Heraldry. ‘Wares Miscellany’
Reference code
MSS/0463
Title
Heraldry. ‘Wares Miscellany’
Date
c. 1739-58, with additions, 1759-61
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. xvii + 70. Small folio. Leather, brown.
Scope and content
Wares Miscellany' (fol. vi). Possibly a herald painter's book (cf. fol. 55v); c. 1739 (fols. 33, 55v)-1758 (fol. 59v), with additions. Several notes refer to the 'Office' (College of Arms). Arms in trick, including a few foreign arms (fol. 6v). Together with arms mostly granted by Stephen Martin Leake, Garter, and Charles Townley, Clarenceux, 1759-61 (fols. 62-70). Index, 18th century, fols. vii-xvii.
Creator
Neve, Peter Le (1661-1729), herald and antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/463
Archival history
Crisp collection no. 69. Bookplates of Richard Henry Roundell, fol. ii, Edward Hailstone, FSA, fol. i, Frederick Arthur Crisp, FSA, fol. iii, and Ralph Griffin, FSA, fol. iv.