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Harley MS 907

Record Id:
041-003433704
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002046735
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100070558576.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 907
Title:
Miscellany of Mr John Withie, largely concerning heraldry
Scope & Content:

Duodecimo manuscript volume, written and tricked by Mr John Withie.

Contents:

  • ff. 1-17: Arms, tricked by Mr Withie collected from various sources, between 1631 and 1632.
  • ff. 18-19v: Family trees of Bardwell and Herbert families.
  • ff.20-20v: Church notes and arms, taken by Mr Withie at Bechampton, Buckinghamshire, 16 September 1831.
  • ff. 21v-30: Banners, standards, penons, etc. used at the funeral of James I, tricked by Mr Withie.
  • f. 32: A drawing of a woman, probably a monument, possibly also taken from Bechampton, Buckinghamshire.
  • f. 33v: Names or titles of Officers of Arms in Ireland.
  • f. 34: The arms of Sir Richard Whitbourne.
  • ff. 34v-35: Names of several Viscounts, 1631.
  • ff. 36v-38: Names of the several High-Sheriffs, 1632, with 2 incomplete arms.
  • f. 39v (upside down): 18 arms (incomplete), drawn in pencil, with ‘Walwerth’ inscribed above them.
  • f. 40v: The order of the procession at a lady's funeral.
  • f. 41: An unidentified coat of arms, drawn in pen.
  • ff. 42-43: (some upside down): Bible verses, written in pencil.
  • ff. 44-44v: Tables, possibly rotas representing work done on the following account.
  • ff. 45-46: Account of work done by Mr Withie for the clothworkers, 26 Sept 1633.
  • ff. 46v-49v: Names of families, with space left for their arms, but the arms were never drawn in.
  • f. 49v (upside down): A Bible verse written in pencil.
  • f. 51v (upside down): The arms of the O’Laughlin family.
  • f. 52: Family tree of the Choppington family.
  • ff. 52v-61: Achievements and arms of some of the nobility (some are unfinished).
  • f. 58 (upside down): Medicinal recipe ‘for a Consumption’.
  • f. 61 (upside down): Tables, possibly rota's representing work done on the following account.
  • f. 61v (upside down): Account ‘for the funeral of Lady Barnardiston, March 1632'.
  • f. 62 (upside down): Drawing of arms, and the family tree of the Webb family of Reading.
  • ff. 62v-63 (upside down): Account ‘for St. John Lemans funeral’, with tables, possibly rota's representing work done on this account.
  • f. 63v (upside down): Arms of Sir Edward Warder, drawn in pencil, with some parts labelled in red crayon.
  • f. 64 (upside down): ‘A medecin for the Winde or Stone Colleck’.
  • ff. 64v, 66 (upside down): A paint recipe.
  • f. 65: A recipe ‘for the head and beard to be used cold’.
  • ff. 66v-67 (upside down): Account ‘for the funeral of Alderman Hastings[?]’, with tables, possibly rota's representing work done on this account.
  • f. 67v (upside down): Arms drawn in pen, with tables, possibly rota's representing work done on the following account.
  • f. 68 (upside down): Account ‘for the funeral of Sir Cuthbert Hacket, begun 18 November 1831’.
  • ff. 68v-70 (upside down): Accounts, with tables, possibly rota's representing work done on these accounts.
  • f. 70v (upside down): A medicinal recipe for ‘A salve to cure any swelling or green sore’.
  • f. 71 (upside down): A recipe for ‘Drying Oyle’, and a medicinal recipe ‘for a sore throate’.
  • ff. 71v-74 (some upside down): Some notes and other accounts, mostly crossed out.
  • f. 74v: An acrostic poem, on the words ‘Lord, Have mercy upon us’, attributed to ‘N G’
  • f. 75: ‘A medecin for an Ague’, which is more like a charm than a medical recipe.
  • f. 75v: A doggerel ballad on Prince Charles when he was in Spain.

This manuscript has been bound together with Harley MS 906 at a later date.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002046735
041-003433704
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 906-907 : Two manuscripts, chiefly concerning heraldry, by John Withie

 

Harley MS 907 : Miscellany of Mr John Withie, largely concerning heraldry
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[0906]/040-002046735[0002]/041-003433704
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
Record Type (Level):
Item
Extent:
1 volume
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1631
End Date:
1633
Date Range:
1631-1633
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 140 x 90 mm.

Foliation: 75 folios.

Binding: Post-1600 binding.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), Volume I

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 356-357

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Withie, John, arms painter, 1593-c 1678