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1381. Harley MS 1147

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1147
Title:
Copy of the Visitation book of Surrey 1623
Scope & Content:
Copy of the Visitation book of Surrey, taken 1623 by Samuel Thompson, Windsor, and Augustine Vincent, Rouge-Croix, Deputies and Marshalls to William Camden, Clarenceux Kings of Arms, with some additions. f. 132: Tricks of the arms and seals of the Borough of Guildford. f. 164: Tricks of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1382. Harley MS 1148

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1148
Title:
Creations of the English nobility, with some accounts for arms painting
Scope & Content:
Part of a copy of the tract on the creations of the English nobility from the Norman Conquest ascribed to Robert Cooke, Clarenceux. This copy has arms of the nobility mentioned roughly tricked in the margin. Ends with Thomas Lord Spencer, in the reign of King Henry IV. At the beginning and end...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1383. Harley MS 1149

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1149
Title:
Copy of the Visitation book of Cornwall 1620
Scope & Content:
Fair copy of the 1620 Visitation of Cornwall taken by Henry St George, Richmond and Sampson Lennard, Blue-mantle. Close to Harley MS 1162, but with numerous illustrations. In this copy the drawings of corporation arms and seals, and the names of gentlemen subscribing to their pedigrees, are omit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1384. Harley MS 1150

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1150
Title:
Pedigrees and arms of Dorset
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*verso-2*recto: An index of surnames. ff. 1r-36v: The pedigrees and arms of noble and gentry families from Dorset; perhaps copied from the 1565 Visitation by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1385. Harley MS 1151

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1151
Title:
Copy of the Visitation book of Buckinghamshire 1634
Scope & Content:
Copy of the Visitation book of Buckinghamshire 1634, taken by John Philipot, Somerset Herald, and and William Ryley, Blue-mantle, Marshalls and Deputies to Sir Richard St George, Clarenceux, and Sir John Borough, Norroy. Names of the gentlemen subscribing to the pedigrees, and many of the arms a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1386. Harley MS 1152

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1152
Title:
Pedigrees of Lancashire and Cheshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: An index of surnames of Lancashire families; with a note about the index (?) by ‘Jo[hn] Beard Lanc[ashire] Herald’; dated to 1761. ff. 4r-14v: Pedigrees and arms of Lancashire families; perhaps copied from the 1567 Visitation by William Flower; with later additions. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1387. Harley MS 1153

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1153
Title:
Visitations of Berkshire, Durham, Northumberland, Dorset and Derbyshire
Scope & Content:
Composite volume of heraldic tracts in several hands, including copies of Visitation books of Berkshire 1584, Durham 1615, Northumberland 1615, Dorset 1565 and Derbyshire 1611, with additional material. ff. 1v-2r: Descent of Battyn of Devon, 1646. ff. 3-10: Alphabet of nobility in Cornwall and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1388. Harley MS 1154

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1154
Title:
Norfolk and Suffolk heraldry
Scope & Content:
A composite volume in different hands chiefly concerning Norfolk and Suffolk heraldry, including numerous grants of arms and crests, church notes, pedigrees, part of the Visitation book of the Norfolk 1612 and 1613, account of the magistrates of Kings Lynn 1563, and arms and descents of Norfolk ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 volume

1389. Harley MS 1155

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1155
Title:
Pedigrees of English nobility
Scope & Content:
Pedigrees of English nobility about the year 1616, with some continuations, and a description in blazon of their achievements. General index (ff. 117-127). Index of barons (ff. 128-133). For a detailed contents list, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (Lon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1616
Extent:
1 volume

1390. Harley MS 1156

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1156
Title:
Heraldic miscellanies
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: Examples of different arms, born by persons of the same family, apparently extracts from Robert Glover, de Differentiis Armorum. f. 12: Descent of the two houses of York and Lancaster from King Edward III and his from Philip the Fair, King of France. f. 13v: Examples of arms ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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