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Harley MS 1417
- Record Id:
- 040-002047246
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047246
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00039b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1417
- Title:
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Descents and pedigrees of English families
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: Added ownership inscriptions.
f. 2r: A list of nobleman during the reign of King Henry VIII, perhaps those who formed part of his Privy Council.
ff. 3r-11r: A partial index to two collection of arms, one signified by a maltese cross (possibly identified as London, College of Arms MS L. 6), the other as 'Liber North'. The partial index in this volume comprises the letters A and SE-Z. The rest of the index is now Add MS 45133, ff. 57-65, 68-94 (displayed on alternate leaves), the third volume of the heraldic collections of Sir Thomas Wriothesley.
ff. 12r-13v: A stemma of the Lords Grey of Powys, descended from Cadwalladr ap Cadwallon, king of Gwynedd, Wales; with accompanying notes.
f. 14r: Descent of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond and Wiltshire, and Sir William Paulet of Basing, from John Lord Wellys.
f. 14v: Descent of Stafford and Strangways.
f. 15r: Descent of the Lord Darcy.
f. 15v: Descent of the Lord Herbert and of Sir Ris Fitz Vrian.
f. 16r: Descent of Low, Butnar, and Grey.
f. 16v: A stemma of the Kings of Castile.
f. 17r-v: A stemma of the Barkeleys, with accompanying notes.
f. 18r: Descent of Burnell and Lovell.
f. 18v: Descent of Moubray.
f. 19r: Descent of Bland from Sir John Neville of Bisebroke, Northamptonshire; with an accompanying note.
f. 19v: Pedigree of Fortescu.
f. 20r: Descent of Wentworth.
f. 20v: Descent of Fitzwilliam.
f. 21r: Descent of Lucy.
f. 21v: Pedigree of Raclyffe and Fitz-Walter.
f. 22r: Pedigree of Docwra, with a descent of Hodiston.
f. 22v: Descent of Grey of Codnor.
f. 23r: Descent of Dunstanville, Baron of Castelcombe.
f. 23v: Descent of Borwashe and Hampden.
f. 24r-v: Descent of Beauchamp of Bedford.
f. 25r: Pedigree of Neville, Earl of Westmoreland.
ff. 25v-26r: Pedigree of Sandys, Sturton, and Cheney.
f. 26v: Descent of Colpeper and Haryngton.
f. 27r: Descent of Longespée.
f. 27v: Descent of Vaux and Corbet from Lucy.
f. 28r: Descent of Waddam, Hamden, Barantyne, Foster, Popham, Carlston, St Martyn, and Ingham, from Walron.
f. 28v: Descent of Foster.
f. 29r: Descent of Wyat of Kent.
f. 29v: Descent of Fortescue from Stoner, Montagu, Inglethorp, De la Pole, and Bradstone.
f. 30r: Descendants of Sir Bartholomew Burwash.
f. 30v: Pedigree of Cavendish and Gernon.
f. 31r: Descent of St Maure.
f. 31v: Descent of Maundit, Earl of Warwick.
f. 32r-v: Descent of Hall (alias Fitz-William), Fox, and Meryng.
f. 33r: Descent of Strangways.
ff. 33v-34r: Pedigree of Dutton, with descents of Holland, Molyneux, Hatton, Savage, Aston, Sowthworthe and Cholmondeley.
f. 34v: Descent of Marny, Tyrell, Vere and Pasheley, from Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel.
f. 35r: Descent of Poynings, Paulet and Uveale, from St John.
f. 36v: A list of Knights of the Garter, who died between the coronation of Henry VII and the 7th year of the reign of Henry VIII (i.e. 1485-1516).
f. 37v: A list of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal who appeared in Parliament in the first year of the reign of Henry VII.
f. 38v: A list of some of the barons present at the Parliament of the eleventh year of the reign of Henry VII.
f. 39v: A heading, 'Patentes of creations of Edward [VI?]', with the text left blank.
f. 40v: Descent of Fowler, Yngelfelde, Clarke, and Ricote.
f. 41r: Descent of Jernegane, from Fitz-Osborne.
f. 41v: Descent of Babyngton, from Dethyke.
f. 42r: Descent of Syngleton.
f. 42v: Descent of Cogan.
f. 43r: Descent of Mathew, Raglond, Lewis, and Bratton.
f. 43v: Descent of Bray of Surrey, from Halighwell, Norbery and Gilbert.
