Author: Peter Le Neve

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-06

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 9781396643712

Excerpt from Le Neve's Pedigrees of the Knights: Made by King Charles II., King James II., King William III. And Queen Mary, King William Alone, and Queen Anne Le Neve appears to have made use of every available source in compiling his pedigrees, as a glance at the following pages will evidently shew. He made enquiries of the persons knighted where possible, their friends or ac quaintance, from his brother heralds, - as for instance, from Mr. Clopton, who, being a Warwickshire man, seems to have been asked when anything was wanted relating to persons who descended out of that county. At page 250 ef seqq. Will be found a list of knights with notes to each, of the persons from whom Le Neve meant to ask information, or a reference to the book where he might look for it; to many of the pedigrees also a note is added of the name of some one from whom it might be obtained, as at p. 124, qre George Wright, p. 140, qre at D Com'ous. References of this kind are so numerous throughout the work, that I cannot do more than call attention to them as one of Le Neve's most important sources of information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.