Visitation of Staffordshire. Made by Robert Glover

MSS/0674

Visitation of Staffordshire. Made by Robert Glover

c. 1583-early 17th century

item

Paper; ff. ii + 152.
Small folio.
Vellum binding. Dealers' marks, fols. i, 1.

'The visitacon of Staffordshire made by R Glover als Somerset Herald Mareschall to W. Flower, als Norroy Kinge of Armes Anno Dni 1583' (fol. 1). Fair copy, with annotations, and copies of other papers, mostly heraldic.

Contents:-

(1) Visitation, with extracts from charters. Index, fol. 2. fols. 1-87v;-

(2) Copy, imperfect at the end, of the petition to ?James I from Sir Edward Wingfield for release from prison in London owing to danger from the plague, c. 1606? Preceded by two stanzas of verse, beg. 'Obedience, Loyalte, Dewtye, feare..'. fols. 102-4;-

(3) Extracts from David Powel (1552-98), the Welsh historian, relating to the division of England among the sons of Brutus. fol. 107v;-

(4) Miscellaneous pedigrees, tricks of arms, list of Staffordshire gentry, 1583, blazons, extracts from charters (with drawings of seals, fol. 148), and copies of local proclamations relating to the Staffordshire visitation. fols. 120v-52.

Glover, Robert (1544-1588), Somerset Herald

SAL/MS/674
MS 674

Note by C. E. K. (?Charles Edward Keyser, FSA, d. 1929), fol. ii, that purchased from Edwards, Marylebone High St., 16 Mar. 1899, for £6. 0. 0.