Harley MS 1195

Volume of various heraldic manuscripts bound up as follows:

ff. 1v-4: Pedigree of Anthony Browne Viscount Montacute; includes descents of Spencer, Marshall, Burer and de Cadurcis, Tiptofte, de Clare, Badelsmere, Wentworth, Montacute, Mount-Hermer, Holland, Neville, Stoner, etc.

ff. 5 and 10: Descent and arms of Beauchamp, Baron of Hacche.

f. 5v: Part of a descent of Beauchamp of Trefins, Cornwall.

ff. 6-9: Descent of Thomas Lord Wentworth of Netlested, Suffolk, Knight of the Bath to Prince Henry.

f. 9*: Arms of Harward and Harwood; of Le Neve impaling Monke; and of Lady Stowell.

ff. 11, 13 and 14: Part of a large pedigree of Sir Thomas Windsor Lord Windsor; with descents of Andrews, Echingham, Blount, Wingfield, Drewe, Sambourne, etc.

f. 12: Another descent of the Wyndsor family, folded.

f. 14: Descents of Raven of Hadleigh, Suffolk, and of Ryvett of Suffolk.

f. 15: Pedigree of Strelly.

ff. 18, 17, 16: Descent of Thomas Lord Windsor, from the Conquest; including descents of Berners and of Bourgchier, etc. (imperfect).

f. 19-36: Extracts from ancient deeds touching Bulkeley Bromley and other Cheshire families, by Sampson Lennard, etc.

f. 37: Original letter of Sir William Pole, 27 April 1604, which he sent with some papers of his concerning the Reynell family.

ff. 38-45: Transcripts and extracts concerning the families of Reynell, Malleston etc by Sir William Pole.

f. 45*: Tricks of the arms of Mansbridge, Lutman, Farre and Passell; Trick of the arms of Rigden of Essex, with a draft of a letter from Robert Fisher, the painter-stainer.

f. 46: Arms of various families tricked by Robert Fisher.

ff. 46-56: More transcripts and extracts concerning the families of Reynell, Le Franceys, etc., by several hands. Includes a large pedigree of the family of Reynell (ff. 51-52).

ff. 56*-57: Rough sketches of arms of various families by Robert Fisher.

ff. 58-61: Copy of the certificate of William Pawlet, Marquis of Winchester and Lord High Treasurer of England, and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, on the contest between the Officers of Arms and the Dean and Prebendaries of the Collegiate Church of Westminster... concerning ownership of the hearse of Lady Katherine Knowles. Preceded by the final determination by Thomas Howard, Earl Marshall, 26 April ann. 11 Elizabeth (1569). Both in the hand of Robert Glover, Somerset Herald.

ff. 62-68: Short tract ‘Of Gentry, bearing of Armes’.

f. 69: Descent of Allington.

ff. 71-101: Some of the original papers from the Leicestershire Visitation by Sampson Lennard, Bluemantle, and Augustine Vincent, Rouge-Rose, as Marshalls and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux, 1619. Several signed.

ff. 102-117: Some of the original papers from the Warwickshire Visitation by Sampson Lennard, Bluemantle, and Augustine Vincent, Rouge-Rose, as Marshalls and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux, 1619. Several signed.

ff. 118-128: Fragment of book on the creations of the English nobility from the Conquest ascribed to Robert Cooke, Clarenceux.

ff. 129-131: The origins and ceremonies of the Order of the Garter, followed by a paragraph on the manner of making a Knight Banneret (f. 131v).

f. 132: Trick of the arms of Sterling, Scotland, impaling those of Rouse of Huntingdonshire.

ff. 133-138: Continental heraldry, including:

• Descent of Albert I, Emperor of Germany, and his wife Elizabeth, from ‘The Great Genealogia of the Palatines’.
• Lists, notes and genealogies of several German and Italian prices.
• Sketches of the arms of many Nuremberg families of Nuremburg.

f. 138v-139r: Chronological notes on the deaths of members of the English nobility.

ff. 139v-142: Miscellaneous arms including:

• Painted arms of Matthew Steward, Earl of Lennox, impaling those of Margaret Dowglas his wife; also the arms of Lord Darnley, their son.
• Arms of the Earls of Oxford, Vere, Herbert, Stanley, Hatton, Fitz-Allan, Fitz-Williams, roughly coloured. With notes on some of the English nobility.
• Trick of the arms of Fane.
• Descents and arms of Bostock.

f. 143: Original letter of Robert Wilcoxonn to William Smith Rouge-Dragon, dated 19 February 1606, accompanying some notes concerning the family of Needham.

f. 144: Copy of a record from the plea rolls of the reign of Edward I in Cumbria, including the genealogy of the de Harcla family. Latin.

ff. 145-148: Tract including notes on the foundation and endowment of the Abbey of St Werburga by Hugo Lupus and others, from the monastery’s register; and notes on the Huxley, Coyts, Wilbram, Venables, Moston, Sondbach, Nedham, Lucy, and other families

f. 151: Extracts from records about Stephen de Cosington.

f. 151*: Trick of the arms of Ginew, by Robert Fisher.

ff. 152-171: Collection of descents in a different hand:

• Spencer of Gowshill.
• Other Spencer pedigrees.
• Mountague.
• Argentyne.
• Alington.
• Lucy of Charlecote, Warwickshire.
• Yelverton.
• Jarvais.
• Smith from Willoughby and Oteby.
• Norton of Hampshire.
• Riplingham.
• Tooke of London.
• Short pedigrees of Grafton of London; and of Montgomery of Sherrington, Bucks.
• Nicholson and Parvis.
• Pike, Balgrave, and Holcroft.
• Carell.
• Faldoe.
• Ruthall of Wolverton, Bucks.
• Hibbins of Shropshire.
• De Becke, of Eresby.
• Sir Charles Holt of Warwickshire; with arms sketched by Robert Fisher.