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KENTISH PEDIGREES, evidences, heraldic and genealogical notes taken in churches and private houses, etc, collected in or about the years 1592-1594. The volume also contains, in the same hand:- (a) Notes on Bessarion's work "Adversus calumniatorem Platonis." f. 7 b;-(b) Notes on English land te...
PEDIGREES and rough genealogical notes of families of the Low Countries, arranged in alphabetical order; with the arms in many cases, in colour or in trick. Two volumes. Vol. I. A to L. Vol. II. M to Z. In Vol. II., f. 292, is a small separate collection of Dutch and Belgian pedigrees, preceded by an index; and at f. 319 is a "Généalogie abregée des deux maisons de Guines, extraite d'une Généalogie plus étendue, dressée par Dom Estienne Le Pez, religieux Benedictin de l'abbaye de St. Wast" [...
Vol. II. M to Z. Netherlands General: Arms and pedigrees: 17th-18th centt. Genealogies: Dutch and Belgian pedigrees and arms: 17th-18th centt. includes: f. 319 Etienne Le Pez, Benedictine monk: Généalogie des Comtes de Guines: 18th cent.: Extr. f. 319 Counts of Guisnes; family: Genealogy of:...
COLLECTION relating to heraldry, etc.:- 1. "Mémoir de ce que le t[re]sexcellent et tresuictorieux Roy [Hen. VII.] dangleterre ara a faire quant il sera mande venir aux chapitres generaulx de lordre de la toison dor, dont il est frere et compaignon," consisting of forms of procuration, etc. ff....
ORDINARY of arms, with drawings of the coats described. French. The arrangement, instead of being alphabetical, is as follows: lion (f. 2), eagle (f. 14 b), bend (f. 16 b), saltire (f. 23), fess (f. 26), vair (f. 39 b), fusil (f. 41), chevron (f. 43), fret (48 b), chief (f. 50 b), cross (f. 54 b...
ORIGINAL LETTERS addressed to John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (ob. 1745), on antiquarian subjects, principally heraldic or genealogical; 21 Oct. 1700-19 Mar. 1741/2. The last letter, dated 12 Apr. 1746, must be to John Anstis jun. The names of the writers are given in the index. Among them are:...
MISCELLANEOUS PRIVATE LETTERS, etc., English and foreign; 1613- 1818:- 1. [Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount] Mountgarrett, to Sir Williain Andrewes, Knt., with a present of a goshawk, etc.; Ballyne, 12 Sept. 1613. f 1. 2. [Henry Percy, 9th Earl of] Northumberland (ob. 1632), to Sir Thomas Fairfa...