Before the introduction, 350 years ago, of the Public Register in Scotland of all Armorial Bearings, records of coats of arms were kept in armorials.  These were usually booklets which contained the coats of arms of royalty, nobles and gentry

These booklets were of paper and occasionally vellum, and the coats of arms were painted; drawn – with an indication of the colours or written lists.

Individual Scottish material appears in armorials until the Union of the nations in 1707.

This illustrated survey, is the result of twenty years work by Eilean Malden and looks at some 140 armorials from 1380 to 1707 and gives a data sheet for each which contains details of title; location; date; binding; watermarks; size and provenance and the total number of coats of arms contained

From 1947 – 1969, whilst his father was Vicar of the parish, John Malden was brought up in the village of Corbridge on Tyne, Northumberland.

This book takes a nostalgic view of the village and its in habitants during the immediate post war period whilst it changed from a small rural village to become a dormitory town for Newcastle upon Tyne. It touches on the history of the village from the pre Roman period to the 18th century.