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Harley MS 5825

Record Id:

040-002051672

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051672

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5825

Title:

Pedigrees and arms for families in Huntingdonshire

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 2r: The ‘Seale of the Towne of Huntingdon taken the 28 of August Anno Domini 1613’.

ff. 2v, 8r, 11v-13r, 19r, 20v, 34r, 44r: Drawings of coats of arms (‘church notes’) with the following headings: ‘All these ware taken out of Kimbalton Castell in the hall and a Gallery’ (f. 2v); Coats of arms ‘In Laurance Tarrons house at Sautry in the Hall Windows 9 Augusti 1613’; ‘In the Sautry Church’; ‘In the Chapell of the house at Elton in Com. Hunt. tertio Augusti 1622’; ‘In the Church of Elton’ (f. 8r); ‘In the church of Kimbolton in Comitatu Huntingdon 13 Augusti 1613’ [intersected with inscriptions from tombs] (f. 11v-13r); ‘An Southe Church in Comit. Hunt. Taken the 18 August Anno Domini 1613’ [followed by inscriptions from tombs] (f. 19r); ‘In Buckworth Church in Com. Hunt. 20 Augusti 1613 In the windowis’ (f. 20v); ‘In Aulkmondburye Churche vulgo Auconbury in Comit. Huntingdon 18 Augusti 1613 these in the windowes’; ‘In the Churche of St Neots in Com. Hunt. 19 of August 1613’; ‘In dodington Churche in Comit. Hunt. 20 Augusti 1613’ (f. 21v); ‘In Stoughton Churche 20 of August 1613 In the Windowes’; ‘In Sir William Dyers hall at Soughton magna 20 August 1613’; ‘In Holme Church these written in the East window August: 1613’ [intersected with inscriptions from tombs] (f. 23v); ‘In the Churche of Walton in Com. Huntingdon taken the 27 Day of August 1613’ (f. 34r); ‘In St Bennetts Churche in the towne of Huntingdon the 28 of August Anno Domini 1613’; ‘In the Church of Allhallowes in the towne of Huntingdon the 28 August Anno Domini 1613’ (f. 44r).

ff. 3r-3v, 6r, 7v, 8v-11r, 13v-14r, 15r-18v, 24r-31v, 32v-33v, 37v-38v, 41v-42r, 43v, 44v-53r, 54r-55v, 56v-61r, 68r-77v: Pedigrees of families in the county of Huntingdonshire, with their arms and crests tricked.

ff. 4r-5v, 6v-7r, 14v-15r, 19v-20v, 22r-22v, 32r, 34r-35v, 36v-37r, 39r-41r, 42v-43r, 53v: Copies of charters in English and Latin, with drawings of seals.

ff. 62r-67v: Copies of letters for the Visitation of Huntingdonshire in 1602 and other documentation related to heraldic visitations in general: ‘His Majesties Comission to Clarenceulx for his Visitation’; ‘Clarenceux Deputation to Lancaster Harald of Armes’; ‘To the Baylif of the Hundred of Normancrose’; ‘The Proclamacion for disclaming of such as have usurped the title of Gentelman’ .

ff. 78v-79r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.

Decoration:

Coats of arms, tricked, and seals, drawn in black ink throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051672

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5825 : Pedigrees and arms for families in Huntingdonshire

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5828]/040-002051672

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:

1613

End Date:

1622

Date Range:

1613-1622

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 325 x 210 mm.

Foliation: ff. 79 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 77 and f. 78; 1 unfoliated blank paper stub between f. 74 and f. 75; each quire has been mounted onto a paper leaf.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound by the British Museum in 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Henry Lily [Lilly] (b. 1589, d. 1638), herald painter in Little Britain; Rose Rouge Pursuivant in 1634; Rouge Dragon Pursuivant in 1638: his title (‘Rougedragon’) inscribed on f. 1r; and his name and title written on a paper pastedown on f. 1r: ‘Bought of the daughter of Hen: Lilly Rouge dragon’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 224).

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), p. 301.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 462.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England