Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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 2027
Title:: Randle Holme III, draft drawings and notes for his 'The Academy of Armory'
Scope & Content:: A volume of notes and pen and pencil drawings by Randle Holme III, executed in preparation for his book 'The Academy of Armory' (Chester, 1688). At the beginning of the volume (f. 2v) is a note by Holme introducing the volume as 'This book was my second collection and draughts for the Academy of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1650-1680
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 2059
Title:: Genealogical collections of Laurence Bostock
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Title page. ff. 2r-73v: Transcripts of Cheshire documents taken from a small pocket book. ff. 74r-146v: Further transcripts of Cheshire documents, including a fragment of the Life of St Monacella (ff. 111r-v), a pedigree of Bostock (ff. 138r-42r), and an index written by Rand...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1580
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2061
Title:: Cartulary of the Fraternity of St Anne, Chester
Scope & Content:: f. 1r: Fragments of former flyleaves. f. 2v: Table of contents by Randle Holme. ff. 3r–26v: Fragments of a cartulary, containing copies of deeds, mainly 14th–15th century, relating to the city of Chester; arranged in sections by streets.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1420s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2062
Title:: Cartulary of St Werburgh’s Abbey, Chester
Scope & Content:: f. 1*r: Fragment of a former flyleaf with modern inscription. ff. 1r–29v: Cartulary, containing abstracts of charters, arranged partly topographically and partly according to subject matter. Includes charters of the Earls of Chester, kings, popes and bishops at the beginning. Ends imperfectly. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2071
Title:: Documents and extracts on Chester compiled by Randle Holme
Scope & Content:: A book of notes and transcriptions made by Randle Holme, in addition to a bifolium from a cartulary of Chester Abbey. f. 1r: Fragments of former flyleaves. f. 2r–v: Table of contents. ff. 3r–14r: Index locorum. ff. 15r–16r: Notes towards a list of the abbots of Chester. f. 17r: Transcript o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
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

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