Fourteenth century rolls of arms with their sigla, dates and sources K Caerlaverock Poem 1300 edited by Gerard J. Brault, Aspilogia III: Rolls of Arms Edward I, 2 v., London: Society of Antiquaries, Boydell Press, 1997 An anonymous French poem giving the names and blazons of 106 knights present at the siege of Caerlaverock, 15 July 1300. GA Galloway Roll 1300 edited by Gerard J. Brault, Aspilogia III: Rolls of Arms Edward I, 2 v., London: Society of Antiquaries, Boydell Press, 1997 A sixteenth-century copy, often garbled, of a lost roll of 261 names and blazons of some of the knights present at the Battle of Galloway, which probably took place on 8 Aug 1300. Several entries begin ‘Sir ...’ but go no further. Brault includes them and numbers them, but other editions, including that used by the DBA, omit them entirely. V Vermandois Roll c1300 transcribed by Brian Timms, Armorial du Hérault Vermandois, http://www.briantimms.fr/Rolls/vermandois/0veintroduction.html A lost roll in the Picardy dialect of names and blazons of 1076 coats of arms arranged in marches covering France and spilling over into parts of the Low Countries, Germany and Spain. Picardy was a region popular for the holding of tournaments. SP Smallpece’s Roll 1298-1306 edited by Gerard J. Brault, Aspilogia III: Rolls of Arms Edward I, 2 v., London: Society of Antiquaries, Boydell Press, 1997 A lost roll of 168 painted shields. ST Stirling Roll 1304 edited by Gerard J. Brault, Aspilogia III: Rolls of Arms Edward I, 2 v., London: Society of Antiquaries, Boydell Press, 1997 A lost roll of the names and blazons of 102 knights in the vanguard of an English force involved in the siege of Stirling castle 1304. It may originally have been part of the same manuscript as the Galloway Roll. M Nativity Roll 1307-8 edited by Gerard J. Brault, Aspilogia III: Rolls of Arms Edward I, 2 v., London: Society of Antiquaries, Boydell Press, 1997 A lost roll of names and blazons of 79 knights present at some unknown occasion held on the Monday before the Nativity of Our Lady (8 Sep). FF Fife Roll temp. Edw I edited by Gerard J. Brault, Aspilogia III: Rolls of Arms Edward I, 2 v., London: Society of Antiquaries, Boydell Press, 1997 The only copy of this compilation, made towards the end of Edward I’s reign, is in poor condition and several of the 32 painted shields are not clear. The roll is unusual in giving prominence to Scottish earls, with only one English earl listed. WNR Sir William Le Neve’s Roll temp. Edw I edited by Gerard J. Brault, Aspilogia III: Rolls of Arms Edward I, 2 v., London: Society of Antiquaries, Boydell Press, 1997 A lost roll of 167 painted shields without Christian names, making it difficult to date. L First Dunstable Roll 1309 transcribed by C. E. Long, ‘Tournament at Stepney, 2 Edw. II’, Collectanea, Topographica et Genealogica, iv. (1887) 61-72 Transcription, with introduction, of an 18th-century copy with painted shields of a lost roll, probably in trick, of 235 knights who took part in a tournament held, despite C. E. Long’s early misgivings, at Dunstable in 1309. Most of the names are arranged in retinues under the five earls who opposed Gaveston and the king, with some extra names at the end. An additional 14 shields, found in College of Arms MS. 2nd. G3, are given in the Appendix to A. Tomkinson, ‘Retinues at the Tournament of Dunstable, 1309.’ N Parliamentary Roll c1312 transcribed by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, A Roll of Arms of Peers and Knights in the Reign of Edward the Second, London: William Pickering, 1828 Transcription, with introduction, index and ordinary, of an original roll with 1,110 names and blazons, beginning with earls and knights banneret, then knights bachelor arranged by county, followed by a list of additional names. This is the nearest we have to an official armoury and the entries under counties can make them easier to identify. An excellent resource. O Boroughbridge Roll alais Newcastle Armorial 1319 edited by Steen Clemmensen, The Newcastle Armorial: formerly known as the Boroughbridge roll of arms, http://www.armorial.dk/english/Newcastle.pdf, 2016 An original list (which is missing the head of the membrane) of 214 names and blazons of knights, originally thought to have fought at the Battle of Boroughbridge 16 Mar 1322, but who much more probably attended an informal tournament at Newcastle during the Berwick campaign of 1319 (see B Wells-Furby, ‘The ‘Boroughbridge roll of arms’ reconsidered’). HA Harleian Roll temp. Edw II transcribed by James Greenstreet, The Genealogist, n.s., iii. (1886): pp 37-41, 118-121 An original vellum book containing