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Visitatio Heraldica Comitatus Wiltoniae, A.D. 1623..., Typis Medio-Montanis, Excudit Eduinus Offer, 1828, 259 pages plus interleaved pages (making a total of approximately 400), plus the Index in 4 columns with folio numbers entered in ink [per Her. & Gen. II, 293, only 100 copies of the Index were printed in 1831] and the scarce 4 pages of Errata (usually wanting), paper mostly watermarked 1822 or 1825, near contemporary navy half calf gilt, folio Armorial bookplate of Revd. John Ward (1795-1862, historian & sometime vicar of Great Bedwyn), with signed note in the autograph of Canon J.E. Jackson 'purchased at York at the sale of Revd. J. Ward's library, March 19, 1862'. On the front pastedown early catalogue entry item 673 �6.6.0. In addition to the 1623 Visitation, the archive includes 33 large manuscript pedigrees by Ward, many additional pedigrees by Jackson, with loose notes inserted and extensions to pedigrees. They include some 25 in the autograph of Sir Thomas Phillipps (some initialled TP, some dated (1839) and 4 noted by Jackson 'Sir T.P's writing'). The Stourhead 1840 catalogue in relation to the Visitation of Wiltshire 1623 includes 'Another copy is bound with Misc. Collections, printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps', which may be this manuscript and printed archive. In addition there is a 4 page manuscript letter from the historian James Waylen (1810-1894), addressed from Ashalton regarding a list of warrants and a biography of Henry Brouncher M.P. for Devizes, and a 4 page manuscript list of Disclaimers 1623 (with his comments on their later fame or otherwise). Many pedigrees are annotated with dates, ages at time of death, comments (e.g. 'a swindler'), mostly in the autograph of Sir Thomas Phillipps. The blazons of some of the arms entered in manuscript may also be in his hand. An interesting compiliation and collection of Wiltshire pedigrees forming a significant archive by three notable 19th century historians. Fenwick no. 40 lists this work as being 'Extremely Scarce'. (1)