Harley MS 1196

Large heraldic collection of separate arms and pedigrees. Folios 267-315 (formerly numbered 164-195) suffered severe water damage at some time in the past (before publication of the printed catalogue of 1808, and possibly before acquisition by the British Museum).

Includes the following arms and pedigrees, and other documents. For a more detailed list, see A Catalogue of the Harleian

Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 1 (1808), pages 592-595.

• Arms of the families of Jacob, Jakes, James and Jay.
• Pedigree and arms of Salvin, written by Henry Parker.
• Pedigree and arms of Docwra.
• Descent of Moyser with arms, 1584.
• Pedigree and arms of Estoft, copied from an old roll by Henry Parker.
• Pedigrees of Bostock.
• Descent and arms of Plompton, 1585.
• Pedigree and arms of Aske.
• Descent of Meeting, 1584.
• Arms of Lincolnshire and North Country families, roughly drawn.
• Pedigree of Savage, 1627.
• Descent of Harthull.
• Descent and arms of Gower of Stytnam, 1584, by Henry Parker.
• Descent and arms of Estcote.
• Descent and arms of Bigod by Henry Parker.
• Descent and arms of Colles.
• Descent and arms of Beckwith, 1585, by Henry Parker.
• Descent and arms of Girlington, 1585, by Henry Parker.
• Descent and arms of Midleton of Stockeld, 1585, by Henry Parker.
• Descent and arms of Beckworth of Stillingfleet, 1584, by Henry Parker.
• Rough sketches of the arms of Browne and of Orpwood of Berkshire.
• Rough sketches of the arms of certain Warwickshire gentlemen, possibly by Augustine Vincent.
• Descent of Boughton from Allesley and Sutton, by Augustin Vincent.
• Arms of Ap Rese (i.e. Price) with quarterings.
• Pedigree of Ashton, 1619.
• Arms of some Warwickshire families, in colours.
• Pedigree of the Nedham family in the hand of Sampson Lennard.
• Pedigree of Nedham as descended from Bromley, Haxtall, Hewett, Bowles, Hanbury and Rushall, with arms.
• The former part of the last pedigree with large additions, by Sampson Lennard.
• Descent of Farmer of Gatesend, Norfolk.
• Descent and arms of Southeby, 1584, copied by Henry Parker.
• Descent and arms of Noone of Martlesham, Suffolk.
• Descent of Hill of Suffolk.
• Pedigree of Fitz-Warin, perhaps by Augustine Vincent.
• Descent of Lynde, crossed out.
• ‘Dr Butler’s grace’. Doggerel verses against fiddlers. I
• Arms of the bishops of Ely, from Hervey to Martin Heton.
• Descent of Hastings Earl of Huntingdon, by Sampson Lennard.
• Descent of Stanley Earl of Derby, and of Clifford, by Sampson Lennard. Ibid
• Descent of Seymour Earl of Hertford, by Sampson Lennard. Ibid.
• Pedigree of the Berkely family.
• Copy of a grant of Sir Richard St George, Clarenceux, giving Captain David Kirke and his brother, the arms of Monsieur de Reymond, a French Admiral to bear in a canton by way of augmentation, with also a crest.
• Genealogy of the Devereux family.
• Genealogy of the Gerveise family of Leicester.
• Genealogy of Moore of More Hayes, Devon.
• Pedigree of Mottershed, Chester, 1598.
• Sir William Pole’s pedigree.
• Descent of Salvaine from Bigod, Mauley or de Malo Lacu, Foffard, Gaunt, etc.
• Descent and arms of Gerveis of Benadleck.
• Descent of Charleton, by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald.
• Descent of Skerne, York, 1581.
• Descent of Thorpe of Thorpe.
• Pedigree of Hotham with descents of Mauley and Foffard, and arms.
• Descent of Gaunt and Umfravile.
• Pedigree of Trussell, with descents of Pantolf, Verdon, Manwaring, etc., perhaps by William Smith, Rouge Dragon.
• Pedigree of Caldwall, 1601, with some continuations, and arms.
• Arms of several families roughly drawn by Henry Parker.
• Arms of Dalison blazoned by Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter.
• Arms of English nobles during the reign of Edward I, a poor copy of an earlier tract entitled ‘Les Noms et les Armes des Seigneurs et Nobles Hommes qui estoyent ouesq; le Roy Edward le premier, a la Siege de Kalaverok en Escoce, l’an de Grace 1300’.
