Harley MS 1233

Miscellaneous collection of pedigrees and descents, with some anecdotes and other material, in various hands.

Contents:

f. 1v:

• A Jest of the Duke de Joyeuse on King Henri IV of France himself, and other Lords present.
• Account of a great treasure revealed to Christian Duke of Brunswick by the Burgers of Soest whom he besieged, to redeem themselves.
• Part of a submissive letter from the Earl of Essex to Queen Elizabeth, with her sentiments on it.

f. 2:

• Account of the birth of a child shot out of his mother’s belly by a cannon ball. 1622.
• On the institution of the order of Baronets.
• Knot drawing on verso.

f. 3r: Heraldic compartment for the title ‘Golgotha Regale or Noble Dust’, under a whimsical coat of arms.

f. 3v: Verses on the British Kings Uther, Pendragon, Arthur, Constantin, Vortipor, Malgo, Cadwallo and Cadwallader.

ff. 4v-28: Collection of royal and noble descents, possibly by John Gough, the arms painter:

• House of Austria, down to the children of Emperor Ferdinand.
• Kings of Castile and Aragon
• Kings of Portugal
• From Emperor Charles V, by Don John of Austria and his illegitimate sister Margaret.
• Earl of Holland and Zealand.
• Kings of France of the House of Hugh Capet.
• Kings and princes of France, of the House of Valois
• Kings and princes of France, of the House of Bourbon
• Kings of Jerusalem
• Kings and princes of England to the children of Charles I
• Kings of England from Egbert to Henry VI (Latin)
• Kings etc., of Scotland to the time of the Civil war
• From John Galeazzo I Duke of Milan
• House of Orange, from that of Chalons
• Toledo Duke of Alva
• Duke of Brabant
• Dukes of Lorraine
• Roman Emperors of the Julian family
• Dukes of Cleves and Geldres

ff. 29-50: Succession of English dukes and earls, with some historical notes (imperfect 16th century tract).

ff. 51, 52: Verses and an anecdote.

• ‘Mine eyes are open yet perceyve I nought’.
• An Evening Meditation ‘Now the world doth shut his light’.
• Anecdote about the Marquess of Spinola at the siege of Breda.
• Latin verses on Uter, Vortiporius, Cadwallo and Cadwallader (‘Uter erat solitus vexilla ferre Dragonem’).

ff. 51-71: Part of an alphabet of arms in blazon, scattered. Folios have alphabetical headings ABQ-BLV. With various descents including: descent of Allen of Braesby, Lincolnshire (ff. 58v-59r); descent from Francis Charlton and Cecilie Fitton (f. 70v); descent of Sir Edward Smith of Edmundthorp 1657 (f. 71v).

ff. 72v-73r: Surnames of various families from a descent or collection of arms not present in this volume.

ff. 74v—154: Pedigrees and descents, with some roughly coloured arms, including:

• Espec and De Roos family
• Manners, Earls of Rutland
• Howard and Mawbray
• Bullen and related families
• Bourgchier, Earl of Bath; and of Devereux
• Fitz-Williams
• Eure, Lord Eure
• Wharton, Lord Wharton
• Rich, Lord Rich
• Willoughby, Lord Willoughby of Parham
• Sheffield, Lord Sheffield
• Paget, Lord Paget
• Darcy, Lord Darcy of Chich
• North, Lord North
• Bruges, Lord Chandos
• Cary, Lord Hunsdon
• Sackvile Earl of Dorset
• West, Lord de la Ware
• Compton, Lord Compton
• Cheney, Lord Cheney
• Howard, Duke of Norfolk
• Wingfield
• Noel, set out by Robert Glover
• Stanhop, Mallovell
• Clare, Earl of Gloucester
• Brabason
• Verdon
• Lacy, Burgh & Mortimer
• Helwell
• Wodvile
• Folvile
• Brow
• Sherard
• Woodford, Barnack and Hawbarck
• Fuleshurst
• Audeley
• Boghan and Brereton
• Vernon
• Markham
• Markham and Leeke
• Gryffin from Latimer
• Jackson
• Thorold
• Sutton of Washingborough
• Rigges of Fulbeck
• Hussey
• Thymbleby
• Mounson
• Clopton
• Darcy of Chiche
• Seymour
• Cromwell, Lord Cromwell
• Lord Wentworth of Nettlested
• Talmach
• Felton
• Bassingbourne
• Calthrop
• Sir John Say, by Elizabeth Cheyney
• Sir Robert Howard
• Howard, Duke of Norfolk
• Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond
• Dymock of Scryvelsby and Ferrars of Tamworth, from Marmion
• Beaumont
• Lord Scrope
• Pilkington
• Strangways
• Gaunt, Earl of Lincoln
• De la Pole, Earl of Suffolk
• Beaumont from Bardolf and Warren
• Smith, alias Harris, of Leicestershire
• Tanfield
• Crook, alias Blount
• Cave
• Stafford of Blotherwick
• Selford
• Allington
• Pate
• Earle
• Sitsilt
• Graunt
• Hartop
• Hall
• Norris and of Bartie, Lord Norris
• Sherard of Lopingthorpe, Lincolnshire
• Glanvile, and Ufford, Earl of Suffolk
• Ufford and Scales, from Criketot, Valoins and Blund

