Heraldic visitation

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East, and West parts of this Realme of England, from the river of Trent Southward, upon Thursday the fifteenth day of September, by eight of the clock in the morning, at the sign of the Black Swan in Downham, where I intend to sit for the Registring of all the Gentry within the said Hundred; and to that end you likewise give them notice, that they bring with them such armes and crests as they use and bear, with such other evidence or matter of record and credit as (if need require) may justifie the same, to the intent that I knowing how they use and challenge their Titles and by what right and authoritye they beare or pretend to bear Armes, I may accordingly make entrance thereof, and register the same in the office of Armes, or else proceed as my commission enjoyneth me in that behalfe, and to disclaim and make infamous such as usurp the title of Esquires or Gentlemen; and to convent all such as shall refuse to conforme themselves unto my said commission before the Lords Commissioners for the office of Earle Marshall of England, there to answer their misdemeanors and contempts. And if there shall be any of the degrees and quallities above mentoned omitted within yo Liberties in these my directions, that you likewise insert their names and warn them accordingly. Hereof charge them not to fayle as they will avoid the perill as may ensue by any of their neglects or contempts herein. Of these particulars your are to make a true and perfect returne, together with this your warrant, and what you have done therein, at the time and place above appointed. Given under my hand and Seale this first day of July, anno Dom. 1664. Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux

343: 124: 323:" families, who lacked long pedigrees and were therefore apathetic about registering them. However, Janet Verasanso has challenged this interpretation, finding that (in Staffordshire, at least) gentry enthusiasm for coats of arms as an enhancement to social standing persisted to the end of the 17th century. The end of the visitations did not have much effect on those counties far removed from London, some of which had only been rarely visited over the entire period of the visitations. 3896: 4624:, deemed by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms in 1620 (through his 2 deputies) "all ignoble", unable to prove their pedigrees to satisfy the heralds that they were entitled to be called armigerous or gentleman. To be classed as "ignobiles" was to be publicly shamed. (Published in Worthy, Charles, (Principal Assistant to Somerset Herald in Ordinary), "Devonshire Wills", London, 1896, derived from MS.Harl.1080,fo.342) 33: 366:

recording coats of arms. The persons whose pedigrees were recorded were required (from about 1570 onwards) to certify them by signature, and where these original draft pedigrees have survived they are known as "originals with signatures". The signed copies were taken back to the College of Arms, where

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The Visitations of the County of Oxford, taken in the years 1566, by William Harvey, Clarencieux; 1574 by Richard Lee, Portcullis; and in 1634 by John Philpott, Somerset, and William Ryly, Bluemantle, deputies of Sir John Borrough, Kt, Garter, and Richard St George, Kt, Clarencieux; together with the

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The Visitation of Shropshire, taken in the year 1623 by Robert Tresswell, Somerset Herald, and Augustine Vincent, Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms, marshals and deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms; with additions from the pedigrees of Shropshire gentry taken by the heralds in the years

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so closely followed those of the English College of Arms, it is hardly surprising that the Irish officers of arms undertook heraldic visitations in their province. The purpose behind these visitations was twofold: to prevent the assumption of arms by unqualified people, and to record the arms of the

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The principal records to emerge from the visitations were pedigrees, initially recorded on loose sheets of paper, and afterwards bound together as notebooks. In some cases, the sheets would include blank shields which had been drawn in advance (or at a later date printed), to simplify the process of

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in 1689, no further commissions to carry out visitations were commanded. The reasons behind this cessation of the programme have been a matter of debate among historians. Philip Styles, for example, related it to a declining willingness of members of the gentry to attend visitations, which he traced

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Pedigrees from the Visitation of Hampshire made by Thomas Benolt, Clarenceulx, Anno 1530; enlarged with the Visitation of the same county made by Robert Cooke, Clarenceulx, Anno 1575, both which are continued with the Visitation made by John Phillipott, Somersett (for William Camden, Clarenceux) in

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In the early days, the visiting herald would tour the homes of the gentry and nobility, but from the late 1560s these persons were summoned to attend a central "place of sitting" – usually an inn – at a particular time. They were to bring their arms, and proof of their right to use them, most often

