| Description | Bound manuscript volume collection of papers and pedigrees to do with the Pleydell family history and that of associated families from the Middle Ages, compiled initially by Robert Dale, Richmond Herald & antiquary, for Sir Mark Pleydell, and added to after Dale's death in 1722. Loose leaves include pedigrees of the Boteler, Ayshcombe, Forster & Stewart families, correspondence with the Lyon Office in Edinburgh on the ancestry of Stewarts of Ascog (1776), correspondence with the College of Arms (1818) and a modern typewritten transcript of the first 11 pages of the book. Copy of London Gazette 1 feb 1755 with the notice of appointmnet of sir Mark Pleydell as sheriff of Berkshire |