Tristram Risdon - The Notebook

The Notebook

Risdon also left a notebook in which he had collected genealogical and heraldic information about Devon. This was published in London in 1897 under the title:

The Note-Book of Tristram Risdon (Author of the "Survey of the County of Devon") 1608-1628, Transcribed and Edited from the Original Manuscript in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter by James Dallas, F.L.S., Local Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries of London ; Corresponding Member of the British Archaeological Association ; Fellow of the Anthropological Institute, and Henry G. Porter".

The list of contents is as follows:

• Introduction
• The General Armory
• The Feudal Baronies of Devon and their Holders (53-80)
• The Earls, Nobles and Sheriffs of Devonshire (80-96)
• Peers, Baronets and Knights Holding Lands in Devon with their Arms (Edward III-Charles I) (96-122)
• Short Biographical Notices of Nobles and Knights of Devon Distinguished for Military and other Service from The Conquest to the Reign of Henry IV (122-148)
• The Justices Itinerant in Devon with the Dates of their Circuits, 2 Henry II - 21 Henry VII (list incomplete) (148-186)
• Exeter Dukes, Marquises and Earls bearing this Title, with a list of Mayors of the City (194)
• Barons and Knights in the County of Cornwall with their Arms, Henry II - James I (201)
• Barons and Knights holding Lands in Dorset, from The Conquest to the Time of James I (223)
• Knights of Somersetshire with their Arms, Henry II - James I (242)
• List of Knights and Others in Wiltshire with Armorial Bearings, Henry III - Henry VIII (279)
• List of Peers and Others in Hampshire from the Reign of King Henry III to that of King James I with some Armorial Bearings (287)
• Tenants of Lands and Manors in England from the Reign of Henry III to the 32nd Year of King Henry VIII Extracted from Various Records (294)
• Index of Persons (329)
• Index of Places (342)