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The Visitation of the County of Rutland begun by Fran. Burghill, Somerset, and Gregory King, Rougedragon, in Trinity Vacation 1681, carried on and finished by Tho. May, Chester Herald, and the said Rougedragon Pursuivt. in Hilary and Trinity Vacation 1682, by virtue of several deputacions from Sir

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The Visitation of the County of Buckingham made in 1634 by John Philipott, esq., Somerset Herald, and William Ryley, Bluemantle Pursuivant, marshals and deputies to Sir Richard St George, knight, Clarenceux, and Sir John Borough, knight, Garter, who visited as Norroy by mutual agreement; including

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These are to require you and in his Majestie's name to charge and comand you, that forthwith upon sight hereof you sumon these Baronets, Knights, Esq and Gentlemen, whose names are here under written, personally to appear before me Edward Bisshe, Knight, Clarenceux King of Armes of all the South,

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The Visitation of the County of Warwick, begun by Thomas May, Chester, and Gregory King, Rouge-Dragon, in Hilary Vacacion 1682, reviewed by them in the Trinity Vacacion following, and finished by Henry Dethick, Richmond, and the said Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, in Trinity Vacation 1683, by virtue of

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The Four Visitations of Berkshire made and taken by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux, Anno 1532; by William Harvey, Clarenceux, Anno 1566; by Henry Chitting, Chester Herald, and John Philipott, Rouge Dragon, for William Camden, Clarenceux, Anno 1623; and by Elias Ashmole, Windsor Herald, for Sir Edward

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were made to a higher standard and preserved as the "office copies". Sometimes the signed copies were also retained at the College, but in other cases, no longer considered of official interest, they might pass into private hands: once in general circulation, further copies were often made, which

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The Visitation of Bedfordshire, annis domini 1566, 1582, and 1634, made by William Harvey, esq, Clarencieulx King of Arms, Robert Cooke, esq, Clarencieulx King of Arms, and George Owen, esq, York Herald, as deputy for Sir Richard St George, Kt, Clarencieulx King of Arms; together with additional

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The resulting volumes now make up the collection of Visitation Books at the College, which contain a wealth of information about all armigerous people from the period. If the officers of arms were not presented with sufficient proof of the right to use a coat of arms, they were also empowered to

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The Visitations of the County of Surrey made and taken in the years 1530 by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms; 1572 by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms; and 1623 by Samuel Thompson, Windsor Herald, and Augustin Vincent, Rouge Croix Pursuivant, marshals and deputies to William Camden,

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The Visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580, made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, with numerous additions and continuations, including those from the visitation of Cheshire made in the year 1566, by the same herald; with an appendix, containing the

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The Visitation of Yorkshire, made in the years 1584/5, by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald; to which is added the subsequent Visitation made in 1612, by Richard St George, Norroy King of Arms, with several additional pedigrees, including "The Arms taken out of Churches and Houses at Yorkshire

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The 17th-century visitations generated a growing number of supplementary papers, including warrants, lists of persons who disclaimed any pretence to arms, lists of persons summoned to appear before the heralds (including those who had not appeared), records of fees paid, and miscellaneous

391:). However, because until relatively recently the College of Arms restricted access to its records, many of the older published editions were necessarily based on the unofficial second- or third-generation copies in other collections, and may therefore not always be reliable. 6249:

Staffordshire Pedigrees: based on the Visitation of that County made by William Dugdale, esquire, Norroy King of Arms, in the years 1663–1664, from the original manuscript written by Gregory King (successively Rouge Dragon and Lancaster Herald) during the years 1680 to

3105:. The Trent ran through Staffordshire, and the county was therefore technically divided between the two provinces; but for the purposes of visitation it was generally treated (sometimes through a process of deputation) as falling under the jurisdiction of Norroy. 311:

deface monuments which bore these arms and to force persons bearing such arms to sign a disclaimer that they would cease using them. The visitations were not always popular with members of the landed gentry, who were required to present proof of their gentility.

