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251. Add MS 58214

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PEDIGREES FROM HERALDIC VISITATIONS, ETC.; 1564-circa 1616, with later additions. Partly Latin. This collection consists of a series of annotated copies of sixteenth-century heraldic visitations of Kent, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Oxfordshire. Supplementary material was added mostly in the hand of William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms. Belonged, circa 1604 (see note on f. 1), to William Camden (d.1623). Later formed part of larger collection described in sale-cat. of manuscripts of...
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William Camden, antiquary; Clarenceux King of Arms: Arms and pedigrees, etc., added by him to copies of Visitation records: circa 1604-1616: Partly Lat: Autogr. Heraldry: Genealogies: Pedigrees from heraldic visitations of cos. Kent, Bedf., Hunt. and Oxon (1574-1586), annotated by W. Camden, et...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1564-c 1616
Extent:
1 item

252. Add MS 61360

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BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. CCLX (ff. 210). (1) Verses, chiefly relating to Marlborough and his victories; circ. 1704-[1722?], n.d. Partly French, Dutch and Latin. Partly printed. ff. 1-95b. Including: — (a) Prologue for a performance of the opera, Camilla, 23 May 1706, on the battle of Ramillies; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1699-1731
Extent:
1 item

253. Add MS 62935

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Add MS 62935
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William Lambarde's map of warning beacons in Kent
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William Lambarde's map of beacons in Kent, endorsed, in a hand resembling Lambarde's, 'Carde of the Beacons in Kent'. In the 1580s and 1590s Lambarde was deputy lieutenant to Lord Cobham, who commissioned the map in order to have multiple copies made as a guide to the effective use of beacons. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
August 1585
Extent:
1 volume

254. Add MS 70887

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Add MS 70887
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SIR EDWARD DERING, 2ND BART., OF SURRENDEN, CO. KENT: Household Book, incorporating copies of earlier materials; 1652-1685. Chiefly autograph. Partly Latin copies. Dering's Household Book for 1648-1652 is now Add. 22466. For a detailed list of the contents of both see Maurice F. Bond, The Diaries and Papers of Sir Edward Dering, Second Baronet, 1644-1684 (1976), pp. 155-157. Purchased at the sale of Sir Edward Cholmely Dering, 8th Bart., Puttick and Simpson, 8 June 1858, lot 1605, for Sir Th...
Scope & Content:
Accounts: Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet: Household book of Sir Edward Dering, including accounts, itinerary, family notes, etc.,: 1652-1685: Partly Lat: Partly copies. County of Kent: Lands of the Dering family in Kent: temp. Stephen-1656: Partly Lat: Partly copies. Dering family; of Kent; ba...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1558-1685
Extent:
1 item

255. Add MS 71446

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POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY; 1626-1719. Mostly copies. This volume was originally begun as an apparently first-hand account of the proceedings of the parliament of 1626, possibly by Peter Peke, covering the period from 14 April to 16 June (ff. 1-41, and 179v-115, vol. rev., passim). The remaining leaves and blank spaces were later filled with copies of letters and tracts relating to politics and religion, partly concerning dissenters and Kentish affairs and dating largely from the per...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. i Charles II of England: Charles II of England: Art. Engravings, etc: Engraved portrait by G. Glover of Charles II aged 12: circa 1642-1643.f. i George Glover, engraver: Engravings of Charles II aged 12: circa 1642-1643.f. 1 Thomas Peke, of Ash, county Kent; d.1678: Signature...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1626-1719
Extent:
1 item

256. Add MS 73523

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Add MS 73523
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WOTTON ACCOUNTS: accounts of Thomas Partridge al. Partrych, receiver to Sir Robert Wotton, knight-porter of Calais; 1507-1508. Imperfect, being pages from a register book. The day of account is 26 June 1508. The accounts are for rents, dues and repairs concerning Wotton's property in Boughton Malherbe, Thornham, Paddlesworth and elsewhere in Kent, and at 'Bayhous' in Essex, as well as for general expenses and items relating to Wotton's office of knight-porter. Each folio is blind-stamped wit...
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Boughton Malherbe, Kent: Thornham, Kent: Paddlesworth, Kent: 'Bayhous', Essex: Egerton, Kent: Accounts of the receiver of Sir R. Wotton for property in: 1507-1508. Thomas Partridge al Partrych, receiver to Sir R Wotton: Accounts of, for the estates, etc., of Sir R. Wotton: 1507-1508: Imperf. A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1507-1508
Extent:
1 item

257. Add MS 74253

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Add MS 74253
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ROBERT GLOVER (d.1588), SOMERSET HERALD: miscellaneous genealogical and heraldic collections; circa 1556-1581. Mostly autograph. Partly Latin and Norman French. This composite manuscript consists mostly of British and foreign genealogies, many accompanied by drawings of arms in trick. It includes a pedigree (f. 3v), circa 1556-1565, of the descendants of James II of Scotland down to the two sons of Matthew Stuart, 4th Earl of Lennox, who is described as 'modo existens in Anglia', annotat...
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Heraldry: Genealogies: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Robert Glover, Somerset herald: Wrest Park, Bedfordshire: Miscellaneous genealogical and heraldic collections of Robert Glover: circa 1566-1581: Partly Latin and Norman French: Mostly autograph. includes: f. 3v James II of Scotl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1556-1581
Extent:
1 item

258. Add MS 78698 J

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J. Fairfax family: Correspondence of the family of Fairfax, Lords Fairfax of Cameron, of Leeds Castle, Kent, and W.R., co. Yorks.; circa 1680-1746. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, 25 April and (item ii) 3 July 2002. ff. 30-47v. Nine letters. Various sizes. As follows:- i. Henrietta Maria ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1670-1746
Extent:
1 item

259. Add MS 89034

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Add MS 89034
Title:
Additional papers of the antiquarian John Warburton (1682-1759) relating to Kent
Scope & Content:
Warburton's notes on the history and antiquities of Kent, including material copied from the manuscript and library collections of Roger Twysden, John Leland, Robert Plot, and Peter Le Neve. The collection also contains Warburton's draft proposal for making a survey and map of the County of Kent,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 bundles

260. Arundel MS 310

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Arundel MS 310
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Membranaceus, in 12mo., ff. 224, circa annum 1300 exaratus. "Liber de diversis evidenciis Monasterii Sancti Augustini, Anglorum Apostoli, [in civ. Cantuar.] de adquisicione fratris Willelmi de Byholt." In eo 1. Tituli Statutorum in hujusee codicis foliis sexaginta octo prioribus contentorum. fol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

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