Harley MS 7025

The larger part of this manuscript contains 17th-century materials. It also features an original letter by Pope Eugenius IV (1383–1447) and original grants of arms dating to the reign of King Henry VIII (ff. 199r, 202r).

Contents:

ff. 1*recto-1*verso: A table of contents.

ff. 2*recto-65v: 'Accounts of the troops embarked, and ships employed on the Vigo Expedition, most of them original Muster Rolls'.

ff. 66r-72r: 'Disposition for landing the forces'.

ff. 74r-75v: 'Journal of the Operations at Vigo, a rough sketch'.

ff. 76r-77v: 'The English and French lines of Battel at Vigo Oct. 12 1702'.

ff. 78r-78v: 'List of Prisoners taken at fort Randa'.

ff. 79r-116v: 'Inventories of the Plate Money Cochineel and taken at Rondella near Vigo and sundry papers concerning the distribution of the same'.

f. 117r: 'Lists and other Papers relating to Christ Church, Trinity College & Westminster School'.

ff. 118r-119r: 'Deans of Christ Church Oxford'.

ff. 120r-124r: 'List of Canoniers of Christ Church'.

ff. 130r-130v: 'Masters of Trinity College Cambridge'.

ff. 132r-132v: 'Deans of Westminster'.

ff. 133r-134r: 'Head Masters of Westminster School'.

ff. 135r-150r: 'Lists of scholars of Westminster'.

ff. 152r-180v: 'Electio Discipulorum Westmonasteriensium in utramque Academiam'; going up to 1738.

ff. 182r-182v: 'Aliud exemplar, cum nonnullis variantibus'.

ff. 184r-185r: 'Carmen in inclytam scholam Westmonasteriensem, auctore Robert South'; dated 1652-1653.

ff. 186r-186v: 'List of Busby Trustees'.

ff. 188r-194r: 'A List of His Majestys Pictures as they are placed in Kensington Palace'; dated 1697.

f. 198r: An original letter by Pope Eugenius IV to Henry XVI (b. 1386, d. 1450), Duke of Bavaria, in 1447; written in Latin, with reference to the city of Nuremberg and Nicolas of Cusa.

f. 199r: Sir Thomas Wriothesley's original grant of arms to Richard Andrews of Synton, Worchestershire, dated 27 March 1529; written in French, with a large gold initial in a blue frame, partial (3-sided) borders in colours; and a coat of arms painted in colours and gold.

f. 200r: William Camden's original grant of arms to Alban Stephneth, dated 15 March 1605; written in Latin, with a gold initial and the arms of Alban Stephneth painted in colours and gold.

f. 201r: Sir Richard St George's original grant of arms to Richard Parkes, dated 4 February 1614; written in English, with a gold initial and the arms of Richard Parkes painted in colours and gold.

f. 202r: Thomas Hawley's original grant of arms to Alexander Childeborne, of London, dated 1 December 1529; written in English, with a large initial in gold featuring Thomas Hawley as Clarenceux King of Arms, pointing with a staff to the arms of Alexander Childeborne, which are painted in the border; with a partial (three-sided) foliate border in colours.

ff. 203r-203v: An account of the Carew family in English, featuring the date 1644.

ff. 204r-205r: Epitaphs of Sir Edward Mansell and Thomas Lord Mansell in Latin.

f. 206r: Descent and arms of the Haselwood Family; with coats of arms in colours.

f. 207r: 'A Catalogue of the most famous orders of knighthood throughout Christendome both Ecclesiasticall and Secular with the tymes of their Institutions, Foundations, and Patrons, and the Severall Armes, or Ensignes appropriated unto the same Orders'; a large folded parchment sheet with two lists of orders of knights, the first one is of 'Knightes Ecclesiastical; and begins with the Knights of St James of Compostella and ends with the Knights of Holy Lazarus of Jerusalem; the second list is of 'Knightes Secular' and begins with the Knights of the Round Table and ends with the Knights of the Golden Spur; each order is accompanied by its actual or attributed arms in colours; written in the (?) 1st quarter of the 17th century; inscribed on f. 207v: 'The orders of all knights E:5:9'.