Royal MS 18 C I

MISCELLANEOUS genealogical, heraldic, and historical collection, possibly by one of the Styward family of Ely, though it does not seem to contain any of the same hands as Add. MS. 15644 or Egerton MSS. 2162, 2599. Included are:-

1. Pedigree (to circ. 1600) of the descendants of Sir William Brandon (d. 1485), Standard Bearer to Henry VII. f. 1 b.

2. Extracts of Welsh history entitled 'Gesta Cambrorum' from Cadwallader (7th cent.) to A.D. 1270. Beg. 'Cadwallader rex Brytannorum postremus fame regnum deserere coactus est'; ends 'Leolinus Elianorem filiam Symonis Montfort duxit in vxorem', followed by an incomplete index of names. f. 2.

3. Short historical collections, viz. :-(a) Account of George Castriota Scanderbeg, Albanian chief, his dealings with Amurath II, Sultan of Turkey, and death in 1467, followed by the lament of the Albanians on his death. Lat. f. 12;-(b) Origin of the Stewarts from Macbeth (with a reference to the De rebus gestis Scotorum, &c., first published in 1578, of John Leslie, Bishop of Ross). f. 13;-(c) Descendants of Anna, King of the East Angles (d. 654, father of S. Etheldreda). f. 13;-(d) Capture of Limoges [or rather of Luna in Italy, see Dudo of S. Quentin] by Hasting, the Dane. f. 13 b (e) 'Storie found in the Isle of Elie' of the foundation and early history of Ely Abbey, including (f. 14 b) the story of William the Conqueror quartering a knight on each monk (cf. the Latin roll of arms in Add. MS. 38164). f. 14.

4. Descent of Bohun from Barnard de Neumarch. ff. 116, 27; cf. also ff. 37, 56.

5. List of eight 'Portgreves' and four 'Provosts' of London from Wolgar, temp. Edw. Conf., to Ernulph Buchel, early 12th cent. f. 16 b.

6. List, notes and arms (roughly drawn and coloured) of Bishops of Ely from Herveius (d. 1131) to Martin Eaton (1600-1609). Eaton's arms and a few of the others are left blank. f. 17 b.

7. Descent of Butler al. Boteler of Sharnbrook, co. Bedf., from the 14th cent. to circ. 1601. ff. 23, 27.

8. Plan of the king's judicial court for Wales in early times, with an account of the lordship of Glamorgan from A.D. 1092 (cf. a fuller text in Harley MS. 368, f. 150). f. 25, 9. Copy of a spurious charter of Edward the Confessor to Randolph Peperking al. Peverell, in rhyme (cf. Cotton MS. Vitellius A. XX, f. 242 b, &c.). f. 27 b.

10. Notes and supposed arms, roughly drawn and coloured, of early kings and nobles from King Arthur to circ. A.D. 1100. f. 28.

11. Genealogical tables showing the descendants of (a) Rollo, Duke of Normandy. f. 52 b;-(b) 'Roger with the beard', ancestor of the Newburghs. f. 53 b;-

(c) Hamo Dapifer and Gilbert 'Earl of Ewe' [Count of Brion]. f. 54;-(d) Richard 'Strongbow', Earl of Pembroke. f. 55 b;-(e) Richard Lupus, 'Earle of Avranches' [Vicomte d'Avranches, father of Hugh, 1st Earl of Chester]. f. 56;-(f) Godredus Crouan, King of the Isle of Man. f. 56 b.

12. Names of the ten Sibyls, in English. Followed by the prophecy of the Erythracan Sibyl in Latin verse (cf. 1 A. XVII, f. 415, &c.). Beg. 'Iudicii signum tellus sudore madescet'. f. 57.

The vellum fly-leaves (ff. i, 58) are from a Missal in a late 13th cent. hand.

Paper (exc. fly-leaves); ff. i + 58. Folio. 12 in. x 8 in. Beginning of XVII cent. Not in the old catalogues.