Three heraldic manuscripts in one volume [manuscript], [ca. 1570, and 2nd half of the 17th Century].
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Three heraldic manuscripts in one volume [manuscript], [ca. 1570, and 2nd half of the 17th Century].
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[Yorkshire and London], ca. 1570, and 2nd half of the 17th Century.
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1 volume : coats of arms (mostly col.) ; binding 33 x 21 cm
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From dealer's description: "This is a composite volume, comprising three complete but distinct books that have been bound together: they have in common that they are all concerned with English heraldry. Two of the texts belonged to the Herald Peter Le Neve. From the library at Burton Constable, near Hull. 1: The first book has an inscription by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms, in which he identifies its writer as Colonel Colepeper ('Md this book is of the hand writing of Collenell Colepeper a great Ingeneer'), and this detail enables us to identify the MS as having been lot 807 in the sale of Le Neve's library, 1731 - where it was bought by Cuthbert Constable. Colonel Thomas Colepeper (1637-1708) is a colourful character: he had a fertile imagination and turned to scientific invention after other sources of income had dried up. As a member of the royalist underground in the 1650s, he stood to gain from the Restoration, but though he did indeed get a post in the Ordnance Office (for which he invented e.g. a grenade launcher), a few years later he made the mistake of brawling with the Duke of Devonshire in the presence of the King, as a result of which he lost the post and was ordered to have his right hand cut off. He was fortunate that the sentence was commuted (See the account of him by Victor Stater in the ODNB). His papers doubtless came on the market soon after his death, and nearly 30 were secured for the Harleian Collection and are now in the British Library. The book itself contains an alphabetically arranged collection of over 300 coats of arms generally arranged nine to a page, almost all of medieval date (and including a few religious houses but also royal oddities such as Hercules, King of Libya and Jupiter, King of Egypt). One of the most attractive is the arms of the colonial adventurer Captain John Smith (d. 1616): a ship sailing before a rocky coast (sketched partly in pencil and partly in ink), the shield supported by a lion squatting on its haunches in the Continental style, with mottos "Qo Fata Ferunt" and "Bermudas". In some instances a source is given, most frequently (sometimes entire pages) in the form "d: w:" followed by a number; one reference to "dug: w. 154" (for Durvassall) reveals this to be Sir William Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire (1656), while the source for the arms of Queen Katharine Parr and several others is given as "guill: 391" - standing for John Guillim's A Display of Heraldry (1610; and much reprinted) and that for Lisley is "Morgan: L:2.p:53", i.e. Sylvanus Morgan's The Sphere of Gentry (1661). It is not clear, apart from the strong emphasis on Warwickshire, on what basis the coats were selected. The coats have mostly been drawn in trick, although a few have been coloured in wash. The latest to bear a date is that of Ca[ve]ndish, Duke of Newcastle, 1688. The coat next to this, of "Condor a Britton Earle of Cornwall" is stated to be derived from "Mr Groves ms. p: 3". 66 leaves, including several blank leaves, a few leaves with empty shields, plus 7 (mostly) blank leaves at the end. Fool's-cap watermark. There is an old price "0:3:0" of three shillings at the head of the first page in the same hand as 3. This is probably Cuthbert Constable's cost price."
