Arms of Nobility

MSS/0408

Arms of Nobility

early 17th century

Item

ff. vi + 149 (original pagination/foliation 2-244 on fols. 11-140, with gaps but including blank leaves).
Small quarto.
Leather binding, brown, bound 1998. 'X', 'BLongmate Engraver-1772', fol. iv verso. Armorial bookplate of Eliza Gulston. Signature of W.Graham, fol. vi.

A collection said to be 'Arms of Nobility collected by Nicholas Charles Lancaster herald of Arms' (18th century title, fol. v; see also fol. 13). Preceded by a list (fols. 1-10) of creations of peers from Henry, Prince of Wales, 4 June 1610, to 1626, in a later 17th-century hand. The main collection consists of arms in trick, many incomplete. Begins (fol. 11 = original p.2) with the arms of William the Conqueror. At fol. 13 rough heading 'The Booke of all the Nobiletie ^wth theire quartered Coates ... in the Raigne of Elisabeth ...' with added notes referring to Nicholas Charles; followed by arms of peers arranged according to precedence. Later (18th century) additions include annotations of names; arms of Granville-Leveson from the Garter plate, 1771, of John (Leveson-Gower), 1st Earl Gower 1746, 1st Marquess of Stafford 1786, fol. 111; arms of Scottish peers, fols. 113-130; miscellaneous kings, beginning with Charles I and including Hengist, King of the Saxons in Kent (fol. 134), fols. 130v, 131v-40v. Index, fols. 141-8v.

Charles, Nicholas (d 1613), Lancaster Herald

SAL/MS/408