Lambarde Collection
Reference code
LAM/008
Title
Lambarde Collection
Date
c.1606
Level of description
series
Extent and format
ff. i + 154.
Folio.
Red spine, with black cloth. Presented by Frederick William Cock, MD, FSA, 1937 (fol. i).
Folio.
Red spine, with black cloth. Presented by Frederick William Cock, MD, FSA, 1937 (fol. i).
Scope and content
Copy by Lambarde of a manuscript. Owned by Major William Gurdon of Colchester (and formerly by John Gurdon of Assington Hall, Suff.; see note by Lambarde, 1926, fol. i), containing blazons of arms of sovereigns and peers from Brutus to William Cavendish (created 1st Baron Cavendish, 4 May 1605). Arms tricked in the margins. Many copies known (e.g. MSS/0347, MSS/0348). The original of the present transcript was probably made for Sir William Waldegrave of Bures (cf. fol. 9). Insertions include notes on a MS containing Latin poems.
Creator
Lambarde, Francis Fane (1868-1948), Major General, antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/736/8