Ryley, William, and Dethick, Henry.

containing 95 genealogies of armigerous families, including descriptions of their arms, some with pencil illustrations of the arms, and each with the original signature of the head of the family, paginated and with an index, 103 pages, also with 18 pages of engraved arms pasted in, plus blanks, folio, calf-backed marbled boards, upper cover almost detached, lower cover weak at hinge, boards worn



The original manuscript of this important record of wealthy gentry families living in Middlesex, from James Sheffield of Kensington and Thomas Collet of Chelsea, to John Woodward of Hampstead and William Meggs of Whitechapel.

George, Earl Macartney (1737-1806), armorial bookplate; Phillipps MS 13388 and 13430

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This Visitation of Middlesex was published by Gilmour and Nichols in 1830, either from this manuscript or a closely related copy.