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Harley MS 1153

Record Id:

040-002046982

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046982

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000293

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1153

Title:

Visitations of Berkshire, Durham, Northumberland, Dorset and Derbyshire

Scope & Content:

Composite volume of heraldic tracts in several hands, including copies of Visitation books of Berkshire 1584, Durham 1615, Northumberland 1615, Dorset 1565 and Derbyshire 1611, with additional material.

ff. 1v-2r: Descent of Battyn of Devon, 1646.

ff. 3-10: Alphabet of nobility in Cornwall and Devon, with arms in blazon.

ff. 11v-16r: Certain ordinances made 15 May 15.Hen.VIII, at the Friars, Greenwich, signed by the Officers at Arms, concerning fees, gifts, wages or pensions, etc.

f. 13-15: Order of battle in time of war (diagram); descriptions of King Arthur’s six banners; size and lengths of standards, banners, penons and guidons; ordering of persons of estate by degree, ordering of ladies of estate by degree; a brief sentence on the wealth of France; a list of the chancellors of England from the time of the Conquest to Nicholas Health, Archbishop of York, Lord High Chancellor 1555–1558; arms of various families in blazon.

ff. 16v-18: Lists of ancient English earls with arms in blazon.

ff. 19-32: Arms and pedigrees of Berkshire families, about 1584. Includes lists of market towns and religious houses, and their valuation as made at the time of the Dissolution. With an index (f. 32v).

ff. 33-49: Visitation of the County Palatine of Durham 1615, by Sir Richard St George, Norroy with Henry St George, Blue-mantle. Most of the arms in this copy are in blazon. Includes a list of those disclaimed at the time of the Visitation, and arms in the old Visitation of 1575 by William Flower, Norroy and Robert Glover, Portcullis, described in blazon. With an alphabetical index of surnames (ff. 46-49).

ff. 50-61: Copy of the Visitation book of Northumberland 1615, taken by Richards St George, Norroy, and Henry St George, Blue-mantle, pursuivant. With few arms. With an alphabetical index of surnames (ff. 57v-61).

ff. 62-92: Copy of the Visitation book of Dorset 1565. With an alphabetical index of surnames preceding it (ff. 62-68). For a detailed list of pedigrees etc., see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pages 562-563.

f. 87v: Doggerel verses on the arms of William Penson, Lancaster Herald.

ff. 93-114: Copy of the Visitation book of Derbyshire 1611, by Richard St George, Norroy, with Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald, and Henry St George, Rouge-Rose. Arms in blazon. With an index of the surnames in this Visitation (ff. 109-114r).

ff. 114v-117: Arms of ancient Derbyshire families in blazon inserted into the Visitation book for Samuel St Leger (?) of Ashe; pedigree of Columbell; arms of Derbyshire families possibly allied to Columbell, in blazon.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046982

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1153 : Visitations of Berkshire, Durham, Northumberland, Dorset and Derbyshire

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1153]/040-002046982

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:

1500

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

16th century-17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 315 x 250 mm.

Foliation: 1-49, 49*, 50-92, 92*, 93-116, 116*, 117 folios (total 120 folios).

Binding: British Museum binding.

Custodial History:

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 1153.

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)