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Harley MS 1103
- Record Id:
- 040-002046932
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046932
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000261
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1103
- Title:
- Copy of the Visitation book of Suffolk with additional heraldic material
- Scope & Content:
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Copy of the 1561 Visitation book of Suffolk, made 1597, with additional pedigrees, arms and other evidence about Suffolk families. Written and drawn by different hands.
Contents:
f. 1*: Inserted at the beginning of the volume a declaration by Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, disclaiming those who had usurped the style and arms of gentleman, Ipswich, 20 April 1672.
ff. 1-91: Copy of the Visitation book of Suffolk, taken 1561, by William Harvey, Clarenceux, in the manner of narration. With some additions and continuations. Internal dating (f.91) suggests the copy was made in 1597. Includes:
- Arms of the borough and town of Ipswich (f. 43).
- Seal of the town of Orford (f. 62).
- Arms and seal of the town and corporation of Southwold (f. 90).
- Seal of the borough of Dunwich (f. 90v).
- Seal of the borough of Aldeborough (f. 91).
f. 91v: Arms of Suffolk families, Minster, Boking, Holbrook and Breame.
f. 92v: Descent and arms of Gardyner of Wrentham.
f. 93: Descent and arms of Mynsterchamber of Sturston.
f. 93v: Descent and arms of Boking of Ash-Bokinge.
ff. 94-95: Evidence relating to the Hovell family, with the pedigree and arms of Hovell of Flytcham in Norfolk, subscribed by Sir Richard St George, Clarenceux, and Sir Henry St George, Richmond.
ff. 96v-97r: Descendants of Sir William Brandon; taken from Sir William Dugdale’s Baronage.
ff. 97v-100r: Pedigree of Wroth of Durants.
ff. 101-102: Alphabetical index of family surnames in the preceding pedigrees.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046932 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1103 : Copy of the Visitation book of Suffolk with additional heraldic material - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1103]/040-002046932
- 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:
- 1597
- End Date:
- 1672
- Date Range:
- 1597-1672
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 320 x 250 mm.
Foliation: 1*, 102 folios.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), 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.
Former owner: John Spicer (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 311).
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 1103.
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)