William Camden. Copy of arms granted by William Camden
Reference code
MSS/0484
Title
William Camden. Copy of arms granted by William Camden
Date
18th century
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. xi + 165. Small quarto. Leather, brown.
Scope and content
Severall Exemplifications Under the Hand & Seale of his Office Wm: Camden Clarenceaux King at Arms From the Comeing of King James the First 1602 to ye year 1622.' (fol. v). Copy of arms granted by William Camden, Clarenceux, with some confirmations, possibly from Camden's notebook in the College of Arms. In trick, unfinished, partly in pencil after fol. 37 or incomplete. Some entries or annotations relate to dates earlier or later than those indicated on fol. v. Arrangement mostly chronological but earlier material is interspersed. Index at fols. vi verso-xi.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/484
Archival history
Note, fol. i, that from the Ives collection (John Ives, Suffolk Herald extraordinary, d. 1776; his library sold, 1777, see Aspilogia, I (1950), 146). Phillipps MS 7365 (fol. i; small label on the spine). Bookplate of Ralph Griffin as Sec. SA, fol. ii.