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Harley MS 1180
- Record Id:
- 040-002047009
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047009
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0002ae
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1180
- Title:
- Visitation book of Leicestershire 1619
- Scope & Content:
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Visitation book of Leicestershire taken 1619 by Sampson Lennard, Bluemantle, and Augustine Vincent, Rouge-Rose, Pursuivants of Arms, Marshalls and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux. The volume does not consist of the original signed entries, but is a written up copy, largely in the hand of Sampson Lennard. Pedigrees are marked with crosses in red chalk or black lead, denoting their being copied for the use of the Office or Officers or Arms. Many of the arms seem to have been tricked by Richard Mundy, with some by Henry Parker and Robert Fisher, arms painters. Some continuations of pedigrees by Henry Parker, Robert Fisher, and Augustine Vincent. Signature of Robert Fisher on f. 1.
Includes extracts from old evidences, with tricks of seals appended to them, and tricks of arms and seals of the borough of Leicester, by Richard Munday.
Further additions, not marked by crosses, include:
- Erroneous Descent of Cater of Leicestershire, by Henry Parker.
- Arms of Sir Arthur Haselrigg, 1644, tricked by Henry Parker.
- An account of fees given to the Officers of Arms, 24 March 1619, by Prince Charles and various Lords at their first entrance into the Tilt-yard.
ff. 157-162: Index of surnames.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047009", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1180: Visitation book of Leicestershire 1619" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047009 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1180 : Visitation book of Leicestershire 1619 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1180]/040-002047009
- 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:
- 1649
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 360 x 270 mm.
Foliation: 162 folios.
Binding: British Museum binding. Parchment arms of Sampson Lennard cut from old binding 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 Harleiani, p. 304).
Former owner: Robert Fisher (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 152).
Former owner: Sampson Lennard (d. 1633), Bluemantle Pursuivant (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, 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. 1180.
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. 152, 221, 304.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)