various different matters and decorated along the top margin with 191 painted shields, most with names, although many shields have been cut away or damaged by fire. PV Povey’s Roll temp. Edw II transcribed by Steen Clemmensen, Ordinary of Medieval Armorials, CD-ROM, rev. edn., Copenhagen: http://www.armorial.dk/, 2013 82 painted arms apparently from an original roll on vellum cut up into pieces of 2-3 items and mounted on pages; poor execution; about half the pages have full names, the rest surnames only CK Cooke’s Book temp. Edw II edited by C R Humphery-Smith, Anglo-Norman Armory Two, Canterbury : Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, 1984, as part of his ordinary A lost roll of 89 painted arms, beginning with kings, then lords (including some French) and finally knights and gentlemen (most with no names). CA Carlisle Roll 1334 transcribed by O. Barron and S. M. Collins per Dictionary of British Arms A lost list of earls, bannerets and knights, with names and blazons, present in the vanguard of Edward III's army at Carlisle on 12 Jul 1334, now only available in a 15th-c. copy with painted shields added by someone who had little understanding of heraldry. The last section (241-275) lists German knights in the service of William V, C of Juliers (Jülich) and E of Cambridge. SD Second Dunstable Roll 1334 transcribed by C. E. Long, ‘Roll of the Arms of the Knights at the Tournament at Dunstable, in 7 Edw. III’, Collectanea, Topographica et Genealogica, iv. (1887) 389-395 Transcription, with introduction, of a lost roll of 135 names and blazons of knights present at a tournament in Dunstable in 1334. AS Ashmolean Roll c1334 edited by Steen Clemmensen (2004), Ordinary of Medieval Armorials, CD-ROM, rev. edn., Copenhagen: http://www.armorial.dk/, 2013 Although treated as an original roll by Wagner and by Clemmensen, the earliest copy dates from the late 14th/early 15th century and has had 24 extra entries added in a 16th-century hand. The original contains 489 arms in blazon, beginning with sovereigns, then earls, and finally lords and knights. The final section is very nearly an ordinary. The roll forms a group of similar arms with Cooke’s Ordinary and Cotgrave’s Ordinary. CKO Cooke’s Ordinary c1340 edited by Steen Clemmensen (2005), Ordinary of Medieval Armorials, CD-ROM, rev. edn., Copenhagen: http://www.armorial.dk/, 2013 An original roll of 646 painted shields, possibly the first ordinary ever to be compiled, with all the crosses together first, followed by lions, then eagles, and then the other charges in turn. Content appears to be based on the Ashmolean Roll. CG Cotgrave’s Ordinary c1340 transcribed by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Rolls of Arms of the Reigns of Henry III, and Edward III, 1829; reprinted on demand Charleston: BiblioLife, [2008] Transcription, with introduction and indexes, of a lost roll of 556 blazoned arms with 219 illustrative shields, largely similar in content and arrangement to Cooke’s Ordinary. Denholm-Young (Country Gentry pp 98-99) thought that this may well be the earlier of the two since it does not have so many entries. The sixteenth-century copy of the roll omits many Christian names and corrupts quite a few surnames. P Grimaldi’s Roll c1350 transcribed by Stacey Grimaldi, ‘Copy of a Roll of Arms (of the reign of Edw. III.) in the possession of Stacey Grimaldi, Esq. F.S.A.’, Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, ii. (1835) pp 320-8 Transcription of an early 15th-c. copy of a lost original, with 167 painted shields with names and blazons. It begins with kings, princes and foreign dukes; then there are 85 arms taken for the most part from a source compiled around 1240-42, also used by Glover’s Roll B I (v. supra); at the end there are some 14th-c. English arms. PO Powell’s Roll c1350 transcribed by James Greenstreet, ‘The Powell Roll of Arms (temp Edward III)’, The Reliquary, n.s., vol. iii (1889) pp 145-152, 231-240, vol. iv (1890) pp 93-97 Transcription, with introduction, of an original roll held in the Bodleian of 45 painted banners (earls and bannerets) and 627 painted shields (knights) similar in content to the Antiquaries’ Roll. Many entries have Elizabethan and modern amendments. Greenstreet numbers the banners and shields separately; I have followed Clemmensen and the DBA in numbering them consecutively. CV Sir George Calveley's Book c1350-1450 transcribed by Rev Bernard R. K. Moillet (†1956) for Dictionary of British Arms Lost vellum book, owned in 1580 by Sir George Calveley, with 876 shields in five sections: I Becket’s Murderers’ Roll, 320 painted shields beginning