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Harley MS 1087

Record Id:

040-002046916

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046916

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000251

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1087

Title:

Collection of genealogies, blazoned coats of arms, and tenements, focusing on Herefordshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-4v: Account of the genealogy of the monarchs of England, from Godfrey of Bouillon to Queen Elizabeth I, with their coats of arms in blazon; written in English.

ff. 5r-54v: ? Robert Cooke (b. c. 1535, d. 1592/3) [attributed in the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), I, p. 533], 'The Names and Armes of all the noble men then beyeng or made created sithence [sic] the Conquest of England and by whom the[y] were created'; beginning with Edward the Confessor and ending with Henry Norris (b. before 1500, d. 1536); with their arms in blazon.

ff. 66r-58v: Excerpts from a chronicle of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire ('In Cronicis Abbathie de Tynterne in Wallia').

ff. 59r-63v: Excerpts from a chronicle of Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucestershire ('In Cronicis Prioratus Lanthonie iuxta Gloucestriam').

ff. 64r-66r: 'Genealogia diversorum clamantum manerium de Cresseche in Comitatu Saloppe eis ut dicunt linealiter incumbens'.

ff. 66v-67r: 'Genealogia dominorum de Bromptom'.

ff. 68r-72r: Notes and genealogies on the families of Say, Mortuomari, Jay, Letton, Lacombe, Salvage, Hintes, Pedwardine, 'Alicie de Longo campo', 'Dominorum de Chirke et Penkethelyn', Wigmore.

ff. 73r-74r: 'Titulus illorum de Verdon et de Geneville ad Dominia, Terras, et Tenementa illorum de Lacies'.

ff. 74v-75r: Succession of the Bishops of Hereford, from Walter of Lotharingia to Thomas Spofford.

f. 76r: 'A note of a Certificat of a Comission directed fourth of the Chauncerye of dedimus potestatem'; and 'A note of the Peticion of Henley Anno R.R. Henrici VIII xxxvij quinto die Augusti per Ricardum [? Manwarring]'.

f. 77r: Indenture of John,

f. 82r: Genealogy of Lacy.

ff. 78r-81r, 83r-97r: Lists of tenements in feudal baronies with the names of their tenants or officers of the King in Shropshire and Herefordshire.

f. 98r: 'Redditus et Servitia debit. Abbati de Hulton in Comitatibus Salop. et Stafford'.

f. 98v: Notes on the family of Lacy.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046916

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1087 : Collection of genealogies, blazoned coats of arms, and tenements, focusing on Herefordshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1087]/040-002046916

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1555

End Date:

1605

Date Range:

c 1560-c 1600

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 295 x 205 mm (text space: 225 x 160 mm).

Foliation: ff. 99 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled red half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

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. 543-44.

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. 311.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England