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SOME HERALDS VISITATION DATES Visitation dates and counties
     Bedfordshire
     1566, 1582, 1634. HS vol. 19, 1884.
     Buckinghamshire
     1566, 1634. HS vol. 58, 1909.
     Cambridgeshire
     1575, 1619. HS vol. 41, 1897.
     Cheshire
     1533, 1566, 1580, 1591. HS vol. 18, 1882.
     1613. HS vol. 58, 1909.
     1663. HS vol. 93, 1941.
     Cornwall
     1530, 1573, 1620. Exeter, 1887.
     1620. HS vol. 9, 1874.
     Cumberland
     1615. HS vol. 7, 1872.
     Derbyshire
     1662-4. HS NS v. 8, 1989.
     Devonshire
     1531, 1564, 1620. (ed. by John Lambrick Vivian). Exeter, 1895.
     1620. (ed. by Frederic Thomas Colby). HS vol. 6, 1872.
     Dorset
     1623. (ed. by John Paul Rylands). HS vol. 20, 1885.
     1677. HS vol. 117, 1977.
     Essex
     1552, 1558, 1570, 1612, 1634. HS vol. 13-14, 1878-9.
     Gloucestershire
     1569, 1582-3, 1623. HS vol. 21, 1885.
     1682. Exeter: Pollard, 1884.
     Hampshire
     1530, 1575, 1622-34. HS vol. 64, 1913.
     1686. HS NS v. 10, 1986.
     Hertfordshire
     1572, 1634. HS vol. 22, 1886.
     Huntingdonshire
     1613. London: Camden Society vol. 43, 1849.
     1684. HS NS v.13, 1993.
     Kent
     1663-68 HS vol 54or45?
     1619-21. HS vol. 42, 1898.
     1668-9. HS vol. 54, 1906.
     Lancestershire
     1533. Manchester: Chetham Society vol. 98, 110, 1876-82.
     1567. Manchester: Chetham Society vol. 81, 1870.
     1613. Manchester: Chetham Society vol. 82, 1871.
     1664-5. Manchester: Chetham Society vol. 84, 85, 88, 1872-3.
     Leicestershire
     1619. vol. 2, 1870.
     London
     1568-9. HS vol. 1, 1869.
     1568. HS vol. 109-110, 1963.
     1633-5. HS vol. 15, 1880-3.
     1664. HS vol. 92, 1940.
     Norfolk
     1563. Norwich: Miller and Leavins, 1878-95.
     1563, 1613. HS vol. 32, 1891.
     1664. HS vol. 85-86, 1933-34.
     Northamptonshire
     1564, 1618-9. HS vol. , 1887.
     Northern Counties
     1530. Durham: Surtees Society vol. 41, 1863.
     . Durham: Surtees Society vol. 122, 133, 144, 146, 1912-32.
     Nottinghamshire
     1569, 1614. HS vol. 4, 1871.
     1662-4. HS NS vol. 5, 1986.
     Oxfordshire
     1566, 1574, 1634. HS vol. 5, 1871.
     1669, 1675. HS NS vol. 12, 1993.
     Rutland
     1618-19. HS vol. 3, 1870.
     1681. HS vol. 73, 1922.
     Shropshire
     1569, 1584, 1623. HS vol. 28-29, 1889.
     Somerset
     1531, 1573, 1591. 1885.
     1623, 1672. (ed. by Frederic Thomas Colby). HS vol. 11, 1877.
     Staffordshire
     1662-3. HS vol. 63, 1912.
     Suffolk
     1561, 1577, 1612. HS vol. 17, 1882.
     1561. HS NS vol. 2-3, 1981.
     1664-8. HS vol. 61, 1910.
     Surrey
     1530, 1572, 1623. HS vol. 43, 1899.
     1662-8. HS vol. 60, 1910.
     Sussex
     1530, 1633-4. HS vol. 53, 1905.
     1662. HS vol. 89, 1937.
     Warwickshire
     1619. HS vol. 12, 1877.
     1682. HS vol. 62, 1911.
     Wiltshire
     1623. HS vol. 105-6, 1954.
     Worcestershire
     1569. HS vol. 27, 1888.
     1634. HS vol. 90, 1938.
     1682. Exeter: Pollard, 1883.
     Yorkshire
     1563-4. HS vol. 16, 1881.
     1584, 1612. London: Joseph Foster, 1875.

In conjunction with this, the following may be useful:

     Bridger, Charles: Index to Printed Pedigrees contained in County and
     Local Histories, the Heralds' Visitations and the more important
     Genealogical Collections. London: J.R. Smith, 1867.
     Foster, Joseph: Grantees of arms named in docquets and patents to the
     end of the seventeenth century,in the manuscripts preserved in the British
     museum, the Bodleian library, Oxford, Queens college, Oxford, Gonville
     and Caius college, Cambridge, and elsewhere. London: [s.n.], 1915.
     Foster, Joseph: Grantees of arms named in docquets and patents
     between the years 1687 and 1898, preserved in various manuscripts.
     London: Boworth and Co., 1916-17.
     Humphery-Smith, Cecil R.: Armigerous Ancestors: A Catalogue of sources
     for the study of the Visitations of the Heralds in the 16th & 17th centuries
     with referenced lists of names. 1997.