Eight years have passed since the publication of the last edition of this work, however, and in the interval a great many additions, corrections, and revisions have accumulated. Brought to a very high standard by the unremitting efforts of its editor, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., this fifth edition incorporates new lines, corrects errors in existing lines, adds recently discovered material, and supplies references where they had previously been omitted. The result is a reliable and authoritative collection of interlocking pedigrees which carry the ancestry of some 160 American colonists back to the thirteenth century. With the possible exception of Weis's Ancestral Roots (also published by Genealogical Publishing Co.), this is probably the very best work ever written on the pre-colonial ancestry of American colonists. Though there is some overlap between this work and Ancestral Roots, most of the material supplied here is different, and the books may be used together.
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At the signing of the Magna Charta, twenty-five men, representing the barons, signed as sureties of the baronial performance, in effect pledging the barons to fulfill their obligations to the Crown in accordance with the terms of the Great Charter. Of these twenty-five sureties only seventeen have identified descendants. Each of the seventeen is represented in the celebrated Magna Charta Sureties, which traces their connections--line by line and generation by generation--to approximately 150 American colonists.
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While there are numerous reference works relating the descendancy of the Magna Charta Barons, this one is concise, documented and continues across the Atlantic to the early Colonists of North America. Being unencumbered with commentaries on historical events, this book reveals lineage after lineage after lineage providing the researcher with an invaluable tool to document centuries of family history.
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This book is an excellent resource for those researching descents from one of the Magna Carta Barons or those named in the preamble as advisors to King John. Each line is accompanied by a list of sources for the descent from one of the Barons to an American Colonist.
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Sir John, Sir Thomas, Magna Chart, King of England, Visitation of Kent, King of Scots, New England, Rhode Island, Earl of Angus, Mary Isaac, Stemmata Shirleiana, Earl of Warwick, Chief Justice, Complete Baronetage, Earl of Arundel, Earl's Colne, John Fitz Randolph, Lord Berkeley, Visitations of Essex, Christopher Fitz Randolph, Duke of Lancaster, Earl of Crawford, Earl of Gloucester, Earl of Salisbury, New Jersey New!
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- Owen Glendower by John Cowper Powys on page 175, and page 176
- Knights of England by WILLIAM A. SHAW on page 144
- Handbook of British Chronology (Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks) by E. B. Pryde on page 168
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