Berkshire Visitations

Berkshire

	Berkshire was visited four times by Clarenceux King of Arms or his deputies, as follows:-
	1532 -	Thomas Benolte
	1566 -	William Harvey
	1623 -	Henry Chitting (Chester Herald) and John Philipott (Rouge Dragon Pursuivant*) for William Camden
	1665 -	Elias Ashmole (Windsor Herald) for Sir Edward Bysshe
	* Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of the College of Arms, named after the red dragon of Wales
	In 1907 The Harleian Society published transcripts of the four Visitations of Berkshire. The work consists of two volumes taken directly from original manuscripts held in the British Museum and the Bodleian Library.
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