English pedigrees, with notes of arms: W-Z

Title

English pedigrees, with notes of arms: W-Z

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. B. 84

Summary

Compiled by Thomas Wilkinson, vicar of Laurence Waltham, Berks; as appears from the following note in the compiler's handwriting in the pedigree of the Wilkinson family, fol. 31: "As Henry Wilkinson, rector of Waddesdon, affirmed March ye. 14th $$α*$$ 1647 to mee Th. Wilkinson, vicar of Lawrance Waltham, Berkes." At fol. 32 allusion is also made to information respecting this family derived from the writer's father; while fol. 83 in the same volume is formed by the cover of a letter addressed, "For my honoured friend Mr. Thomas Wilkinson, att Laurence Walltham."

With an index prefixed.

Occasional additions by Le Neve are here and there interspersed.

Consists in some part of rough collections, probably intended for subsequent transcription. All the pedigrees are entered in the general index to this catalogue.

Date

17th century

Language

English

Physical facet

On paper, in folio

Physical extent

116 Leaves

Custodial history

In catalogo codd. MSS. Petri le Neve, 588; inde a Ricardo Rawlinson empti, pretio £4. 1.

In a priced copy of Le Neve's sale catalogue in the Bodleian (Mus. Bibl. iii. in octavo. 42.), to the description of MS. 833, "A miscellany of things very observable relating to the illustrious family of the Nevills, by Dr. Tho. Wilkinson," is added the following note in Hearne's handwriting: "This Wilkinson was not a Dr. He was vicar of Lawrence-Waltham, near Maidenhead in Berks. He was well versed in our English history and antiquities, and particularly in heraldry. He was well acquainted (and held a correspondence by letters,) with Mr. Ashmole."