Transcripts by John Thorpe, senior
Reference code
MSS/0160
Title
Transcripts by John Thorpe, senior
Date
1621 - 18th century
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
ff. iii + 24.
Quarto.
Rexine binding, red. Former marbled covers preserved.
Quarto.
Rexine binding, red. Former marbled covers preserved.
Scope and content
Transcripts by John Thorpe, senior (his contents note, fol.ii) of:- Blazons of arms (Abell-Cooke only) from a folio manuscript of James Coats of London, arms painter, fols. 1-2v; blazons (Abell-Wotton) preserved by Thomas Penson, arms painter, fols. 3-9v; and extracts from a Visitation of Kent, c. 1621, in the possession of William Sheeres of Southwark, arms painter, fols. 10-11; after 1715. At the reverse end, fols. 22v-12v, an index of names by Thorpe to the Kentish pedigrees in 173. See also 23.
Creator
Thorpe, John (1682-1750), antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/160