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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 719
Title:
Scope & Content:: COLLECTION of arms, in trick, viz.:-(1) English and Welsh arms, arranged according to counties alphabetically. f. 2;-(2) Alphabet of Scotch arms. f. 238;-(3) Irish arms. f. 265. With indexes at the end. Paper; ff. 310. XVIIIth cent. Belonged, 18th cent., to John Holland, no. 17. Folio. Heraldry...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 720
Title:
Scope & Content:: BOOK OF ARMS collected by Alexander Forsyth, herald-painter, 1770-1796. With index. Paper; ff. 166. Quarto. Heraldry: Herald painters' work-books: 1770-96. Alexander Forsyth, Herald-Painter: Book of arms: 1770-1796.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1770-1796
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 721-724
Title:: HERALD-PAINTER'S sketch-book, containing drawings of arms of English families. In four volumes, each volume having an index. Paper; ff. 64, 47, 124, 64. XVIIIth-early XIXth centt. Quarto.
Scope & Content:: Heraldry: Herald painters' work-books: 18th-19th centt.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:: 4 items

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