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Harley MS 1162
- Record Id:
- 040-002046991
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046991
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00029c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1162
- Title:
- Original Visitation of Cornwall 1620
- Scope & Content:
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Papers registering the descents of gentry at the Visitation of Cornwall, 1620. Pedigrees are signed by the gentlemen providing the information. Descents were registered on loose quires, which were later bound together by Sampson Lennard. Above most entries are hash signs and the word ‘Entered’ in red chalk, most likely to indicate that the descent had been transcribed into a book for the office. With few illustrations or descriptions of arms. Those illustrations present are concentrated mainly at the beginning of the volume (ff. 1*-10), probably added afterwards by Henry Parker. The volume includes some doodles of heraldic animals.
Includes:
- Grant of arms to John Bonnatre, gentleman, by William Hawkeslowe, Clarenceux, 1 April, ann. 20 Henry VI.
- Copy of a warrant if King Henry VIII whereby he gave licence to Stephen Tucker of Lamartyn, Devon, gentleman, to wear his bonnet upon his head as well in his presence as elsewhere; i.e. at Divine Service; because of a disease or infirmity, 2 July, anno. 10 Henry VIII. With a copy of the King’s hand and signet by Sir Henry St George, or another.
- Index (ff. 173-174).
The printed catalogue of 1808 discusses at length the purpose and significance of the hash sign and ‘Entered’ inscription, noting cases where one or both annotations were absent (Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (1808), vol. 1, pp. 568-569).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046991", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1162: Original Visitation of Cornwall 1620" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046991 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1162 : Original Visitation of Cornwall 1620 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1162]/040-002046991
- 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:
- 1620
- End Date:
- 1620
- Date Range:
- 1620
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 320 x 260 mm.
Foliation: 1, 1*, 1**, 2-99, 99*, 100-174 folios.
Binding: British Museum binding. Samson Lennard’s seal from former vellum binding pasted on f. 1.
- 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 Harleianae, p. 304).
Former owner: Samson Lennard (d. 1633), Bluemantle Pursuivant (Wright, Fontes Harleianae, p. 221).
- 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. 1162, pp. 568-569.
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. 221, 304.
- Publications:
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Jeremy Fox, Visitation of Cornwall 1620 (2022) https://heraldryofthewestcountry.wordpress.com/2022/06/26/visitation-of-cornwall-1620/ [accessed May 2023]
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)