Pedigrees of English baronial families, as well as of other land-owning families of the north of England (esp. Yorkshire), compiled by Roger Dodsworth and substantiated by references to and excerpts from the other volumes of his collection. The pedigrees are not limited to the male line, but give the ancestry and posterity of married heiresses, e.g. the elaborate pedigree of the Stapletons (fols. 19v-29) is interwoven with pedigrees of the various families whose lands they inherited and…