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Harley MS 1179
- Record Id:
- 040-002047008
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047008
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0002ad
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1179
- Title:
- Copy of the Visitation book of Huntingdonshire 1613
- Scope & Content:
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Fair copy of the Visitation book of Huntingdonshire as taken and made 1613 by Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald, Marshall and Deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux. Includes:
f. 1*: Title ‘The Visitacon of Huntindon’
ff. 2*-3*: Name index of surnames of families who descents are registered at this Visitation, in the hand of Henry Parker, arms painter.
f. 1: Seal of the town of Huntingdon 1613.
ff. 4-13: Collections from the papers of Robert Bevill de Sawtrey about the families of Beyvile, Merks, Waldechef, etc.
f. 14: Pen and ink drawings of arms in the windows of Laurence Farron’s house at Sawtrey, and arms in the windows of the chapel and parlour of the house at Elton.
f. 15: Elton and Sawtrey church notes.
f. 25: Kimbolton, Stilton and Holme church notes.
ff. 26-29: Extracts from deeds relating to the Coton or Cotton family. Including Conington church notes.
f. 27: Records relation to the Wesenham family.
f. 30v: Arms in the windows of Mr Price’s house at Washingley.
f. 40: South Hoo church notes.
f. 40v: Collections on the Beville family from the records of Sir Robert Bevill of Chesterton, the book of Barnwell, records in the Tower of London, and Ramsey Abbey.
ff. 43-45: Buckworth, Dodington, Auconbury and St Neots church notes.
ff. 46-47: Lands in various manors and towns of Huntingdon, during the reign of Henry III from the old register of Barnwell Priory.
f. 48: Stoughton church notes.
f. 70: Walton church notes.
ff. 70, 71, 79v, 86v: Documents and evidences of Robert ap Rhese of Washingley, Sir Robert Coton of Conington, Sir Thomas Brudenell of Deene.
f. 77: Pedigree of Cromwell, with an addition by Henry Parker showing the descent of Oliver Cromwell.
f. 89: Huntingdon church notes.
f. 108v: Prohibition to Robert Castle of Glatton against using the arms of Castle of Warwickshire that he had usurped, by Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald, 28 August 1613.
ff. 114-115: Brief accounts of the Kryell family and the Tyringham family.
ff. 117-120: Abstract of papers of the Beyville, Stuicle, Waldechese, Cornwall, More, Merk, Amundeville and other families.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047008", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1179: Copy of the Visitation book of Huntingdonshire 1613" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047008 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1179 : Copy of the Visitation book of Huntingdonshire 1613 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1179]/040-002047008
- 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:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- Early 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 360 x 230 mm.
Foliation: 1*-4*m 1m 1**m 203, 3**, 4-130 folios (total 136 folios)
Binding: British Museum leather 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: 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. 1179.
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)