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Harley MS 1987

Record Id:
040-002047818
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002047818
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1987
Title:
Lancashire pedigrees
Scope & Content:

Appears contains most of the visitation book of Lancashire compled by William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, 1567, to which fresh pedigrees and continuations have been added by the two last Randle Holmes (plus other notes and entries) down to 1704.

Includes the following:

  • ff. 2-7: Alphabetical index to the coats and crests tricked.
  • ff. 8-10: Alphabetical index to the pedigrees.
  • f. 13: Leaf from an unidentified printed volume, headed: ‘The County Palatine of Lancaster illustrated. 1. Trafford’, giving the descent and arms of the Trafford family.
  • f. 52: ‘The Lyne or Pedegree of the Talbeis, afterwards surnamed Lancaster’. Signed by Percivall Reughley, 1694. Folded item (450 x 315 mm).
  • f. 95v: Printed plate: The Genealogie of the right Worshipfull Familie of the Talbots of Bashall in the County Palating of Lanc[aster]. With additions by Randle Holme II (c1601–1659).
  • f. 115: Genealogy and arms of Winstanley by Richard Munday. Annotated: ‘Mr Rich Munday of London herald painter his note sent me 1639’.
  • ff. 129v-130: Genealogy and arms of Bradshaw. Annotation on f. 129v: ‘This Descent was given to Jo. Bradshaw Seriant at Law & Justice of Chester; but it is most base & false, and hath never a true Descent in it. R.H.’
  • f. 140v: Pedigree of Thomas Lathom. Annotation: ‘This pedegree was collected by William Travers (under said) a lover of Armes 3 July 1630’.
  • ff. 156-158: Original certificates of James Chetam and of Thomas Chetham of Nuthurst, on the Chetham family.
  • f. 185: Letter with descent and arms of Sankey, from John Taylor to Randle Holmes, 5 July 1647.
  • ff. 188-216: Arms of Lancashire gentry, tricked, in alphabetical order.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002047818
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 1987 : Lancashire pedigrees
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[1989]/040-002047818
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:
1625
End Date:
1704
Date Range:
c 1630-1704
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 310 x 220 mm.

Foliation: 216 folios.

Binding: British Museum binding.

Custodial History:

Former owner: Holme family.

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 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), vol. 2, no. 1987.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 194.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)