• Dutton, alias Dudley
• Sidney
• Lords Lisle, namely Warren, Berkeley, Talbot, Grey, Dudley and Sydney
• Grey from Ferrars and Quincy; with arms
• Seymour Lord Beauchamp
• Pakenham
• Lord Welles of Willoughby or Eresby; with Bertie, Earl of Lindsey, now Marquis of Lindsey
• Berkeley, Earl of Berkely; and Berkeley of Wymondham
• Wyke
• De la Launde
• Mordant
• Docwra
• Danby
• Woodford of Ashby-Folville
• Doyly of West Allington
• Poole
• Sacheverell
• Barons of Wem
• Basset of Sapcote
• Moton; Grimsby, Waterton, Everard, Vincent and Foule
• Colvyle
• Mallory
• Digby from Neel
• Burton of Lindley
• Champayn and Fowcher
• Bingham, alias Bonghe
• Flamvile of Aston
• Turvyle
• Brudnel
• Fitzwilliam
• Tresame
• Entwysell
• John, Lord Husey
• Borard
• Lewston
• Raynes, and Escudamor
• Taylard
• Rope, Stapleigh and Greene
• Aldithley, alias Audley, and Tutchett
• Stanley
• From Thomas Holand, Earl of Kent
• From Sir Oliver St John, 1st Earl of Bolingbroke
• Beauchamp of Bletso and of St John
• Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick; and Pool, Hastings, Nevile, and Fane, from Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick
• Lords Dacres
• Lords Morley and Monteagle, i.e. Morley, Stanley and Parker
• Broke, Lord Cobham, from Braybroke and Cobham
• Cecil, Earl of Exeter
• Nevill, Lord Latimer, Browne and Pole
• Zouch of Haringworth
• Thomas, Lord Grey of Wilton
• Edward Sutton, Lord Dudley
• John, Lord Lumley
• John, Lord Stourton
• Charles Blunt, Lord Mountjoy
• Lords Ogle
• Darcy, Lord of Templehurst and Ashton
• Sandes, Lord Sandes of the Vine
• Vaux, Baron of Harrowdon
• Henry, Lord Windsor
• Wentworth, Baron of Nettlested
• Thomas, Lord Borough
• Lewis, Lord Mordant of Turvey
• Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Viscount Lecale and Earl of Ardglass, Ireland
• Allen of Brockhouse
• Kyrdeston from Gaunt
• Pawlin, and Bamborough
• Metham of Metham
• Wilson and Alanson

f. 155r: Note of the year of the birth of Jesus Christ.

f. 156r:

• Note concerning a poor woman in Holland whose child was heard to cry in her womb, 15 days before its birth.
• Descendants from John de Bois.

f. 156v:

• Note on a French knight called Corasse, who was reputed to know all the news of the world by the help of a familiar spirit.
• How William the Conqueror revoked the gift of the county of Rutland (from Edward the Confessor to Queen Edith, and after her death to Westminster Abbey) and divided it among some of his followers.
• The meaning of Patriarch Heraclius’s words applied to King Henry II’s children, namely ‘From the Devil they came, and to the Devil they will go’.
• Concerning Robin Hood, and his death.