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Harley MS 1349
- Record Id:
- 040-002047178
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047178
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000357
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1349
- Title:
- Arms of London mayors and sheriffs
- Scope & Content:
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Heraldry book in the hand of, and with drawings by, Nicholas Charles (d. 1613), Lancaster Herald, with material relating to the City of London and its citizens.
f. 1*: ‘Collected 1609’.
f. 1*v: Note on the subsidy granted in the second year of Richard II’s reign, showing that the Mayor of London paid as an earl and the Alderman as Barons. Below, an extract from a City of London register, showing the order of offerings and preparation for the funeral of King Henry VII.
f. 1: Ancient and modern arms of the City of London, the former from a window in St Mary’s Church, Antwerp.
ff. 1v-2r: Arms of merchant companies of London.
ff. 2v-38: Painted arms of the mayors of London, from Henry Fitz-Alwin, the first mayor, to Sir Henry Rowe, mayor in 1607. With short notes of the companies they belong to, and some notes on their lives, residence and burial places.
f. 39: Arms and names of the sheriffs free of the Mercers Company to 1608.
ff. 40-41: Arms etc. of the sheriffs free of the Grocers Company to 1573.
f. 42: Arms etc. of the sheriffs free of the Drapers Company to 1575.
f. 43: Arms etc. of the sheriffs free of the Fishmongers Company to 1607.
f. 44: Arms etc. of the sheriffs free of the Goldsmiths Company to 1517.
f. 45: Arms etc. of the sheriffs free of the Skinners Company to 1504.
f. 46: Arms etc. of the sheriffs free of the Merchant Taylors Company to 1568.
f. 47r: Arms etc. of the sheriffs free of the Haberdashers Company to 1568.
f. 47v: Arms etc. of the sheriffs free of the Salters Company to 1443.
f. 48r: Arms etc. of the sheriffs free of the Ironmongers Company to 1563.
f. 48v: Arms etc. of the sheriffs free of the Vintners Company to 1585.
f. 49: Arms etc. of the sheriffs free of the Clothworkers Company to 1589.
f. 50v: Arms of Hugh Porte, Sheriff of London, 1302.
f. 51: Arms and notes of the burials of other London sheriffs, whose companies are not certain.
ff. 52v-53: Arms and notes of London aldermen.
ff. 54-60: Arms of most of the London sheriffs 1561-1611.
ff. 61v-62r: Index of sheriffs.
f. 63: Index of mayors.
f. 64: Six epigrams and one longer poem on time, death, and mortality, possibly in the hand of John Withie.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047178", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1349: Arms of London mayors and sheriffs" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047178 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1349 : Arms of London mayors and sheriffs - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1349]/040-002047178
- 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:
- 1609
- End Date:
- 1609
- Date Range:
- 1609
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 325 x 170 mm.
Foliation: 64 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: John Spicer (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 311).
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 1349.
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. 102, 311.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Charles, Nicholas, Lancaster Herald, d 1613,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061190603