From dealer's description (cont.): "2: The second book or section is a copy (c. 1570) of the medieval Roll of Arms known as Thomas Jenyns' Book of Arms, which was first set down c. 1410 [see Sir Anthony Wagner's Catalogue of English Mediaeval Rolls of Arms (Harleian Society & Society of Antiquaries, 1950), pp. 73-8 (not aware of the present MS)] though it has no name or title here. It begins as usual "Le Roy de espayne port quartele"; it finishes with shield 1588 (left blank). Numerous manuscript copies are known but there is no satisfactory modern edition of this Roll. Almost all the shields are blank, a few have been sketched in ink or pencil. 53 leaves (last 2 leaves with index), plus 2.5 blank leaves. At the end of the index (inverted) is an ink sketch of a man in Elizabethan dress with a dog and a pen-trial "Leonard Prestonne in the counte of Yorke yeoman do acknowledge my selfe to be". On the following leaf (half-cut away) are a few lines of draft accounts for building and decorating works in the "little chamber" and the "great chamber" signed "this is thomas simes reckninge". The following three blank leaves contain three medical recipes in an Elizabethan hand, the first "Water ffor the eyes", the second untitled, the third "A frontarye for the [?fore]head]". Watermark: Pot with initials "RA". Fore-corners dampstained, some blank lower fore-corners torn or chewed away. 3: Section three is the second book that belonged to Peter Le Neve and has his title "Arms crests & few pedigres trickt & writt by Howell Heralds Paynter. Most at the beginning of the Captains of Horse & foot in the Parliament Army & most Citizens of London to fol 12 Inclusive". It is identifiable as lot 754 in Le Neve's sale. It is also unquestionably the most important of the three books, in historical and armorial terms. As Le Neve has noted, most of the coats in its first twelve leaves are of Captains of Horse and Foot in the Parliamentary army, most being citizens of London. These are very capably drawn, tricked (i.e., having their colours indicated by letters of the alphabet, such as 'g' for gules, red); many are surmounted by a crest and a few have a motto as well. Le Neve identifies the writer as "Howell, Heralds Paynter", and a 20th-century note on a card at the front of the volume suggests that this was "Griffith Howell, a great herald", who is mentioned by Thomas Fuller in his Worthies of England as a nephew of James Howell (d. 1666), the royalist and political writer. It would seem more likely, however, that the writer was Henry Howell, an established arms painter who was active from 1674 onwards and was described as elderly and in failing health in 1715; he was Master of the Painter-Stainers Wright (1966), II, p. 453.]. Many of the 96 coats of arms on these leaves are of men described as "captain" and many are dated 1643 - e.g. "Captaine Norwode of ye Checker in Bredstreet Captaine of a Troop of Horse 1643". Just a few are dated 1642 - e.g. "Sir William Waller Colonell of Horse 1642". From f. 15 to the end (f. 61r) ensues a mixture of pedigrees and coats of arms, the first pedigree being of Thomas Jordan of London, "3 Years old 1646". That of Smithson of Newsom (Yorks.) includes a (copy-) attestation and certificate by "William Ryley, Lancaster [Herald]" (f. 16r). That of Paul Nicoll of Hendon Place (Middx.) is accompanied by a coat and crest "graunted to Paul Nicoll Esq. ye 7 of January 1650, by Edward Byssh Garter" [Sir Edward Bysshe (c. 1610-79), Garter King of Arms 1646-60] (f. 18r). On ff. 19 to 36r the genealogies give way to another collection of coats-of-arms, including (from f. 25 onwards) a good many more captains and other men of military rank; one is dated 1644 and another 1645. A pedigree of Hamley of Treblithick (Cornw.) on ff. 36v-37 ends with a (copy) certification by (Sir) John Borough, Garter, '8 March 1638'. The original writer includes obiit dates for the 1670s, 80s and, occasionally into the early 90s, e.g. "Gwyn, used thus at ye funerall of Mad: [Nell (erased)] Eleanor Gwynn ob: Nov: 1687" (f. 56v). 61 leaves. Watermark: Leaves 1-30: Fleur-de-lis on a crowned shield. Leaves 31-61: Posthorn on a shield. The armorial is preceded by 9 leaves, the first page with Le Neve's notes and the rest with an index; watermark: Posthorn on a shield. There is an ink price "0:6:0" of six shillings at the head of the first page in the same hand as 1 (probably Cuthbert Constable)."