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visitation of a part of Cheshire in the 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms, and a fragment of the visitation of the City of Chester in the year 1591, made by Thomas Chalenor, deputy to the Office of Arms

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The Visitations of the County of Sussex made and taken in the years 1530 by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms; and 1633–4 by John Philipot, Somerset Herald, and George Owen, York Herald, for Sir John Burroughs, Garter, and Sir Richard St George,

434:, within their respective provinces. In the following lists, the Deputies are the officers of arms who actually carried out the visitations. Where no Deputy is named, the visitation can be assumed to have been conducted by the King of Arms in person. 4770:

The Visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervy, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilley, 1634; to which are added miscellaneous Essex pedigrees from various Harleian manuscripts, with an appendix containing Berry's Essex pedigrees, Part

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the church notes then taken; together with pedigrees from the Visitation made in 1566 by William Harvey, esq, Clarenceux, and some pedigrees from other sources. Being a transcript of MS Eng. Misc. C.17 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, with additions

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The Visitation of the County of Gloucester, taken in the year 1623, by Henry Chitty and John Phillipot as deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms; with pedigrees from the heralds' visitation of 1569 and 1582–3, and sundry miscellaneous

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The Visitation of Cambridge made in Anno 1575, continued and enlarged with the Visitation of the same county made by Henery St George, Richmond Herald, marshall and deputy to Willm. Camden, Clarenceulx, in Anno 1619, with many other descents added

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The Visitacion of Norffolk, made and taken by William Harvey, Clarencieux King of Arms, Anno 1563, enlarged with another Visitacion made by Clarenceux Cooke, with many other descents; as also the Visitation made by John Raven, Richmond, Anno

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might in turn be revised or augmented. As a result of these processes of transmission, a number of variant manuscript copies of any one visitation record may now survive, possessing varying degrees of accuracy and authority. The

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Pedigrees recorded at the Visitations of the County Palatine of Durham made by William Flower, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1575, by Richard St George, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1615, and by William Dugdale, Norroy King-of-Arms, in

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The Visitation of Middlesex, began in the year 1663, by William Ryley, Esq., Lancaster, and Henry Dethick, Rouge Croix, Marshalls and Deputies to Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarencieux: as recorded in the College of Arms (D.

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had made occasional tours of various parts of the kingdom to enquire about armorial matters during the fifteenth century. However, it was not until the sixteenth century that the process began in earnest.

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The Visitation of the County of Dorset, taken in the year 1623, by Henry St George, Richmond Herald, and Sampson Lennard, Bluemantle Pursuivant, marshals and deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of

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Pedigrees Recorded at the Heralds' Visitations of the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland; made by Richard St George, Norroy, King of Arms in 1615, and by William Dugdale, Norroy, King of Arms in 1666

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Visitation of London, 1568, with additional pedigrees, 1569–90, the arms of the city companies, and a London subsidy roll, 1589: from the transcripts prepared and annotated by the late H. Stanford London

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Pedigrees made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613, taken by Richard St George, esq., Norroy King of Arms, and Henry St George, gent., Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms; and some other contemporary pedigrees

242:, or Herald, visited a county, his presence was proclaimed by presenting the King's royal commission to the local gentry and nobility, which required them to provide evidence of their right to use a 6247: 5191:

The Visitation of Lancashire and a part of Cheshire, made in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, A.D. 1533, by special commission of Thomas Benalt, Clarencieux: Part II

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The Visitation of Lancashire and a part of Cheshire, made in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, A.D. 1533, by special commission of Thomas Benalt, Clarencieux: Part II

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The Visitation of Lancashire and a part of Cheshire, made in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, A.D. 1533, by special commission of Thomas Benalt, Clarencieux: Part I

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The Visitation of Lancashire and a part of Cheshire, made in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, A.D. 1533, by special commission of Thomas Benalt, Clarencieux: Part I

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windows, or on display in private houses. Sometimes, drawings were also made of non-heraldic antiquities, such as medieval architectural features, views of towns, Roman inscriptions and even

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Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches; between the years 1586 and 1613, under the authority of Clarencieux and Norroy, two Kings at Arms, by Lewis Dwnn, Deputy Herald at Arms

