Lot 253
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[VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE, MANUSCRIPT] "This here sett downe is the trew Visitasion Taken by William [deleted] Thomas Tounge alias Norroy Kinge att Armes of all the gentlemen which att that time came and appeared before him. Anno 1630 [sic] att Sr. Bryan Stapleton's hous in Yorkshire," 56-page manuscript on paper including 6-page index at end and 71 coats-of-arms, probably copied in the early 18th-century, 2°, later half calf (worn).

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[VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE, MANUSCRIPT] "This here sett downe is the trew Visitasion Taken by William [deleted] Thomas Tounge alias Norroy Kinge att Armes of all the gentlemen which att that time came and appeared before him. Anno 1630 [sic] att Sr. Bryan Stapleton's hous in Yorkshire," 56-page manuscript on paper including 6-page index at end and 71 coats-of-arms, probably copied in the early 18th-century, 2°, later half calf (worn).

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A copy of a portion of Tonge's Visitation, with the following note on the first page: "The date of this Visitation should be 1530. See Gough's British Topography, Vol. II., p. 405. I suspect it to be very far from perfect. M. T.[unstall] of Wycliffe Hall, from whom it descended to the Constables."

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