From dealer's description (cont.): The years of the run-up to, and then duration of, the Civil War were a time when the record-keeping activities of the College of Arms were stretched beyond its abilities and many grants and pedigrees were, in effect, left unrecorded in its own books, making MSS such as the present one, with its evident strength on the Parliamentary side, of exceptional historical and armorial value. Many of the coats and pedigrees have Le Neve's ink note "posted" or "posted to books" by them (indicating that they were new to him and so he had copied or made a note of them), which confirms the significance of this collection. The heralds Ryley and Borough (of whom Ryley was once the junior, as an archivist at the Tower of London) were royalists while Bysshe was a parliamentarian, but all the heralds had great difficulty maintaining a proper set of records of their activities at this time. Le Neve has also occasionally added other short notes, usually obiit dates, the one noting the arms of Newham "of Sussx by Sr Edward Bysshe confirmed by Sr Jo: Vanbrugg Clarenceux Peter Le Neve Norroy" (58v) and another noting that the widow of Dr. Thomas Daffy (d. 1680), of the eponymous Daffy's Elixir, "is still alive 1725" (f. 50r). The volume has however a second claim on our interest: its material associable with Yorkshire. Just before the start of the main text of the second book, and evidently forming part of it (they have the same watermark of a Pot with initials "RA", are seven leaves relating in whole or at least in part to Kingston-upon-Hull. On the first page is a very rough ink sketch of the Royal Arms of Elizabeth I flanked by Solomonic columns (not unlike those found on contemporary engraved maps by Christopher Saxton). On the verso of this page is a bird's-eye view of the town of Hull (Kingston-upon-Hull, as it was then generally called) looking from the south. This is a very rough pencil sketch and is undated (and indeed is without inscription or title beyond three words: "Chart[er]hows" at the top-right (north-west) corner (with the medieval buildings of the Charterhouse Priory just outside the city walls to the north), "Maiton" at the bottom-left (south-west) corner (probably for Myton, a parish bordering Hull to the west and the name of one of the Gates in the City Walls) and the word "Nort" at the bottom right (south-east) corner (perhaps for "North" but its location here cannot be directional or refer to the North Gate in the City Walls on the River Hull side). The emphasis on the town walls and on landmarks such as windmills with almost no internal detail raises the possibility that it was drawn by someone with a particular interest in its military significance. The phonetic spellings suggest that the draughtsman may not have been English. On the page opposite is another rough pencil sketch of some fortifications with no identification but also presumably of Hull (some offsetting between the images makes them hard to read). The two pages are frayed at the edges. Comparison with the two other early bird's-eye views of Hull - the 16th-century drawing in British Library, Cotton MS Augustus I (1), f. 80 and that etched by Wenceslaus Hollar in 1640 - show few obvious changes; Hollar's view unfortunately was taken from such an angle as to cause him to omit the Charterhouse which was destroyed in the Civil War. The drawings alone provide no evidence for a date, however their context is entirely of the early-1570s. The verso of the second drawing has short notes of financial reckonings, dated 1570 and 1571. One of these begins "that masters whalaye owe me for paynteynge of ij chamers [sic for chambers] in the towre" and the next begins "Layde this month for master whalaye. Item for bearinge the wheat frome the chambar to the watere" [etc.], continuing on the page opposite, "... Item for suffyttyng and gyldyng your harness ... This recknynge doth master whalay owe unto me Mathew Appllyne". The next leaf (following the stub of a missing leaf) is a memorandum of a loan, in a hand of the late 16th century, and then a memorandum of the sale of a "diall" (which is roughly sketched) by Matthew Applyne to John Wetherell of "Sutcotes" to be paid at the next "lameing [lambing] time" in 1570. Sutcotes, now Southcoates, is a manor in Holderness near Hull granted to Sir Marmaduke Constable (c. 1480-1545) by King Henry VIII in 1535. The building accounts may relate to the extensive rebuilding of the medieval house at nearby Burton Constable Hall started by Sir John Constable (1526-79) in the 1560/70s which included a new south range, a great hall and a tower. Following this is a contemporary copy of a letter addressed "To the right worshipfull Mr Macwilliams and M[-]". This is dated from Kingston-upon-[Hull], 18 June 1570, and is evidently from two (or possibly more) men who were the Crown's "searchers" in the port of Hull - a valuable office to hold, since it entitled its holders to impose dues upon all shipping going through both the port of Hull itself - and Hull was the principal port of North-East England, serving as the gateway to York and other mercantile centres - and the river-heads in the vicinity. The letter's writers are expressing their concern that a third party, one Wadson, "has a grant of deputation to be joined a doer in our circuit, but he is reported to be a crafty dealer, and we hope that will not lessen our allowance". The writers also complain about their difficulty in performing their role, since the port's "costemers" (i.e., customers, other Crown officials) "will not suffer us to have full recourse to their books, but we must name first what we would seke for"; they also lack authority to deal with forestallers and ingrators (i.e., regrators?). This letter is a rare window into the world of the Elizabethan maritime system, with its reliance on commission-based local officials to bring in the much-needed customs revenue and at the same time to keep a watchful eye on the trade and even the legal malpractices of the area. Other pages have recipes (general and medical), e.g. for preserving gloves and for dressing wounds and for the stone, the last beneath a date "1586"."
