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Harley MS 1164

Record Id:
040-002046993
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002046993
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1164
Title:
Visitation of Devon and Cornwall 1620
Scope & Content:

Papers registering the descents of gentry at the Visitation of Devon and Cornwall by Henry St George, while Richmond Herald, and Sampson Lennard, Bluemantle, for William Camden, Clarenceux, 1620. The red chalk annotation ‘entred’ above the descents indicates that they had been transcribed into the office-book.

Contents:

f. 1*: Index of surnames.

ff. 1-54: Devon descents. Includes some continuations in the hand of Henry Parker; Pedigree and arms of Tiderleigh; Extracts from deeds and tricks of seals of some Devonshire families.

Includes arms and seals of:

  • City of Exeter.
  • Merchant-Adventurers of the County and City of Exeter.
  • Guild and fraternity of St John Baptist, of the Merchant Taylors of the City of Exeter.
  • Fellowship of the Glovers, Skinners, Poynters and Parchment Makers of the City and County of Exeter.
  • Fellowship of Weavers, Tuckers and Shearmen of Exeter.
  • Fellowship of Smiths, Cutlers, Sadlers, Armorours, Loriners and Brasiers of the City and County of Exeter.
  • Town and borough of Totnes.
  • Town and borough of Dartmouth.
  • Town and borough of Great Torrington.
  • Town and borough of Barnstaple.
  • Town and borough of Bideford.
  • Town and borough of South Moulton.
  • Town and borough of Tiverton.
  • Town and borough of Brodminche.
  • Town and borough of Plymouth.

ff. 55-98: Cornwall descents.

Includes seals and some arms of

  • Town and borough of Launceston.
  • Town and borough of Bodmin.
  • Town and borough of Truro.
  • Town and borough of Grampound.
  • Town and borough of Helstone.
  • Town of Penzance.
  • Town and borough of Tregonny.
  • Town and borough of Liskerett.
  • Town and borough of Portbyan, or West Loe.
  • Town and borough of Saltashe.

Includes: Articles of a complaint made by Sir William Segar, Garter, against Ralf Brook, York Herald.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002046993
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 1164 : Visitation of Devon and Cornwall 1620
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[1164]/040-002046993
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
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 340 x 255 mm.

Foliation: 1*, 1-7, 7*, 8-98 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 (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. 1164.

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)
Related Archive Descriptions:
Harley MS 1142