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many ancient sources, such as the Munimenta Antiqua, apprentice books, will books, church records, brass rubbings and historical documents from the author's personal collection.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.
Volume 5: A sample of contents, too extensive to list in full: Deeds of Berkeley, co. Gloucester; Goddard; Sancroft; Wentworth; and an Assessment for the poor for the Parish of Amersham, co. Bucks, 1703. Entries in Bibles include Atcherley, Bayley, Butcher, Carter, Chase, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Foote, Irvine, Jackson, James, Lamb, Lawrence, Leighton, Miles, Sewell, Wetherall,Williamson, Verney and many others. Among the eighteen Grants of Arms are Bowman, Harcourt, Mason, Mathew, Milner and "Underwood and Gore." Wills include Mary Brearley, 1625; and three members of the Caterman or Quarterman family of Chalgrove, 1544-1546. Among the forty autographs is that of William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Charles II.
Frederick Arthur Crisp
(1900), 2018, 8.5" x 11", paper, 153 pp.
ISBN: 9780788405457
101-C0545