From dealer's description: "Provenance: 1: The second part may always have been in the archive at Burton Constable Hall, East Yorkshire. 2: The first and third parts belonged to Peter Le Neve, Norroy King of Arms (1661- 1729). Like his near-contemporary John Anstis, Le Neve tended to enrich his MSS with notes about their contents and the hands of the scribes who had written them, and these two books have been annotated in just such a way and the third part is identifiable as lot 754 in Le Neve's sale by John Wilcox, 22/2/1731, bought by "Constable". 3: This is Cuthbert Constable, formerly Tunstall (c. 1680-1746), antiquary, of Burton Constable Hall. At the front of the volume is the armorial bookplate of his son William Constable, F.R.S. and F.A.S. (1721-91), also of Burton Constable Hall. Cuthbert & William Constable formed one of the greatest 18th-century collections of heraldic manuscripts (mostly dispersed at auction at Sotheby's, 24 June 1889) and it would seem it was the son who had the volume bound up; it has been in its present form ever since. 4: Messrs. Ellis, with a cutting pasted inside the front cover from their Catalogue 208 (1922), item 241, £4/4/-. 5: Allan Heywood Bright, F.S.A. (1862-1941), M.P. for Oswestry (1904- 06), of Barton Court, Colwall, Herefordshire, with his bookplate and a card pasted to the front flyleaf dated 23/11/22, "I think I have found a trace of your Howell. ...", signed with initials and addressed from 51 Blenheim Terrace, the home of a bibliographical researcher named Boyson; thence by descent in the Bright / Yates Thompson family [not included in the main portion of the library sold at Christie's in 2014]."
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From dealer's description (cont.): "2: The second book or section is a copy (c. 1570) of the medieval Roll of Arms known as Thomas Jenyns' Book of Arms, which was first set down c. 1410 [see Sir Anthony Wagner's Catalogue of English Mediaeval Rolls of Arms (Harleian Society & Society of Antiquaries, 1950), pp. 73-8 (not aware of the present MS)] though it has no name or title here. It begins as usual "Le Roy de espayne port quartele"; it finishes with shield 1588 (left blank). Numerous manuscript copies are known but there is no satisfactory modern edition of this Roll. Almost all the shields are blank, a few have been sketched in ink or pencil. 53 leaves (last 2 leaves with index), plus 2.5 blank leaves. At the end of the index (inverted) is an ink sketch of a man in Elizabethan dress with a dog and a pen-trial "Leonard Prestonne in the counte of Yorke yeoman do acknowledge my selfe to be". On the following leaf (half-cut away) are a few lines of draft accounts for building and decorating works in the "little chamber" and the "great chamber" signed "this is thomas simes reckninge". The following three blank leaves contain three medical recipes in an Elizabethan hand, the first "Water ffor the eyes", the second untitled, the third "A frontarye for the [?fore]head]". Watermark: Pot with initials "RA". Fore-corners dampstained, some blank lower fore-corners torn or chewed away. 3: Section three is the second book that belonged to Peter Le Neve and has his title "Arms crests & few pedigres trickt & writt by Howell Heralds Paynter. Most at the beginning of the Captains of Horse & foot in the Parliament Army & most Citizens of London to fol 12 Inclusive". It is identifiable as lot 754 in Le Neve's sale. It is also unquestionably the most important of the three books, in historical and armorial terms. As Le Neve has noted, most of the coats in its first twelve leaves are of Captains of Horse and Foot in the Parliamentary army, most being citizens of London. These are very capably drawn, tricked (i.e., having their colours indicated by letters of the alphabet, such as 'g' for gules, red); many are surmounted by a crest and a few have a motto as well. Le Neve identifies the writer as "Howell, Heralds Paynter", and a 20th-century note on a card at the front of the volume suggests that this was "Griffith Howell, a great herald", who is mentioned by Thomas Fuller in his Worthies of England as a nephew of James Howell (d. 1666), the royalist and political writer. It would seem more likely, however, that the writer was Henry Howell, an established arms painter who was active from 1674 onwards and was described as elderly and in failing health in 1715; he was Master of the Painter-Stainers Wright (1966), II, p. 453.]