1. My decision to refer to the manuscript as a “pedigree book” is informed by the book’s dedication (see note 2). The manuscript is mentioned in the New Year’s Gift Roll for 1567 (London, British Library, Additional MS 9772). See Jane A. Lawson, “The Remembrance of the New Year: Books Given to Queen Elizabeth as New Year’s Gifts,” in Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing, ed. Peter Beal and Grace Ioppolo (London: British Library, 2007), 133–72 (152–53). On Robert Cooke, see J. F. R. Day, “Cooke, Robert (d. 1593),” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford UP, 2004), http://www.oxforddnb.com/ view/article/6148 (accessed August 28, 2014).
2. Richard Marks and Ann Payne, British Heraldry from Its Origins to c.1800 (London: British Museum, 1978), 116.
3. For visual representations of genealogy, see William H. Monroe, “13th-and Early 14th-Century Illustrated Genealogical Manuscripts in Roll and Codex: Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium, Universal Histories and Chronicles of the Kings of England,” PhD dissertation, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 1989;
4. Olivier de Laborderie, “‘Ligne de reis’: culture historique, représentation dUPouvoir royal et construction de la mémoire nationale en Angleterre à travers les généalogies royales en rouleau du milieu du XIIIe siècle au début du XVe siècle,” PhD dissertation, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2002. See also idem, “A New Pattern for English History: The First Genealogical Rolls of the Kings of England,” in Broken Lines: Genealogical Literature in Medieval Britain and France, ed., Raluca L. Radulescu and Edward D. Kennedy (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008), 45–61;
5. Alixe Bovey, The Chaworth Roll: A Fourteenth- Centur y Genealog y of the Kings of England (London: Sam Fogg, 2005);