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Harley MS 1171

Record Id:

040-002047000

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047000

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1171

Title:

English pedigrees

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1r: A page with nine empty shields, one intended for the arms of Thomas Robson of Westmorton granted by Richard St George, Norroy King of Arms, in 1615.

ff. 2r-4v: A copy of part of the Visitation-book of Yorkshire, made by William Flower, Norroy King of arms, in 1575; other parts of the Visitation-book are copied elsewhere in this manuscript.

ff. 5r-8v: Pedigrees of families from Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, and Richmondshire (North Yorkshire).

f. 9r: The ‘ancyent Armes of the county of the Towne of Newcastell upon Tyne’.

ff. 9v-10r: Obits and a pedigree for the Griffeth family in Wychnor, entitled: ‘Obitus et discentiones antessorum secundi Walterj Griffeth militis, qui hanc tabulam fieri fecit .26 die Septembris anno Domini 1511 anno R.R. Henrici 8 iijo’.

ff. 10v-16r: Pedigrees of Richmondshire (North Yorkshire), Northumberland, and Yorkshire; Pedigrees of Northumberland families here and elsewhere in the manuscript taken from the Visitation-book, made by William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, in 1575.

f. 16v: A letter in French concerning the grant of arms to John Baret of Hertfordshire, by Irland, King of Arms.

ff. 17r-37r: A copy of the Visitation-book of Northamptonshire, made by William Harvey Clarenceux, in 1556; with some additions.

ff. 37v-52r: Pedigrees of families from Nottinghamshire, Yorkskhire, Richmondshire (North Yorkshire), Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland (Cumbria).

ff. 52v-53r: Copies of warrants by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, at his Visitation of Yorkshire in 1584 and 1585 for William Flower, Norroy King of Arms.

ff. 53v-59v: Pedigrees of families from various counties (e.g. Lancaster, Suffolk, Kent, Cornwall).

ff. 60r-60v: Formula Concessionis Armorum, by Richard Leigh, Clarenceux King of Arms.

ff. 61r-61v: Pedigrees of the Beaumont, Lovell, Holland, and Deincourt families.

ff. 62r-63r: Pedigrees of families from Nottingham and Northumberland.

ff. 63v, 64r: A tract concerning the family of Bowes from a Cartulary of St Mary’s Abbey, York, entitled: ‘Amonge the antique writinges of the late disseland monastary of st maries near the cyttie of york there was written in an ancyent booke of heir foundacion these wordes following’.

f. 63*recto: The arms of Robson of Durham.

ff. 64v-84v: A copy of the Visitation-book of Durham, made by William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, in 1575; with additions of pedigrees of families from other counties (e.g. Yorkshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire).

ff. 85r-85v: An index of surnames of families includied in this manuscript; ff. Notes on pedigrees, blazons. and arms; ff. 'A Registre of the Attendance of that Officer of ARms who wrote this Book, from 22 October A. D. 1597, when ... was created ... to the end of the year 1601'

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1*recto: A summary of the counties covered in this manuscript (‘York – Derby – Nottingham – Northumberland – Stafford – Northamptonshire’), added in pencil in the (?) 18th or 19th century.

Decoration:

Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink; some with colours.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047000

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1171 : English pedigrees

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1171]/040-002047000

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1649

Date Range:

1st half of the 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 300 x 190 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 11* + 46* + 63* + 85 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 11* is a paper strip pasted to f. 11; f. 32 is a small paper leaf mounted onto a paper guard; f. 46* is a small paper fragment mounted onto a paper leaf; coats of arms have been added paper pastedowns to ff. 17r, 18v, 24r, 26r, 31v, and 62r; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard and has a white strip attached to its outer margin.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

William Shires (fl. c. 1711), arms painter of Southwark: probably bought from him by Harley; a receipt for books bought of Shires, signed by him, is dated 11 July 1711 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 304).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 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 (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pp. 572-73.

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. 392.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England