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CHESHIRE HERALDRY THE VISITATIONS OF 1613.

The second in the series of illustrated companions to the Cheshire Visitations.

This purpose of this book is to act as an illustrated companion to add some colour to the Harleian MS series of Cheshire Visitations. This volume features 178 colour illustrations of the armorial bearings recorded at the Heralds’ Visitations of Cheshire in the year 1613 as published in 1909 by The Records Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire. The book published by The Records Society contains few illustrations and those that are included are in black and white. Although the visitations contained a collection of pedigrees of families with the right to bear arms this work confines itself to their armorial bearings alone. The author has simply attempted to turn the written description of the arms (the blazon) into a coloured illustration for every relevant entry.

Hardcover 144 pages Price: £39.99   Visitations of 1613
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CHESHIRE HERALDRY
THE VISITATIONS OF 1533 TO 1580

A4 Hardback full colour gloss cover, 278 inner pages printed throughout in full colour with 350 armorial illustrations.

This volume features 350 colour illustrations of the armorial bearings recorded at the Heralds' Visitations of Cheshire in the years 1533, 1566 and 1580 along with a fragment of the records of the Visitation of the City of Chester in 1591 as published in 1882 by the Harleian Society. The book published by the Harleian Society contains few illustrations and those that are included are in black and white.


 Although the visitations contained a collection of pedigrees of families with the right to bear arms this work confines itself to their armorial bearings alone. The author has simply attempted to turn the written description of the arms (the blazon) into a coloured illustration for every relevant entry.
 




The Heraldic Visitations of Cheshire 1533 to 1580


Hardcover, 338 Pages

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This is a facsimile copy of
The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580
produced and privately printed by Martin Goldstraw of Cheshire Heraldry.

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 Visitation of a Part of Cheshire in the Year 1533, Made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceaux King of Arms, and a Fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the Year 1591, Made by Thomas Chaloner, Deputy to the Office of Arms. Edited by John Paul Rylands, F. S. A. London 1882.

Visitations 1513 to 1580
 
                            

The Heraldic Visitations of Cheshire 1613

Hardcover, 335 Pages

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This is a facsimile copy of The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1613 produced and privately printed by Martin Goldstraw of Cheshire Heraldry. 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.

Visitations of 1613


Lectures on Heraldry

By Archibald Barington

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Hardcover, 260 Pages

Lectures on Heraldry: In which the Principles of the Science are Familiarly Explained and Its Application Shown to the Study of History and Architecture. This is a facsimile copy of the original book first published in 1844 and is an exact replica of the original.

Lectures on Heraldry 



 

Shropshire Arms & Lineages


Hardcover, 120 Pages

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This is a facsimile copy of Shropshire Arms & Lineages privately printed by Martin Goldstraw of Cheshire Heraldry. Shropshire Arms and Lineages is compiled from a work by the Rev Fred. W. Kittermaster first published in 1869. It provides details of the Visitation of Shropshire by the Heralds in 1623 along with an appendix which provides information on Arms & Lineages from the 1800s and other miscellaneous manuscripts.

Shropshire Arms and Lineages


The Heraldic Visitations of Shropshire Volume I


Hardcover, 336 Pages

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A facsimile copy of the The Visitation of Shropshire, taken in the year 1623 Volume I - A-J only 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 Pedrigrees of Shropshire Gentry taken by the Heralds in the years 1569 and 1584, and other sources. Edited. by George Grazebrook and John Paul Rylands. Published in 1889.

Visitations of Shropshire
                                    Volume 1



The Heraldic Visitations of Shropshire Volume II


Hardcover, 324 Pages

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A facsimile copy of the The Visitation of Shropshire, taken in the year 1623 Volume II - K-Z including a complete index of Volume I and II 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 Pedrigrees of Shropshire Gentry taken by the Heralds in the years 1569 and 1584, and other sources. Edited. by George Grazebrook and John Paul Rylands. Published in 1889.

Visitations of Shropshire
                                    Volume 2


               

The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach

By John Parsons Earwaker
ISBN:
978-0-244-36745-9

Hardcover, 344 Pages

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A hardbacked facsimile copy of The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach Co. Chester Including the Two Chapelries of Holmes Chapel and Goostrey: from Original Records. First published by J. P. Earwaker for private circulation in 1890 and restricted to 150 copies of which 100 were for presentation. Contains the heraldry and pedigrees of the landowning families of the area.

Binding:    Hardcover (casewrap)
Interior Ink:    Black & white
Weight:     0.54 kg
Dimensions (centimeters):     15.24 wide x 22.86 tall


The
                                    History of the Ancient Parish of
                                    Sandbach

 

The Visitations of Cumberland 1615

By Martin S J Goldstraw
Hardcover, 72 Pages

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The visitation of the county of Cumberland in the year 1615 taken by Richard St. George, Norroy king of arms. Ed. by John Fetherston. First published by the Harleian Society in 1872. This is a facsimile copy of the 1872 publication. Harleian MS. 1374 can scarcely be said to be a copy, but merely an ordinary of arms compiled from the Visitations of the four northern counties taken in this year, - those of Cumberland and Westmoreland extending from folios twelve to fifteen b, - accompanied with a few drawings, and at the end of the volume are trickings of arms from the Visitations of Shropshire, 1623. On folios twenty seven and twenty eight are fifty three shields of arms of the Cumberland gentry, hastily tricked in printed escocheons (sic); these will be found at the end of this volume.

The Visitations of
                                        Cumberland

 

Cheshire nd Lancashire Funeral
                                Certificates

Cheshire and Lancashire Funeral Certificates


Cheshire and Lancashire Funeral Certificates; A.D. 1600 TO 1678.
Edited by John Paul Rylands.

List Price £29.50

Specifications
Pages 278
Binding Hardcover
Interior Color Black & White
Dimensions US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)

First Published in 1882. Funeral certificates represent a significant class of records dating from the late 16th to the early 18th century. These accounts of heraldic funerals contain, in addition to heraldry, details of death, burial, marriages, children and so on. This volume, originally printed for the Record Society in 1882, contains extracts covering the years 1600 to 1678 from the counties of Cheshire and Lancashire (mostly Cheshire). This volume is a facsimile copy of the original.



  Cheshire and Lancashire Funeral
                                  Certificates



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