Volume IV (of V) only. viii, 326, [2, blank], [viii]. Maroon cloth-covered boards with gilt motif on upper panel, gilt lettering on spine. 4to. Cloth is a little worn and mildly marked, rubbed at corners and ends of sunned spine. Text block edges a little darkened and lightly spotted. Some mild tanning on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
A substantial compendium of biographical and historical information regarding the knights at the court of Edward I in the 13th Century, collected by Rev Charles Moor from various notices and sources. This volume, P to S, includes important families such as the Percys, Sackvills, Staffords, others well known to history and others more obscure and less recorded. A glance through shows how a large number of men rose gradually from inconspicuous origins to positions of consequence - and indeed the compiler argues that knighthood was 'almost more difficult to avoid than obtain'.
