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Harley MS 3696

Record Id:

040-002049528

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049528

MDARK:

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3696

Title:

Survey of Bromfield and Yale by John Norden

Scope & Content:

Survey of the lordship of Bromfield and Yale, Denbighshire, by John Norden, for Charles, Prince of Wales, 1620. Includes a drawing and plan of Holt Castle, and other maps and plans. Most of the individual manor surveys are preceded by a name index.

ff. 1-2: Letter from Thomas Bowen to Mr William Thomas, expressing the wish to donate the volume to Edward Harley, Lord Oxford, 16 February 1735/6. Mounted on a folio with a note by Harley recording the generosity of Thomas Bowen, 22 March 1735/6.

f. 3: Decorative frontispiece with the title set in a rectangular cartouche painted green, red and yellow: ‘Perambulatio et superuisus terrarum et tenementoru[m] Dominii de Bromfeylde et Yale in Comitatu Denbigh, parcellae Possessionu[m] Exellentissimi Charoli Principis Walliae, Ducis Cornubiae et Eboru[m] et Comitis Cestrie, quondam in possessione Will[ielm]i Stanley militis alta proditione attincti capta et facta mensibus Aprilis, Maij et Junij anno d[omini] 1620 per Joh[ann]em Norden , per virtute commisionis ejusdem Principis, sub propria manu et sigillo suo priuato, eidem Joh[ann]i et Joh[ann]i suo filio directae. Ownership inscription at head of folio: ‘Oxford B.H.’ [i.e., Lord Oxford, Bibliotheca Harliensis].

f. 4r: ‘Advertismentes touching some perticular poyntes fit to be considered in the graunting of leases in Bromfeilde & Yale’.

f. 4v: Index of manors, townships and hamlets mentioned in the volume, under the heading: ‘A table of the manors townships and hamletts belonging to the lordship of Bromfeild and Yale as they are digested in the booke following’.

f. 5: Drawing of Holt Castle by John Norden, 1620, with the title: ‘The plotforme and uprighte of the Castle of Lyons als Holte Castle nere the towne of Holte within the Lordship of Bromfeld in the Countie of Denbigh, as it was in a[nno] 1620 by John Norden deputie Surveyour to Sr Richard Smith Surveyour generall to Prince Charles’. Showing the entire plot from the gatehouse to the River Dee. With labels and explanatory notes. Pen and ink and colour wash.

ff. 5v-6r: Plan of Holt Castle by John Norden. Annotated with notes on castle apartments, moat, river, yard, grounds, outbuildings, old structures, uses, values, etc. Pen and ink and colour wash.

f. 6v: An estimate of the quantities of lead remaining in and around Holt Castle.

ff. 7- 21: Account of the manors towns and hamlets in the Lordship of Bromfield and Yale since the reign of Queen Elizabeth. ‘A briefe declaration of the former and present estate of the Lordshyp of Bromfeilde and Yale’ [etc.].

ff. 22v-45: Account of the town and liberty of Holt (Villa Leonum). Plan of Holte Great Parke, or Mersley Park, f. 44.

ff. 46v-56: Howlington. Maps of Madock Moare, f. 54; Glynn Park, f. 57; plot of land called Park y Curring, f. 58.

ff. 59v-79v: Manor of Wrexham.

ff. 80v-114v: Manor of Burton. Map of land at Cheshire and Denbighshire boundary, part of Doddleston Manor and Burton Manor, f. 82.

ff. 114v-121v: Burton and Allington.

ff. 121v-122v: Hunckley.

ff. 122v-123r: Alington.

ff. 124-129: Manor of Moreton Anglicorum.

ff. 130v-135: Manor of Minera.

ff. 136v-153: Manor of Dynlle.

ff. 154-184: Manor of Esclusham. Including Brymbo and Bersham.

ff. 185-203: Manor of Ruabon.

ff. 204-223: Manor of Pickhill and Seswick.

ff. 224v-236: Manor of Egloisegle.

ff. 237v-246r: Manor of Fabrorum.

ff. 247v-262r: Manor of Abimbery.

f. 262v: Arbistock.

ff. 263v-289: Manor of Iscoyd.

f. 290: Manor of Heni.

ff. 291v-297: Manor of Cobham.

ff. 298v-323: Manor of Yale Prepositura.

ff. 324-353: Manor of Yale Raglaria.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049528

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3696 : Survey of Bromfield and Yale by John Norden

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3698]/040-002049528

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1620

End Date:

1620

Date Range:

1620

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 390 x 260 mm.

Foliation: 353 folios.

Binding: British Museum binding, 19th century, quarter leather. Spine lettering: 'Perambulation of Bromfeylde and Yale, Co Denbigh'.

Custodial History:

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.

This volume was presented to Edward Harley by Thomas Bowen, 10 February 1735/6 (letter and note, ff. 1-2).

Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3696

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).

Publications:

Extracts published in: ‘Survey of the Lordship of Bromfield and Yale, taken by John Norden, Senior, and John Norden, Junior, on the Attainder of Sir William Stanley, Knt., in 1620’, in Original Documents published as a supplement to the Archaeologia Cambrensis, vol. 1 (London, 1877), cxi-cxliii, cxci-ccclviii.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

Curatorial note at front of volume: 'Cf. Sloane 3241'.

Names:

Norden, John, junior
Norden, John, topographer, c 1547-1625,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000081309798,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51992245