Heraldry
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
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Alphabet of heraldry, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.04.06
Scope and Contents
Contains the names and arms of many English families. See MS Ee.02.21.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Armorial records of the University, 1573 - 1937
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Arms
Scope and Contents
From the Management Group:
The category - Corporate management records - embraces records of the central decision-making bodies, University officers such as the Vice-Chancellor and the Registrary, and their administrative support. It includes constitutional records.
Dates:
1573 - 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Catalogue of heraldic books and manuscripts, Mid seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.78
Scope and Contents
'A catalogue of those manuscripts and other bookes apertaining to heraldry that are of wright mine and in my possession ano. 1646. Sylvanus Morgan'. There follows ‘The mathamaticall mariner’, ‘His caracter’, ‘his astronomi’, ‘his arithmatic’ and ‘Ex punto omnia: having proposed to myself to fix the dignity of coat armour whereby it might be brought into rule as to distinguish the goodness of our coats from an other ...’. At the end of the book are notes on the coats and pedigrees of various...
Dates:
Mid seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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"Clementine Churchill": CSC's coat of arms, 1965-06 - 1969-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/1/265
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter Principal King of Arms, and two versions of CSC's coat of arms.
Dates:
1965-06 - 1969-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Collections, vol, 4, in the hands of Blore and six others, including Francis Bassano of Derby and Thomas Brailsford., 1800 (Circa)
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3877
Scope and Contents
The papers include: a consideration of heralds and baronets; pedigrees and notes concerning Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Lancashire and Cheshire; lists of arms; an account of arms of nobility and gentry; other material relating to Derbyshire.
Dates:
1800 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Thomas Blore Papers
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Commonplace book, c. 1670
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.62
Scope and Contents
Contains historical and heraldical collections, relating chiefly to the royal family and peerage of England.
Dates:
c. 1670
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence with Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter Principal King of Arms, 1973-01 - 1994-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/1/52
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: JEP's work on St Matthew's Gospel; various heraldic questions, including [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [1st Lord Stockton] and his joke Latin motto; the Wingfield effigies [Suffolk]; the Oxford tombs in Bures chapel, Suffolk.
Also includes: a paper by JEP on the posture of church effigies; a paper by JEP on the Saracen's head at Prested Hall Chase, Kelvedon [Essex]; a speech by JEP to the Essex Archaeological Society on the de Vere and Beaumont families, Oct 1974;...
Dates:
1973-01 - 1994-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Genealogical notes, Mid seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.69
Scope and Contents
Notes concerning the descents of many English families with their arms emblazoned. The latest entry refers to the year 1645.
Dates:
Mid seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Heraldic collections, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.65
Scope and Contents
Contents: (1) Of the privileges and dignities of a Marquess, Earl, Viscount, Baron, and their wives and children; (2) ‘The placinge of all estates of men [and women] accordinge to their degrees’; (3) ‘The proceedinge to the Parlement at Westminster from the pallace there called Whitt-hall’; (4) ‘The placinge of great officers accordinge to the acte of Parlement made in anno 31 Henrici VIII’; (5) ‘The number of morners at funeralls accordinge to the degree and estate of the defuncte’; (6)...
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Heraldic manuscript, Undated
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.02.21
Scope and Contents
'The blason of arms: contayning two alphabets, the first of emperours and kings, the second of noblemen and gentlemen': contains the bearings of a large number of English families. There is no collector's name appended to it.
Dates:
Undated
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Heraldic manuscript, Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.02.27
Scope and Contents
An alphabet of arms with the coats emblazoned, compiled shortly before 1616, since it styles Sir Christopher Hatton lord chancellor, and mentions 'Lord Cavendish', who was made an earl in 1616, that increase of dignity being noted in a later hand.
Dates:
Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Heraldic notes, Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kk.01.26
Scope and Contents
Volume I consists of three parts: (1) 'The names of certayne places of Barrons after the manor of the alphabet', with initials of the sovereign's name under whom they were acquired; after this follow genealogical notes, also a peerage of 115 leaves with an index prefixed, and the arms inserted, drawn up in the reign of King James I; (2) 'Knights of the Garter', with the coats of arms of the knights, together with some scribblings, and lines of verse beginning 'I singe the civill warres...
Dates:
Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Heraldry of Corporations of Great Britain, 1882-1900 (Circa)
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4521
Scope and Contents
Includes: (Fo. 1) List of arms of Cambridge colleges; (fo. 3v) College of Arms; (fo. 4) professors and University institutions; (fo. 5) Inns of Court and Chancery; (fo. 7v) colleges and hospitals; (fo. 11) English bishops; (fo. 14v) Irish bishops; (fo. 16v) Scottish episcopal sees; (fo. 17v) deaneries; (fo. 21) religious houses; (fo. 49) cities, boroughs and towns; (fo. 68v) counties; (fo. 70) Scottish burghs; (fo. 77) corporate bodies and societies; (fo. 101) miscellaneous communities....
Dates:
1882-1900 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Photographs of the Carved Arms of Langton, 1550-09-27 and undated
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/12/Langton/1
Scope and Contents
5 black and white photographs taken by C. J. P. Cave of the Arms of Thomas Langton on the East end of East Meon Church, Hampshire and Taunton ?Cercle.
Dates:
1550-09-27 and undated
Fonds
Records of the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society, and predecessors, 1950 - 1996
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.100
Scope and Contents
From the Management Group:
The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.
Dates:
1950 - 1996
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Treatises on heraldry, Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.52
Scope and Contents
The contents of the book are mostly printed. (1) Nicholas Upton, ‘De officio militari’, libri quatuor; (2) Johannes de Bado Aureo, ‘Tractatus de armis’. The two treatises occupy 194 pages and were printed together in 1654. They are followed by three short manuscript tracts written in the early sixteenth century: (3) ‘Tractatus de armis compositus per Dom. Bartholomeum’; (4) ‘Bonus tractatus de armis in anglicis’, beginning ‘First as herolldie reordyn was atte siege of Troye ...’; (5) ‘Liber...
Dates:
Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Writings on nobility and heraldry, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.86.08
Scope and Contents
(1) An account of the persons that are noble, and their ranks; and a few remarks on heraldry; (2) 'A consideracion of the office and duty of a herauld in England drawn out of sundry observacions by John Doddridge the kinges Solicitor Generall at the instance of H. Earle of Northampton in August 1605'; (3) 'A catalogue of the nobility of England according to their creations, temp. Jac. I.'
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).