and copies are to be found.' This list was printed in 1781, with notes thereon, in Gutch's Collectanea Curiosa, vol. 2, page 210, from a manuscript in the library of All Souls College, Oxford. Harvey's visitation is the better known of the two, for there are three manuscripts of it in the College of Arms.* From those manuscripts it has been used by historians and genealogists, but it has not hitherto been published, because it was not known until lately that any copy of it existed outside the College. Dalton's visitation has been hitherto unknown, beyond the references to it in Anstis's list and in Gutch's notes thereto, for there is apparently no manuscript of it in the College of Arms itself, and it was not known until lately that any manuscript of it existed elsewhere.

Anstis appears to have treated Harvey's visitation as a visitation of both Northumberland and Yorkshire, and Dalton's visitation as one of Northumberland only. Under the heading of Northumberland he has (inter alia) the words, Penes me C. 8., C. 9. bis. William Harvey. Lawrence Dalton 1557 '† and, under the heading of Yorkshire, Anstis has (inter alia) the words 'William Harvey' (with 1552' in square brackets added by Gutch) Penes me C. 9' Gutch, in his notes thereto, under Yorkshire, adds the heading of Harvey's visitation as set out in this volume (p. 1), and also the following note of the heading of Dalton's visitation Visitation of the County of York, begun March 8, 1557, 4 & 5 Philip and Mary, by Lawrence Dalton, Esq., Norroy king of arms.'

As the manuscript which is mentioned on page xiii. of this introduction to have been purchased by Mr. Mackey in 1911, bears, inside its cover, the pressmark C. 9, and as it contains an index in the handwriting of Anstis, and some emendations to the Carnaby pedigrees, also in his handwriting (pp. 23-27), it is clear that it is the manuscript referred to in Anstis's list as being then in his possession, and as bearing his pressmark C. 9. His library was sold in 1768, after the death of his son who had inherited it. The books were not well catalogued. The manuscript is uniform in binding and endorsement, with a manuscript of Harvey's visitation of Norfolk, also acquired by Mr. Mackey in 1911, as part of his same purchase, and it is possible that they both

*College of Arms, E. 6, D. 9, D. 4.

The words cited are as they stand in Collectanea Curiosa, vol. 2, p. 238; but in the manuscript in All Souls College the words 'Penes me C. 9' follow separately, both after the name of William Harvey and after that of Lawrence Dalton.

Gutch, Collectanea Curiosa, vol. 2, pp. 238, 252, and 253. The notes are in part taken from Gough, Bibliotheca Topographica Britan

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passed at Anstis's sale under lot 36, described in the catalogue as 'Miscellaneous collections relating to Norfolk, Yorkshire, and other counties,' which fell at the auction to 'Scott,' as purchaser, for £1 7s. Od.

This MS. Anstis C. 9, is bound in a parchment cover, inscribed on the back with the index-letter, words, and figures following: N. Harvey's Visitation of the North, 1550. Dalton's Visitation of the North, 1557,' and on the outside with the words and figure following: The Visitation of the North parte by Harvy Norroy temp: Ed: 6: and on the inside with the letters, figures, and word following: C. 9. W. Paul. 6.' The inside lining of the cover is formed of two vellum leaves of a fourteenth century manuscript of the Legenda Aurea.

Its contents fall into sections as follows:

1. Twenty-six tabular pedigrees with roundels, being a selection (chiefly Yorkshire pedigrees) from section two.

2.-Fifty-four pedigrees and headings of pedigrees in

narrative form, being Harvey's visitation of 1552. 3.-Sixty-five tabular pedigrees with square labels. being a visitation or collection of pedigrees made by Flower, Norroy, in 1567.

4.-Twenty-nine pedigrees and headings of pedigrees in narrative form, being part of Dalton's visitation of 1558.

5. Two leaves, bound in towards the end, being a fragment of an armorial in an older handwriting of the first half of the sixteenth century.

6. An index in the handwriting of John Anstis the elder.

Nearly all the pedigrees in sections one and two (except those in section two which are left unfinished), a few of the pedigrees in section three, and nearly all the pedigrees in section four are marked at the top of the page, in Flower's handwriting, with a cross, and the word entered' written after it. Wanley, in editing the Harleian manuscripts for the British Museum, commented on this cross and word which appear in many visitation manuscripts. He explained that this denoted that the pedigrees and arms had been faircopied into other books, and he added that the heralds, at visitations, took the descents on loose sheets of paper. These loose sheets were not delivered up to the College, and, if not lost, fell by death or otherwise into other hands and were bound up in varying order, so that a descent which is in the beginning of one copy shall be found toward the middle or end of another.' This serves to explain why the Harvey

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descents in section one, which begins with that of John Eglesfield, are in almost inverse order with those in section two, which begins with that of Francis Aslakeby.*

In the top right-hand corner of the first page of section one, written evidently to evince ownership, is the signature of William Colbarne, York Herald.

5m Solbarne alg yourke Gearand

This signature by William Colbarne approximately dates section one of the manuscript. He was appointed York Herald on the 25th January, 1564, and died on the 13th September, 1567, and it must have been between those two dates that he so signed himself. He is called Colborne by Noble and other heraldic writers, but he signs as 'Colbarne and the latter was his real name. There is a manuscript in the British Museum (Harl. MS. 1394), described as 'Arms given by Christopher Barker, copied oute of an old booke, sometimes Wm. Colborne's, York Herald, and late of Rafe Brook, York Herald, and now in the custody of Sir Edward Dering.' Among the grants contained in it is one to Colborne, namely, Argent, a fess and canton gules, thereon a crescent of the field, and on the same folio (fol. 29) there is also a grant to Colbarne, Argent, a chevron between three bugle-horns sable, stringed or. These latter were the arms placed on his memorial brass in the church of St. Dunstan in the West, Fleet Street, and the inscription on the brass described him as William Colbarne.‡

The continuity of family connection existed, in the Heralds' College in the sixteenth century, as it does to-day, and just as Dalton, Norroy, was a brother-in-law of Christopher Barker, Garter,§ (from whom Colbarne inherited the said book of arms), so there are strong indications that Colbarne was related to Dalton. Dalton's sister married a Francis Colbarne and the name is so uncommon as to sup

* See Cal. of Harleian Manuscripts, note to no. 1141.

