Book Description

The Grantees of Arms series were published by The Harleain Society in three separate books over a three-year period (1915, 1916 and 1917). The first volume, Grantees of Arms, has Grantees of Arms named in docquets and patents to the end of the seventeenth centurytaken from the British Museum, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Queen's College, Oxford, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and elsewhere. Volume 1 and 2 of our series has Grantees of Arms named in docquets and patents during the years 1687 - 1898 alphabetically arranged by Joseph Foster Hon. M.A. Oxon. and edited by W. Harry Rylands F.S.A from manuscripts preserved in the College of Arms, . It is a fairly complete and unique alphabetical list of personal grants of arms on record at the College of Arms 1687 to 1898. Our Volume 1 has the grants of arms from 1687 to 1898 (A to J) and our Volume 2 has the grants of arms from 1687 to 1898 (K to Z).