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Language English Name Wriothesley, Thomas, Garter King of Arms, c. 1460-1534

1. Add MS 4101

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Add MS 4101
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WRIOTHESLEY HERALDIC COLLECTIONS. Collections relating to heraldry, etc. Supplementary to Add. MSS. 5530, 45131-45133, 46354. The contents are as follows:- (1) 'Le xviiie livre de Bethelemy des proprietes lequel parle de la proprite des bestes', being a French translation by Jean Corbichon of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 15644

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Add MS 15644
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COLLECTIONs relating to the family of Steward, of Swaffham, co. Norf., and Ely, in two parts:- i. Copies of deeds, with notes of the seals, relating to the family, principally of the xvth century; with the following note written at the beginning, " In this book is entred the true transcript of sundry ould charters remayninge in my possession, decimo ano. Regine Elizabeth, 1567, A. S. [Augustine Steward]." They are as follows:- Receipt by Bartholomew Bartrand to the Prior of Wenlock, for ...
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Steward family; of Swaffham: Collections relating to. Wenlock Priory; Shropshire: Receipt by B. Bartrand to the Prior: 1441. includes: f. 2 Bartholomew Bartrand: Receipt to the Prior of Wenlock for œ50: 1441,: Lat. f. 2 Sir William de Bourchier: Agreement to undertake the custody of the castl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 37687 F

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Add MS 37687 F
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F. Grant by Thomas Wryothesley, Garter, and Thomas Benolt, Clarenoceux, to William Potkyn, of Senocke [Sevenoaks], co. Kent, gent., of arms and crest : "dargent a vne fece entre troys chiens; de chase currans de gueilles sur la fece trois fuseaux dor. a son tymbre la teste deung cheuerell de sab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1517
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 45131-45133

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Add MS 45131-45133
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WRIOTHESLEY HERALDIC COLLECTIONS 45131-45133. WRIOTHESLEY HERALDIC COLLECTIONS, comprising heraldic, historical and genealogical material from the collections of Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms 1505-1534. Some sections of the manuscripts are in his own hand, as noted below. A further volume from his collections is Add. MS. 46354. It seems likely that the present manuscripts passed after Wriothesley's death to his successors as Garter, but it is doubtful if 45131 may be identifie...
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Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms: Heraldic collections: 15th-16th centt.: Partly autogr. Heraldry: Heraldic collections of Sir T. Wriothesley d. 1534.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1505-1719
Extent:
3 items

5. Add MS 46354

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Add MS 46354
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WRIOTHESLEY'S HERALDIC COLLECTIONS. Vol. IV. 'Writhe's Book of Knights': collections made apparently by John Writhe, Garter King of Arms 1478-1504, and his son Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms 1505-1534, mainly consisting of lists of knights arranged chronologically under the occasion of their creation, ff. 2b-29, and in the second part, ff. 72b-192b, of the volume painted drawings of their arms and of arms granted by Sir Thomas Wriothesley (see A. R. Wagner, Cat. of English Media...
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John Writhe, Garter King of Arms: Heraldic collections: 15th-16th centt. Heraldry: Heraldic collections of J. Writhe and Sir T. Wriothesley: 15th-16th centt. Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms: Heraldic collections: 15th-16th centt. includes: f.1b Sir William Fitzwilliam, Earl of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-16th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 63009

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Add MS 63009
Title:
Roger of St Albans, Progenie regum Angliae, a genealogical roll chronicle of the Kings of England
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Contents: Progenies regum Angliae or the St Albans chronicle, a genealogical diagram of the descent of the Kings of England to Edward IV (r. 1461-1483) with a commentary to Henry VI, attributed to Roger Alban O'Carm or Roger of St Albans (d. after 1461). In the central column, each ruler is ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1453-1461
Extent:

1 roll

7. Egerton MS 3713

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Egerton MS 3713
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WILLEMENT'S ROLL ROLL OF ARMS containing painted shields of the twenty-six founders of the Order of the Garter, and of the nobility temp. Richard II, copied from a roll made between 1392 and 1397; late 15th-early 16th cent. Imperfect at the beginning. The roll was published in blazon by Thomas Willement, F.S.A., the antiquary and stained-glass artist from whom it derives its present name, as A Roll of Arms of the Reign of Richard II, 1834. A description from this publication (while the wher...
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Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms: Roll of arms made for: late 15th-early 16th cent. Thomas Willement, heraldic artist: 'Willement's roll': late 15th-early 16th cent. Orders Military. Garter: Painted arms of founder knights: late 15th-early 16th cent. Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Sal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1409-1540
Extent:
1 item

8. Harley MS 1417

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Harley MS 1417
Title:
Descents and pedigrees of English families
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Contents: f. 1r: Added ownership inscriptions. f. 2r: A list of nobleman during the reign of King Henry VIII, perhaps those who formed part of his Privy Council. ff. 3r-11r: A partial index to two collection of arms, one signified by a maltese cross (possibly identified as London, College ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1525-1534
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 1499

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Harley MS 1499
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English heraldic collection, including royal coats of arms; genealogies of English noble families; Thomas Tonge, Visitation of the Northern Counties, 1530; tracts on heraldic matters; a transcript of Domesday Book relating to Yorkshire
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Contents: ff 1r-1v: 'A Table of the Hole Contentes of the boke Both of the Petygrees and also the Geanologees And of wych lefe every oon doth stand'. ff. 2r-4r: Arms of kings, beginning with the 'arma Christi', and the attributed arms of the Three Magi and Prester John. ff. 4v-5r: Table of co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1530
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 7025

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Harley MS 7025
Title:
Accounts of military operations; lists and other papers relating to Christ Church Oxford, Trinity College Cambridge, and Westminster School; letter by Pope Eugenius IV (1447); original grants of arms; 'Catalogue of the most famous orders of knighthood throughout Christendome both Ecclesiasticall and Secular'
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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: 'A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1447-1738
Extent:
1 volume