This heraldic collection of arms and genealogies was compiled towards the end of the reign of Henry VIII, but contains a few 17th-century additions. Contents: f. 1r: Table of 'Dessents of noble noblemen' with folio references to this manuscript. ff. 2r-151v: Pedigrees and descents of Englis...
Contents: f. 1r: A wisdom in Latin: 'Modica alteratio in membro principali magnam alterationem facit'; probably excerpted from John Guillim's A Display of Heraldrie (London: 1610). ff. 1v-223r: A copy of the Visitation-Book of Kent by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Rouge Dragon Pursuivant,...
Contents: ff. 2r-172v: A copy of the Visitation of Shropshire by Richard Lee, Richmond Herald, and marshall to Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1574; with additional notes by Lewis Dunne and Jacob Chaloner until the year 1620. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink throughout...
ff. 1-3: Letter or warrant of King Charles II, subscribed by Sir Leoline Jenkyn to George Legg, Lord Dartmouth, Master General of Ordnance. 25 July 1683. Signifying that he had approved a book of instructions delivered to him by Lord Dartmouth, by signing each leaf with his royal sign manual. ...
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Coats and Creasts done in the tyme of the Visitacion of London Anno 1633 & 1634’. f. 2*recto: A list of ‘London Wards’. ff. 1r-97v: Coats of arms (mostly 4-6 per page) from the Visitation of London in 1633 and 1634, organized according to the city's ...
Contents: f. 1*recto: The coat of arms of ‘Captaine James Maiteland and Sir Alexander Jardens [? Jardine’s][daughter] his wife’. ff. 1r-65r: Coats of arms of Scottish kings and nobility from the time of King James VI (1567–1625) [f. 17v: ‘James the 6th of the name Kinge of Scotes now liveing ...
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: An alphabetical index of names of families included in this manuscript. ff. 5v-35v: Coats of arms of Kentish families (4 per page). Decoration: Coats of arms and crests, drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Contents: ff. 1r-107v: Wycliffite Gospels in the later version, imperfect, lacking Matthew 1.20-8.26 and John 20.28 to the end. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A note: 'Agrees with no. 272. Mark 1 differs in Royal Lib. 1. C. VIII'; probably written around the time of the...