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Stowe MS 662
- Record Id:
- 040-001953491
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x0000c5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 662
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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"A SHORT HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of such marks and ensignes of honour, as are commonly called Armes: shewing their originall, true use, and the antient practise in bearing them. Whereunto are added (f. 50) certain breife observations touching the antiquitie of Heraulds, their imployments, rights, priviledges and succession." A work compiled apparently about 1680. It includes (a) the text of numerous grants of arms. f. 32;-(b) the sheriffs' returns to a writ requring them to send up to Westminster, in Lent, 1428/9 such knights and squires as were fit to do personal service to the King. f. 5l;-and (c) chronological tables of the Kings of Arms, Heralds and Pursuivants, to 1680. f. 109. At f. 12 are engravings of two seals of Roger de Quenci, Earl of Winchester and Constable of Scotland (ob. 1264). Paper; ff. 126. Late XVIIth cent. Duodecimo.
Heraldry: Historical treatise on arms: circ. 1680.
includes:
- f. 12 Roger de Quenci, Earl of Winchchester and Constable of Scotland (ob. 1264): Engravings of his seals: late 17th cent.
- f. 51 b Army; England: Returns of knights, etc., fit for service: 1429.
- f. 109 Heralds: Lists of kings of arms, heralds and pursuivants to 1680.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001953489
040-001953491 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 661-742 : CLASS XVI.ARMS AND HERALDIC COLLECTIONS
Stowe MS 662 : "A SHORT HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of such marks and ensignes of honour, as are commonly called Armes: shewing their originall, true use,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0016]/036-001953489[0002]/040-001953491
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1680
- End Date:
- 1680
- Date Range:
- 1680
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Army of England
Quenci, Roger, Earl of Winchchester and Constable of Scotland (ob. 1264)