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William Jenyns’ Ordinary An ordinary of arms collated during the reign of Edward III Preliminary edition by Steen Clemmensen from (a) London, College of Arms Jenyn’s Ordinary (b) London, Society of Antiquaries Ms.664/9 roll 26 Foreword 2 Introduction 2 The manuscripts 3 Families with many items 5 Figure 7 William Jenyns’ Ordinary, with comments 8 References 172 Index of names 180 Ordinary of arms 187 © 2008, Steen Clemmensen, Farum, Denmark FOREWORD The various reasons, not least the several german armorials which were suddenly available, the present work on the William Jenyns Ordinary had to be suspended. As the german armorials turned out to demand more time than expected, I felt that my preliminary efforts on this english armorial should be made available, though much of the analysis is still incomplete. Dr. Paul A. Fox, who kindly made his transcription of the Society of Antiquaries manuscript available, is currently working on a series of articles on this armorial, the first of which appeared in 2008. His transcription and the notices in the DBA was the basis of the current draft, which was supplemented and revised by comparison with the manuscripts in College of Arms and the Society of Antiquaries. The the assistance and hospitality of the College of Arms, their archivist Mr. Robert Yorke, and the Society of Antiquaries is gratefully acknowledged. The date of this armorial is uncertain, and avaits further analysis, including an estimation of the extent to which older armorials supplemented contemporary observations. The reader ought not to be surprised of differences in details between Dr. Fox and the present author. They will certainly be resolved amicably as our analysis is completed. INTRODUCTION The armorial of 1611 items known as William Jenyns’ Ordinary (WJ, WJO), not to be confused with Thomas Jenyns’, belong to the small group of medieval ordinaries, emerging during the 1330’es. Though many armorials have smaller fragments, into which coats-of-arms appear to have been grouped according to their principal features, only four have been extensively organized to be used as a key for extracting information. And of the four, three have been shown to be interelated and largely dependent on the Ashmolean Roll (AS, ASM, c.1334, 489 items). The three are: Cooke’s Ordinary (CKO, 1334-1340, 646 items), Cotgrave’s Ordinary (CG, CGO, c.1340, 556 items), and Thomas Jenyns’ Roll, part I (TJ, QMJ, 1340-1440, 1259 items). The latter obviously include a majority of items that are independent of the Ashmolean, and more than one source must have been available to its editor. Apart from the common questions of organisation, dating and identification of the individual arms and bearers, we may add the questions whether the William Jenyns’ is also dependent on the Ashmolean and what other surces may have been used – or perhaps we might be so lucky as to find that this would be a primary collation of personal arms organized into an ordinary. The late Garter king-of-arms Sir Anthony Wagner made a cursory examination of the manuscripts (CEMRA 69) and proposed that both contents and execution of the primary manuscript were c.1380, i.e. late in the reign of Edward III (r.1326-1377) or during the minority of Richard II (r.1377-1399). The date proposed by Wagner appeared plausible, but it was soon evident that the date had to be pushed back to accommodate several key figures. So for a working hypothesis, most of the individuals were supposed to have been active around 1360, and the evaluation was made accordingly. The recurring term ‘not identified’ simply indicate that no contemporary written evidence have been found for an individual in the references consulted. Apart from the discussion in the following chapters and the comments on the individual items, the reader is left to draw his own conclusions from text and references as to whether the individual in question is likely to be contemporary (i.e. living around 1360), belong to an earlier armorial or might be a later insert. In 2 many families the eldest son was regularly given his father’s first name, which in connection with the approximate dating of the armorial and the individual entries mean that an item might as well be for an (unmentioned) father or eldest son of the person proposed in the comment. For reasons of time, effort and expense, the references consulted are mainly those available in print at the Royal Library in Copenhagen. This includes most standard works and the calendared official documents, but excludes local histories, some collections of seals and most genealogical studies, which are in practice only available in major english libraries. Only a few of the Victoria County History volumes have