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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 709
Title:
Scope & Content:: A HERALD-PAINTER'S work-book, containing:- 1. Drawings of' arms and banners. f. 3. A note at f. 10 b states that the arms, etc, on ff. 4-10 b are "all the banners and the sheilds which were made new and were used that day Alderman [John] Dethick was made lord maior" [of London, 1656]. 2. Cop...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 710
Title:
Scope & Content:: A HERALD-PAINTER'S Work-book, 1676-1678; containing rough drawings of arms, with the sums paid him and his employers' signed receipts. These employers were George Bromwich, W. Lord, and John Pincke (who formerly owned No. 712 below). With an index of names. Paper; ff. 22. Small Quarto. John Pin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1676-1678
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 711
Title:
Scope & Content:: A HERALD-PAINTER'S book of arms, drawn in trick, for the purpose of funerals; 1691-1694. The collector's name does not appear, but he seems, from an entry at the foot of f. 10 b, to have been in partnership with "Mr. Wiseman, sen.": cf. Harley MS. 1461, f. 111. At ff. 2-8 is an index; and at f. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1691-1694
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 712
Title:
Scope & Content:: ARMS of English families, in trick. With an index (ff. 3-8 b). Preceded (f 1b) by a copy of the grant of arms to Sir Cloudesley Shovel, with the Earl Marshal's warrant, 1691-2. Paper; ff. 71. XVIIth cent. Belonged to John Pincke, and, 18th cent., to John Holland, no. 41. Folio. Heraldry: Englis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 713
Title:
Scope & Content:: ENGLISH COATS-OF-ARMS, in colours, with a few in trick, 17th cent. With an index of names (f. 155 b). The volume also contains:- (a) Account of the tempest on 26 Nov. 1703, with a list of Her Majesty's ships lost in it, from the Monthly Mercury. f 1 b;- (b) List of the Commissioners, April, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 714
Title:
Scope & Content:: ARMS of English families, in trick; with copies of grants of arms made at various dates from 1473 to 1715, and a few pedigrees. Followed (f. 187) by drawings of English crests. With indexes at beginning and end. Paper; ff. 206. XVIIth-XVIIIth centt. In the centre of each cover is an almost oblit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 715
Title:
Scope & Content:: ROUGH DRAWINGS of arms, for the most part coloured, viz.:- (1) English (with a few Welsh and Irish), of various counties. ff. 1, 47 ;-(2) Surrey (with index at f. 44 b). f. 49 ;-(3) London (with index at f. 56), partly (f. 66) "taken out of the windows in Clothworkers' Hall in ao 1636." f. 60;...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 716
Title:
Scope & Content:: COLLECTIONS of arms, in trick, with a few in colours, viz.:- (1) Arms of families in various counties of England. f. 2;-(2) A few grants of arms made in various years from 1634 to 1691. f. 51;- (3) Arms of Scotch families. f. 53;-(4) Arms and crests granted by Richard St. George, Norroy King...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 717
Title:
Scope & Content:: ALPHABET of English arms. On the inside of the cover is a note by John Gibbon, Blue-mantle Pursuivant (ob. 1718), to - Parker, "This booke is worth the copying out faire," etc. Paper; ff. 38. XVIIth-XVIIIth centt. Folio. Heraldry: Alphabet of English arms: 16th-18th centt. includes: f. 1 * Jo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 718
Title:
Scope & Content:: COLLECTION of arms, in trick, viz.:-(1) Drawings of various coats, mostly in pencil. f. 1;-(2) Arms of English sees, abbeys, priories, universities and colleges, inns of court, hospitals, municipalities, trade-guilds, and private persons. f. 8;-(3) Scotch arms, in alphabetical order; two collect...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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