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Harley MS 986
- Record Id:
- 040-002046815
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046815
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001ec
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100164917933.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 986
- Title:
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Richard Symonds, Notes on ensigns and officers during the First English Civil War
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. i recto: A note from the British Museum, dated to 30 October 1856: 'Memorandum: In the printed Harleian Catalogue, Vol. 1. 499, art. 4, of the present volume is described as "Original Passe from Sir John Needham Governor of Leicester, to Richard Symonds, dated Leicester, 5 March, 1634. Loose" This paper is not at present in the volume’.
f. ii recto: The coat of arms of the City of London.
ff. 1r-74v: Richard Symonds, ‘The Ensignes of the Regiments in the Citty of London Both of Trayned Bands and Auxiliaries - Togeather with the nearest Number of their trayned Soldiers, taken, as they marched into Finsbury Feilds, being their last Generall Muster - Tuesday September 26 1643’.
ff. 75r-96v: Notes concerning ensigns and officers of the King's army in Oxford and other places, beginning: ‘A general Muster in New Parkes behind Wadham Colledge, xiij February 1643’.
f. 97r: A calculation of costs for fortifications of Oxford during the governorship of Arthur Aston, dated to 16 May 1644.
Decoration:
A hybrid figure (a man with the legs and tail of a demon) surrounded by snakes, holding a coat of arms with a cross as ordinary and a sword [the city of London] in brown ink (f. ii recto).
Drawings of ensigns in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046815", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 986: Richard Symonds, Notes on ensigns and officers during the First English Civil War" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046815 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 986 : Richard Symonds, Notes on ensigns and officers during the First English Civil War - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0986]/040-002046815
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100164917933.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1643
- End Date:
- 1644
- Date Range:
- 1643-1644
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 175 x 145 mm.
Foliation: ff. iii + 97 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 6 at the end); 9 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 73 and f. 74; 8 between f. 74 and f. 75; 2 between f. 77 and f. 78; 1 unfoliated fragment of parchment pasted onto f. iirecto; f. 88 is a small paper leaf; f. 97 is a folded paper leaf mounted onto a paper guard; all quires have been mounted onto paper guards.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 17 August 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Richard Symonds (bap. 1617, d. 1660), royalist soldier [eye-witness of the First English Civil War] and antiquary, wrote the manuscript: see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 322.
Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), Bishop of Worcester: according to Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316.
Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; inherited his father’s collection; his manuscripts were bought for £175 in 1707 by Robert Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 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 (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 499.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 388.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)