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Excerpt from The Four Visitations of Berkshire, Vol. 1: Made and Taken, by Thomas Benolte, Clarnceuc, Anno 1532; By William Harvey, Clarnceux, Anno 1566; By Henry Chiting, Chester Herald, and John Philipott, Rouge Dragon, for William Camden, Clarenceux, Anno 1623 The tricks reproduced in the 1532 Visitation are from a series of drawings which came into my possession some years ago I have inserted them, as I feel sure they were taken from some copy of this Visitation. Those in the 1566 Visitation were made by Mr. F. C. Price from the original mss., by the kind permission of the Authorities of the British Museum. I would also offer my grateful thanks to Mr. E. B. Nicholson, Bodley's Librarian, who very willingly allowed Miss E. G. Parker to make me a series of facsimile drawings, from which the blocks for the 1623 and 1665-6 Visitations have been made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.