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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4958-4975
Title:: Heraldic MSS., of which all except 4959 had been the property of Richard Wallis, painter stainer of London, some having previously belonged to Samuel Waker, another painter stainer, with whom Wallis was closely associated. Many of these MSS. are in the autograph of Waker or Wallis, or both, while others bear their annotations or marks of ownership. Some bear as a frontispiece a form of summons to the Court of Assistants of the Painter Stainers Company, very likely belonging to Wallis, who be...
Scope & Content:: Heraldry: Heraldic collections of Sir S. Stuart: 16th-18th centt.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: [1500-1714]
Extent:: 18 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4958-4977
Title:: STUART COLLECTION
Scope & Content:: Manuscripts formerly belonging to Sir Simeon Stuart, 3rd Bart., of Hartley Mauduit, co. Southt. (d. 1779), sold at the sale of his library in 1777 and purchased by the Museum from a book seller in 1778 (cf. John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, viii, 1814, p. 645). Paper, except where otherwise sta...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: [1500-1714]
Extent:: 20 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4959
Title:
Scope & Content:: STUART COLLECTION. Vol. II (ff. 31). 'The Armory of Nobility where in is conteined a briefe Discourse of ... the Kings of England, with the creations ... since William Conqueror unto ... 1589; with their ... Original Arms and joyning of their houses by Marriage ... Collected by Robert Cooke ... ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1727
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4960
Title:
Scope & Content:: STUART COLLECTION. Vol. III (ff. i + 160). 'The Armes of the Nobilitie of England', with crests and supporters, collected by Samuel Waker and in his autograph; 1670. The arms, in trick, are those of peers living at about this date, arranged in order of precedence. There are tables of contents at...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1670
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4961
Title:
Scope & Content:: STUART COLLECTION. Vol. IV (ff. 90). Visitation of Berkshire, 1623, by Henry Chitting, Chester Herald, with additions from the visitations of that county of 1566 and 1665-1666; 17th cent. There are some drawings of arms, in trick, and also additions in Waker's autograph made circ. 1669 (f. 1), p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4962
Title:
Scope & Content:: STUART COLLECTION. Vol. V (ff. i + 89). Visitation of Cambridgeshire, 1619, by Henry St. George, Richmond Herald (knt. 1627, Garter King of Arms 1643); aft. 1619. With painted shields and crests and an illuminated title-page (f. 1). There is an index at ff. 86-89b. The Visitations of Cambridgesh...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: after 1619
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4963
Title:
Scope & Content:: STUART COLLECTION. Vol. VI (ff. 169). Visitation of Surrey, 1623, with arms in trick, copied, with additional arms and pedigrees, by Samuel Waker; 1669-1671. There is an index at ff. 2-3, and f. 3b is a list of Surrey Justices of the Peace in 1623. The Visitations of Surrey are published in The ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1669-1671
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4964
Title:
Scope & Content:: STUART COLLECTION. Vol. VII (ff. 126). Collections of the descents and arms of the gentry of Middlesex, by Richard Mundy: an unfinished copy made by Waker, with arms in trick, and some additions by the copyist; 1668. There is an index at ff. 5-6. Mundy's original MS., Harley MS. 1551, was publis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1668
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4965
Title:
Scope & Content:: STUART COLLECTION. Vol. VIII (ff. 97). Collection of arms and historical memoranda, etc., formerly belonging to John Wodenoth or Woodnoth (d. 1634), antiquary, of Shavington Hall, co. Chest; 1596- circa 1634. Latin and English. Partly in the autograph of Wodenoth, who probably acquired the MS. i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1596-c 1634
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4966
Title:
Scope & Content:: STUART COLLECTION. Vol. IX (ff. 101). Collection of arms granted circa 1556-1644, made by Richard Wallis; late 17th cent. Autograph. The arms are painted and in trick up to f. 70, after which they are mainly rough pencil sketches. A large number were granted by Sir William Segar, Garter King of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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