with those attributed Becket’s murderers, mostly from mid 14th c., but some from 13th c. and perhaps 15th c.; II Lancashire Roll, 116 shields of Lancashire nobility and gentry apparently temp. Henry IV but many from Edward III’s reign; III Cheshire Roll, 220 shields of Cheshire nobility, gentry and religious houses, apparently from mid 15th c.; IV Kent Roll, 100 shields of Kentish arms from 13th and 14th centuries; V [Untitled] 20 miscellaneous shields mainly from 14th c. AN Antiquaries’ Roll c1360 transcribed anonymously for Dictionary of British Arms A single manuscript, Society of Antiquaries MS 136, Pt I, an original collection of 352 painted arms, beginning with dukes and earls and followed by knights. WJ William Jenyns’ Ordinary c1360-80 edited by Steen Clemmensen, William Jenyns’ Ordinary: An ordinary of arms collated during the reign of Edward III, CD-ROM, rev. edn., Copenhagen: http://www.armorial.dk/english/WJO_PreEd.pdf, 2008 An ordinary of 1611 painted banners and shields, first collated c1360 but with additions c1380, available in two later copies, one by William Jenyns, Lancaster Herald 1516-1527, and the other a Hatton-Dugdale facsimile. NAV Navarre Roll c1368-75 edited by Steen Clemmensen, based on de Boos and Popoff, Armorial du heraut Navarre in Ordinary of Medieval Armorials, CD-ROM, rev. edn., Copenhagen: http://www.armorial.dk/, 2013 lost original compiled by Martin Carbonnel, Navarre king of arms to Charles le Mauvais, C of Evreux and K of Navarre; knights banneret and bachelor, 1249 French in 8 provinces, 64 English, and a few from the Low Countries. R Styward’s Roll temp Edw III revised by Steen Clemmensen (2004), Ordinary of Medieval Armorials, CD-ROM, rev. edn., Copenhagen: http://www.armorial.dk/, 2013, from James Greenstreet, Notes & Queries, 5th series, iv. (1875) pp 324-325, 383-384 Also called Second Calais Roll or Sir Symond d’Ewes’ Roll. A lost roll of 135 painted shields. CY County Roll temp Ric II edited by Steen Clemmensen (2007), Ordinary of Medieval Armorials, CD-ROM, rev. edn., Copenhagen: http://www.armorial.dk/, 2013 A Hatton-Dugdale facsimile of a lost book of 700 shields, 504 painted, 20 in trick and 176 blank, arranged in counties, 1-184 Ches, 185-268 Lancs, 269-312 Derbys, 313-376 Salop, 377-440 Staffs, 441-504 Norfolk, 505-536 Suffolk, 537-568 Essex, 569-632 Kent, 633-696 Sussex. Ur Urfé Roll c1381 [English section only] edited by Steen Clemmensen, Armorial Urfé, http://www.armorial.dk/english/Urfe-en.pdf, 2007 A lost French roll containing in total 2855 coats of arms in blazon, of which a section of 269 items, numbered 128-396, are English and were almost certainly based on an English roll, possibly one also used as a source by William Jenyns’ Ordinary. The entries begin with royal and comital arms, some of which are retrospective, and then continue with the arms of contemporary gentry, particularly from the north and north-east. S Willement’s Roll c1395 edited by Steen Clemmensen, Willement’s roll of arms: An armorial of nobles and gentry living in the reign of Richard II, Copenhagen: http://www.armorial.dk/english/WIL_PreEd.pdf, 2008 A lost roll of 601 painted shields, the first 25 being those attributed to the founder members of the Order of the Garter, followed by earls, heads of baronial families (with Christian names omitted), and then a list of other knights. BG Basynge’s Roll c1395 edited by Steen Clemmensen, Ordinary of Medieval Armorials, CD-ROM, rev. edn., Copenhagen: http://www.armorial.dk/, 2013 An original ordinary of 407 crudely painted shields, based on Willement’s Roll, but with many mistakes. Peter Howarth

Brian Timms's website I have already alluded to Brian Timms's marvellous website. It had details of almost all the English rolls from Glover's Roll (c.1253-8) to the Stirling Roll (1304), with illustrations and, importantly, cross-references where arms occur in more than one roll. He also had details of four French rolls, Bigot, Wijnbergen, Chifflet-Prinet, and Vermandois, the last of which is almost impossible to find anywhere else. In addition he had details of the Barons' Letter to the Pope of 1301, with the seals of nine earls and seventy-nine barons, all illustrated. Ian Fettes is well known for still maintaining Leo van de Pas's website 'Genealogics'. And when Brian first had to give up his website, Ian helped by saving everything on his computer. He has now generously made all the files available for download (but not browsing) at a Dropbox site: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m1o6h81udyjji2o/AACTUNEds5HOVqWtUAUoEa-4a?dl=0 Many thanks to both Brian and Ian. Peter Howarth