1669. 21 Char. II. SIR EDWARD BYSSHE, Clarencieux.

The original of this Visitation is in the Harleian Collection: a copy is in the possession of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. of Middle Hill, near Broadway, in Worcestershire.

In the library of the Duke of Buckingham at Stowe, Press viii. N° 82, is a MS. entitled "Pedigrees of Bedfordshire," &c. the latest date is 1654; with Arms tricked, and an Index. Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 531.

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Press viii. N° 83, MS. entitled "Bedfordshire Visitation," contains 121 Coats of Arms in shields, the latest date of which is 1632.

Press viii. N° 66, of the same library, contains a collection of Bedfordshire Arms.

Warburton, Somerset's Heraldical Collections for Bedfordshire, together with those made by John Pomfret, Rouge-Croix, temp. Geo. I. & II. relating to the same county, Lansd. M.S. 887, in the British Museum.

A small collection of Pedigrees of families in Bedfordshire, with an alphabetical index, Lansd. MS. 864.

Sir Gregory Osborne Page Turner, Bart. of Battlesden, is in the possession of a large collection of Genealogies of families in this county.

Bezkhize.

1533. 25 Hen. VIII. THOMAS BENOLTE, Clarencieux. 1566. 9 Eliz. WILLIAM HARVEY, Clarencieux.

A copy is amongst the books given by the late Richard Gough to the Bodleian library.

This Visitation-book was considerably augmented by William Smith, Rouge-Dragon, in 1602, and enlarged by Withie in 1628.

1584. 27 Eliz. ROBERT COOKE, Clarencieux, who, when in this office, constantly visited his province by deputy, and is said to have obtained greater returns than any other who held this situation before or after him.

This Visitation is in the Harleian Collection, British Museum.

1597. 40 Eliz. RICHARD LEE, Clarencieux, who died this year.

The Visitation was commenced when "James Fisher was Maior of Abendon." It is in the library of Queen's College, Oxford.

1623. 21 James I. WILLIAM CAMDEN, Clarencieux, by his Deputies HENRY CHITTING, Chester-Herald, and JOHN PHILIPOT, Rouge-Dragon Pursuivant.

In the library of the Duke of Buckingham at Stowe, Press viii. N° 83, is a MS. entitled "The Visitation of Berkshire, taken in 1623 by Henry Chitting Chester, with some Additions of the foriner Visitation taken in 1566," folio, pp. 15.

1664. 16 Char. II. SIR EDWARD BYSSHE, Clarencieux. His Deputy ELIAS ASHMOLE, Windsor-Herald, finished the Visitation in 1666, accompanied by John Sanders, painter. In the Harleian Collection, 90, A. 2.

Ashmole collected "The Arms, Epitaphs, and Fenestral Inscriptions, with the Draughts of the Tombs, in all the Churches in Berkshire:" it was penned in 1666. This collection has been published under the title of "The Antiquities of Berkshire," 1717 and 1723, 3 vols. 8vo. and in folio, at Reading, in 1736. The original MS. is in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.

Buckinghamthize.

A Visitation of this county, without date, is amongst Gough's books in the Bodleian library, Oxford.

1566. 9 Eliz. William HarVEY, Clarencieux. In the Harleian Collection, in the British Museum. A copy is in the library of All Souls' College, Oxford.-Jekyll's MS. N° 51.

1574. 17 Eliz. ROBERT COOKE, Clarencieux, by his Deputy RICHARD LEE, Portcullis Pursuivant. In the Harleian Collection, in the British Museum.

A Visitation by the same King of Arms and Deputy, in the library of Queen's College, Oxford, is dated 1575.

1580. 23 Eliz. ROBERT COOKE, Clarencieux, ROBERT GLOVER, Somerset Herald, being his Deputy.

1634.

10 Char. I. RICHARD ST. GEORGE, Clarencieux, and JOHN BURROUGHS, Norroy; JOHN PHILIPOT, Somerset Herald, and WILLIAM RYLEY, Bluemantle Pursuivant, being their Deputies. In Queen's College at Oxford.

A copy, with many considerable continuations and additions, written and tricked by John Saunders, painter. In the British Museum, Harl. MS. 1391.

1669. 21 Char. II. SIR EDWARD BYSSHE, Clarencieux. This Visitation was finished in 1675.

