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Harley MS 3756

Record Id:

040-002049588

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049588

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000109

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3756

Title:

Material relating to the lands of Gerald fitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare

Scope & Content:

Material concerning the land and possessions of Gerald fitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare.

A detailed description of this manuscript is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, pp. 149-55.

Contents:

f. 1r: Blank.

f. 1v: A note that the book was borrowed from a Mr R. Dowles.

f. 1v: A note that the book was received from Mr R. Dowel. Upside down is written a list of 'lancdes wiche most be occuped by the costome plowys of the lordsipe of Maenyosly'.

f. 2r: 'The costome plowys of May[n]othe'.

ff. 2v-3r: Blank.

ff. 3v-5r: Sheet music. Notation is only on ff. 3r-4v. The other folios have blank staves.

f. 5v: Table of contents for the manuscript.

ff. 6r-v: Blank.

f. 7r: A list of lands ('Fermes sett') and to whom they are rented.

f. 7v: Blank.

f. 8r: List of fees for different land holdings.

f. 8v: Blank.

ff. 9r-10v: 'The said erlle ? ffees (duties?) upon Irishmen'.

ff. 11r-12r: Blank.

f. 12v: Continuation of ff. 9r-10v.

f. 13r-14r: List of his plates, pots, goblets, etc.

ff. 14v-17v: Blank.

ff. 18r-19r: Tithes and 'fermes takyn to fferme' (indentures, tithes, and land sales/rents).

ff. 19v-20v: Blank.

ff. 21r-27v: 'Landes set to ferme' (a list of indentures).

ff. 28r-29v: Blank.

ff. 30r-36r: Duties due to the Earl of Kildare.

f. 36v: Appeal against a judge's decision concerning land in Balyncomun.

f. 37r: A covenant or indenture between Gerald fitz Thomas fitz John fitzGerald (Gearóid (Mór) mac Tomáis mic Sheáin), 8th Earl of Kildare, and Mageochagan of the Cinél Fhiacach. Probably a draft.

f. 37v: Short description of f. 37r in English, specifying that Mageochagan is of the Cenél Fhiacach and mentioning 'Kyletebbyr' (possibly Cill Tobair (Kiltipper) in Dublin).

ff. 38r-42r: Duties due to the Earl of Kildare.

ff. 42v-45r: Blank.

f. 45v: 'Thavoswsyn of benefices longing to the eryle of Kyldare', listing the master and submaster of Maynooth College, the pasrsonage of Yagostown, the parsonage of Pallardiston, etc.

f. 46r: 'The cesse to the vorkes'

f. 46v: Blank.

f. 47r: The Earl of Kildare's mills.

f. 47v: Blank.

f. 48r: Instruction on giving homage.

ff. 48v-96r: The rental of Gerald, Earl of Kildare for 1518-19. Memorandum at f. 87v.

ff. 96v-97r: Blank.

ff. 96v-98r: Account of books in the Earl's collection, divided by language (Latin, French, English, Irish).

ff. 98v-100r: A list of his plates, pots, goblets, etc.

f. 100v: The names of 'sutores which held of the lordshope of Rathemire by riall service and sute of the court'.

f. 101r: Account of the manor of Rathewire in Westmeath.

ff. 101v-130r: Blank.

f. 130v: Faded or rubbed drawing of a square with rings at each corner.

ff. 131r-163r.

f. 163v: Drawing of a square with rings at each corner and the middle of each side.

ff. 164r-177r: Blank.

ff. 177v-179r: Chief horses given by Gerald fitzGerald in the years 1513-1517 (the 5th to the 9th year of Henry VIII).

ff. 179v-180v: Hackneys given by Gerald fitzGerald in the years 1513-1517 (as above).

ff. 181r-v: Blank.

ff. 182r-184v: Chief horses and hackneys given by Gerald fitzGerald in the years 1523-1527.

f. 184v: Blank.

ff. 185r-v: Chief horses and hackneys given by Gerald fitzGerald in the year 1530.

ff. 186r-187r: Blank.

ff. 187v-188v: Wages/supplies for the Earl of Kildare's men.

ff. 189r-v: Account of fines.

f. 190r: Obits of members of the fitzGeralds.

f. 190v: Older list of manuscripts owned by the Earl of Kildare.

f. 191r: Blank.

f. 191v: A list of allowances, naming Mr Dowles with the year 1640.

This manuscript contains some later material.

f. i recto: An old shelf-mark.

f. i verso: Blank.

f. ii recto: Bookplate of 'The Most Noble John Duke of Newcastle Marquis & Earl of Clare, Baron Haughton of Haughton and Knight of ye Most Noble Order of the Garter'.

f. ii verso: A note on the contents of the manuscript.

Decoration:

Drawings of faces (ff. 27r, 41v, 71r). Initials in black with minor decoration (f. 41r). Interlaced flourish (f. 191v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049588

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3756 : Material relating to the lands of Gerald fitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3757]/040-002049588

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Irish

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1540

Date Range:

Early 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper and parchment (ff. 1, 37).

Dimensions: 405 x 190-270 (written area 20-340 x 140-220mm) (ff. 2-36, 38-191); 385 x 220mm (written area 305 x 160mm) (f. 1); 130 x 105mm (written area 90 x 95mm). Mounted on paper guards 405 x 270mm) (f. 37).

Foliation: ff. ii + 191 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end). Single vellum leaf inserted at f. 37.

Script: Gothic cursive. Irish script at f. 36r.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, tooled in gold with the Harleian arms stamped on upper and lower covers; marbled endpapers.

Watermarks at ff. 135, 142, 143, 144, 146, 148, 151, 152, 155, 156, 158, 159, 162, 163, 166, 168, 170, 162, 174, 175, etc.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Ireland.

Provenance:

Gerald fitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (b. 1487, d. 1534). The manuscript contains rentals and inventories of his properties; f. 37 is concerned with the 8th Earl.

Mr Dowles, owned in 1640: according to an inscription on ff. 1v and 191v: 'XXIII April 1640 / I receaved this Booke from Mr R. Dowles'.

John Holles, English peer (b. 1662 d. 1711): bookplate of 'The Most Noble John Duke of Newcastle Marquis & Earl of Clare, Baron Haughton of Haughton and Knight of ye Most Noble Order of the Garter (f. ii 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 Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahanm 1808-12), III (1808), p. 59, no. 3756.

Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Standish Hayes O'Grady (vol. I) and Robin Flower (vol. II), 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1926; repr. 1992), i, 149-55.

Crown Surveys of Lands 1540-41 with the Kildare Rental Begun in 1518, ed. by Gearóid Mac Niocaill (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1992), 232-57.

Hore, Herbert Francis ‘The Rental Book of Gerald Fitzgerald, Ninth Earl of Kildare. Begun in the Year 1518’, The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society, New Series, 2, no. 2 (1859), 266–80, 301–10; 4, no. 1 (1862) 110-137; 5, no. 3 (1866), 501–18, 525–46.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)