D'Arcy, Conyers, Mennil and Melton families: history

An Essay towards the illustrating of the Antiquities of the Right Honourable Families of the Lords D'Arcie, Conyers and Mennil [Meynell], and of the Right Worshipfull Family of the Meltons of Aston ... Digested out of Deeds, public Records, and Pedigrees, the great Book of the Collections of the Right Honourable Cogniers Lord D'Arcie of Hornbye, and the MSS. of Mr. Roger Dodsworth, Mr. Gascoigne and Mr. Hopkinson, and the Miscellany Notes of Mr. Townley of Cave ... and several others. By Nathaniel Johnston of Pontefract ... Doctor of Physick, Anno Domini 1677. The MS. is very carefully written, and was possibly a copy prepared for the press, but never published. The original holograph copy was in the possession of the Duke of Leeds, who inherited it from the Earl of Holderness. [Cf. 'Historical Manuscripts Commission: Eleventh Report, Appendix, Part VII', 1888, pp. 1, 43.]

c. 1750

1 volume 2 bl. ll. + 5 ll. (last bl.) + 423 pp. + 25 bl. ll. folio. 38 × 25 cm. Original mottled calf-gilt binding. Text within red rules.

Purchased 1930 at the Hornby Castle Library Sale.

Armorial book-plates of the Right Honourable Robert D'Arcy, Earl of Holderness [1718-1778], and of the Duke of Leeds, George Godolphin Osborn, 9th Duke, [1828-1895].

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).