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1. Add MS 4958

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STUART COLLECTION. Vol. I (ff. 113). Baronage of England from the Conquest to 1572, by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms (d. 1593), with additions down to 1597. With painted drawings of shields, including those of sovereigns. Enlarged coats of arms for most sovereigns have been inserted in l...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 4958-4975

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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

3. Add MS 4958-4977

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STUART COLLECTION
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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

4. Add MS 4959

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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

5. Add MS 4960

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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

6. Add MS 4961

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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

7. Add MS 4962

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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

8. Add MS 4963

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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

9. Add MS 4964

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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

10. Add MS 4965

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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