• Descent of Clifton, Clifford and Mortimer, Earl of March, to Freschville, who married the daughter of Sir Gervase Clifton.
• Descent and arms of the Welsh kings, by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald.
• Genealogical scheme of the descendants from Ralf Nevile, Earl of Westmorland, and Sir Robert Howard, showing the descents of Queen Elizabeth, Brooke Lord Cobham, Boleyn Earl of Wiltshire, etc.
• Pedigree of Braybroke, by Robert Glover.
• Pedigree of the family of St Amand, by Robert Glover.
• Large descent of Henry Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, by William Smith, Rouge Dragon. Including several other Welsh families and a copy of a deed and a drawing of the seal of Reginald, son of Peter, son of Herbert.
• Pedigree of Colpepper, 1586, by Thomas Knight.
• Original letter of John Wodenothe to Richard St George, Clarenceux, 1 March 1623, on the descent of Hyde of Cheshire.
• Pedigree of Hyde of Cheshire, corrected and amplified by John Wodenothe.
• Descent and arms of Tonge of Denton, 1575.
• Pedigree of Cotes of Hanslap, from St Owen and Dounton, drawn up by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux and dated 17 June 1575.
• Pedigree and arms of Leake, 1569.
• Summary of genealogies of numerous noble families from whom Sir Henry Cary Baron of Hunsdon was descended and whose arms he might legitimately bear.
• Descent and arms of Barnesley of Tryshull, Staffordshire, 1597.
• Descents of Blackmore.
• Pedigree of Orrell of Lancashire, and a descent of Tarbock, 1583. With arms of both drawn in colour.
• Descent of Popham from Kentlisbere.
• Pedigree and arms of Molineux.
• Descent of Coventry, by Henry Parker, dated 1655.
• Descent of Alsopp.
• Descent and arms of Robinson, signed by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux, 1588.
• Pedigree of Edmund of Skargall, with a descent of Hearder of Hampshire.
• Pedigree and arms of St Pierre.
• Pedigree of Hurtley, with descents of Walshe, Langley, etc, and the arms.
• Descendants from Sir Edward Stanley, Lord Monteagle.
• Descent or short history of the families of Cobham, and of Brooke Lord Cobham.
• Lineage of the family of Alsop in Le Dale, Derbyshire, collected from monuments and records by William Smith. Latin.
• Pedigree of the Drew family.
• Descent of Lacon from Willey and Harley, with the arms of Harley at the top and bottom.
• Descent of Howard, Duke of Norfolk, from Mowbray.
• Pedigree of the De La Pole family.
• Arms of Lord Cobham in blazon, by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald.
• Abstracts from the records about the Cobham family.
• Descents of Hatton of Holdenby, Northamptonshire, and of Weverham, Warrington, Stockton-Yate near Warrington, Deresbury, Dundum near Deresbury, Cheshire, possibly copied from the writings of Laurence Bostock.
• Descendants from Hugh Fitz Hugh de Hatton, Lord of half of Great Aldersey.
• Descent of the Hattons of Norley, the Halle of Shrogges, Kistiebirches, and Woodhouse belonging to the Honor of Frodsham, Cheshire.
• Descent and arms of Holand.
• Pedigree of Blount.
• Descent of Paulet, Marquis of Winchester and of Blount, Earl of Devonshire, from Robert Willoughbie, Lord Broke.
• Descent of Townley from Sir Hugh Vaughan.
• Descent of Toke from Goldwell, Malmayns, etc. with historical notes.
• Pedigree of John Webbe of Dettlinge in Kent, 1594, in narrative form.
• Fragments of the original Visitation book of Kent, taken 1589.
• Various arms born by the name of Jackson.
• Pedigree and arms of Petit.
• Descent of Smyth from Carrington.
• Descent and arms of Carter.
• Plan of the timber work of a hearse to be set up in a church for a grand funeral.
• Copy of a pedigree made for Lord Lumley 1592, with proofs from evidences, etc.
• Pedigree of Bendishe from Westley.
• Descent of White.
• Pedigree and arms of Sandys, by Richard Monday.
• Brief notes on the descent of Cobham, by Henry Parker.
• Dockets of the wills and testaments of the Hawes family of Sussex, from the registers of the archdeacon of Sudbury.
• Descents of Hethe, Cutts, and Blount.
• Descent of Lawrance, 1623.
• Descent and arms of Carr of Newcastle, by Henry Parker.
• Descent of Carr of Sleeford, Leicestershire.
• Descent of Carr of Heyton.
