Villare cantianum: or, Kent surveyed and illustrated. : Being an exact description of all the parishes burroughs, villages, and other respective mannors included in the county of Kent; and, the original and intermedial possessors of them, even until these times. Drawn out of charters, escheat-rolls, fines, and other publick evidences; but especially out of gentlemens private deeds and muniments. / By Thomas Philipott Esq; formerly of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. To which is added an historical catalogue of the high-sheriffs of Kent: collected by John Philipott Esq; father to the authour.
John Philipot (1589-1645)
Category
Books
Date
1659
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3028786
Summary
Bibliographic description
[22], 401, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : col. map (fold.) ; fol. Pencil “641” on front pastedown. Front and back flyleaves contain notes in a seventeenth-century hand. Seventeenth-century manuscript corrections to the fifth preliminary leaf and pp. 61, 115, 201, 209, 256, 288, 309, 319. Provenance: armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: seventeenth-century polished sheep over boards (twentieth-century reback with new red spine label) on five raised bands, red sprinkled edges. Old water stains to head of textblock throughout. Old mould stains to endpapers.
Makers and roles
John Philipot (1589-1645), author Thomas Philipot (d.1682), publisher