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ARMORIAL ROLL FOR THE HASTINGS FAMILY, by William Hervey, Norroy King of Arms, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 16 December 1552.
2340 x 510mm (92 x 20 inches), on three membranes. The descent of the Hastings family with 65 FULLY EMBLAZONED SHIELDS OF ARMS, at foot the larger coat of Hastings surmounted with the helmet and the crest of a bull's head and underneath the emblazoned pennant. (Small tear at the end of the first membrane without loss of text.) GENERALLY IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. Framed and glazed.
Almost certainly in the hand of William Hervey who became Norroy King of Arms in 1552. Signed at end by William Hervey, as Norroy, 'out of the registers and records ... travailed by Henry Spencer, sometyme Busshopp of Norwiche, in the time of Kynge Henry the sixt'. Elsewhere he has also added a note about Sir Edward Hastings 'being about the age of 19 yeares was in the custodye and wardship of the Kyngs Mati the Kynge Henry the fourth ...'
The roll begins with David, King of Scots (d.1153) with the arms of Scotland and William Marshall, first earl of Pembroke, regent of England (d.1219) and continues to Sir Hugh Hastings XVIII (d.1540) and his wife Katherine (d.1558) and their three children, Anne Hastings wedded to William Browne, son of Sir Anthony Browne, master of the horse to Henry VIII; John Hastings (d.1542) and Elizabeth (b.1530) wedded to Hamon Le Strange. After the death of John, the estates fell between the two daughters. The peerage lay dormant until Sir Jacob Astley succeded in establishing his succession to the barony in 1841. The scroll descended through the Browne family and was subject of a small book by G.A.Carthew, Notice of a Roll of Arms belonging to Richard Charles Browne, n.d. (ca.1878). This book is included with the lot.
2340 x 510mm (92 x 20 inches), on three membranes. The descent of the Hastings family with 65 FULLY EMBLAZONED SHIELDS OF ARMS, at foot the larger coat of Hastings surmounted with the helmet and the crest of a bull's head and underneath the emblazoned pennant. (Small tear at the end of the first membrane without loss of text.) GENERALLY IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. Framed and glazed.
Almost certainly in the hand of William Hervey who became Norroy King of Arms in 1552. Signed at end by William Hervey, as Norroy, 'out of the registers and records ... travailed by Henry Spencer, sometyme Busshopp of Norwiche, in the time of Kynge Henry the sixt'. Elsewhere he has also added a note about Sir Edward Hastings 'being about the age of 19 yeares was in the custodye and wardship of the Kyngs Mati the Kynge Henry the fourth ...'
The roll begins with David, King of Scots (d.1153) with the arms of Scotland and William Marshall, first earl of Pembroke, regent of England (d.1219) and continues to Sir Hugh Hastings XVIII (d.1540) and his wife Katherine (d.1558) and their three children, Anne Hastings wedded to William Browne, son of Sir Anthony Browne, master of the horse to Henry VIII; John Hastings (d.1542) and Elizabeth (b.1530) wedded to Hamon Le Strange. After the death of John, the estates fell between the two daughters. The peerage lay dormant until Sir Jacob Astley succeded in establishing his succession to the barony in 1841. The scroll descended through the Browne family and was subject of a small book by G.A.Carthew, Notice of a Roll of Arms belonging to Richard Charles Browne, n.d. (ca.1878). This book is included with the lot.