• Descent of Wodvile Earl Rivers.
• Names of freeholders in Nottinghamshire, 1569, with some arms.
• Arms born by the name of Milles or Mills.
• Descent and arms of Brent.
• Pedigree of Goodere, with a descent of Scales.
• Descent and arms of Hensleghe, 1593.
• Descent of Carr of Ely.
• Certificates concerning the arms of Matthew and Voisey or Vescy, both of Dartmouth. 1
• Funeral certificate taken by Sampson Lennard, 17 June 1631, after the death of Sir Nicholas Saunderson, Viscount Castleton of Ireland.
• Arms of various English families.
• Descent of Gifford.
• Copy from the record in which King Henry IV granted Henry de Popham all the freedoms which Empress Matilda had granted his ancestor, concerning the demesne lands in Southampton.
• Descent and arms of Downhid of Geddington, Northamptonshire.
• Descendants from Richard I, Duke of Normandy, with descents of Clare, Earl of Gloucester, etc.
• The order of Queen Elizabeth I’s procession to St Pauls, 1588.
• Descent and arms of Brediman.
• Copy of the warrant of Henry St George, Richmond, and Sampson Lennard, Bluemantle, to the high constables of the Hundred of Wells Forum, Somerset, requiring them to warn all gentry to present themselves at their Visitation. Dated 1 August 1623.
• Descent of Holand, Duke of Exeter, taken from records in the Tower of London by Thomas Talbot, and signed by him, 21 November 1597.
• Genealogy of the Barons of Cobham.
• Descent of the Lords of Sudley, continued by the descents of Butler of Sudley, Norbury, Haliswell and Bray.
• Descent and arms of Ughtred, with extract from two old deeds.
• Epitaph from the tomb of Sir Matthew Carew.
• Descent of Sir Matthew Carew from Holland.
• Descent of Hatch, and of Handford, Pollard and Sir Matthew Carew from Hatch.
• Pedigree of Nicholas Leighe.
• Descent of the Earls of Gloucester.
• Descent of Savage.
• Descent of Tothill, 1629.
• Descent of Clare, Earl of Gloucester, continued into the families of Audeley, Spenser, Beauchamp and Burgh.
• Pedigree and arms of Vane.
• Arms of various families, and of the town of Boston.
• Descent and arms of Fitz-Simon.
• Arms of Sir Simonds D’Ewes.
• Arms of Mocket.
• Transcript of three old deeds relating to the D’Aungers family, by Sampson Lennard.
• Descent of Wentworth of Nettlested, by William Smith, Rouge Dragon.
• Note on the name of Benthal or Benethall.
• Descent and arms of Hawes, 1642, by Henry Parker.
• Descent and arms of Gooch.
• Wives and children of William Knightley of Norwich.
• Pedigree of Dilke of Maxtoke Castle, by Sampson Lennard, 1619, with descents of Bourgchier, Lovayne, Crophull, Fisher, Ashton, Devereux, Ferrers, Corbet, etc.
• Descent of Walton from Dennis and of Dabernon from Matthew, Gifford and Brewer.
• Various arms of Ierton or Ireton.
• Descent of Isaacke.
• Descent of Appulton.
• Fragment of a descent of Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury.
• Genealogy of Doddington or Dorrington, from whom Francis Dorrington of London is descended, by Henry Parker.
• Another descent of Doddington.
• Fragments of a descent of Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, by Thomas Knight.
• Descent of Nevile.
• Descent of Russell Earl of Bedford form Woolston, Sapcotes, etc.
• Descent of Stourton Lord Stourton.
• Pedigree of the different branches of the family of Cobb, by Richard Mundy, 1625, with some additions.
• Epitaph of Alice Cobb, widow of William Cobb, who died 23 October 1627.
• Descent of Stafford, Clare, Neville, etc.
• Descent of Brokesby, 1619.
• Arms of families tricked in printed escutcheons.
• Fragments of pedigrees of Columbell and Villiers.
• Fragments of an old descent of the House of Yorke.
• Arms of Dynelay, and of Constable, with quarterings.
• Pedigree of Monke, 1620.
• Short descent of Cranmer.
• Pedigree and arms of Jacob, 1775.
• Descent and arms of Armerer, or Armere of Howsham
• Descent and arms of Shafton.
• Pedigree of West of Aughton.
• Fragments of some of the descents of West.
• Descent and arms of Moreland.
• Descent of Wray.
• Descendants from Thomas Cecill, Earl of Exeter.