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1161. Stowe MS 610

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 610
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Scope & Content:
Copy of the Visitation, with arms in trick, of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset, taken (in 1530 and 1531) by Thomas Benholt, Clarenceux King of Arms. Imperfect, the first leaf remaining having originally been numbered 32 (cf. Add. MS. 14,315, f. 39 b). At f. 24 b is the first part of a chall...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1162. Stowe MS 725

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 725
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Scope & Content:
ENGLISH AND IRISH ARMS, in colour, finely executed, as follows:- (1) Dukes of Buckingham. f. 1;-(2) Earls of Buckingham [and Buckinghamshire]. f. 2;-(3) Earls of Cornwall. f. 3;- (4) Cornish nobility and gentry. f. 4;-(5) Earls of Devon. f. 7 ; -(6) Nobility and gentry of co. Devon. f. 8;-(7...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

1163. Stowe MS 727

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 727
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Scope & Content:
DEVONSHIRE ARMS, in trick; accompanied in most cases by notes referring to authorities, such as church-monuments, etc., and "olde bookes" and rolls of Mr. Hoker, Mr. Poole, Mr. Tresswell, Mr. Phillippes, and "Mr. Clarenceux Benalte" [sc. Thomas Benholt, Clarenceux, who made a Visitation of the W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

1164. Stowe MS 819

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 819
Title:
Scope & Content:
"A CHOROGRAHICAL, and Historicall, Description of ye county of Devon and city of Exon, in which is set down ye nature of ye country, of ye people, ye commodities, and goverments thereof, with sundry other things incident and worthy to be known, collected by T[ristram] R[isdon], Gent., for ye lov...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1659
Extent:
1 item