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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5838
Title:: The second part of a dialogic treatise on heraldry
Scope & Content:: Contents: pp. 1-101: A dialogic treatise on heraldry, entitled: ‘The Probationers seconde dayes Discourse, of the dignitie of the shielde, & of Creastes; Collected, repeated, and conferred upon by thre wandering knights: Sir Bezaro, Sir Challamor & Sir Persides’ [the second part to the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5839
Title:: Coats of arms granted by William Camden
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. [ii]recto: A title inscription: ‘Camdens Gifts’. ff. 1*recto-3*recto: An alphabetical index of families included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-42v: Coats of arms (4 per page) granted by William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623), Clarenceux King of Arms, dated between 1600 and 1622. ff. 4...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1622
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5840
Title:: A copy of William Harvey's Visitation of Devonshire in 1565
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-7*recto: An index of surnames. f. 8*recto: A title-page: ‘The Armes and pedegrees of the Gentry of Devonshire as they were set downe in the Survye of William Harvy Clarenceulx king of Armes in the yeare of our Lord 1565’. ff. 1r-120v, 121v-126v: William Harvey (b. 1510...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5841
Title:: Pedigrees of Worcestershire families with coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘The Visitacion of Worcestershire taken in Anno Domini 1569’. ff. 1r-32r: Pedigrees of Worcestershire families with coats of arms. ff. 33r-33v: An alphabetical index of families included in this manuscript. f. 34v: A coat of arms in brown ink. D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5842
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Suffolk families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2*recto-3*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-117r: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Suffolk families, beginning with the seals of towns in Suffolk; with a copy of a patent of arms (f. 4v) granted by Thomas Hawley (d. 1557), entitled: ‘...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5843
Title:: Coats of arms of Kentish families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-59r: Coats of arms of Kentish families; the latest one, added in pencil (by the same or another arms painter) on f. 58r, is dated to 1680. ff. 60r-64r: An alphabetical index of family na...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5845
Title:: Coats of arms and pedigrees of Lincolnshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 2r-3v: Coats of arms of Lincolnshire families (30 per page). ff. 4r-21r: Coats of arms of Lincolnshire families (4 per page), with empty escutcheons drawn in pencil towards the end. f. 21v: Part of a pe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5846
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. [v]recto: A note in pencil: ‘Barkers grants’. f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Armes given by Christopher Barker alias Garter knight with some other auntient armes. who died the second day of January being thursday about 8. of the Clock at night in Pater noster rewe in London anno 3.o Edwar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1663
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5847
Title:: Coats of arms granted by Sir Gilbert Dethick
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘Sir Gilbert Dethicks Grants etctaetera’. ff. 2*recto-3*recto: An alphabetical index of families included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-55r: Coats of arms granted to English nobility, gentry, and corporations by Sir Gilbert Dethick (b. 1499/1500, d. 15...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5848
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Shropshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Pedigrees of Shropshire families with their coats of arms; including a summon (f. 40v) for members of the Kynnaston family to appear before the king for disobedience, entitled: ‘Rot. Parliam. anno 3 Hen. 7 n. 32: An Acte against Thomas Kynnaston, and others’. ff. 42r-42v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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