Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Latin, with a calendar (ff. 1r-12v), rubrics, and prayers in French. Additional prayers and liturgical notes added in the 16th century (ff. 40v, 62v, 109r-v). Two late 15th century Italian leaves with a Latin prayer to the Virgin Mary were added at a later date (ff. 6...
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Coats of arms of Keniths nobility and gentry (6 per page). ff. 9r-40r: Collection of genealogies of Kentish families, with the signature of Robert Cook (d. 1593), Clarenceux King of Arms on f. 28r; but clearly a copy [see the date 1615 on f. 37r]. ff. 40-42r. An alpha...
Contents: ff. 2r-173v: Collections of pedigrees of English families, some featuring coats of arms; with excerpts from charters and inscriptions of tombstones; one of the latest dates featuring in this manuscript is 1615 (f. 46v). ff. 174r-174v: Copies of indentures in French and Latin. The m...
A manuscript copied by George Owen of Henllys from the collections of Richard Broughton. Contents: f. 1*: Title page. f. 1r-53v: Extracts from patent rolls, plea rolls, and other English royal records, including a list of the household officials and servants of Princes Mary, 1525-26. ff. 40r...
Contents: ff. 1v, 2v-5r: Coats of arms of Kentish families, 4 per page. ff. 1*recto-1*verso: An alphabetical index of surnames of families included in this manuscript. Decoration: Coats of arms in brown ink (tricked).
Contents: ff. 1*recto-2*verso: An introduction to the Visitation of Stafforshire of 1583. ff. 3*recto-5*recto: Coats of arms of Stafforshire nobility (30 per page), entitled: ‘Arma Nobilium de Comitatu Stafford. ex Libro Antiquo in officio Armorum’. ff. 5*verso-109v, 111r-114r, 130v-131r: A ...
Contents: f. 2*recto: A title-page for the Visitation of Lancashire of 1567, entitled: ‘The Visitacion of Lancashire etcaetera: Made in Anno 1567. Annoque 9 R. Eliz.’; with a full-page drawing of the arms of the house of Lancaster, surmounted above a family tree with coats of arms and the red r...
Contents: f. 1*verso: The beginning of a draft or copy of an indenture: 'Know all present and to come that wee John de Verdon Lord of Brikilasworth Knight, and Maud my wife; doe give and grant, and by this our present writeing doe confirme unto John the sone of Walter de Howby and to william d...
