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Harley MS 1166
- Record Id:
- 040-002046995
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046995
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0002a0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1166
- Title:
- Original Visitation of Dorset 1623
- Scope & Content:
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Papers registering the descents of gentry at the Visitation of Dorset by Henry St George, Richmond Herald, and Sampson Lennard, Bluemantle, for William Camden, Clarenceux, 1623. Descents were registered on three loose quires of paper, which were later bound together by Henry Parker, arms painter. Original book, with signatures of those who provided the information for the entries, with marks in black lead or red chalk indicating which were to be transcribed into the office book, and the word ‘Entered’. With arms tricked with pen and ink, or pencil, and other additions made later by Henry Parker.
Includes pan and ink drawings of the following seals and arms:
- Common seals of the town of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis (f. 8)
- Arms and common seal of the town and borough of Bridport (f. 8v)
- Common seals of the town and borough of Dorchester (f. 21)
- Arms and common seal of the town and borough of Poole (f. 27)
ff. 84-85: Surname index
f. 90: Names of usurpers disclaimed at Bridport and Dorchester, September 1623.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046995", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1166: Original Visitation of Dorset 1623" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046995 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1166 : Original Visitation of Dorset 1623 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1166]/040-002046995
- 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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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 315 x 265 mm.
Foliation: 1*, 1-31, 31*, 32-90 folios (total 92 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: Henry Parker, arms painter (Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 1, pp. 570-571).
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. 1166.
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)