Excerpt from The Visitation of Northumberland in 1615IN the year 1615, the Counties of Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland, and Westmoreland, were visited by Richard St. George, Norroy. The Visitation of Cumberland was printed by the Harleian Society in 1873, that of Durham at Sunder land in 1820, and Westmoreland at London in 1853. A few pedigrees from the Northumberland Visitation were privately printed by the late Sir Thomas Phillipps, but have never been circulated. No apology need, therefore, be offered for printing in its entirety the Visitation of Northumberland, the following copy of which is taken from Harleian ms. 1448. No Copy of any other Northumberland Visitation exists outside the College of Arms. Though some mss. In the Harleian collection profess to be such, they will on examination prove to be mere collections of Northumbrian pedigrees, not copies of Visitations properly so called.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.