. The Herald and genealogist. , and which are even stilloccasionally cropping up. Besides, the pedigree has, of course, grownwith the lapse of time, and all the last descents up to the presentdate have been added. We may notice, however, a few of the moreimportant additions and corrections: — At p. 12 is a very curious illustration in the shape of a cross of thetwelfth or thirteenth century, now preserved at York, and which istraditionally said to have been given by Arnulph to an ancestor ofthe Shirleys in the time of the First Crusade. At p. 25 is a woodcut of the tomb of Margaret Waldershef,
. The Herald and genealogist. , and which are even stilloccasionally cropping up. Besides, the pedigree has, of course, grownwith the lapse of time, and all the last descents up to the presentdate have been added. We may notice, however, a few of the moreimportant additions and corrections: — At p. 12 is a very curious illustration in the shape of a cross of thetwelfth or thirteenth century, now preserved at York, and which istraditionally said to have been given by Arnulph to an ancestor ofthe Shirleys in the time of the First Crusade. At p. 25 is a woodcut of the tomb of Margaret Waldershef, LadyShirley, not in the first edition. At pp. 35 and 36 additional woodcuts representing the death of SirHugh Shirley and the arms of Joan Newmarch from a pedigree inthe Harleian collection. At p. 41 some important corrections as to Sir Ealph Shirley andthe Battle of Agincourt, derived from the researches of the late Hunter. At p. 54 a correction of the line of Hugh Shirley, a youngerbrother of Sir Ralph STEMMATA SHIRLEIANA. 485 At p. 58 a fac-simile of an inscription in her own hand by Margaretmother of Henry VII. in an illuminated Office of the Virgin, pre-sented by her to Lady Shirley. At p. 83 very considerable additions to the History of Sir GeorgeShirley, the first Baronet; and p. 120 to that of Sir Thomas Shirley,the antiquary; and at p. 142 to that of his nephew Sir Eobert same may be said as regards the Memoirs of the Lord Ferrers,and most of the notices of the later Shirleys. At p. 206 is a list of the works of the late Bishop Shirley, andat p. 209 another of those of his son, the late Canon Shirley, Pro-fessor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, whoseearly death in 1866 was lamented by all who were acquainted withhim, either personally or by his works. At p. 220 a curious bit of comparatively modern gossip identifyingLady Stuarta Shirley with the lady who rejected Sir Hugh Smithson,and indirectly caused the match
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