard Henshawe, William Haughton – 1624’. f. 2v: A title-page: ‘Nomina eorum qui de Re...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2088
Title:: Coats of arms of Cheshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Coats of arms of Cheshire families (16 per page), entitled: ‘Cheshire Coates, of every hundreth’; only covers the hundreds of Macclesfield and part of Bucklow; escutcheons under subsequent hundreds are outlined in pencil or have been left empty. ff. 48v: An Alphabet of A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1588
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2089
Title:: Thomas Chaloner, An Alphabet of Arms of English, Irish and Welsh families
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2*recto: An index for the Alphabet of Arms using alphabetically organised two-letter (‘Aa’, ‘Ab’, ‘Ac’, etc.); probably added at the British Museum [Humfrey Wanley, Keeper of the Harleian Library, only catalogued Harley MSS 1-2407] and the draft or copy of the same index printed in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1588-1700
Extent:: 1 volume

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