Frontpage - - Daily Republican Newspaper - - The Nation's Daily. Updated September. AN EXAMINATION OFENGLISH GENEALOGY BY ANTHONY RICHARD WAGNER The Richmond Herald. OXFORDAT THE CLARENDON. PRESS 1. 96. 0. Contributors. Richmond Herald - author, Anthony Richard Wagner - author.

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Publisher. Clarendon Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Some will. think this claim a paradox, others a truism, according to their. It cannot, probably, be either proved or disproved. In less sophisticated. In the periods. of such organization, therefore, the general consciousness of kinship.

The details of descent and relationship are. When the tribes turn to agriculture and the life of cities.

This. meant that the interest was in individual pedigrees for individual. I know of no post.

Conquest English collection of genealogies. The historical use of pedigrees. England. 2 A number of vellum rolls of this kind survive. Edward I's and Henry VII's reigns. Some are in. French, as if for the use of knights and gentlemen, others in Latin. The pedigree form in which they are cast has itself. Genealogy of Christ or Tree of Jesse and to the Table of.

Kindred and Affinity called the Arbor Juris. From the start of the plea rolls in 1. Most such statements, naturally, cover.

Some, however, cover five, six. Searle, Anglo- Saxon Bishops Kings and Nobles, 1. Thomas Wright, Feudal Manuals of English History, 1. Illustrated. Catalogue of the Heralds of Commemorative Exhibition, 1. Nos. 6. 5, 6. 8, 1.

Arthur Watson, The Early Iconography of the Tree of Jesse, 1. See, for examples, Major- General the Hon. Wrottesley, Pedigrees. Plea Rolls (reprinted from The Genealogist, N. S. 6, 2. 3, 4. 8, 6. The genealogies. of the families of founders of monasteries, often found in cartularies.

Wigmore kept by the monks of the Mortimers'. Wigmore Abbey. 1 The original charters of benefactors, the copies. For proof that they used documents. Bridlington in the Scrope v.

Grosvenor. case in 1. Asked if they had heard tell of the ancestors of Sir. Richard Scrope, they said that their priory had possessions given. Conquest' used. The Scrope pedigree which they. It would. be of interest if we could show how and by whom these early pedigrees.

Many may rest on orally transmitted knowledge. The fifteenth. century saw a marked development of antiquarian and topographical.

England. Two men active in this movement who left manuscript. William Worcester alias Botoner ( 1. Bristol and Norfolk, gentleman, and John Rous of Warwick (c. Both were graduates. Oxford. Both wrote historical and topographical works. Both formed. libraries. Worcester was Sir John Fastolf's secretary and man of.

Castle Combe in Wiltshire and Caister in Norfolk. Rous's. patrons were the Beauchamp and Neville Earls of Warwick. CS 4. 39 f. M 8. 2 W6, described by M. Asme Viii Pressure Vessel Design Software. Griffin. . 2 The Scrope and Grosvenor Controversy, ed. Sir Harris Nicolas. Complete Peerage, xi.

Family Origins and other Studies by the late J. Worcester compiled a book. Norfolk. It has been lost, but extracts. Sir Henry Spelman (d. In it Worcester often noted his source of information. His friend Nicholas Bocking, esquire, an estate official.

Worcester's disposal, 3 and Worcester himself. Fastolf on journeys to make genealogical. Another journey into Kent. Cliffords of Bobbing. Hickling', and in 1. De la Pole pedigree. A recent study by Mr.

Lewis shows that others besides Worcester. Fastolf on the pedigree of Lovell of Clevedon, Somerset. Titchwell, Norfolk, against. Sir Edward Hull. Among them were several clerks in. Chancery and Exchequer records, who received fees for searching. John Crop of Bristol, a friend of William Worcester, and.

Henry Filongley, a kinsman of Fastolf and keeper of the writs of. Court of Common Pleas. Local records were sought for, but when. The conflict of evidence in this case throws an. Mc. Farlane, . Conway Davies. T. Kendrick, British Antiquity, 1. Mc. Farlane, op. 2.