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The Visitation of London, Anno Domini 1633, 1634 and 1635, made by Henry St George, Kt, Richmond Herald, and deputy marshall to Sir Richard St George, Kt, Clarencieux King of Armes: Vol. II

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The Visitation of London, Anno Domini 1633, 1634 and 1635, made by Henry St George, Kt, Richmond Herald, and deputy marshall to Sir Richard St George, Kt, Clarencieux King of Armes: Vol. I

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Pedigrees recorded at the Heralds' Visitations of the County of Northumberland, made by Richard St George, Norroy King of Arms in 1615, and by William Dugdale, Norroy King of Arms in 1666

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The Visitation of the County of Gloucester, begun by Thomas May, Chester, and Gregory King, Rouge Dragon, in 1682, and finished by Henry Dethick, Richmond, and the said Rouge Dragon, 1683

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The Visitations of Hertfordshire, made by Robert Cooke, esq, Clarencieux, in 1572, and Sir Richard St George, Kt, Clarencieux, in 1634, with Hertfordshire pedigrees from Harleian MS 6147

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The Visitation of Suffolke, made by William Hervey, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1561, with additions from family documents, original wills, Jermyn, Davy, and other MSS, &c.: Vol 2

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The Visitation of Suffolke, made by William Hervey, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1561, with additions from family documents, original wills, Jermyn, Davy, and other MSS, &c.: Vol 1

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The Visitations of Suffolk made by Hervey, Clarenceux, 1561, Cooke, Clarenceux, 1577, and Raven, Richmond Herald, 1612, with notes and an appendix of additional Suffolk Pedigrees

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The Visitation of the County of Huntingdon, under the authority of William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, by his deputy, Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald, A.D. 1613

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The Visitation of the County of Rutland in the year 1618–19, taken by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, and other descents of families not in the visitation

7579: 195:) with authority to enter all homes and churches. Upon entering these premises, he was authorized to "put down or otherwise deface at his discretion... those 2888: 2847: 2806: 2765: 2732: 2691: 1486: 1438: 1414: 6989: 6238:

The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire, made by Sir Richard St George, Norroy, in 1614, and by Sir William Dugdale, Norroy, in the years 1663 and 1664

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would record the information clearly and make detailed notes that could be entered into the records of the College of Arms when the party returned to

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The Visitacion of Staffordschire made by Robert Glover, al's Somerset Herald, mareschall to William Flower, al's Norry Kinge of Armes, anno D'ni 1583

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A Catalogue of Records in the College of Arms: Records Volume 1: Record Manuscripts of the Tudor Visitations mainly contained in the series D–H

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The Visitations of the County of Somerset, in the years 1531 and 1573, together with additional pedigrees, chiefly from the Visitation of 1591

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The Northern Province, the jurisdiction of Norroy King of Arms, comprised that part of England north of the River Trent, i.e. the counties of

7550:(a catalogue of the office copies of visitations 1530–1592, with references to other manuscript copies, published editions, and name indexes) 6720:

The Visitation of the County of Worcester made in the year 1569, with other pedigrees relating to that county from Richard Mundy's collection

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The Visitation of London in the year 1568, taken by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms, and since augmented both with descents and arms

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The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1664–5, by Sir William Dugdale, Knight, Norroy King of Arms: Part III

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pedigrees, chiefly from Harleian MS 1531, and an appendix containing a list of Bedfordshire knights and gentry taken from Lansdowne MS 887

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The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1664–5, by Sir William Dugdale, Knight, Norroy King of Arms: Part II

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The Visitation of the County of Yorke, begun in Ao Dni MDCLXV and finished Ao Dni MDCLXVI, by William Dugdale, Esq., Norroy King of Arms

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A Visitation of the County of Suffolk, begun Anno Dni 1664 and finished Anno Dni 1668, by Sir Edward Bysshe, Kt, Clarenceux King of Arms

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The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1664–5, by Sir William Dugdale, Knight, Norroy King of Arms: Part I

