Facsimiles of Swan-Rolls

This material is held atSociety of Antiquaries of London

Scope and Content

Bound in brown paper-covered boards, leather spine and corners, on the front, on a pasted-on white label, ‘FACSIMILES / OF / SWAN-ROLLS.’

Large bound volume of Ticehurst’s original pen and ink and watercolour drawings (page size 30.5 x 24 cm) that are reproduced as illustrations (which he calls ‘sketch-facsimile’ illustrations) to Ticehurst TIC/001 to TIC/013, and some in N.F. Ticehurst, The Mute Swan in England, London 1957. Each is a single page, apparently actual size, or a section from a roll.

The drawings are on heavy cartridge paper, in pen and ink, some with additional coloured washes (these probably watercolour rather than ink). There are feint pencil guide lines and some erasures and corrections on some sheets and foxing throughout. The fols are numbered top right in pencil, from 1 to 58 (with one, between 54 and 55, accidentally unnumbered). Each fol is preceded by a tipped-in small sheet of MS notes (most around 10 x 19.5 cm) in ink on a light weight paper giving a brief description of the roll and a note of associated publications. If the handwriting has not been reproduced this is indicated.

The full list of drawings, as captioned by Ticehurst, with fol numbers:

(NB Items listed ‘British Museum’ by Ticehurst are now British Library. Lower case ‘m’ = membrane)

1 Fenland Rolls (title page, no drawing)

2 The Record Office Roll, circa 1485-1520

3 The Everard Roll. Sketch-facsimile of f.6. 1566

4 British Museum Add. MS. 4977. Circa 1573-79

5 The Cooper Roll. Circa 1590.

6 British Museum Add. MS. 6302. Circa 1580-1602.

7 The Colvile Roll. 1587.

8 Bodleian MS. Rawlinson, B42. Circa 1587-95.

9 The Stow Swan Roll. Circa 1590. Tracing of a photo-stat copy of folio 1.

10 The Stow Hall Roll. Circa 1590.

11 The Bromhead Roll. Circa 1609.

12 The Marriott Roll. Circa 1609.

13 British Museum Add. MS. 6301. Circa 1609-1621.

14 The Westmoreland Roll. 1620. [TIC/015]

15 British Museum Egerton MS.2413. circa 1603-1625.

16 The Towneley Roll. 1621-1624.[TIC/017]

17 British Museum Harley MS.3405. circa 1621-1628.

18 MS. Phillipps 2795. Circa 1630. [TIC/016]

19 The Burghley Roll. Circa 1633-34 [part 1]

20 British Museum Add.MS.40072. (The Redgrave Roll). Circa 1635.

21 British Museum Egerton MS. 2412. Circa 1630-40.

22 The Wisbech Museum Roll. Circa 1640.

23 The Swatman Roll. Circa 1652.

24 Bodleian MS. Rawlinson, B277. 1656 [The Cutts Roll]

25 Broadland Rolls (title page, no drawing)

26 The Penshurst Roll. Circa 1540.

27 The Heydon Hall Roll. Circa 1598-1602.

28 The Emeris Roll. Circa 1620.

29 The Cantley Roll. Circa 1620.

30 The Capel Roll. Circa 1620.

31 The Elsing Roll. Circa 1620.

32 The Society of Antiquaries’ Roll. Circa 1630.

33 British Museum Add. MS.40072, m. xiv. (The Redgrave Roll). Circa 1635.

34 British Museum Add.MS.23732, m. v-ix. after 1648.

35 The Wentworth Roll. 1649. [from Dawson Turner facsimile copy, BL Add MS 23038]

36 British Museum Add. MS. 23732, m.3. after 1662.

37 The Burghley Roll. 1667 [Part 2]

38 The Blofeld Roll. Circa 1670.

39 British Museum Add. MS.23732, m x. circa 1670.

40 The Evans-Lombe Roll, B. circa 1670. 19 ft. 11 in., x 3 7/8.

41 The HORNOR ROLL. Reconstructed from photograph.

42 The Windham Roll. 1673.

43 The Evans-Lombe Roll, A. 1674.

44 British Museum Add. MS.23732, m.iv. circa 1677.

45 The Primrose Roll, A. 1693.

46 The Breese Roll. 1737.

47 The Primrose Roll, B. after 1782. [date changed on small overlaid paper]

48 The Primrose Roll, C. circa 1820.

49 The Holmes Roll. 1846. [half size replica of 2 rolls by Henry Ninham 1846]

50 Rolls for the Thames and other Areas (title page, no drawing)

51 Bodleian MS. Rawlinson, D949. Circa 1540.

52 The Pepysian Library Roll. Circa 1560 [Pepys 2972, Magdalene College, Cambridge]

53 The Chetham Library Roll. After 1574. [date corrected on small overlaid paper]

54 Bodleian MS. Rawlinson, B3. Circa 1660.

[fol not numbered] The Loseley Roll. Circa 1572-1593.

55 The Banks Roll. After 1581.

56 The Hanford Roll. Circa 1620.

57 Pepysian MS. 2443. Circa 1630.

58 The Fulford Hall Roll. 1650.

56 facsimile drawings by N.F. Ticehurst in all

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