. Many of the 96 coats of arms on these leaves are of men described as "captain" and many are dated 1643 - e.g. "Captaine Norwode of ye Checker in Bredstreet Captaine of a Troop of Horse 1643". Just a few are dated 1642 - e.g. "Sir William Waller Colonell of Horse 1642". From f. 15 to the end (f. 61r) ensues a mixture of pedigrees and coats of arms, the first pedigree being of Thomas Jordan of London, "3 Years old 1646". That of Smithson of Newsom (Yorks.) includes a (copy-) attestation and certificate by "William Ryley, Lancaster [Herald]" (f. 16r). That of Paul Nicoll of Hendon Place (Middx.) is accompanied by a coat and crest "graunted to Paul Nicoll Esq. ye 7 of January 1650, by Edward Byssh Garter" [Sir Edward Bysshe (c. 1610-79), Garter King of Arms 1646-60] (f. 18r). On ff. 19 to 36r the genealogies give way to another collection of coats-of-arms, including (from f. 25 onwards) a good many more captains and other men of military rank; one is dated 1644 and another 1645. A pedigree of Hamley of Treblithick (Cornw.) on ff. 36v-37 ends with a (copy) certification by (Sir) John Borough, Garter, '8 March 1638'. The original writer includes obiit dates for the 1670s, 80s and, occasionally into the early 90s, e.g. "Gwyn, used thus at ye funerall of Mad: [Nell (erased)] Eleanor Gwynn ob: Nov: 1687" (f. 56v). 61 leaves. Watermark: Leaves 1-30: Fleur-de-lis on a crowned shield. Leaves 31-61: Posthorn on a shield. The armorial is preceded by 9 leaves, the first page with Le Neve's notes and the rest with an index; watermark: Posthorn on a shield. There is an ink price "0:6:0" of six shillings at the head of the first page in the same hand as 1 (probably Cuthbert Constable)."
From dealer's description (cont.): The years of the run-up to, and then duration of, the Civil War were a time when the record-keeping activities of the College of Arms were stretched beyond its abilities and many grants and pedigrees were, in effect, left unrecorded in its own books, making MSS such as the present one, with its evident strength on the Parliamentary side, of exceptional historical and armorial value. Many of the coats and pedigrees have Le Neve's ink note "posted" or "posted to books" by them (indicating that they were new to him and so he had copied or made a note of them), which confirms the significance of this collection. The heralds Ryley and Borough (of whom Ryley was once the junior, as an archivist at the Tower of London) were royalists while Bysshe was a parliamentarian, but all the heralds had great difficulty maintaining a proper set of records of their activities at this time. Le Neve has also occasionally added other short notes, usually obiit dates, the one noting the arms of Newham "of Sussx by Sr Edward Bysshe confirmed by Sr Jo: Vanbrugg Clarenceux Peter Le Neve Norroy" (58v) and another noting that the widow of Dr. Thomas Daffy (d. 1680), of the eponymous Daffy's Elixir, "is still alive 1725" (f. 50r). The volume has however a second claim on our interest: its material associable with Yorkshire. Just before the start of the main text of the second book, and evidently forming part of it (they have the same watermark of a Pot with initials "RA", are seven leaves relating in whole or at least in part to Kingston-upon-Hull. On the first page is a very rough ink sketch of the Royal Arms of Elizabeth I flanked by Solomonic columns (not unlike those found on contemporary engraved maps by Christopher Saxton). On the verso of this page is a bird's-eye view of the town of Hull (Kingston-upon-Hull, as it was then generally called) looking from the south. This is a very rough pencil sketch and is undated (and indeed is without inscription or title beyond three words: "Chart[er]hows" at the top-right (north-west) corner (with the medieval buildings of the Charterhouse Priory just outside the city walls to the north), "Maiton" at the bottom-left (south-west) corner (probably for Myton, a parish bordering Hull to the west and the name of one of the Gates in the City Walls) and the word "Nort" at the bottom right (south-east) corner (perhaps for "North" but its location here cannot be directional or refer to the North Gate in the City Walls on the River Hull side). The emphasis on the town walls and on landmarks such as windmills with almost no internal detail raises the possibility that it was drawn by someone with a particular interest in its military significance. The phonetic spellings suggest that the draughtsman may not have been English. On the page opposite is another rough pencil sketch of some fortifications with no identification but also presumably of Hull (some offsetting between the images makes them hard to read). The two pages are frayed at the edges. Comparison with the two other early bird's-eye views of Hull - the 16th-century drawing in British Library, Cotton MS Augustus I (1), f. 80 and that etched by Wenceslaus Hollar in 1640 - show few obvious changes; Hollar's view unfortunately was taken from such an angle as to cause him to omit the Charterhouse which was destroyed in the Civil War. The drawings alone provide no evidence