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Harley MS 1070

Record Id:

040-002046899

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046899

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000240

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1070

Title:

A copy of the Visitation of Cheshire of 1580 by Robert Glover and William Flower; original papers of the Visitation of Cheshire of 1613 by Richard St George and Henry St George

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-64r: A copy of the book of the Visitation of Cheshire (1580) by William Flower (b. 1497/98, d. 1588), Norroy King of Arms, and Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), Herald of Somerset, 1569; probably copied in the early 17th century. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), I, p. 535, the manuscript was largely copied by Sir Henry St George (b. 1581, d. 1644), the elder, Richmond Herald, Norroy King of Arms, and Garter King of Arms, and received additions from John Withie and ‘Mr John Saunders’.

ff. 65r-67r: A table of surnames of families included in the Visitation of Cheshire in 1580; added by John Withie (b. 1593, d. ? 1678).

ff. 68r-147r: Original pedigrees, arms and letters of witnesses testifying to their veracity, with the signatures of living subjects; taken from the book of the Visitation of Cheshire (1613) by Richard St George, Norroy and Clarenceux King of Arms, and his son, Henry St George (b. 1581, d. 1644), Bluemantle Pursuivant; with additions by John Withie and others; this section also features a list of ‘The names of those that weare disclaimed in chesheire’ (ff. 87r-87v); ‘the names of all the mannors of Lordshipps, Townes & Landes, which Sir Geffrey the Sonne of Adam de Dutton gave to Certeyn of his gentlemen and yeamen’ (ff. 125r-125v); and a copy of Robert Glover’s pedigrees in 1580, written in Latin and French (ff. 139r-140v).

ff. 148r-150v: A table of surnames of families included in the Visitation of Cheshire in 1613; added by John Withie.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘The Visitacions of Cheshiere . the first made by William Flower Norroy and Robert Glover Somerset. his Marshall anno .1580. the other made by Sir Richard St George Knight Norroy anno. 1613’; added by John Withie.

Decoration:

Coats of arms (some with crests), tricked, 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
040-002046899

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1070 : A copy of the Visitation of Cheshire of 1580 by Robert Glover and William Flower; original papers of the Visitation of Cheshire…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1070]/040-002046899

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1624

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 305 x 195 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 25* + 150 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); f. 25* is a paper strip; 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 70 and f. 71; f. 77 and f. 78; f. 78 and f. 79; f. 81 and f. 82; f. 92 and f. 93; f. 102 and f. 103; f. 105 and f. 106; f. 107 and f. 108; f. 120 and f. 121; f. 121 and f. 122; f. 127 and f. 128; f. 134 and f. 135; 2 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 67 and f. 68; f. 103 and f. 104; f. 112 and f. 113; f. 114 and f. 115; f. 123 and f. 124; f. 132 and f. 133; f. 140 and f. 141; 4 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 91 and f. 92; ff. 75-76, 89-90, 97, 145, and 146-147 are folded paper mounted onto paper guards; f. 111 and f. 112 are separate leaves mounted onto paper guards.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

An unknown English owner: a pressmark (‘No 95’) inscribed on f. [v]recto.

John Withie (b. 1593, d. ? 1678), arms painter for the College of Arms, owned the manuscript: his name inscribed on f. 1*recto: ‘John Withie’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 356-357); his additions throughout the manuscript; according to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 535, the previous binding had the following inscription on the outside of its lower cover: ‘Withie’s Visitation of Cheshire’; added by John Spicer (see Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), I, p. 535).

John Spicer: acquired from John Withie (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. 535-36.

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