Beinecke MS 97                                                      England, ca. 1564
Sir Gilbert Dethick, Book of Arms

     1. f. 1r    [Dedication:] To the Quenes most Excellent Majestie. A
     Booke of all suche knightes (not beinge of the moste noble ordre of the
     Garter) as hath ben maid sence the firste yere of your Highnes Reigne,
     their Armes with thiere Creastes, set fourth by youre majesties most
     houmble Servante Sir Gilberte Dethicke knight alias Garter your
     Princypall King of Armes and Chiefe offycer of Armes of youre moste
     noble ordre of the garter, the Laste daye of Desember in the yere of
     our Lord 1564.

     2. ff. 2r-28r    Illustrations of coats of arms, in color, one per
     folio recto or verso; above each except the first, the name of the
     bearer, as given below. No mottoes given. (f. 2r) Royal arms of
     Elizabeth I of England; (f. 2v blank; f. 3r) Knightes of the Bathe. The
     Lord Darcy of Darcy; (f. 3v) The Lord Sheffelde; (f. 4r) The Lord Darcy
     of Chiche; (f. 4v) Sir Roberte Ryche; (f. 5r) Sir Roger Northe; (f. 5v)
     Sir John Souche; (f. 6r) Sir Henry Weston; (f. 6v) Sir Edward Vmpton;
     (f. 7r) Sir Henry Cary nowe Lord of Honnsdon; (f. 7v) Sir Thomas Leigh,
     then Lord Maior of London; (f. 8r) Sir Nycholas Bacon Lord Keper of ye
     great Sealle; (f. 8v) Sir Robert Cattelen Lord Chief Justice; (f. 9r)
     Sir Nycholas Poynes; (f. 9v) Sir John Barkeley; (f. 10r) Sir George
     Speke; [at bottom of the folio:] here endeth the Knights of ye Bathe;
     (f. 10v) Sir Thomas Parrey; (f. 11r) Sir Thomas Gresham; (f. 11v) Sir
     William Huet then Lord Maior of London; (f. 12r) Sir George Bowes; (f.
     12v) Sir Arthur Grey nowe Lord Grey of Wilton; (f. 13r) Sir Barnaby
     Fitzpaterike; (13v) Sir Edward Braye; (f. 14r) Sir William Mallorye;
     (f. 14v) Sir Edward Lyttelton; (f. 15r) Sir William Babthorpe; (f. 15v)
     Sir John Conwey; (f. 16r) Sir Walter Aston; (f. 16v) Sir Rychard
     Newporte; (f. 17r) Sir William Ffairefax; (f. 17v) Sir Rychard
     Ffulmerston; (f. 18r) Sir William Harper then Lord Maior of London; (f.
     18v) Sir Owen Hopton; (f. 19r) Sir Edward Capell; (f. 19v) Sir Adryan
     Poynynge; (f. 20r) Sir Thomas Lodge then Lord Maior of London; (f. 20v)
     Sir John White then Lord Maior of London; (f. 21r) Sir Henry Williams
     alias Cromwell; (f. 21v) Sir Henry Cheyney; (ff. 22r-27v blank; f. 28r)
     Sir Gilbert Dethicke alias Garter. f. 28v blank

          Parchment (thick and furry), ff. ii (paper) + ii (contemporary
     parchment) + 28 (interleaved with modern paper, latter not foliated) +
     ii (paper), 172 x 130 mm. (illustrations ca. 135 x 115 mm.). No ruling.
          Impossible to determine the collation, because all leaves are now
     separate and stitched to stubs of modern paper.
          Introduction and labels of illustrations in cursive with loops, by
     one scribe.
          Each shield enclosed in shaded pink border designed to look like
     worked metal, and surmounted by a jousting helm in profile, mantling
     gules doubled argent with gold tassels; wreath in colors from shield.
     Only shields (in up to 17 quarters) and crests vary. Slight variations
     from this scheme on f. 2r (royal arms) and f. 3r (mantling sable
     doubled argent). Fair quality of workmanship.
          Bookblock detached from the binding. Illustration badly smeared on
     f. 11r, slightly smeared f. 28r.
          Binding: ca. 1873. Gold-stamped red goatskin case.

          Written in England in the late 16th century, probably ca. 1564
     (see f. 1r); for Sir Gilbert Dethick (ca. 1500-84) see DNB, v. 5, pp.
     868-69 and W. H. Godfrey, Sir A. Wagner, and H. S. London, "The College
     of Arms...", being the sixteenth Monograph of the London Survey
     Committee (1963) pp. 46-47. Bought by E. Champion Bacon in London in
     1844 (signature on third flyleaf; note copied onto verso of first
     flyleaf). Belonged to Thomas R. Trowbridge in 1873, who had it rebound.
     Presented to Yale in 1924 by Francis B. Trowbridge.

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 29, no. 97.

     Barbara A. Shailor