Pedigrees of Yorkshire families, etc.
Reference code
MSS/0691
Title
Pedigrees of Yorkshire families, etc.
Date
1774
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
pp. vi + 160.
Folio.
Bookplates of Thomas Beckwith of York 'Painter & F. A. S.', fol. ii, and Henry Anthony Littledale, fol. iii.
Folio.
Bookplates of Thomas Beckwith of York 'Painter & F. A. S.', fol. ii, and Henry Anthony Littledale, fol. iii.
Scope and content
Transcribed by Thomas Beckwith of York (FSA 1776), herald painter, 1774. Copied (see titlepage, fol. vi) from a MS of Stephen Walter Tempest of Broughton in Craven, which derived from collections of pedigrees of Robert Parker of Carleton (obtained from Captain Booth of Stopford, Cheshire). The pedigrees, pp. 13-157, include Tempest, Ingram, Gascoigne, Midleton, Vavasour, Fairfax, Darcy, Townley and many others. Other material includes epitaphs of the Ingram family (pp. 51-3). At pp. 1-12, copies of short treatises (from the same source but based on Camden, etc.) on surnames, the means of attaining to the degree of gentry, the first use of seals.
Creator
Beckwith, Thomas (d 1786), painter and antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/691