Add MS 45132

Wriothesley heraldic collections, volume II. Miscellaneous heraldic and historical material, parts of which are in Thomas Wriothesley's hand.

f. vi: Notes from the compiler of the standards; written in the same hand as f. 69r.

ff. 1v–9r: Copies of documents, mostly relating to the marriage of Mary, daughter of Henry VII, to Louis XII of France, 1514, including:

ff. 1v–5r: an account of the queen's entertainment at Montreuil-sur-Mer, 5–6 October 1514, printed by F. Wormald, 'The solemn entry of Mary Tudor to Montreuil-sur-Mer in 1514', in Studies presented to Sir Hilary Jenkinson, ed. J. Conway Davies (1957), pp. 471–479. In French.

ff. 5v–8r: Lists of persons present at the marriage, etc., similar to those printed in J. Leland, Collectanea, ed. T. Hearne, 2nd edition (1774), ii, pp. 701–705. In French.

ff. 8v–9r: Poem in honour of the marriage. Begins, 'Au beau vergier des fleurs de lis.' Printed by Wormald. In French.

f. 9r: Grant of arms by Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms, to the Abbey of Tewkesbury, 4 August 1510. In Latin.

ff. 9v–68v: Drawings of standards and pennons with some banners, shields and badges, etc., partly coloured but drawn (following the original order of the leaves) successively less completely and carefully. Included are standards made by Anthony Tote (or Toto), the king's Sergeant-Painter, 1544–1545; standards of Henry VIII, uncoloured (ff. 41r–42r), and standards of kings of England from Edward III to Henry VIII, coloured (ff. 59r–61v, 68r).

f. 62r: List of the lordships and badges of the Duke of York (another copy is in Writhe's Book of Knights, Add MS 46354 f. 32v). Many of the headings (e.g. on ff. 13r, 30r, 67v) are in Wriothesley's hand and much of the material relates to the early 16th cent. (e.g. the arms of Edmund Birkhead, as Bishop of St Asaph, 29 May 1513–April 1518, on f. 28v), but the collection must have been continued after Wriothesley's death in 1534 since the arms of 'Therle of Southamton' on f. 65v cannot be earlier than the creation of William Fitzwilliam, 18 October 1537, while the note 'fitz willyam' was presumably added after the elevation of Sir Thomas Wriothesley to the same title, 16 February 1547.

f. 69r: index from the 17th century to the foregoing standards.

ff. 70r–87r: Blank folios.

f. 88r: Drawing of a shield, not coloured.

f. 89r: A 16th-century note on the genealogy of the Bellers family (13th–15th centuries).

ff. 90v–91v: A collection of 48 shields, in trick (sketched or drawn in outline), each bearing a cross, presumably a draft or copy of part of an ordinary, early 16th century. Most of the shields derive from St George's Roll (referred to in Wriothesley's hand as 'Rotul' Regis H.iijcij'; see A. R. Wagner, Catalogue of English Mediaeval Rolls of Arms, 1950, pp. 19–21) and Willement's Roll (Egerton MS 3713; see Wagner, pp. 71–72).

ff. 92v–95v: Copy, in trick, of Fenwick's Roll of Arms, shields 1–126, partly in Wriothesley's hand (listed by Wagner, p. 82, as copy A), continued on ff. 137r–149v.

ff. 96v–97v: A collection of 33 shields, in trick, mostly of families with names beginning ‘Po’ (see ff. 154v–155v), early 16th century.

ff. 97v–98r: Index (early 16th century) to the copy of Fenwick's Roll on ff. 92v–95v, 137r–149v, letters S–Z only.

ff. 98v–118r: Copies of documents, mostly in French, related to the Scottish wars of Edward I, including:

ff. 98v–99v: The king's commission to capture deserters from the army, 28 Edward I (Documents and Records illustrating the History of Scotland, ed. Sir F. Palgrave, 1837, nos. cxiv, cxv).

ff. 100r–103r: Letters concerning the collection of forces from Ireland, December 1301–November 1302 (Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, 1293–1301, no. 849, ibid., 1302–1307, no. 151).

ff. 103r–104r: Quitclaim of John de Balliol to Edward I, 2 January 1293 (Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, ii, no. 657).

ff. 104r–105r: Names of those who stayed in Scotland on the king's service (Documents and Records illustrating the History of Scotland, no. cxxv).

f. 105v: ‘Ce sont les articles qui sont amendez par le Roy dangleterre en la terre descosse deuant son departir par le conseil des bonnes gens descoce’ (Another copy, c. 1300, of the same document is in Cotton MS Vespasian F VII, f. 3r).

f. 106r: Summaries of a letter of Pope Honorius III to Alexander II, 17 January (in Latin), and of other letters, 1296–1300.

f. 106v: Letter of John de Balliol replying to Edward I, 2 July 1296 (Foedera, ed. T. Rymer, 3rd ed., 1737–1745, i, pt. iii, p. 160).

ff. 106v–110v: Reasons why the Scots could not be allies of the French, 1301–1302 (Documents and Records illustrating the History of Scotland, no. cxxiii).

ff. 110v–111r: 'Cest la deffence que les escossois font quilz ne sont point subgectz au Roy dangleterre pardeuant le pappe.' (Another copy, early 14th century, of the same document is in Cotton MS Vespasian F VII, ff. 15r–16r. See E. L. G. Stones, Anglo-Scottish Relations 1174–1328, 1965, pp. 110–117, no. 31.)

ff. 111v–118r: Roll of proffered services in Latin, July 1300 (incomplete; printed in full in Documents and Records illustrating the History of Scotland, no. cxvi).

ff. 118v–119r: 'The Discomodities that may come into An Army for lacke of Ensignes.' (Other copies of this anonymous tract are in Harley MS 1354, ff. 33–34; 2358 ff. 46v–48r; 2413 ff. 39v–40v; 6064 f. 72; Stowe MS 1047, ff. 247v–248r, and Add MS 5758, ff. 224r–224v.)

ff. 119v–129r: Drawings (mostly painted) of standards, pennons, banners, shields and badges (similar to the collection on ff. 9v–68r but not a continuation of it, being drawn upright, not sideways in the volume). The pages bear various dates from 1523 (ff. 120, 120v) to 25 Henry VIII (1533–1534; f. 128v), but some of the entries must be later ('The lorde Wryotesley Chauncellor of Englande' on f. 125 dates from 1544–1547). Some of the names, etc. (e. g. the heading on f. 123) are in Garter Wriothesley's hand.

ff. 130r–136v: Blank folios.

ff. 137r–149v: Copy (early 16th century), in trick (some shields on ff. 146v–147r are painted), of Fenwick's Roll of Arms, shields 127–594, in Wriothesley's hand, continued from ff. 92v–95v.

f. 150r: Various blazons and painted shields, the latter probably dating from August 1544–January 1547.

ff. 150v–154r: Blank folios.

ff. 154v–156r: A collection of 43 shields (and further blank outlines), in trick, of families with names beginning ‘Pe’ (see ff. 96v–97v).

ff. 158r–163v: Index to the names of families mentioned throughout the volume, by William Smith, whose signature with the date of completion (24 February 1719) is on f. 158r.