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Harley MS 4776

Record Id:

040-002050619

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050619

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000126

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4776

Title:

Liber Terrarum of Wales

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains land surveys and letters patent relating to Wales. Other copies of these materials can be found in Harley MS 696.

Although '1565' is inscribed in an initial on f. 53v, this date may only apply to ff. 1*recto-2*recto, and ff. 41r-54r. While the texts on ff. 129v-131v were clearly added around 1560, the rest of the manuscript appears to have been copied at an earlier time.

Contents:

ff. 1*recto-2*verso: Table of contents, including all items currently in the manusript; written by the same hand that copied ff. 41r-54r.

ff. 1r-20v: 'Extenta [terrarum] in Comitatu Caernarvon facta per Johannem de Delves [apud Conway 26 E. 3].

ff. 21r-40v: 'Extenta [terrarum] in Comitatu Anglesey […] facta per Johannem de Delves'.

ff. 41r-54r: 'Extanta terrarum in Comitatu Merioneth facta per [...]'.

ff. 55r-64r: Survey of sheriffs and Justiciars in North Wales, beginning: 'Extenta ville de Bangor'.

ff. 64v-68v: Statute of Rhuddlan.

ff. 69r-70r: 'Consuetudines Herfford'.

ff. 70r-75v: 'Placita corone coram Ricardo de Stafforde et sociis suis Justiciis domini apud Conway [44. E.3]'.

ff. 76r-106r: 'Adhuc de placitis de Libertatibus apud Caernarvon coram Shareshull prefatis Justiciis itenerantibus [sic]'; with related documents.

ff. 106v-112v: 'Peticiones hominum Northwalliae facta per Comitatibus [33 E. 3]'; signed: 'Quod Ricardus Vulpes'.

ff. 113-115r: 'Transcriptum Rotuli de perticulis [sic] Taxacionis bonorum Spiritualium et Temporalium Cleri Diocesis Bangorensis'.

ff. 115r-117v: 'Computus Decani Ecclesiae Cathedralis Bangorensis'.

ff. 118r-118v: 'Articuli Escaetriae'.

ff. 119r-119v: 'Complicio monete et mensurarum'.

f. 120r: 'Donatio et libera disposition capellae de Pennrynn in Commoto de Crethyn Com. Caernarvon pertinet et spectat de iure et consuetudine ad Edwardum Griffith Armigerum'; signed: 'per me Johannem Vechan'.

ff. 120v-121r: 'Nomina Canonicorum et Patronum Prebendariorum ecclesiae collegij de Castro Kebij secundum librum Wilhelmi ap Gruffith de Penmeneth'.

ff. 121v-122r: 'Valor Temporalium Prioratus de Prestolle factus per Priorem et Tenentes dicti Prioratus mense Februarij apud Penmon. anno R. R. Edwardi III post Conquestum 48'.

f. 123r: Indenture made between Abbot of Gully, the Canon Regulars of Aberdaron, and men from Abadayth (1252).

f. 124r: 'Partem Wilhelmum Griffith in Insula Focarum'.

ff. 125r-126r: Letters patent of Richard II, confirming liberties and privileges of Bangor Cathedral.

ff. 127v-128r: Letters patent of Edward (? IV), confirming liberties and privileges of the college church of St Beuno, Clynnog Fawr.

ff. 129v-131v: Section in English and Latin, with orders taken 'At the sessions holden at at Bermarres' [9. H. 7]; Caernarvon [24 H. 7]; for Merionethshire [27 H. 8]; for Newborough [1551]; for Wales [1555] ('A note taken out of an old book of R. Thomas'); for the sheriffs by Queen Elizabeth, 1559; and grants to Queen Elizabeth; written in a distinct Elizabethan hand different from the other two hands in the manuscript.

Decoration:

Large initials with knotwork, cadels, and human faces in black ink (ff. 41r [2x]). Smaller initials with cadels and other forms of decoration in black ink, including human faces (ff. 44r, 5r, 48v, 49r, 49v [2x], 52r), fish (ff. 45v [2x], 46r, 46v, 48v, 49r), and banderols (ff. 43v, 48r, 53v ['1565']).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050619

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4776 : Liber Terrarum of Wales

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4775]/040-002050619

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1495

End Date:

1570

Date Range:

c 1500-c 1565

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 440 x 330 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 131 ( + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); ff. 1* and 2* are parchment leaves at the beginning; 1 unfoliated blank parchment leaf after f. 2*.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; marbled endleaves.

Custodial History:

Origin:

? England or Wales.

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. 203-204.

Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Sources c.800-c.1800, 3 vols (Aberystwyth: The National Library of Wales and University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2022), I, p. 686.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England
Wales