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The Heralds' Visitation of Wiltshire. 



[Seen, approved, and recorded by me Richard Lee, alias Clarenceux, Prin- 

 cipal King-of-Arms, in the 39th year of the reign of the now Queen Elizabeth, 

 and in the year 1596]. 



It is however, also worthy of remark that in the Pedigree of the family of Robin- 

 son of Dunington in the Isle of Ely, on the back of the same page of the MS., 

 various descents have written against them the folio wing side notes, as if to 

 verify them by Yisitations of these different dates : — 



" The Visitation made in ye 13 yeare of K. Ed. II. 1316." 



" The Visitation made by Bew James, principall Eing of Heraultes, 2 Ed. 

 III. 1327." 



" The Visitation made by Bew James, principall King of Heraults, ye last of 

 K. Ed. III. 1376." 



" The Visitation made in ano I. H. 6. 1422." 



" The Visitation of Tho' Holtby, principall King-of-Armes, 4 Ed. 4. 1464." 



" The Visitation made by Tho Wresley, principall K. of Armes, 8 H. 7. 1492." 



" The Visitation made by Warcopp, principal K. of Armes, 4 H. 8. 1514." 



From this it would seem that Mr. Lee must have seen the Visitations of Bewe 

 James, of Holtby, of Wresley, and of "Warcopp, as he refers to them not only 

 by the names but by the dates also, and yet it is strange that if such Visitations 

 ever existed, no copies or extracts should be found. 



I ought also to have mentioned with respect to all the Pedigrees in the Heral- 

 dic Visitations in the Library of the British Museum, that the pages of the 

 different MSS. in which they are to be found can be readily ascertained by refer- 

 ence to Mr. Sims' s most useful " Index to the Heraldic Collections" there. 



F. A. C. 



