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          An Account of the Nobility of Scotland. England; last half of the
     sixteenth century.

     f. 1r    Table of Contents

     ff. 1v-21v    blank

     ff. 22r-27v    Account of the Nobility of Scotland. "The seales here
     mentioned in this booke were sett to the accord made at Barwycke, the
     27th daye of February 1559 with Queen Elizabeth."

     ff. 28v-29r    Descent of the Scottish Kings, partly in verse, from
     King Malcolm Canmore to Queen Mary, before her marriage in 1558.

     f. 29v    pedigree

     ff. 31r-43v    Proclamations reported by Richard Turpyn of Blewmantle
     on the siege of Le Havre (Newhaven), dated 21st of May to August 9,
     1563.

     ff. 44r-78v    Pedigrees of families, including Heigham, Pabenham,
     Lucy, Chamberlain, Tyrrell, Hunte, Blethyn ap Maynarch, Rice ap Tewder,
     Bardwolphe grave van Wolfenbuttel, William ap Jankyn, Poole, Brisko,
     West, Royden, Bingham, Rodney.

     ff. 79r-81r    Notes on the Clopton family taken from the Tower of
     London and the Rolls. This includes Sir Hugh Clopton (d. 1496) who
     built New Place, where Shakespeare lived at Stratford.

     ff. 81v-82v    descent of Knyvett family

     f. 84    "The nomber of morners accordinge to the degree of the
     defunct," and other rules of etiquette.

     ff. 85r-86v    Abstractus Comitatum Comitatus Palatini Cestrie, a
     exquisitione eiusdem per Hugonem Lupum Guilelmi Conquestoris nepotem.

     ff. 87r-88r    Family pedigrees

     ff. 88v-103r    blank

     Paper; 103 ff. 303 x 210 mm. 1 column.

     I (10), II (10, +1), III (3 loose leaves), IV (48), V (6), VI (4, +5),
     VII (8 -4, +9), VIII(8)

          Various cursive and chancery scripts. Many family crests are
     illustrated within pedigrees. Bound in limp vellum.

          Bought from Myers and Co. (Lot #371) in March 1952. Bequest of
     James M. Osborn, 1976.

          Comments: The section of proclamations contains the earliest
     public reference to Sir Humphrey Gilbert, step-brother of Sir Walter
     Raleigh, and famous navigator, whose name appears twice (37r, 42r) in
     the list of captains fightings against Catholics at the siege of Le
     Havre.



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