Harley MS 1096

Collections of London and Middlesex arms and pedigrees copied by Henry Lilly, arms painter, with additions by John Withie. Including church notes.

Contents:

f. 1: Preliminary folio inscribed ‘London. Written by Mr Lillys owne hand’.

ff. 2-2*: List of surnames, with title ‘Middlesex 1664’ .

f. 3: Epitaph on the monument of John Browne and Richard Tichborne of London, merchants, in Mercers Chapel.

ff. 4-6: Arms of some London gentry families, also arms of Middlesex gentry, as entered in the 1664 Visitation of Middlesex by William Ryley, Lancaster Herald, and Henry Dethick, Rouge Croix, Marshalls and Deputies to Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux. Tricked in printed escutcheons, those of Middlesex drawn by John Withie.

ff. 7-11: Arms of the King, nobles, knights etc. during the reign of Henry V, similarly tricked in printed escutcheons.

ff. 12-106: Collection of pedigrees of gentry of the City of London, written by Henry Lilly the painter-stainer, with some additions in other hands.

ff. 107v-108r: Church notes from St Mary Magdalen Church, Milk Street, London.

ff. 108v-109r: Evidences touching families of Botiler, Camoys, etc. from old deeds.

f. 109r: Arms and epitaph of Mrs Jane Russell (born Tindal) buried in the Church of All Hallows Barking.

ff. 110-117v: Notes on churches, titled: ‘Here beginneth a note of all such Monuments, or other Tombs and Gravestones as remayne within the several Churches of London, being begun to be taken the 25th of May, 1597’. The printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (1808) notes that ‘Some of the epitaphs are more perfect than the same in Mr Weavers Funeral monuments; and many others are wholly omitted by him. The arms are also here tricked, which are wanting in Mr Weaver’. Includes:

• St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street (ff. 110r-110v).
• St Nicholas Golden Abbaye (St Nicholas Cole Abbey) (ff. 110v-112r).
• St Michael Pater Noster, in the Old Royall (ff. 112r-113r).
• St Michael Queen-Hithe (f. 113v).
• St Mary Mounthall (ff. 114r-115r).
• St Nicholas Olave’s (f. 115r).
• St Mary Somerset, near Broken Wharfe (ff. 115v-116r).
• Church of St Leonard, Shoreditch (f. 116v-117r).
• Church of St Katherine Colman, Fenchurch Street (f. 117v).

ff. 118-123r: Further London gentry pedigrees collected by Henry Lilly, John Withie, and others.

ff. 123v-124: Docket of the grant of arms of Salmon of Cheshire by William Segar, Norroy, 1612, confirmed by Sir Richard St George, Norroy, 23 February 1621.

ff. 127v-128r: Grant of arms to Allanson of Norwood, by John Borough, Garter. 178 January 1633.

ff. 133-134: Collection of arms and pedigrees entered at the Visitation of London, 1634.

ff. 143-164: Collection of arms and pedigrees (mainly by John Withie), some from the Visitation book of 1664, and later dates.

ff. 165-166: Sir ... Wagstaffe, Lord Mayor London’s precept to the Aldermen of Farringdon Without, concerning the intended Visitation by Sir Henry St George, Clarenceux. Dated 16 December 1686.

ff. 167-172: Alphabetical index of names in the preceding pedigrees, drawn up by John Withie.