Spelman's extracts are in Norwich. Public Library MS. The original appears. Edward Paston; see Norfolk Archaeology. Mr. Those on the dorse are more extensive. Kings of Britain, France, England and Scotland. English earls. The last is of his own family.

He notes that he saw and wrote down two genealogies of the British. Glastonbury. Chronicles and monastic genealogies were no.

He was not uncritical, expressing suspicion. Lords of Arundel and compiling dated lists.

Bishops of Worcester for use in the scrutiny. His genealogies have yet to be studied in detail, but. Grosvenor), a concern with the one was.

I have, however, found no evidence. In 1. 41. 5. the new office of Garter King of Arms was created and William Bruges. Order and Knights of the Garter by setting up a new series.

Windsor to replace those. He also put in hand a painted record of the. This must have involved him in research.

In 1. 44. 8 Sir Richard Wydville, who had risen from comparative obscurity. Duchess of Bedford. Lord Rivers. The editors of the Complete Peerage could. Lord. Rivers' Garter stall plate leaves little doubt that it refers to.

Reviers or Rivers, Earls of. Devon in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The pedigree must. Garter King. of Arms. Pollard's theory of a link between the development of heraldry. House of Lords is relevant here. Wagner, A Catalogue of English Mediaeval Rolls of Arms.

John Hope, The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Garter. A. Wagner, A Catalogue of English Mediaeval. Rolls of Arms, 1. William Ballard, March. King of Arms c. 1.

Visitation of Cheshire and. Much more interesting.

This was edited in 1. Mr. Hunter Blair from a sixteenth. In 1. 93. 5 I found an earlier sixteenth century copy. College of Arms and I have since acquired a copy in what.

The hand closely resembles one associated. Sir Thomas Wriothesley, while later in this and in. I have suggested elsewhere. Christopher Carlisle, Norroy. King of Arms 1. 49.

I am now inclined to place its compilation. Sir Thomas Wriothesley discount the argument from the association. Carlisle's nephew Barker. I now therefore. incline to attribute the compilation either to John Writhe (d. Norroy ( 1. 47. 7- 8) and continued. Garter, 5 or to his son and successor Sir Thomas Wriothesley.

Hunter Blair has pointed out the similarity of this. Wriothesley. 6 Some of the pedigrees in this collection are short and probably.

Others, however, such as those of Percy, Neville. Fitzwilliam, go back to remote dates and must rest on either.

Research is suggested by occasional marginal. Hope, op. Wagner, Catalogue of English Mediaeval. Rolls of Arms, pp. Heralds and Heraldry in the Middle. Ages, pp. 4 Surtees Soc.

Wagner, Heralds and Heraldry in the Middle Ages, pp. The. rise of so many new families to wealth and station in a society. English antiquities. The same pedigree craze which produced the fictions helped. Dugdale (d. Horace Round ( 1. Philpot. the herald was an adept at constructing, those which rested on alleged. Besides these four classes there are pedigrees whose errors rest.

Parallel with this variety of method we have a variety. Not all makers of false pedigrees are merely venal. Some. indeed, are not venal at all but simply have too much imagination. They think they know what the truth.

Before we smile too broadly we ought to recall the credit. We may ask ourselves, for example, whether pre- history. The line between self deception and conscious fraud in genealogy. What is one to make of learned and critical genealogists. Sir Edward Dering (d. Saxon pedigree, inserted the name and arms of a fictitious.

Pluckley church, was a scholar and associate. Family Origins and other Studies by the late J. Horace Round. ed. William Page, 1. 93. Round's condemnation of Philpot. Chandos parish registers were tampered with.

In his early years he. South American armies. Denmark, and in Germany, his rank of marshal- general being in. God and Liberty' of Corrientes in the Argentine Republic. He then settled in England and devoted himself. British Museum. according to his own account, 'because he claimed to be Duke of. Lancaster'. In 1.

House of Lords as Duke of Lancaster, 'as heir of the whole blood. King Henry VI'. In 1. Queen's Bench prison.