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Harley MS 1137

Record Id:

040-002046966

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046966

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1137

Title:

A copy of William Harvey’s Visitation-book of the county of Essex with additions by Jacob Chaloner and John Gough

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-2v: An alphabetical table of the surnames of families whose pedigrees are described in this manuscript.

ff. 3r-5r: An incomplete table of the arms of families represented in this manuscript.

ff. 6r-6v: Pedigrees of Parker, Bugg, Ap Walter, and Hevingham.

ff. 7r-10r: Sheriffs of Essex from the reign of Henry II to the 43rd year of the reign of Elizabeth I (1154-1601).

f. 11r: An introduction to the manuscript by John Gough, dated to 1638: ‘The most part of this Booke Contayneth the Visitacion of Essex taken by William Hervey Esquire alias Clarenceulx Kinge of Armes begonne the 10th day of August Anno 1558 in the 5 and 6 yeares of the raygnes of our soveringe [sic] Lord and Lady Kinge Phillipe and Queene Mary etcaetera – Jacob Chaloner the 26th day of December 1615’.

f. 11v: A full-page coat of arms.

ff. 12r-21r: Arms for the ‘Justices of Peace 1601’ (16 arms per page); many left blank.

ff. 21v-142r: Pedigrees of Essex families; with arms (many with crests), with additions by Jacob Chaloner from the Visitation of Essex in 1614; and later additions by John Gough from the Visitation of Essex in 1634, as noted on ff. 114r: ‘These descents following were Taken in the last Visitacion made for the County of Essex by George Owen alias Yorke herauld and Henry Lilly Rouge Rose Anno 1634’.

ff. 143r-144r: A note on and pedigree of Sir Edward Conway Kt. Baron Conway of Ragley, Viscount Kilulta in Ireland, and Viscount Conway of Conway Castle in Wales.

f. 144v: Unfininished pedigrees for the families of ‘Berry of Darbyshire’ and ‘Ockander of Kent’.

The manuscript contains a few later additions:

f. 144v: A Latin sentence: ‘Ego pauper laboro, tu dives ludis’; added in the 17th century.

f. 144v: The inscription ‘Beauchampe Deathe’ (4x); added inthe 17th century.

Decoration:

Coats of arms in brown ink, tricked, throughout the manuscript: some with colours (ff. 54v, 55v, 78v, 82r) or with heraldic devices drawn in pencil. Two lions rampant, 1 in brown ink and 1 in pencil (f. 145v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046966

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1137 : A copy of William Harvey’s Visitation-book of the county of Essex with additions by Jacob Chaloner and John Gough

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1137]/040-002046966

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:

1615

End Date:

1638

Date Range:

1615-1638

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 290 x 200 mm.

Foliation: ff. 41* + 94* + 128* + 145 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. 40, 56, and 94* are strips of paper; ff. 41* and 128* are pieces of paper pasted onto blank paper leaves; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard and a white strip of paper attached to its right margin

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Jacob Chaloner (b. 1586, d. 1631), son of Thomas Chaloner, heraldic painter: transcribed by him on 26 December 1615 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 100).

John Gough, arms-painted, owned in 1638: his ownership inscription on f. 11r: ‘John Gough his Booke 1638’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 168).

? 'Thomas Rogers', owned in the 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 144v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

? ‘Johon Ham’, owned in the 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 144v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

? 'John Smyth', owned in the 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 144v: ‘John Smyth p[er] mee’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

? 'John Leche', owned in the 17th century: his name inscribed (3x) on f. 144v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

William Shires (fl. c. 1711), arms painter of Southwark: probably bought from him by Harley; a receipt foor books bought of Shires, signed by him, is dated 11 July 1711 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 304).

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), p. 559.

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. 392.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England