been consulted, due to weighing the time needed against the return expected, and that is also the case for most of the calendared series. Though a set of 3-letter standardized sigla, as proposed in Clemmensen OM, would be more appropriate for identifying the multitude of armorials and items mentioned here, most readers would already be accustomed to the sigla used for english armorials in most papers and in Papworth, Wagner’s CEMRA and the Dictionary of British Arms. Blazons significantly different from the item discussed are always marked with an asterisk (*), and has the first name of its legend noted, if present (or relevant). The spelling of names will appear erratic, as it must be when drawn from many references, and as with the dates, they have largely been left as encountered. The dates have, in general, not been checked for accuracy, but ought to be correct within a year, due to medieval practice of starting the year on the Annunciation (March 25th). THE MANUSCRIPTS The principal manuscript is Jenyns' Ordinary, held by the College of Arms in London, which is probably the original made by William jenyns, Lancaster Herald 1516-1527, who has his arms on fo. 26v and 42r. It was later owned by Sir Thomas Holland in 1562, William le Neve 'Clarenceux' 1635-1661, Peter le Neve 'Norroy 1712, and probably bought c.1885 by Henry F. Burke 'Garter' and presented to the College of Arms. It is made of vellum on 51 folio leaves (292 x 203 mm) with 16 arms per page (4x4) in rough artwork with legends very faded. The upper edge was cut on rebinding and the pagination is almost illegible. Fo.1rv with arms of the Holland family of Lincolnshire was added later. The second manuscript, London, Society of Antiquaries, Ms.664/9 roll 26 fo.1r-49r, is a Hatton- Dugdale facsimile, omitting ff.7-8 and has many unfinished and confounded legends, but otherwise excellent concordance with the principal manuscript. Illustrations are available in Bedingfeld H 55 (24v), Gwynn-Jones AH 87 (25r) and Fox CM (1r, 29v, 19r). The numeration is somewhat complicated as the 30 segments appear to have been designed with items 1-92 by row, 93-1611 by coloumn. The pages 4v-51v is presented as an ordinary of English arms. All items are here by column. The concordance (by row) between the manuscripts are: Items 1-44 CA / 33-76 SA, 45-76 / 1-32, 77-172 / 77-172, 173-236 / n.a. (1549-1611), and 237- 1611 / 173-1548. 3 Content by column in ms from Col.Arms (1) 1r Holand of lincs (2 b + 14s), = 1-16 = owner c.1560 (2) 1v saints & earls (16 banners), = 17-32 (3) 2r-4r kings , princes (10,9,9,16), = 33-92 = 2r electors, 2v+3r royal family, 3v+4r kings (4) 4v-14r lions, = 93-412 (5) 14v eagles, = 413-428 (6) 15r-16v pales & piles, = 429-483 (7) 16v escallops, = 484-492 (8) 17r-20v bars & fess, = 493-620 (9) 21r-22r saltires, = 621-668 (10) 22v garbs, = 669-684 (11) 23rv bougets, = 685-708 (12) 23v stars, = 709-716 (13) 24r-25r crescents, = 717-764 (14) 25v-26r roundels, = 765-784 (15) 26rv annulets, = 785-796 (16) 27rv bars & fess, = 797-844 (17) 28r-29r frets, = 845-892 (18) 29v maunches, = 893-908 (19) 30r-32v bars & fess, = 909-1004 (20) 33r-34v escutcheons = 1005-1054 (21) 34v fishes, = 1055-1068 (22) 35rv fusils, = 1069-1100 (23) 36r cinquefoils, = 1101-1116 (24) 36v-37r checky, = 1117-1148 (25) 37v-38r barry, = 1149-1168 (26) 38rv cinquefoils, = 1169-1196 (27) 39r maunches, = 1197-1200 (28) 39r-45r chevrons, = 1201-1401 (29) 45rv miscellaneous, = 1402-1420 (30) 46r-51v bends (largely unfinished); = 1421-1611 For Row-to-Column notation add X (below) to the by-row number to get the by-column nr. 03 6 9 -3 0 3 6 -6 -3 0 3 -9 -6 -3 0 4 FAMILIES WITH MANY ITEMS – a preliminary notice The Lucy families The 11 arms of the well known Lucy families [1057-1068] with many differences and first names ought to be easy, but they appear to be very select, repetitive and partly undocumented. Unfortunately, the pedigrees in the Genealogy Magazine N.S. 15:129-133 and in Essex Archaeol.Soc.Trans. N.S. vol 7 were not available, and identification is based on GEC and a few calendared documents. The treatment of the Lucy arms in Brault RAE 2:268-269 leaves the postulated changes of the field from gules to azure unexplained. Some fifty items from armorials temp. Edward I to Richard II and a few seals are available to support the identifications. There are three principal families, each with their own pattern of first names, and only connected through marriage. The Lucies of Charlecote with major holdings in Warwickshire and on the Wales-Gloucestershire march are probably present with William (d.c.1360) having Gules 3 lucies hauriant argent [1067] and the Gules a chevron engrailed argent between 3 lucies argent of John [1059] might well be for a cadet of this family.