Collections of arms of Northern gentry by E G Parker

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Collections of arms of Northern gentry by E G Parker

made 1912-16

Fonds

Paper; ff. ii + 1-375, ii + 376-752, ii + 337; Vol. IV foliated in three sequences, ii + 44, 21, 127. Four volumes.
Small quarto.
Cloth binding, blue (grant for binding, 1933, from the Croft Lyons fund).

Modern copies of collections of arms in trick mostly relating to Northern gentry, contained in Bodl. MS Ashmole 834; made in 1912-16 by Miss E. G. Parker for William Henry (Harry) Rylands, FSA (d. 1922). Four volumes:- Vols. I, II. Coats of arms (752) from Ashmole 834, part IV, fols. 41-52v, 52v-64 (tricked by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald). See Surtees Society, 146 (1932), 101-94, and introduction xii-xiv; the arms in Ashmole 834 are said to be in no discernible order, to range widely topographically, but to relate mainly to northern gentry;- Vol. III. Coats of arms (337) of northern gentry from Ashmole 834, part IV, fols. 1-30v (tricked in alphabetical order by Robert Glover). Dates, 1575, 1578 given with the last two coats;- Vol. IV. Two collections:- (1) Arms of English monasteries, in trick, with accounts of their founders, from Ashmole 834, part IV, fols. 31-6. Annotated in the present copy with references to Tonge's Visitation, 1530. fols. 1-44;- (2) Miscellaneous coats of arms from Ashmole 834, part V, fols. 1-38v. Foliated in two sequences, fols. 1-21, 1-127.

Parker, Evaline Gertrude (fl 1911), antiquary

SAL/MS/496
MS 496