for a date, however their context is entirely of the early-1570s. The verso of the second drawing has short notes of financial reckonings, dated 1570 and 1571. One of these begins "that masters whalaye owe me for paynteynge of ij chamers [sic for chambers] in the towre" and the next begins "Layde this month for master whalaye. Item for bearinge the wheat frome the chambar to the watere" [etc.], continuing on the page opposite, "... Item for suffyttyng and gyldyng your harness ... This recknynge doth master whalay owe unto me Mathew Appllyne". The next leaf (following the stub of a missing leaf) is a memorandum of a loan, in a hand of the late 16th century, and then a memorandum of the sale of a "diall" (which is roughly sketched) by Matthew Applyne to John Wetherell of "Sutcotes" to be paid at the next "lameing [lambing] time" in 1570. Sutcotes, now Southcoates, is a manor in Holderness near Hull granted to Sir Marmaduke Constable (c. 1480-1545) by King Henry VIII in 1535. The building accounts may relate to the extensive rebuilding of the medieval house at nearby Burton Constable Hall started by Sir John Constable (1526-79) in the 1560/70s which included a new south range, a great hall and a tower. Following this is a contemporary copy of a letter addressed "To the right worshipfull Mr Macwilliams and M[-]". This is dated from Kingston-upon-[Hull], 18 June 1570, and is evidently from two (or possibly more) men who were the Crown's "searchers" in the port of Hull - a valuable office to hold, since it entitled its holders to impose dues upon all shipping going through both the port of Hull itself - and Hull was the principal port of North-East England, serving as the gateway to York and other mercantile centres - and the river-heads in the vicinity. The letter's writers are expressing their concern that a third party, one Wadson, "has a grant of deputation to be joined a doer in our circuit, but he is reported to be a crafty dealer, and we hope that will not lessen our allowance". The writers also complain about their difficulty in performing their role, since the port's "costemers" (i.e., customers, other Crown officials) "will not suffer us to have full recourse to their books, but we must name first what we would seke for"; they also lack authority to deal with forestallers and ingrators (i.e., regrators?). This letter is a rare window into the world of the Elizabethan maritime system, with its reliance on commission-based local officials to bring in the much-needed customs revenue and at the same time to keep a watchful eye on the trade and even the legal malpractices of the area. Other pages have recipes (general and medical), e.g. for preserving gloves and for dressing wounds and for the stone, the last beneath a date "1586"."
From dealer's description: "Provenance: 1: The second part may always have been in the archive at Burton Constable Hall, East Yorkshire. 2: The first and third parts belonged to Peter Le Neve, Norroy King of Arms (1661- 1729). Like his near-contemporary John Anstis, Le Neve tended to enrich his MSS with notes about their contents and the hands of the scribes who had written them, and these two books have been annotated in just such a way and the third part is identifiable as lot 754 in Le Neve's sale by John Wilcox, 22/2/1731, bought by "Constable". 3: This is Cuthbert Constable, formerly Tunstall (c. 1680-1746), antiquary, of Burton Constable Hall. At the front of the volume is the armorial bookplate of his son William Constable, F.R.S. and F.A.S. (1721-91), also of Burton Constable Hall. Cuthbert & William Constable formed one of the greatest 18th-century collections of heraldic manuscripts (mostly dispersed at auction at Sotheby's, 24 June 1889) and it would seem it was the son who had the volume bound up; it has been in its present form ever since. 4: Messrs. Ellis, with a cutting pasted inside the front cover from their Catalogue 208 (1922), item 241, £4/4/-. 5: Allan Heywood Bright, F.S.A. (1862-1941), M.P. for Oswestry (1904- 06), of Barton Court, Colwall, Herefordshire, with his bookplate and a card pasted to the front flyleaf dated 23/11/22, "I think I have found a trace of your Howell. ...", signed with initials and addressed from 51 Blenheim Terrace, the home of a bibliographical researcher named Boyson; thence by descent in the Bright / Yates Thompson family [not included in the main portion of the library sold at Christie's in 2014]."
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Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Coats of arms.
Coats of arms.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain.
Item Details
Call number
V.b.402
Folger-specific note
Ordered from Maggs Bros. Ltd., D 9129, 2017-09-21, Catalog 1495, item 49.
Folger accession
270261