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The Natural History of Staffordshire. - 1686

by Plot, Robert

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First edition. Printed at the Theatre. Oxford. 1686. Tall quarto. Title; Imprim.; (2)pp; (2)pp; (4)pp; (2)pp; (1)pp; (3)pp; 450pp; index (10)pp; subscriber's list 2pp. Folding map, 37 plates, of which 25 are double. Lacking Plate XXVIIII. Includes the Armes Omitted plate which is often lacking.

Contemporary tooled calf. Relaid to spine, with short split to top. Spine in six compartments with gilt tooling and leather label. Gilt edge embellishment. Commensurate ageing, corners bumped and rubbed. Edges sprinkled. Endpapers renewed. Paper fault to margin of 159/60. Page 417 misnumbered 407. Occasional spotting or toning. A few short closed tears to folds. A nice example, with all the prelims and the subscriber's list. Bookplates to fep.

This work contains the earliest known recorded account of Freemasonry ritual on pages 316 to 318. Plot refers to the Masonic secrets, and mentions "The large parchment vellum they have amongst them, containing the History and Rules of the craft of masonry".

Plot, Robert (bap. 1640, d. 1696) In March 1683 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry, and first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Elias Ashmole's initiation into Freemasonry occurred on 16 October 1646 at Warrington in Lancashire, and he recorded it briefly in his diary.

Provenance: Vernon of Sudbury bookplate. George Vernon (1635-1702) is included in the subscriber's list. The Vernons of Sudbury held Swynnerton and Hilton in Staffordshire. Wright bookplate.



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A STAFFORDSHIRE ARMORIAL FOR 1680 The landed gentry with their seats and arms as given on ROBERT PLOT'S MAP (1680) and in THE NATURAL HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE (1686) 2nd Edition (Very Slightly Revised) - Staffordshire Historical Monographs 7

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GB: Dragonby Press, 2021. A4. 40 pages. As new. The principal purposes of this publication are to make available to a wider public that information collected by Plot regarding the Staffordshire Landed Gentry, particularly their seats and their coats of arms, and to identify the individual head of each family generally only identified by surname by Plot. In addition an attempt has been made to identify the family seats in the assessments for the 1666 hearth tax. A short introduction regarding Plot, his collaborators, and his map and book is followed by an alphabetical list of those gentry families appearing on the map. There a brief description of each family is given based on information collected by me for a forthcoming work STAFFORDSHIRE LANDED GENTRY 1086-1680 in which publication fuller references will be found. Certainly there will be many errors of commisssion and omission and I will be pleased to hear of these. There are two appendices. ONE: A LIST OF PLATES OR TABLES To whom… Read More
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