The Visitation of the County of Cornwall, in the Year 1620. E-book. Formato PDF - 9780259686606

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. 1163 and 1164. They are in the handwriting of Camdens 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 several families. The pedigrees in each of these Mss. have the word "Entered" written above them, in red chalk, shewing. that they had been transcribed at the College of Arms; and those in Ms. 1162 have an additional mark (thus #) in black lead, from which we presume that a second transcript was made, probably that in Harl. Ms. 1079, by John Withie, Heraldic Artist of London, in whose Ms. the greater number of the pedigrees of Ms. 1164 do not appear. The loose sheets on which the drafts were written were bound together by Mr. Sampson Lennard, whose arms were stamped on the cover. After his death they came into the possession of Mr. Parker, who added a few notes, and they then passed by purchase to Mr. Robert Fisher, and subsequently to the Earl of Oxford's library.

In editing this Visitation, we 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 Heralds Visitation. But the order of the pedigrees is not preserved.