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3701. Harley MS 6131

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6131
Title:
English pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: An index of names of families included in this manuscript. ff. 5r-32v: A book of ‘Pedigrees by Sir Henry St George’ [Henry St George (b. 1581, d. 1644), Richmond Herald] of families whose name begin with the letter 'S'. On f. 12r is a charter of the foundation of the mon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3702. Harley MS 6132

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6132
Title:
Henry St George, Successions of the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls and Viscounts of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Notes on heraldic customs by ‘Sir William Segar’, beginning: ‘The reason of officer of armes wearing the kings coates at buryalls is to testefye that the persons deceased declared dyed in the Kings allegiance’; and the note ‘posted Sir Edm Turner’ on 19 January 1663. ff. 1v-31...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd and 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3703. Harley MS 6133

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6133
Title:
Henry St George, Pedigrees of English earls and barons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Henry St George, Pedigrees of earls and barons of England. f. 44v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1644
Extent:

1 volume

3704. Harley MS 6134

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6134
Title:
Collection of texts relating to the de Vere family, Earls of Oxford
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: A Latin chronicle of the Lord Chamberlains of England (‘Camerarij Angliae’), from William the Conqueror until Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (4th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I [1561/2]). ff. 5v-12v, 15r-21v: 17th-century collections relating to the de Vere f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3705. Harley MS 6135

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6135
Title:
Genealogy of the earls Despenser and Spencer
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12r: ‘The Genallogie of the Ancientt Noble Family of the Le despencers and Spencers Earles of Winchester Glocester and Sunderland, Barons Spencers of Wormleighton and the Rest of the Branches of that Signall Faamily gathered out of Inquissions and other Records and Authenticke ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1660-1679
Extent:
1 volume

3706. Harley MS 6136

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6136
Title:
Pedigrees of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-46r: Various pedigrees of English families, including ‘A Genealogicall History of the very Ancient and Worshipfull Family of Hereford of Hereford’ (ff. 14r-19r); ‘A Coppy of the Register of the Parish of Mordiford in the County of Hereford’ (ff. 40r-40v); ‘A Coppy of the Regis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3707. Harley MS 6137

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6137
Title:
Collection of Richard Kimbey's copies of English rolls of arms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of medieval armorial rolls made by 'Richard Kimbey', possibly the arms painter Richard Kimbe. Among his transcripts is a copy of the 'Camden Roll', a 13th-century English roll with the coats of arms of English and European monarchs, lords, and knights, now Cotton ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1604-c 1618
Extent:
1 volume

3708. Harley MS 6138

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6138
Title:
The Visitation of Kent of 1619
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A wisdom in Latin: 'Modica alteratio in membro principali magnam alterationem facit’; probably excerpted from John Guillim's A Display of Heraldrie (London, 1610); followed by a note 'This visitation Taken 1619 & some part since'. ff. 1r-225v: The Visitation of Kent of 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1619
Extent:
1 volume

3709. Harley MS 6139

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6139
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and Gloucestershire families, some taken in the years 1633-1634
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10v: Coats of arms with crests (20 per page), most are empty escutcheons. ff. 11r- 35v: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire families, some taken in the years 1633-1634. f. 36r: Blazons of arms. f. 37r-39v: Pedigrees and coats of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3710. Harley MS 6140

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6140
Title:
A miscellany of arms and grants of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. i verso: A printed poem, entitled: ‘The affection of a Friend – In memory of the right Worshipfull his deceased friend’. The letters of the first lines are an acrostic for the name of ‘Sir William Stone Knight’. f. ii recto: A title inscription in pencil: ‘Pedegrees quartering Cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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