ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. P. 14, line 1.-For 'Belasis' read Bellasis.' P. 66. A pedigree shewing the connections between the families of Baxter, Marshall, and De Ruda will be found in vol. 16, Harl. Soc. publ., p 16. P. 68, line 1.-For George Lord of Talbot' read George Lord Talbot.' P. 103, note, line 13.-For fourth' read third.'. P. 117, line 38.- M'ton in Upborogheshere' should have been extended. It is Marton in Burghshire, i.e., Marton near Boroughbridge. P. 136. The sketch of the Conyers Falchion reproduced on this page is placed in the manuscript next the description of it to be found on p. 141. P. 140, line 5.-For' hereditatem' read heredem.' P. 140, line 7.-For fratrim' read fratrem. P. 140, line 26.—For ‘liberum purum' read ‘liberam puram.’ P. 141, line 23.-Foraincie' read anicie.' P. 141, line 31.-For lincolnensi' read Lincolnensi.' P. 149, note, lines 3-4.-For 'there are only five leaves which come after' read there is only one leaf which comes after.' P. 153, note, line 8.-Delete the words 'dated 1 Sept., 1513, and proved.' 6 P. 157, note, line 24.-Delete the words and Cheshire.' METHODS OF CITATION. Publications of the Yorkshire Archaeological Association, Record Series, referred to in the introduction or in the notes to the text, are cited as follows: SERIAL NUMBER Publications of the Surtees Society, referred to in the introduction or in the notes to the text, are cited as follows: Other publications frequently recurring in the introduction or in the notes to the text are cited as follows: 16 HARL. Soc. The 16th volume of the Harleian Society's publications, edited by the late Rev. Charles Best Norcliffe, purporting to be the visitation of Yorkshire made in 1563 and 1564 by William Flower, is so cited. FOSTER'S YORKSHIRE VISITATIONS. The volume by Mr. Joseph Foster, containing visitations of Yorkshire by Robert Glover in 1584 and 1585 and by Richard St. George in 1612, is so cited. JEWERS' GRANTS OF ARMS. The particulars of grants and certificates of arms contributed by Mr. Arthur J. Jewers to the Genealogist are so cited. FOSTER'S GRANTS OF ARMS. The Joseph Foster collection of grantees of arms forming the British Museum Additional Manuscripts 37147-8-9-50 is so cited. NEW HISTORY OF NORTHUMBERLAND. The History of Northumberland, now in course of publication by the Northumberland County History Committee, is so cited. BLAIR'S NORTHUMBERLAND ARMORIALS. The Armorials of Northumberland: An Index and Ordinary to 1666, by C. Hunter Blair, published in Archaeologia Aeliana, 3rd series, vol. vi., p. 89, is so cited. Both Mr. Jewers and Mr. Foster give their authorities, and, as their lists are alphabetically arranged, it has not been thought necessary to repeat in this volume the references cited by them. INTRODUCTION. (Figures preceded by the letter "p," within brackets, indicate pages of the present volume.) In the year 1911, a country mansion in the north of Northumberland was sold to new owners. The library was taken over with the house, but some old books and papers, found in clearing out the attics, were disposed of to a bookseller, who re-sold part of them to a well-known local collector, the late Mr. Matthew Mackey, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Mr. Mackey's purchase included a number of heraldic manuscripts which had been apparently part of a collection formed, at the close of the eighteenth century, by an ancestor of the late owners of the property. Amongst them was a parchment-bound volume, written in sixteenth century handwritings, containing an heraldic visitation of the north, made by William Harvey, Norroy, in 1552, another heraldic visitation of the north, made by Lawrence Dalton, Norroy, in 1558, and an anonymous collection of pedigrees, dated in 1567, apparently in the handwriting of William Flower, who was then Norroy, having succeeded Dalton in that office in 1562. It was Mr. Mackey's wish that the manuscript should be published, and he generously offered it to the Surtees Society for that purpose. His offer was gratefully accepted, and the present writer was requested to edit it, with other early heraldic visitations and collections of pedigrees of the north, for publication as part of the series of that society. Mr. Mackey unfortunately died in 1913, but Mrs. Mackey, his widow and beneficiary, desired that his wishes should be carried out and kindly confirmed the offer which he had made. Later on, the manuscript volume and its contents will be fully described, but that description will be better understood if it is prefaced by a brief account of visitations in general, of heraldic arms, and of still earlier visitations of the north, even though such prefatory remarks must contain much which may seem trite to readers versed in heraldry. |