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B. Biographical and personal papers: Three leaves from Sir Thomas Shirley’s history of the family of Shirley, Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 923, fols. 308–10

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Being the title of book x and two leaves from book ix. The title runs thus : "The genealogick historie of the howse of Shirleys; the eight (altered into tenth) booke; the lordes of Bodington, How Courte", etc.

The other leaves refer to the family of Sir Thomas Shirley, and have a notice of his youngest son, Sir Robert Shirley, with his arms in trick, and of the marriages of five of his daughters, with their arms also in trick.

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  • Creation: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

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1 item

Language of Materials

  • English

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MS. Rawl. D. 923, fols. 308–10

Related Materials

These leaves appear to have belonged originally to the volume which is now Harl. MS. 4928, of which an account is given in Evelyn Philip Shirley’s Stemmata Shirleiana, second edit., 1873, pp. 129–134. At p. 257 of that volume the third daughter of Sir Thomas, wife of Sir P. Brocas, is called Elizabeth; her name is here given as Margaret.

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