HERALDRY]. Visitation of the County of Derby of 1560 and 1569, manuscript on paper, [England, early 17th Century], coats of arms and genealogies of 30 Derbyshire families, in a neat secretarial hand, title with decorated initial and emblazoned royal arms, 37 emblazoned coats of arms, mid 17th-century annotations and additions, 53 pages, large folio (numbered 1-52) , with a late 18th-century supplement, 5 pages, folio ; a table of 'Arms of Nobles', listing 183 nobles with their arms in trick (the majority blank), [late 17th or early 18th-century], 61 pages, folio (numbered 1-60) ; later genealogies of Bristow of Berthorpe and the Duke of Atholl, 2 pages, folio ; index; blanks (occasional slight wear to outer margin), contemporary calf, panelled in blind (worn, extensively restored). Provenance . Pe[ter] Fanwood (mid 17th-century ownership inscription on title). A large-scale and attractive copy of 'The Visitacion of the countie of Derbie, made by Will[ia]m Flower alias Norroy Kinge of Armes...In the yere of our Lorde God MCCCClx And in the eleventh yere of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lady Elizabeth [1569]': Flower was certainly assisted in his second visitation of Derbyshire by his son-in-law Robert Glover, Portcullis pursuivant and later Somerset herald, 'one of the most accomplished heralds and genealogists that this country has produced' ( DNB ).
HERALDRY]. Visitation of the County of Derby of 1560 and 1569, manuscript on paper, [England, early 17th Century], coats of arms and genealogies of 30 Derbyshire families, in a neat secretarial hand, title with decorated initial and emblazoned royal arms, 37 emblazoned coats of arms, mid 17th-century annotations and additions, 53 pages, large folio (numbered 1-52) , with a late 18th-century supplement, 5 pages, folio ; a table of 'Arms of Nobles', listing 183 nobles with their arms in trick (the majority blank), [late 17th or early 18th-century], 61 pages, folio (numbered 1-60) ; later genealogies of Bristow of Berthorpe and the Duke of Atholl, 2 pages, folio ; index; blanks (occasional slight wear to outer margin), contemporary calf, panelled in blind (worn, extensively restored). Provenance . Pe[ter] Fanwood (mid 17th-century ownership inscription on title). A large-scale and attractive copy of 'The Visitacion of the countie of Derbie, made by Will[ia]m Flower alias Norroy Kinge of Armes...In the yere of our Lorde God MCCCClx And in the eleventh yere of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lady Elizabeth [1569]': Flower was certainly assisted in his second visitation of Derbyshire by his son-in-law Robert Glover, Portcullis pursuivant and later Somerset herald, 'one of the most accomplished heralds and genealogists that this country has produced' ( DNB ).
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