f. 44r: Descent of Tomworth (alias Tamworth) of Lincolnshire.
f. 44v: Descent of Stoner and Brecknoke.
f. 45r: Descent of Stoner, from Norbery, Butler of Sudeley, and Croissyer.
f. 45v: Descent of Danyles of Padstow, County Devon.
f. 46r: Descent of Trevanyon and Orton of Trewro.
f. 46v: Descent of Bray, Saunds, Darby and Beanson.
f. 47r: Descent of Yeo.
f. 47v: Descent of Torelle.
f. 48r: Descent of Pollard, Merewode, and Squier.
f. 48v: Descent of Villers of Brokysby , Sutton, Howby, and Kyrkby.
f. 49r: Descendants from Quadring.
f. 49v: Descent of Massingberg of Lincolnshire, with descents of Cromwell, Tottothe, and Tomworth.
f. 50r: Descent of Haselwode, Hewit, Holt, and Norwich.
f. 50v: Descent of Drury.
f. 51r: Descent of Walter and Draper.
f. 51v: Descent of Bilingdon of Bedfordshire.
f. 52r: Descent of Stocwod, from Goodyere, and Stokes.
f. 52v: Descent of Percyvall, Jenyngson, Ingelby, and Stillington.
f. 53r: Descent of Cunlyffe and Aderton.
f. 53v: Descent of Rede and Alfege.
f. 54r: Descent of Fitz-William (alias Halle of Lincolnshire).
f. 54v: Descent of Brit, Myners, and Vaughan.
f. 55r: Descent of Baynam, Walwen, and Greynder.
f. 55v: Descent of Johns and Cradocke, and Morgan.
f. 56r: Descent of Mekilfeld, Thorndon, Mckylfild, and Margeret Duchess of Norfolk, daughter of Thomas of Brotherton, from Halys.
f. 56v: Descent of Sowthworthe.
f. 57r: Descent of Mylle, from Rous, and Erle.
f. 57v: Descent of Browne.
f. 58r: Descent of Gate, Baldyngton and Danvers.
f. 58v: Pedigree of Hansard, with a descent of La More.
f. 59r: Descent of Baret from Belhows.
f. 59v: Descent of More and Wantard.
f. 60r: Descent of Wode, Stukeley, and Aston.
f. 60v: Descent of Matesdon, Browne, and Hervy.
f. 61r: Pedigree of Geddyng, with a descent of Apsall.
f. 61v: Descent of Bulstrode from Knyffe.
f. 62r: Descent of Haselwode, Hewet, Holt and Norwich (the same as inscribed on f. 50r).
f. 62v: Descent of Feldyng.
f. 63r: Descent of Salford.
f. 63v: Descent of Norton.
f. 64r: Descent of Cosyn.
ff. 65r-67v: An alphabetical index of the surnames of families mentioned in the preceding descents, with references to an older foliation.
ff. 1v, 35v-36r, 37r, 38r, 39r, 40r, and 65v are blank. - Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047246 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1417 : Descents and pedigrees of English families - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1417]/040-002047246
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1525
- End Date:
- 1534
- Date Range:
- 1525-1534
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 400 x 270 mm.
Foliation: ff. 67 (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 20 unfoliated paper leaves after f. 2 (each displaying a paper tab labelled alphabetically c-y) + 11 unfoliated paper leaves after f. 64 + 3 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: 16th-century secretary hand.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, gold-tooled, with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Thomas Wriothesley (d. 1534), Garter King of Arms: inscribed, 'Th. WR' (f. 1r); the remainder of the index on ff. 3-11 is now Add MS 45133, ff. 57-65, 68-94 (alternate leaves), the third volume of Wriothesley's heraldic collections.
John Cocke (d. 1586), Lancaster herald in 1559: inscribed with his name and title (f. 1r).
John Spicer (fl. 17th century), painter: part of his collection of manuscripts, purchased from his executor 'Mr Foresight' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 311; Diary (1966), I, p. xx).
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:
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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. 1417.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. xx.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 107, 311, 363.
P. R. Cavill, The English Parliaments of Henry VII: 1485-1504 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 107, 109.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cocke, John, Lancaster herald, d 1586
Spicer, John, Painter, fl 17th century
Wriothesley, Thomas, Garter King of Arms, c. 1460-1534 - Places:
- England
- Related Material:
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The remainder of the partial index on ff. 3-11 is now Add MS 45133, ff. 57-65, 68-94.