Fragmenta Genealogica: Volume 3

This rare series is an outstanding compilation of English genealogical information drawn from many ancient sources, such as the Munimenta Antiqua, apprentice books, will books, church records, brass rubbings and historical documents from the author’s personal collection. Most of the data is from the 1600s and 1700s, but a few families have records going back to the 1500s and earlier. Included are descriptions of family coats of arms (with some illustrations), autographs, deeds, entries in Bibles, grants of arms, lists of rectors, monumental inscriptions, pedigrees, register extracts, seals and wills.

The original volumes were beautifully printed on Crisp’s private press in limited editions of fifty. Crisp also collaborated with Joseph Jackson Howard on the distinguished series, Visitation of England and Wales. The information in Fragmenta Genealogica is every bit as significant as that found in Visitation, but is of a more random and sometimes more interesting variety.

Volume 3: A sample of the contents, too extensive to list in full: Autographs of Sir Edward Bysshe, 1670; George Cartwright, 1603; Elizabeth, Countess of Devon, 1637; Anthony Eyre, 1566; Charles Hussey, 1613; John Hylmar, 1547; Sir George Morton, 1637; John Wyston, 1552. Church Notes of the Cathedral, St. Clement’s, St. Helen’s, St. Mary’s and St. Michael’s, Coslany, all in Norwich. Also in this volume: book plates, deeds, entries in Milnes and Clay family Bibles, a Seaman family grant of arms, and monumental inscriptions from Sudbourne, Suffolk County.

Frederick Arthur Crisp

(1902, 1996), 2025, 8.5" x 11", paper, index, 104 pp.

ISBN: 9780788404924

101-C0492