Rolls of arms
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Copies by John Wither, 1623, of English rolls of arms, mostly from `an auntient booke of Armes which Mr Glover Somerset the Harald had of Mr Joseph Holland in Cullers`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.10
Scope and Contents
All the arms are in trick. The contents are as follows:(i) The shorter version of the Parliamentary Roll, circa 1312 (folio 2). ‘Catalogue of English mediaeval rolls of arms’, pages 42-45.(ii) The first Dunstable Roll, 1308 (folio 61). ‘Catalogue of English mediaeval rolls of arms’, pages 39-40.(iii) Arms from the Caerlaverock poem, circa 1300 (folio 73). ‘Catalogue of English mediaeval rolls of arms’, pages 29-34: this is type IV with 103 coats....
Dates:
1623.
Papers concerning lead mining in Scotland in the late 16th century, and political papers of the 17th century., 1584-1686, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.9
Scope and Contents
The first part of the volume consists of papers of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, mostly in his capacity of Master of the Metals and Minerals, and of his brother Sir David Lindsay of Edzell (see also Adv.MS.19.1.24). These are followed by papers concerning the Covenanters and the Scots Commissioners at Ripon and London. The remainder mostly concern Lord Menmuir`s grandson, Alexander, Lord Lindsay of Balcarres, later the first Earl, who joined the Covenanters, but after taking part in the...
Dates:
1584-1686, and undated.
Roll of arms of the Scottish gentry, copied in trick by Sir James Balfour, probably from a roll compiled by Sir Robert Forman in 1562 which is now lost., ?1562.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(ii)
Scope and Contents
Sir James Balfour Paul in his ‘Heraldry in relation to Scottish history and art’, page 193, suggests that Balfour`s source was the armorial Adv.MS.31.4.2, but the material is arranged differently, and not all the arms given in the roll also occur in the armorial.
Dates:
?1562.
Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)-(vi)
Dates:
13th century-17th century.
Three English rolls of arms, copied in trick by Sir James Balfour., 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(v)
Scope and Contents
The first roll contains 136 coats, beginning `De Bouhn [sic] comes de Hereford, S[?] Roger de Mortuomari, Edmundus de Mortuomari` and ends `De Gray de Lancastaria, Ayton de Lancasteria, De Brune`. It does not appear in ‘A Catalogue of English mediaeval rolls of arms’.The second, `Thir cotts of armes follouing wes borne by such Knights and gentelmen as Ed. I planted in Scotland`, contains 47 coats, beginning `S[?] Villiam Basset, S[?] Richard Le Walleyes, S[?] Jhone Constabill,...
Dates:
17th century.