Surtees Society, Vol. cxxii.

Frontispiece.

Here before tech lawrence Dalton efquyer late Norrey
kinge of Armes who decelled on Setterday the 13 of december
161 And Dorothe his wyle Daughter to Rucherd Breame
Late of London Esquyer

THE EFFIGY OF LAWRENCE DALTON, NORROY, FROM A DRAWING IN

HARL. MS. 1099.

Introduction p. xlii.

T Frederick Mart - y

OR

SOME EARLY

HERALDIC VISITATIONS

OF, AND

COLLECTIONS OF PEDIGREES

RELATING TO,

THE NORTH OF ENGLAND.

PART I.

'These studies, being themselves very insig-
'nificant and trifling, do nevertheless serve to
perpetuate a great deal of what is rare and valuable
in ancient manners, and to record many curious
and minute facts, which could have been preserved
and conveyed through no other medium.'-
WAVERLEY, Chapter IV.

Published for the Society

BY ANDREWS & CO., SADLER STREET,

DURHAM; AND

BERNARD QUARITCH, 11 GRAFTON STREET,
NEW BOND STREET, LONDON.

At a Meeting of the SURTEES SOCIETY, held in Durham
Castle, on Tuesday, June 6th, 1911, the REVEREND CANON
FOWLER in the Chair, it was ordered,

and

"That Some Early Heraldic Visitations of,
Collections of Pedigrees relating to, the North of England
be edited for the Society by Mr. Frederick Walter Dendy,
D.C.L.'