CHETWYNDORUM STEMMA Sive Chetwyndianae Familiae de Ingestre in agro Staffordiensi, ac olim de Chetwynd in com. Salop. successio. Ex ipsus autographis penes Walterum Chetwynd Arm. deducta. Ex insigniis, sigillis, aliusq; eiusdem Familiae Monumentis illustrata, [1690] [manuscript].

[Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire, 1690] Ao. Dni. M.D.C.L.XXXX

1-3, pp. 5-36, [2], 37-82, [2], 83- 92, [8] text, [6] blank, 93-102, [103-106] blank; 105-7

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This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. From dealer's description: "A superb volume, written for Walter Chetwynd by Gregory King in 1690, and finely bound for the library there. The volume was clearly compiled for, and based on the information collected by, the antiquary and country gentleman Walter Chetwynd (1633-93) of Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire. He had inherited the house from his father, another Walter Chetwynd, in 1669, but as his biographer in ODNB relates, he was already a figure in county politics and administration. In 1674 he became one of the MPs for Stafford, along with a Chetwynd kinsman, and with the exception of the Convention Parliament he held the seat continuously until his death. Loosely inserted into this volume is a copy of Robert White’s engraved portrait of Chetwynd, dated 1691– the name of the sitter has been cropped from the foot of the print, but it is reproduced elsewhere as his portrait, and it incorporates exactly the armorial stamped on both covers of the binding here. Walter Chetwynd was married in 1658 to Anne Bagot, but she died in 1671, giving birth to their only child, Frances, who died in 1673; he did not remarry and with his death in 1693 the principal line came to an end, but the house descended to the Chetwynd-Talbot family and then the Earls of Shrewsbury; it was eventually sold in 1960 to West Bromwich council. The contents of this manuscript, drawn from the family muniments, are clearly intended to memorialise the Chetwynd family’s long history of occupying their land: they had been at Ingrestre some four hundred years, acquiring the manor by marriage in the mid-thirteenth century and building Ingestre Hall in the early seventeenth. The hall still stands today, and is clearly recognisable in the drawing here on p. 93. This volume is cited by M.W. Greenslade in the account of Chetwynd in ODNB, and from this it is quite clear that it was compiled and very probably written by the young Gregory King: in his own autobiographical notes, King states that in 1670 he was brought to Ingestre by Chetwynd, ‘to peruse and transcribe the deeds of his family relating to his genealogy, which he did in a fair vellum book, tricking also therein the most considerable seals’. This was some twenty years before the date in the present manuscript, but Greenslade rightly supposes that the first part must be the work that King was commissioned to achieve in 1670: the family genealogy (on p. 80) ends with the addition of Frances, the couple’s only child; and a slightly later hand has entered the date of her death on 19 August 1673. The latter part of the manuscript has later information: it transcribes documents from the 1670s and 1680s, but in a very similar hand, and was clearly also the work of Gregory King on Chetwynd’s behalf. The whole volume was obviously intended to commemorate the house, family and local habitation of the Chetwynds, and – despite Walter’s line coming to an end within a few years of its completion – in a sense it succeeded, as the manuscript remained at Ingestre Hall for more than a century: a 19th century bookplate of the family shows that it remained in situ. The illustrations in this manuscript are as follows: p. 22: early Chetwynd family members, with their armorials, from the parish church at Grendon, Warwicks, another Chetwynd family property p. 64: the tomb of John Chetwynd (Walter’s great-grandfather, d. 1592) p. 66: effigy of Archdeacon John Mullins (another great-grandfather), from St Paul’s Cathedral, London – presumably lost in the Fire of 1666 p. 84: a knightly effigy in the parish church of Chetwynd, Shropshire p. 93: full-page drawing of Ingestre Hall p. 94: south and west elevations of the church at Ingestre, dedicated 1677 pp. 96-7: superbly detailed drawings of the monuments at Ingestre church, for Chetwynd’s father and mother (p. 96) and himself and his wife (p. 97) – the inscription for his wife Anne is complete, but that for himself is left eloquently blank p. 99: various Chetwynd armorials from the windows in the parish church at Ingestre pp. 100-102: superbly detailed drawings of the monuments to: Frances Haselrigge (Walter’s mother, d. 1670), Frances Chetwynd (his only child, d. 1673) and several other Chetwynd forebears (a monument erected by Walter in 1676) pp. 105-6: drawings of 43 seals, dating from the reign of Edward III to that of Henry VI Binding: Full olive morocco over pasteboard. The style and tools are hard to assign to a particular workshop, but it might well have been the work of on the so-called ‘Queens’ binders’, who were at work in London in the last quarter of the 17th century. Ordered from Christopher Edwards, D9401, 2020-07-29, Email.

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