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Heraldic visitation. Frontispiece of the record of the visitation of Dublin, undertaken by Ulster King of Arms Daniel Molyneux in February 1607. Heraldic visitations were tours of inspection undertaken by Kings of Arms (or alternatively by heralds, or junior officers of arms, acting as the kings' deputies) throughout England, Wales and Ireland.
Flower's visitations began in 1563–64 and his last visitation was in 1575, with Glover acting as his deputy from 1564. [5] The entry books of Flower's visitations of Yorkshire in 1563–1564 (printed, 1881), of Lancashire , 1567 (printed, 1870), of Nottingham , 1569 (printed 1871) and of Durham , 1575 (printed, 1820) are preserved in the ...
Flower's visitations began in 1563–64 and his last visitation was in 1575, with Glover acting as his deputy. The entry books of Flower's visitations of Yorkshire in 1563–1564 (printed, 1881), of Lancashire , 1567 (printed, 1870), of Nottingham , 1569 (printed 1871) and of Durham , 1575 (printed, 1820) are preserved in the College of Arms in ...
Arms: Azure on a chevron between two doves Argent beaks and legs Gules and a wolf's head erased Argent in base a rose between two books Gules clasped Or. [ 1] William Downham (c. 1511 — 1577), otherwise known as William Downman, was Bishop of Chester early in the reign of Elizabeth I, having previously served as her domestic chaplain .
Here he was elected a fellow in 1552, and received his BA in 1553. This was followed by a BD and then a postgraduate MA in 1557. Finally he became a DD in 1579. Barnes was ordained a deacon on 24 September 1558 at St Bartholomew-the-Great by Peter Wall, Bishop of Clonmacnoise [1] and a priest on 7 December by Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London at ...
Lancashire is a county of England, in the northwest of the country. The county did not exist in 1086, for the Domesday Book, and was apparently first created in 1182, [1] making it one of the youngest of the traditional counties. The historic county consisted of two separate parts.
Vaux was born in Blackrod, Lancashire.Educated at Manchester and the University of Oxford, he was ordained in 1542, and took the degree of B. D. at Oxford in 1556. He was first a fellow, and then, 1558, warden of Manchester College, a parish church which had been endowed as a collegiate by Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, in 1421, and re-established by Mary I of England, in 1557.
Duchy of Lancaster. The Duchy of Lancaster is a private estate of the British sovereign. The estate has its origins in the lands held by the medieval Dukes of Lancaster, which came under the direct control of the monarch when Henry Bolingbroke, the then duke of Lancaster, ascended the throne in 1399. [1][2] In 1461 King Edward IV confirmed that ...