1. DESCRIPTIONS of funerals served by the College of Arms, 1565-1594; with arms in trick. ff. 8, 103b, 110. The writer, as appears by a statement at f. 46, was Nicholas Dethick, Blue-Mantle Pursuivant (1565), Windsor Herald (1583, ob. 1596). At ff. 2-7 b he gives a list of "Funeralls sarvid to m...
NOTES of funerals, with the arms (in trick) of the deceased, the earliest and latest dates given being 1597 and 1655. With later index. Paper; ff. 97. XVIth-XVIIth centt. With the signature, 18th cent., "John Holland, no. 8." Folio. Ceremonials: Notes of funerals: 16th-17th centt.
NOTES of funerals, with arms (in trick) of the deceased, the earliest and latest dates given being 1614 and 1659. The first hand ends (f. 32 b) with 1630. With a more modern index at the beginning. Paper; ff. 50. XVIIth cent. With the signature, 18th cent., "John Holland, no. 9." Folio. Ceremon...
"A TREATICE concerning the Nobilitie according to the lawes of Englande." Followed (f. 61) by "A treatise of knights and matters incident to the degree of knighthoode according to the lawes of England," imperfect at the end. The original treatises seem to have been composed in the early years of...
"BARONAGIUM ANGLIÆ, magnatum scilicet illius regni stemmata recentiora ad consanguinitates affinitatesque per intermixta connubiæ (sic) discernendas delineata, 1597." f. 10. A more perfect copy, with arms in trick, is in Harley MS. 1160; cf. also Harley MSS.806,4754. Preceded by an index (18thee...
CREATIONS of Nobility, from the time of Edward the Confessor to that of Elizabeth. Preceded (f. 2) by the names of "ye five conquerours of this Islande," and of "Saxons that devided this Island into seaven kingdoms"; and followed (f. 54b) by some coats-of-arms, and (f. 56 b) by the grant of arms...
HISTORY of the Barons of Westmoreland, from Robert de Vetere Ponte (Vipont), to whom the title was granted by King John, to Anne, Countess of Pembroke, who claimed the title by right of her father, George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland. Paper; ff. 45. Written after the death (in 1643) of Henry...
PROMOTIONS, births, marriages, and deaths of the English nobility and gentry, in alphabetical order of names. The greater number of the events recorded are dated 1765-1776, but there are several earlier, and one or two of 1777, added in different ink. At f. 41 b is an index to English peers, wit...
The first armorial for the Order of the Garter, containing portraits of the knights founder: f. 5v: Saint George, as patron of the order of the Garter, together with another knight, possibly William Bruges. f. 7v: Edward III of England. f. 8r: Henry Duke of Lancaster. f. 8v: Jean de Grailly...
