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Harley MS 965

Record Id:

040-002046794

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046794

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Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 965

Title:

Notes on churches in Oxfordshire, Worcestershire and Berkshire made by Richard Symonds in 1644

Scope & Content:

Notebook of Richard Symonds written while staying with the King’s troops in Oxford, after fleeing imprisonment in October 1643. Records monumental inscriptions and coats of arms in churches in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and Worcester Cathedral, with sketches, mostly coats of arms. Also includes notes on deaths and funerals of royalists at Oxford, a copy of the preamble of Baron Hopton of Stratton’s patent, and an elegy on an unidentified Mr B.

Contents:

f. 1: Inscription: 'Liber Ricardi Symonds'.

ff. 1v-2v: Notes on the funerals in Oxford of Sir Thomas Byron; Colonel Bret; Sir John Smyth, the-Lord John Stewart, brother to the Duke of Richmond and Lenox; Sir John Bankes Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Sir Henry Gage, 1644-1645.

ff. 3v-4r: Table of churches described in this volume.

ff. 5-7r: Preamble of Ralph Lord Hopton of Stratton’s Patent. Ralph Hopton was appointed Baron Hopton of Stratton by a patent dated 4 Sept 1643 at Oxford, in which an epitome of his services was given.

ff. 7v-8: Orders and degrees of English nobility, according to their precedency.

ff. 9v-12r: ‘De Coronis varijs quibus victores Milites ab Imperatoribus donabantur’. With drawings of military crowns given by emperors, from Giacomo Lauro, Antiquae Urbis Splendor (Rome, 1612).

f. 13: Notes on three old Oxfordshire families, namely Chamberlayne, D’Oyley, and Harcourt.

ff. 13v-79v: Church-notes, made by Richard Symonds at the following places in Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, and Berkshire:

ff. 13v-20v: Dorchester, Oxfordshire, 28 March 1644.
f. 21r: Cromarsh-Gifford, Oxfordshire, 28 March 1644.
f. 21v: Cromarsh-Battel, otherwise known as Bensington or Benson, Oxfordshire, 29 March 1644.
f. 22: Wheatley, Oxfordshire, 14 April 1644.
ff. 22v-24r: Whitchurch, Oxfordshire, 2 May 1644.
ff. 24v-28r: Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, 2 May 1644.
ff. 28v-31v: Burford, Oxfordshire, 17 June 1644.
31v-34r: Witney, Oxfordshire, 16 June 1644.
f. 34v: Kidlington, Oxfordshire (short note concerning the quantity of a yard land there).
ff. 35-52: Worcester Cathedral, college, cloisters, and treasury.
ff. 53-55r: Abingdon, Berkshire, 3 May 1644 (with the arms on the fine cross there).
ff. 56-59r: Aldworth, known as Alder, in Berkshire, 2 May 1644.
ff. 60r-69r: Reading, Berkshire, 3 April 1644.
f. 70: Streatley, Berkshire.
f. 71r: Cholsey, Berkshire, 30 April 1644.
ff. 72v-76r: Wallingford, Berkshire, 28 March 1644.
ff. 77-79: Wantage, Berkshire, 10 April 1644.

ff. 80v-83r: Elegie on Mr B.’s death. A satirical elegy in verse on the death of John B. This starts from the opposite end of the inverted book (ff. 83r-80v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 965 : Notes on churches in Oxfordshire, Worcestershire and Berkshire made by Richard Symonds in 1644

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0965]/040-002046794

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1643

End Date:

1644

Date Range:

1643-1644

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 183 x 115 mm.

Foliation: 83 folios; blank folios not foliated. Original pagination by author: 335 pages.

Binding: British Museum binding.

Custodial History:

Former owner: Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), Bishop of Worcester.

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), vol. 1, no. 965.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 316.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Symonds, Richard, royalist and antiquary, 1617-1660