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Harley MS 1141
- Record Id:
- 040-002046970
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046970
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000287
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1141
- Title:
- Pedigrees from the Visitation of Somerset 1623
- Scope & Content:
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Original book of the Visitation of Somerset taken 1623, by Henry St George, Richmond Herald; and Sampson Lennard, Blew-Mantle, Marshalls and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux. More pedigrees than arms.
A red chalk cross and sometimes the word 'Entered' at the top of the pedigrees suggest that these were the pedigrees taken during the Visitation, and subsequently written up into an official book of the Visitation.
At the beginning arms of 16 families impaled by or impaling Wyndham have been inserted, unrelated to the main matter.
Includes the following seals of corporations, besides some seals of families and notes from old deeds:
f. 13v: Seals of the city of Wells.
f. 14: Seals of the town and borough of Bridgwater.
f. 30v: Seals of the town and borough of Axbridge.
f. 34: Seals and arms of the city of Bath.
ff. 132-133: Alphabetical table of surnames of families whose pedigrees are described in the Visitation.
ff. 133v-134r, 137r and 138-142: Various additional pedigrees, with arms, done by different hands. Probably mostly by Richard Mundy, herald painter.
f. 136v and f. 137v: Names of the disclaimed at the Visitation.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046970", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1141: Pedigrees from the Visitation of Somerset 1623" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046970 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1141 : Pedigrees from the Visitation of Somerset 1623 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1141]/040-002046970
- 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:
- 1623
- End Date:
- 1623
- Date Range:
- 1623
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 315 x 255 mm.
Foliation: 1*-3*, 1-140, 140*, 141-143 folios (total 147 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: William Shires, arms painter of Southwark (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 304).
- 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. 1141.
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. 304.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)