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Harley MS 1043

Record Id:

040-002046872

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046872

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000225

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1043

Title:

Pedigrees and arms of Worcestershire and Cambridgeshire families

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-1v: A list of ‘The Justices of peace in [Worcestershire] 1601’.

ff. 2r-6v: A list of the high sheriffs of Worcestershire [1 Henry II to 17 James I].

ff. 7r-7v: A list of ‘The Justices of Peace in com. Worster 1620’.

f. 8r: The arms of ‘The Towne of Worcester Incorporated by the name of Bayliffe Aldermen Chamberlayns and Cittezens’.

f. 9r: The arms of ‘The Towne of Droytwiche Incorporated per Regem Johannem Angliae by [ther] Bayliffes and Burgisses’.

ff. 10r-11r: The arms of Worcestershire knights.

f. 12r: An alphabetical index of family names included in the Visitation of Worcestershire.

ff. 13r-52r: Pedigrees and arms of Worcestershire families taken from the Visitation by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms, in 1569 [with some additions]

ff. 52v-53r: An alphabetical index of family names included in the Visitation of Cambridgeshire.

ff. 53r-112r Pedigrees and arms of Cambridgeshire families, taken from the Visitation by Henry St George, Richmond Herald, in 1619 [with some additions].

ff. 112v-113r: A second alphabetical index of family names included in the Visitation of Cambridgeshire.

f. 114r: A note on Edward Bysshe and Edward Walker being made Knights of the Garter.

Decoration:

Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046872

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1043 : Pedigrees and arms of Worcestershire and Cambridgeshire families

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1043]/040-002046872

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1650

End Date:

1674

Date Range:

2nd or 3rd quarter of the 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 290 x 185 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 114 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); four leaves have been foliated as f. 11 after f. 10; f. 114 is a fragmentary paper mounted onto a paper leaf; 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 Saunders (d. c. 1687), Deputy of the Ward of St Dunstans in the West, Master of the Painter-Stainers Company 1680: inscribed his name [2x] on f. 2*recto (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 297).

John Spicer: 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. 517-18.

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. 390.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England