+He had previously served the office of Rouge Dragon, Pursuivant. Machyn, in his Diary (Camden Soc. vol. xlii. pp. 49 and 336), under the date 15th November, 1553, mentions among the creation of heralds, Wyllyam my lord Cobham ('s) servand' [created Rouge Dragon]. This was William Colbarne.

+ Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol. 4, p. 99. The motto to the Barker grant to Colbarne is 'Firme à la fin.'

§ Harl. Soc. publ., vol. 16, pp. 86, 88.

port the presumption that William Colbarne, York Herald, was of the same family. He was with Dalton, in attendance on Henry Earl of Westmorland, from February to October, 1558, during which time Dalton made his visitation of that year. He also made, either with or for Dalton, the collection of pedigrees of 1560-61 printed herein (p. 157 et seq.) for they are in Colbarne's handwriting, and when he died his memorial brass was placed, below Dalton's, on the same pillar of the church of St. Dunstan in the West.

Colbarne had also heraldic relationships with William Harvey, Norroy, for he had not only copied from Harvey's draft (section two of the manuscript which is hereinafter reproduced) another version in roundels signed at the top by him (section one of the manuscript), but he entered what appears to be Harvey's original draft (section two) in the book D. 4 of the College of Arms. Colbarne's handwriting

is well known, for it is found in the Harleian MS. No. 6113, where he heads a warrant for payment to him as my liberate,'* and, as well in that manuscript in the British Museum, as in D. 4 in the College, he adds a list of the 'Dukes, Earls, Lords, and Knights, which were at the Coronation of Richard III.,' a list which is to be found nowhere else in manuscript.

Dalton had died in 1561, and William Flower had been appointed Norroy in his place in 1562. In his petition to the Earl Marshal, which was prior to his commission of the 10th July, 1564 (appendix p. 205), Flower had complained that he had no store of books of arms, and was destitute for the supply of his visitation; but, on the death of Colbarne in 1567, he must have immediately acquired, from the latter's representatives, sections one, two, and four (that is, the Harvey and Dalton parts), of the Anstis manuscript. For not only are there numerous additions in Flower's handwriting in section one, and not only do the cross and the word entered' (above explained) appear in his handwriting throughout section two, but there is also the date 1567,' in his handwriting, placed opposite an addition by him to Dalton's pedigree, of the family of Brackenbury in section four (p. 117). He must also have immediately started section three, which is all in his handwriting, for under the entry, in the pedigree of Slingsby, of Mary, daughter of Thomas Percy and wife of Francis Slingsby, are the words 'now lyveth in Ao. 1567.'

From Flower, all four sections of the manuscript appear to have passed to his son-in-law, Robert Glover, Somerset

*See Sir Francis Madden's observations on this manuscript, Archaeologia, vol. 23, p. 335.

Herald. There are entries in Glover's handwriting in sections one, two, and four (pp. 40, 93, and 134). Afterwards it came into the possession of Ralph Brooke, Somerset Herald. There is a pedigree in his handwriting* at the end of section four (p. 154). The four sections had by then apparently been bound up into the present volume by either Flower, Glover, or Brooke, for in Wanley's index of the Harleian manuscripts, under the number 1571 (17), there is an entry of Seven descents said by Mr. Mundy to be taken out of an old visitation of Yorkshire made by William Harvey alias Norroy, in the reign of King Henry VIII., which book was sometime in the custody of Ralphe Brooke, Esq., Yorke Herald.' The descents are those of Swift, Skelton, Eglesfield, Escot, Danyell, Aslakeby, and Thorpe. Of these the last four only are from the Harvey sections, and the first two are from the third, or Flower section of 1567, indicating, if the book be the same, that it had then been bound up into one volume.

The evidences pointing to the subsequent ownership of the Anstis manuscript, and the facts relating to its recent acquisition by Mr. Mackey, have already been detailed, and we may next consider the circumstances attending the visitations contained in it.

WILLIAM HARVEY'S VISITATION IN 1552.

As there is a life of Harvey in the Dictionary of National Biography from which further particulars can readily be obtained, it is sufficient to say here that, after serving successively as Hampness Pursuivant Extraordinary, Bluemantle Pursuivant, and Somerset Herald, he was appointed Norroy king of arms, by letters patent, dated the 4th February, 1550, was promoted to be Clarenceux king of arms by letters patent dated in 1557, and died on the 27th February, 1567. Noble says that, whilst Norroy, Harvey was sent seven times to Germany and once to France (to declare war against Henry II. of France), and that he was assiduous in visiting his province chiefly by deputy.+ It is not known whether he ever went north between his

*Whilst the editor has been careful to compare the handwritings of Colbarne, Flower, Glover, and Brooke, with verified specimens thereof at the British Museum, the Bodleian Library and the College of Arms, and the statements as to their authorship are made to the best of his judgment, yet his professional experience has led him to recognise the dangers incident to the identification of handwritings, and he does not positively guarantee the accuracy of his conclusions in this respect.

+ Dict. Nat. Biog., vol. 25, p. 92.

Noble, History of the College of Arms, p. 168.

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