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Visitation of Kent

Reference code
MSS/0163
Title
Visitation of Kent
Date
Mid 17th century, with later additions
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
ff. ii + 54.
Folio.
Leather spine, brown, with marbled boards.
Scope and content
Visitation of Kent, 1619, with additions to 1648; in several 17th century hands, the beginning (fols. ii verso-5) supplied by a later hand. Arms in trick. Owned and annotated by Peter Le Neve, Norroy, PSA (d. 1729), who wrote the index, fols. 53v-4. With modern notes by Major Thomas Shepard, FSA (d. 1937), giving references to the 1619 visitation.
Creator
Thorpe, John (1682-1750), antiquary
Shepard, Thomas (1860-1937), army officer and antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/163