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Harley MS 4617
- Record Id:
- 040-002050457
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050457
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000084
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4617
- Title:
- Description of the lands of Roger Wombwell of Wombwell near Barnsley
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-26r: Description of the lands of Roger Wombwell (b. 1460, d. 1520) of Wombwell near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, beginning: 'HERE ENSWIS The bonding of all the Maners, Messez, Landis, Tennementis, Pasturis, Woddes of Roger Wombwell, Lord of Wombwell, and the Hamlettes thereof. The lord of Thurgurland on of the lords of Southkyrkbe on of the Lordes of Wentworth quereof I the said Roger am seisseid att this daie of the making hereof or anny oder to my use within Counte of yorke and also all the Messez, Landis, Tennementis, and Pasturis of all the ffreholders within Towne and ffeyldes of Wombwell qwich bonding were maid by me the said Roger by ayde and conseill of all the ffreholders or there tenands within said toune and Townschyyppes and if here be anny Messez, Landis, Tennementis, and Pasturis Wronge bondyd and be nott […] and surely don for want of perfyte knowlage I advyse my heyr and also charge hym that it maye be Reformeid trulye Thys bonding was endeid and ffynysheid the iiijth daie of Apriell the xth yere of the regne of kynge Henry the viijth'; followed by a note that dates the introduction to 12 May in the 8th year of King Henry VIII [1516].
The manuscript contains various additions:
f. 1r: 'Jhesus marcy lady helpe'; added in the 16th century.
ff. 33v, 35r-37v, 57r-57v: Letters and descriptions of land of the Wombwell family dated to 1633, referring to William Wombwell (b. 1604, d. 1662).
f. 41r: A list of 'ffrerentes of SowKirbie - Martimas [Martinmas] 1562'.
f. 42r: A list of 'ffreholders of Thurgulande that holds of the Mannor of Thurguland' ; added in the 17th century.
f. 43r: An original indenture, beginning: 'Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos hoc presens scriptum pervenerit Wilhelmus wombwell de wombwell in Comitatu Eboracensis armiger'; dated 23 September 12 Elizabeth I [1570].
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050457", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4617: Description of the lands of Roger Wombwell of Wombwell near Barnsley" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050457 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4617 : Description of the lands of Roger Wombwell of Wombwell near Barnsley - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4613]/040-002050457
- 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:
- 1516
- End Date:
- 1516
- Date Range:
- 1516
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment; paper (ff. 33, 35-42, and 57).
Dimensions: 290 x 205 mm [ff. 2-27]; 310 x 220 mm [ff. 28-32, 34, 44-56] (text space: 220 x 160 mm [ff. 2r-27r]; 260 x 190 mm [ff. 28r-32v, 34r-34v, 44r-56v]).
Foliation: ff. 57 (+ 1 unfoliated blank paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); f. 1 is a parchment strip; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1r (Harleian shelfmark with the inscription 'Property' in pencil); 1 unfoliated parchment strip (Harleian shelfmarks) after f. 1; ff. 33, 35-42 are smaller paper leaves; 1 wax seal on f. 35; 2 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 35; f. 43 is a folded parchment indenture; f. 57 is a folded paper strip pasted onto the blank paper flyleaf at the end (f. [58]recto).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Marbled paper over pasteboards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
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), III (1808), pp. 179-80.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Yorkshire, England