File NLW MS 7853D - Thomas Chaloner's Book

'A booke of sundrye and divers noats of evidences, of tymes, and wyttnesses of Cheshire, Lancashire, Wales, etc., collectede and written by Thomas Chaloner', 1592. The first section of the book consists of abstracts, made in 1592-3, for genealogical purposes, by Thomas Chaloner of Bridge Street, Chester, 'student of the Lawe of Armes and Armory', of documents relating to the families of Gamull of Kneghton, Venables and Leighes, Vawdray, Newton, Leighton, Molyneux, Heskayth, Grosvenor, Cholmondeley, Holland, Savage, Dutton, Trevor, and others. The remainder of the book (ff. 77-181) contains an extensive collection of genealogies with arms in trick, all written in a hand of the early seventeenth century, with an index to the entire volume by the same hand.