An English baronage [manuscript], 1612.

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An English baronage [manuscript], 1612.

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Note on leaf 74: Huc usque Robertus Cooke Clarentiente compsuit anno 1572. The manuscript is a continuation by an unknown author to 1612, with the title: The barons book, containing the names, arms and degrees of the nobility of this realm of England, beginning in the time of the Conquest ... and continued to this present year 1612. No color.

81 leaves : coats of arms ; 28 x 21 cm.

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Cooke, Robert, -1592

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Robert Cooke was Clarenceux King of Arms. From the description of Pedigrees of the nobility [manuscript], ca. 1575? (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 630130694 Robert Dudley, the celebrated favorite of Elizabeth I. In 1564 the Queen created him the Earl of Leicester and proposed as a husband to Mary Queen of Scots. Robert Cooke was appointed Chester Herald to the College of Arms, through the Earl's influence. From the description of Pedigree of Ro...

Trelawny, William, Sir, 1722 or 3-1772,

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