Heraldry. Names, Arms, Etymology & Blazon of Thomas Gerrard
Reference code
MSS/0017
Title
Heraldry. Names, Arms, Etymology & Blazon of Thomas Gerrard
Date
c.1600
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Vellum; ff. 11 (fols. 5, 11, partly cut away, lacks one leaf following fol. 11).
Quarto.
Half leather binding, brown, with marbled boards (as MSS/0016).
Quarto.
Half leather binding, brown, with marbled boards (as MSS/0016).
Scope and content
'The Names, Armes, Etymology, & Blazon, in Frenche, Latyn, & Englishe, of every Coate, born by.. Syr Thomas Gerrard, Knight Mareshall' (fol. 2).
Blazons of the nine coats borne by Sir Thomas Gerard (1st Baron Gerard of Gerard's Bromley, Staffs., 1603), Knight Marshall of the Royal Household, 1597; d. 15 Jan. 1617/18). Full achievement, fol. 3. On fols. 3-11 (rectos), coloured coats (lacks Boteler; Breyndel and Washington cut out); (versos), etymologies and blazons (Ins, Boteler imperfect) of Gerard, Breyndel, Ins, Radcliff, Balderston, Plesington, Laurence, Washington and Boteler.
Blazons of the nine coats borne by Sir Thomas Gerard (1st Baron Gerard of Gerard's Bromley, Staffs., 1603), Knight Marshall of the Royal Household, 1597; d. 15 Jan. 1617/18). Full achievement, fol. 3. On fols. 3-11 (rectos), coloured coats (lacks Boteler; Breyndel and Washington cut out); (versos), etymologies and blazons (Ins, Boteler imperfect) of Gerard, Breyndel, Ins, Radcliff, Balderston, Plesington, Laurence, Washington and Boteler.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/17