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There was never a systematic visitation of Wales. There were four visitations in the principality, and on 9 June 1551, Fulk ap Hywel,

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The Visitation of Kent, taken in the years 1619–1621 by John Philipot, Rouge Dragon, marshal and deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux

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Wiltshire Visitation Pedigrees, 1623, with additional pedigrees and arms collected by Thomas Lyte of Lyte's Cary, Co. Somerset 1628

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From as early as the 1530s, officers of arms on visitation frequently also compiled what were known as "church notes". These were

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The Visitation of the County of Lincoln made by Sir Edward Bysshe, Knight, Clarenceux King of Arms, in the Year of Our Lord 1666

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The Visitations of Kent: Part I: Taken in the years 1530–1 by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux, and 1754 by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux

3961:, in 1569. He was authorized to reform practices which were contrary to good armorial practice. He conducted six visitations ( 7543: 3647:

Although undertaken during le Neve's kingship, this visitation was conducted under a joint commission granted in 1633 to Sir

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Armigerous Ancestors: a catalogue of sources for the study of the visitations of the heralds in the 16th and 17th centuries

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A Visitation of the County of Essex, begun AD 1664, finished AD 1668, by Sir Edward Bysshe, knight, Clarenceux King of Arms

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The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1613, by Richard St George, Esq., Norroy King of Arms

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The Visitations of Cornwall: comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620; with additions by J.L. Vivian

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The Visitations of Northamptonshire made in 1564 and 1618–19, with Northamptonshire Pedigrees from various Harleian MSS

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The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1567, by William Flower, Esq., Norroy King of Arms

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The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the years 1569 and 1614, with many other descents of the same county

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Conducted by Dugdale as deputy to Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, as the county lay within the Southern Province.

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Anno 1622, most part then don and finished in Anno 1634: as collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian MS no. 1544

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The Visitation of Norfolk, Anno Domini 1664, made by Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux King of Arms: Vol. II: M–Z

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The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, made by William Flower, esquire, Norroy King of Arms

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The Visitation of Norfolk, Anno Domini 1664, made by Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux King of Arms: Vol. I: A–L

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The Visitation of the County of Leicester in the year 1619, taken by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms

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The Visitation of the County of Cumberland in the year 1615, taken by Richard St George, Norroy King of Arms

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in Norfolk, giving them notice of two and a half months to muster the local gentry in the Black Swan Inn at

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The Visitation of the County of Warwick in the year 1619, taken by William Camden, Clarencieux King of Arms

5279: 5261: 5243: 5207: 3044: 3026: 3008: 2990: 2957: 2924: 2883: 2842: 2801: 2760: 2719: 2678: 361:; the manuscripts from his first tour of London are the earliest existing records of an English visitation. 270:

had been made, this was also recorded. Other ancient arms, many of which predated the establishment of the

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Lankester, Philip J. (1993). "Two lost effigial monuments in Yorkshire and the evidence of church notes".

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The Visitation of the County of Devon in the year 1564, with additions from the earlier Visitation of 1531

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Visitation, 1584/5", "Sir William Fayrfax' Booke of Arms," and other heraldic lists, with copious indices

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is particularly rich in such records. Many visitation records have been published over the years, by the

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The Visitation of Berkshire, 1664–6; by Elias Ashmole, Windsor Herald, for Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux

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The Visitation of Norfolk in the year 1563, taken by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms: Volume 2

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The Visitation of Norfolk in the year 1563, taken by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms: Volume 1

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had the commission renewed, and mounted several visitations. Although Molyneux's last visitation – of

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Ailes, Adrian (2009). "The Development of the Heralds' Visitations in England and Wales 1450–1600".

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The Visitations of the County of Devon: comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620

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The Visitation of Sussex, Anno Domini 1662, made by Sir Edward Bysshe, Knt, Clarenceux King of Arms

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by way of detailing their ancestral right to them, which would also be recorded. Where an official

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Verasanso, Janet (2001). "The Staffordshire Heraldic Visitations: their nature and function".

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The Visitations of Kent: Part II: Taken in the years 1574 and 1592 by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux

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