Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire
WITH ADDITIONS
Edited by J. W. CLAY, F.S.A.
The last Visitation of Yorkshire was made by Sir William Dugdale, Norroy King of Arms, in 1665 and 1666. The record of the same from a M.S. copy was printed by the Surtees Society (Vol. xxxvi) in 1859, and was edited by the late Robert Davies, F.S.A. It is now out of print and scarce.
An account of what has become of all the families who appeared at the Visitation, so as to show which have become extinct, and which have passed into the female line, has long been desired.
As much information has in the last few years become available by the publication of Wills, Parish Registers, Marriage Licences and other Documents, an attempt is now made to continue the pedigrees as far as possible, for although they cannot be made perfect, yet it is thought they can be put on such a basis that fresh matter arising can be easily added.
The editor does not now purpose to go into the history and account of Sir Wm. Dugdale's Visitation to Yorkshire. That has been already ably done by Mr. Davies in his preface to the Surtees Volume already alluded to, which anyone interested in the Visitation is recommended to study.
He has to thank the Rev. C. B. Norcliffe, M.A., Dr. Sykes, F.S.A., and Mr. A. Scott Gatty, F.S.A., for numerous entries from parish registers not printed, and begs that if any other gentlemen have information from similar, or other sources, concerning the Dugdale families, they will kindly afford him a sight of it, so as to make the pedigrees as perfect as possible.
It remains only to state that the work of Dugdale is printed in italics, and the additional matter in ordinary type.