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Harley MS 1041

Record Id:

040-002046870

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046870

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000223

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1041

Title:

Copies of the Visitation Books of Gloucestershire of 1583 and 1623, and other pedigrees and documents relating to Gloucestershire

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-6v: Letter of King Edward II, followed by a description of the hundreds of Gloucester.

ff. 7r-8v: 'A pedegree of all the severall houses whereof Sir William Wynter knight is lineally descended made by Clarenceux Cooke 30 April Anno 1589'.

ff. 9v-11r: A pedigree of the Poyntz family.

ff. 12r-15v: Thomas Chaloner, A list of the the high sheriffs of Gloucestershire from the 1st year of King Henry II to the 43rd year of Queen Elizabeth I.

ff. 16r-16v: Thomas Chaloner, A list of the Justices of the Peace in the county of Gloucestershire, 1601.

f. 17r: Thomas Chaloner, A list of the Justices of Peace for the county of Gloucestershire, 1622.

ff. 18r-75v: Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms, The Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1583; with continuations and additions.

f. 76v: William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, Letter of confirmation of arms granted to Thomas Taylor of Battersea, then in Surrey.

ff. 77v-121v: Henry Chitting, Chester Herald, and John Philipot, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant and Somerset Herald, for William Camden, The Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1623; copied by John Saunders.

ff. 122r-123r: An index of surnames of families mentioned in this manuscript.

Decoration:

Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046870

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1041 : Copies of the Visitation Books of Gloucestershire of 1583 and 1623, and other pedigrees and documents relating to Gloucestershire

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1041]/040-002046870

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1618

End Date:

1628

Date Range:

c 1623

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 290 x 185 mm.

Foliation: ff. 109* + 123 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 109* is a strip of paper mounted onto a paper guard; 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 76 and f. 77; 1 paper pastedown on f. 10v (pedigree) and f. 87r (coat of arms); each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard and has a white paper strip attached to its outer margin.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Spicer (fl. 1680s): appears to have owned the manuscript (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 311).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pp. 516-17.

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. 391.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England