In the library of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos at Stowe, Press viii. N° 84, is a folio MS. entitled "Bucks Pedigrees:" the written pages are 296, beginning with a list of the Justices for the county in 1601. The hand-writing resembles Browne Willis's, but the pedigree of the Warwin family at page 89 was written by Clarencieux Harvey, and none of the descents are carried down lower than Sir Peter Temple, 1653. The families, whose pedigrees are described, amount to 180, the shields in which the arms are drawn are 76, and there is a list of the Justices of Bedfordshire and Bucks, from the reign of Henry II. at the end. J. Holland's autograph on the inside cover, indicates the collection from which this MS. passed to Stowe. -Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 532.

In the same magnificent library, Press viii. No 133 to 171, are “Evidences of the Temple and Grenville Pedigrees." N° 172 to 187 are also Evidences of the Temple Pedigree and Arms: to these are added Armorial bearings there emblazoned; a Pedigree of the Temples, by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux; &c. MS. N° 188, " Original Letters, which establish the date of the Family of Temple, of Stowe, from 1574 to 1648:" 50 letters.

N° 189 to 228, "Original Evidences, sans date, of the Grenville Pedigree, from the Reign of Henry III."❞ one of the most complete collections of family-evidences extant, amounting to above 700 articles, with the seals appendant

to most of them from the reign of Henry III. to that of Henry VIII.

N° 338 to 357, Grenville Pedigree-Evidences of the reign of Edward the First: N° 381 to 449, Ditto, of the reign of Edward the Second: and N° 451 to 643, Ditto of Edward the Third's reign.

The preservation of these documents is owing to Richard Grenville, Esq. of Wotton, who, retiring from the confusion of the Civil wars, employed his leisure hours in arranging and transcribing the ancient records of his family: he died 10th of January, 1665. In the collection are incontestible evidences of the possession of Landed property from the time of the Conquest, so witnessed and dated as to afford abundant means to the county-historian to correct the false dates of others, and regulate his own.

Press ix. in the same library, contains other important MSS. respecting this Noble family. No 1, "Grenville Pedigree and Evidences," folio, pp. 148: a note, in the hand-writing of Richard Grenville, Esq. of Wotton, states that the transcripts in this MS. were collated with the originals by his father, in 1613.-Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 550.

Press ix. N° 36, "Pedigree of the Temples of Stowe," folio MS. The written pages are 100, followed by several blanks, and the shields, in which the Temple arms and quarterings are neatly coloured, amount to 476. The writing is Sir Peter Temple's, with some few marginal notes and references by Dr. Charles Lyttleton, afterwards bishop of Chester. On the inside cover, an abridgment containing the descents from Leofric, third Earl of Leicester, are described by Dr. Lyttleton to his own time, and he quotes on the first leaf the " Original Visitation of Buckinghamshire of 1634, by Philipot." The descents are every where supported by references to original documents, many of which are carefully copied into the Pedigree, and fac similes are given of some of the seals.-Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 551.

Cambridgethize.

A Visitation of this county, without date, is in the College of Arms.

1575. 18 Eliz. ROBERT COOKE, Clarencieux. A copy is in the library of Caius College, Cambridge.

Scot

1619. 17 Jam. I. WILLIAM CAMDEN, Clarencieux, HENRY ST. GEORGE, Richmond, being Deputy. In 1626, was his marshal in this county.

Copies of this Visitation are in the libraries of Caiuscollege Cambridge, Queen's-college Oxford, in the Bodleian library, and in the British Museum, MS. 4962, Ayscough's Cat.; and, with additions, Harl. MS. 1043.

1684. 36 Char. II. HENRY ST. GEORGE, Clarencieux, assisted by GREGORY KING, Rouge-Dragon, and ROBERT DALE. The original Visitation is in the possession of the Earl of Egmont.

A MS. given to the Bodleian library by the late Richard Gough, F.S.A. contains "The Names of all the Gentlemen in Cambridgeshire, with the places of their habitation, and some of their Arms."

M. D. Duffield, of Caston, near Wotton, in Norfolk, is in possession of materials for a History of the Town and County of Cambridge, proposed to be published, vide "Gentleman's Magazine," vol. 90, pt. ii. p. 40.

Chethize.

1566. 9 Eliz. WILLIAM FLOWER, Norroy, ROBERT COOKE, Chester, being his Deputy. A copy is in the library of Queen's College, Oxford.

1580. 23 Eliz. WILLIAM FLOWER, Norroy, ROBERT GLOVER, Somerset, his Deputy or Marshal.

Glover's transcript of this Visitation, in the College of Arms, 1. D. 14. contains extracts from the Cheshire