| Description | parchment bound hand written volume compiled by Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1750-1828); 'I have adverted at different Periods of my Life to the Task of giving a satisfactory Pedigree of my Family, of which an erroneous, ill-advised, and curtailed sketch has appeared in different Publications', with additions by William, 3rd Earl of Radnor (1779-1869). With many loose notes of pedigrees, grants of arms, correspondence, speculation and other genealogical matters (including extracts from the records of the Walloon Church in Canterbury) on the origins of the family, with lists of the occurrences of the name, both in England and on the continent, concentrating on the Bouverie and des Bouverie names, but other families include Adye, Clarke, Delme, de la Forterie, Duncombe, Lethieullier, Pleydell, Pratt, Priaulx/Preau. p15 confirmation of the arms of Jean de la Bouverie in 1478, 1765; p24 original bill of fees paid by sir Edward des Bouveire to the king's servants for his knighthood, 1685; p 28 original licence for the Earl of Radnor to take the original arms of Bouverie, sign manual of George III, 1768. Letter, 1963, confirming the date of the marriage between Charlotte Bouverie and William Maxwell as 21 March 1799. |