THE VISITATION OF CORNWALL 1620 edited Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Vivian and Henry H. Drake, M.A., Ph.D.

Description

The original drafts of the Heralds' Visitation of Cornwall in 1620 are preserved in the British Museum, and form part of the Harleian Collection, being MSS. 1162 and 1164. They are in the handwriting of Camden's deputies, Sir Henry St. George, when Richmond Herald, and Mr. Sampson Lennard, Blue Mantle; and the pedigrees are subscribed in most cases by the then representatives of the families. In editing this Visitation, the editors have endeavoured to reproduce these original drafts in printing type, scrupulously retaining all the inaccuracies, whether in orthography or in statement of fact, in order that the reader may be enabled to form a fair estimate of the nature and value of a Herald's Visitation.

There are many notes relating to the various pedigrees also a list of others who were disclaimed. Indexed and searchable. Published in 1874