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1521. Harley MS 2303

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2303
Title:: The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3r: Henry Tichborne, dedication to King James II, beginning: ‘To the Kings most Excellent Majestie These Humbly Presented: The Virtues of your most Illustrious Ancestors have in all Ages since Christianity inlightned our Horizon, and been the Glory of so many Princes as have descend...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4032
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-75r: Full-page drawings of the arms of 85 peers of England, with a history of the succession of the first eight of them. Decoration: Full-page drawings in colours and gold throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4035
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-2r: ‘A Table of All the Severall Catalogues Contained in this Booke’. ff. 3r-131r: Histories of the Dukes, Marquesses and Earls of England, with coats of arms. ff. 131r-135r: Coats of arms of the viscounts and barons of England (16 per page), entitled: ‘The Baring of the Viscounts an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6112
Title:: An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-235v: An Alphabet of Arms, with blazons and heraldic devices; a note with the date 1674 on f. 121v. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. [iv]verso-2r: Sketches of heraldic devices and arms in ink and pencil, including a roundel featuring a deer drinking water from a br...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6776
Title:: A genealogy of the De Vere family
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-16v: A genealogy of the De Vere family in English and Latin, entitled: 'The Genalogy of the most Ancient and Illustrious Family of the Veres, Earles of Guisnes in Normandy, and of Oxford, and Lord great Chamberlands of England, being descended from the Kings of the Argives, Dukes of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1676
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 at [...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1676-1690
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton Ch III 12
Title:: Petition of Edward Howard and others asking for arbitration in their cases against Henry Pierrepont, marquis of Dorchester, Henry Mordaunt, earl of Peterborough, and Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, earl marshal
Scope & Content:: Petition of Edward Howard, Bernard Howard, Alex McDonnell, and Elizabeth MacDonnell asking for arbitration in their cases against Henry Pierrepont (1606-1680), 1st marquis of Dorchester, Henry Mordaunt (1621-1697), 2nd earl of Peterborough, and Thomas Howard (1627-1677), 5th duke of Norfolk, earl ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1677
Extent:: 1 booklet

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2293
Title:: Discourse on geomancy dedicated to King James II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-57r: A discourse on geomancy dedicated to King James II (r. 1685-1688), beginning: 'Most Gratious and Dread Soveraigne, before I can discover the Inchanted Island the Garment Shem and Iapheth cast over the Father of Mankind when they went backwards must be taken of And the vaile of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1685-1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1402
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Coats of arms (4-9 per page) of deceased persons, probably of those for whom John Spicer had been employed as a painter. Decoration: Coats of arms and crests drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript. Drawings of banners with coats of arms in brown ink and pencil...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1682
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1390
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Bedfordshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-29r: Descents and arms of Bedfordshire families, dated to 1582 and 1583; with continuations and additions by John Saunders (the latest date is 1687); featuring an epitaph poem for ‘John Welles late of Heath Esquire who departed this life in the year of our Lord God 1645’; commission...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1687
Extent:: 1 volume