The Visitation Of The County Of Cornwall In The Year 1620 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Visitation of the County of Cornwall, in the Year 1620 The original drafts of the Heralds' Visitation of Cornwall in 1620 are pre served in the British Museum, and form part of the Harleian Collection, being mss. 1162 and 1164. They are in the handwriting of Camden's deputies, Sir Henry St. George, when Richmond Herald, and Mr. Sampson Lennard, 'blue Mantle; and the pedigrees are subscribed in most cases by the then representatives of the several families. The pedigrees in each of these mss. Have the word Entered written above them, in red chalk, shewing that they had been transcribed at the College of Arms; and those in ms. 1162 have an additional mark (thus in black lead, from which we presume that a second transcript was made, probably that in Harl. Ms. 1079, by John Withie, Heraldic Artist of London,1 in whose ms. The greater number of the pedigrees of ms. 1164 do not appear. The loose sheets on which the drafts were written were bound together by Mr. Sampson Lennard, whose arms were stamped on the cover. After his death they came into the posses sion, of Mr. Parker, who added a few notes, and they then passed by purchase to Mr. Robert Fisher, and subsequently to the Earl of Oxford's library. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.