Add MS 79532 R

A bifolium containing notes from a manuscript record of documents issued under the signet temp. Richard III, now Harley MS 433 in the British Library; early 18th cent. The notes relate particularly to ff. 26, 54v and 340v and to Thomas Lynom, Solicitor General. Headed 'A Copy of the Paper given me by Mr. Stripe . . . I have the Original in his Hand'. John Strype (b. 1643, d. 1737) was the collector from whom Robert Harley acquired the volume (see R. Horrox and P. W. Hammond British Library Harleian Manuscript 433, I, 1979, p. xx). The paper referred to might have been given to the herald Sir Henry St George, in which case the present copy might be in the hand of his clerk, Robert Dale. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, April, 2003.

ff. 65-66. 215 x 170mm.

Poetry LATIN: John Sleford, Rector of Balsham, county Cambridgeshire: Verses from the monument to John Sleford: early 18th cent.: Lat: Copy.

Sir Henry St George, the younger; Garter King of Arms; d.1715: Robert Dale, Richmond Herald; d.1722: John Strype, historian: Thomas Lynom, of the Inner Temple; Solicitor General: Notes from a manuscript, now Harley 433 by John Strype rel. to Thomas Lynom, in the hand of (?) Robert Dale copied on behalf of (?) Sir Henry St George: early 18th cent.