Lansdowne MS 874

folio.

A large and curious Collection of Epitaphs and Arms in many of the churches in London and other parts of England, collected chiefly by Henry Saint George, Esquire, Clarencieux, and Nicholas Charles, Esquire, Lancaster heralds, with some later additions. At fo. 50 b is an alphabetical index of family names; and at the end an index of names of churches, with another additional of names of persons. This volume contains many drawings of monuments, and copies of arms, &c. from painted glass windows, of some of which perhaps few or no vestiges are elsewhere to be found. At fo. 98 b there is a very elegant and interesting drawing of the arms and device granted by Charles the Sixth to the Stuarts for defending the Scotish sceptre, as they were emblazoned in the church of Saint Andrew in Holborn. On the device of a Knight combating a lion (here represented) the heraldical antiquary is referred to Dean Milles's dissertation on a seal belonging to Sir Richard Worsley, in Archæologia, vol. iv., to the Cotton MS. Jul. A I. where the drawing is evidently connected with the present; to the seal of R. de Quency in Spelman Aspilog. 105; to Vetusta Monum. vol. III. lit. xxviii.; to Dallaway's Heraldic Enquiries, p. 400; to Harl. MS. No 4028. fo. 143; to Hearne's Langtoft, p. 199; and to the fine print of a Knight combating a lion at the Castle of Coucy in Picardy, in Androuet du Cerceau Batimens de France, p. 4, where the reason for assuming this device ill assigned.