Blazons. Instructional materials.
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
`Alphabet of Honnor: or The Succession and Armes of the Kinges, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, Barons, and Gentry of England since the Conquest’.
Blazons of Scottish and a few English arms, compiled in the 18th century by two hands.
The blazons are arranged alphabetically under the first letter of the family name, with an appendix at folio 89 verso. Many of the individuals mentioned lived in the late 17th or early 18th centuries.
The signatures of James Norie and Walter Smiton occur on folio 1. These may have been the painters who became burgesses of Edinburgh in 1708 and 1779 respectively.
Blazons of Scottish arms by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Sir James Balfour’s signature and the date 1630 appear on folio i, but he seems to have added to the collection, as the latest date given is 1643 (folio 19 verso). The arms are arranged alphabetically under the family name or title, and a few are drawn in trick. The collection is followed (folio 63) by blazons of foreign arms, mostly provinces, duchies or cities.
`English blazonings or a colection of the armorial bearings of the whole nobility and clergie in England ... To which is added the blazons of some Scots and English coat arms`, by Robert Mylne.
Heraldic and genealogical material in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
Heraldic collection of Sir David Lindsay.
Manuscript entitled ‘Traite du Blazon’.
Material of Sir James Balfour on the Irish nobility.
Microfilm of ‘English blazonings or a colection of the armorial bearings of the whole nobility and clergie in England ... To which is added the blazons of some Scots and English coat arms’, by Robert Mylne.
Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material.
Papers, consisting of historical and genealogical notes and extracts, transcripts of formal and legal documents of earlier periods (as well as a number of original documents and papers), and a few unrelated letters.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Register of the nobility of England from 1066 to circa 1600, with genealogical tables.
‘A noble and memorable register of all estates of nobilite created or restored sithence the conquest, etc., and of such nobles as were when the land was conquered by the Normanes’ with pedigrees and heraldic blazons. It endeth about the fortieth yeare of Queen Elizabeth’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (W.2.17).
‘The coates armoriall of severall knights and gentlemen as they are matriculat in the New Register of Armes in the Lyon Office` by Robert Mylne. Followed (folio 204) by `The blazons of the Royall Burghs in Scotland`, also taken from the Lyon Register.
A number of the entries include the date (1692 or later) on which they were extracted from the Register, and some have additional information probably supplied by Mylne. There are some notes (folio ii) in 19th-century hands, including a list of officials of the Lyon Court.