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Harley MS 1394

Record Id:

040-002047223

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047223

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000384

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1394

Title:

Robert Glover, The Visitation of Yorkshire and Church Notes from Yorkshire, 1584-1585; with additions by Nicholas Charles

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1v: A drawing of William the Conqueror giving a patent to Alan Rufus, 1st Earl of Richmond, who kneels before him [reproduced in Christopher Clarkson, The History of Richmond, in the County of York (Richmond: Bowman, 1814), plate between p. 14 and p. 15]; with a copy of the patent and seal; all copied from 'an ould Booke of Richmond'.

ff. 2r-147r: Robert Glover (b. 1544, d. 1588), The Visitation of Yorkshire (1584/5), entitled: 'The Visitation of Yorkshire taken by Robert Glover Somerset Herald as Marshall to Norroy King of Arms in the yeares of our Lord God 1584 & 1585 and Since augmented & ecreased both with Armes & descents by F[…]'.

ff. 147v-149v: Descents and arms of Constable, Horsley, and Danby, and pedigrees and arms of Gascoigne and Clerevaulx; copied by Nicholas Charles [Carles] (bap. 1582, d. 1613), Lancaster Herald.

ff. 151r-169v: Robert Glover, Church Notes from Yorkshire (1584/5), entitled: 'Armes taken out of Churches & howses in the tyme of Yorkshire Visitation Anno Domini 1584 & 1585'.

f. 170r-170v: Grants of arms.

f. 171r: Coats of arms of Yorkshire gentry.

f. 171v: Index of the names of churches and houses in the Church Notes, entitled: 'The Names of Churches & Houses'.

f. 171v: Index of the names of families in the Church Notes, entitled: 'Seales & Escocheons'.

ff. 172r-177r: 'The Copy of Sir William Fayrfax booke of Armes of Yorkshire'.

ff. 178r-178v: Alphabetical index of family names in the Visitation of Yorkshire.

ff. 179r-179v: Alphabetical index of family names in the Visitation of Yorkshire; in a different hand than that of Nicholas Charles.

ff. 180v-188v: Descents, mostly from the reign of Henry VII, copied from the Records in the Tower by Nicholas Charles.

ff. 189v-190r: Index of family names.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 177v: A memorandum by Joseph Planta (b. 1744, d. 1827), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum: 'In the year 1779 it was discovered that some pieces had been cut out of the Harleian MSS Nos 139, 1052, 1196 and 1394, which on diligent enquiry were recovered and reinserted in their respective places. See the Minutes of the Committee p. 1663, 1661, and 1669 - The page in this volume in which one of the said pieces has been so replaced is the 41st - Joseph Planta, Keeper of the Manuscripts'.

Decoration:

Full-page drawing of William the Conqueror giving a patent to Alan Rufus, 1st Earl of Richmond, kneeling before him (f. 1v); coats of arms and crests drawn and tricked in black ink throughout.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047223

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1394 : Robert Glover, The Visitation of Yorkshire and Church Notes from Yorkshire, 1584-1585; with additions by Nicholas Charles

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1394]/040-002047223

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1595

End Date:

1605

Date Range:

c 1600

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 330 x 220 mm [the width of the original leaves is 195 mm, but these have been widened with white paper strips].

Foliation: ff. i + 190 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. i is a paper leaf at the beginning; 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf after f. 177; 1 unfoliated modern paper pastedown on f [ii]recto (bibliographical notes) and 1 on f. [193]recto (note of foliation).

Script: late 16th or early 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled purple half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; marbled endleaves.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Nicholas Charles (d. 1613), Lancaster Herald 1608: copied by him after 1585 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 102).

John Spicer (fl. 1680s): owned, according to Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 311; perhaps his pressmark 'No 77' inscribed on f. i recto.

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 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 (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), pp. 25-27.

Christopher Clarkson, The History of Richmond, in the County of York (Richmond: Bowman, 1814), plate between p. 14 and p. 15.

The Visitation of Yorkshire Made in the Years 1584/5, by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, to Which is Added the Subsequent Visitation Made in 1612 by Richard St George, Norroy King of Arms, with Several Additional Pedegrees, including "The ARms Taken out of Churches and Houses at Yorkshire Visitation, 1584/5", "Sir William Fairfax' Booke of Arms" and Other Heraldic Lists with Curious Indices, ed. by Joseph Foster (London: Foster, 1875).

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 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
Glover, Robert, herald, genealogist and antiquarian, 1544-1588

Places:

England