THE NEWLING-BERWICK-PHILLIPPS COPY
A Copy of a visitation of the County of Wiltshire. Taken Anno Domini 1565.
[s.i.].
[s.n.], [s.d., c1800s]
Folio.
Manuscript on paper, [1], 3ff, [8]. Paper watermark features the LVG initials (perhaps the initials of Lubertus van Gerrevink, C18th Dutch papermaker), countermark W. 'Tricked' with 15 drawings of coats of arms. Modern gilt-tooled half calf, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, earlier marbled boards. A trifle rubbed, short tear at foot of spine. From the collection of Joan Corder, FSA, with her ticket to FEP; earlier in the libraries of Sir Thomas Phillipps and Rev. John Newling.
A nineteenth-century copy, forming part, only, of the 1565 heraldic visitation of Wiltshire, originally undertaken by William Harvey (1510-67), who served as Clarenceux King of Arms in the final decade of his life.
Conducted throughout the reigns of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and later Stuart monarchs, heraldic visitations were tours of inspection undertaken by senior officers of arms to regulate the use of coats of arms - the abuse of which had become widespread by the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries - and to record genealogical pedigrees. The 1565 visitation represented the second of four inspections of Wiltshire (the others were undertaken in 1530, 1623 - by William Camden - and 1677).
In this copy, in addition to the preliminary arms of New Sarum, the pedigrees of the Porte, Hooper, Carent, Souch, Ryley, Thacham, Le Tries, Bawer, Erington, Bellingham and Bayley are traced.
Previously in the legendary manuscript collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (when it was bound with a similar visitation of Oxfordshire, dated 1634), and referenced as Phillipps MS 11184, 'Wlts Visit. 1565, part only. Olim Rev. J.Newling' in his Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca D. Thomæ Phillipps (Middle Hill, 1837). As noted, it was previously part of the collections of Rev. Canon John Newling (1762-1832); it had been acquired by Phillipps at the sale of the collection of Lord Berwick (1843) (probably lot no. 2861).
£ 950.00
Antiquates Ref: 19578
Conducted throughout the reigns of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and later Stuart monarchs, heraldic visitations were tours of inspection undertaken by senior officers of arms to regulate the use of coats of arms - the abuse of which had become widespread by the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries - and to record genealogical pedigrees. The 1565 visitation represented the second of four inspections of Wiltshire (the others were undertaken in 1530, 1623 - by William Camden - and 1677).
In this copy, in addition to the preliminary arms of New Sarum, the pedigrees of the Porte, Hooper, Carent, Souch, Ryley, Thacham, Le Tries, Bawer, Erington, Bellingham and Bayley are traced.
Previously in the legendary manuscript collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (when it was bound with a similar visitation of Oxfordshire, dated 1634), and referenced as Phillipps MS 11184, 'Wlts Visit. 1565, part only. Olim Rev. J.Newling' in his Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca D. Thomæ Phillipps (Middle Hill, 1837). As noted, it was previously part of the collections of Rev. Canon John Newling (1762-1832); it had been acquired by Phillipps at the sale of the collection of Lord Berwick (1843) (probably lot no. 2861).
