Armorial. Arms of Charles I, dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons
Reference code
MSS/0382
Title
Armorial. Arms of Charles I, dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons
Date
Temp. Chas. I, etc.
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
ff.v + 218 (plus an unnumbered index). Quarto. Leather binding, brown (rebound 1932). Bookplate of William Constable, FRS, FSA (d. 1791), fol. iii. Franks bookplate, fol. v.
Scope and content
Arms of Charles I, dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons; temp. Chas. I, with later additions. Coloured achievements (180), finely executed, each on a separate page. Many badges and crests entered on the versos. Printed cuttings from the 1642 edition of T.Walkley's Catalogue of the Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, Viscounts, and Barons ... laid down on many pages. The later additions include creations from the early years of Charles II to the creation of Francis Newport as Viscount Newport, 1675. Arms of the Duke of Monmouth, fol. 6v; see also the unheraldic arms, fol. 13. An index, 17th century, fols. 217v-18, is followed by a fuller index by Mill Stephenson, FSA.
Creator
Stephenson, Mill (1857-1937), expert on monumental brasses, antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/382
Archival history
Constable's library was given to him by John Burton (1697-1771) shortly before the latter's death; it was sold at Sotheby's, 24 June 1889 (this MS not identified). For the Constables of Constable Burton see G.Poulson, Antiquities of ... Holderness, II (1841), 227-35.