Biographia Navalis; or, Memoirs of the Officers of the Army from 1600, by John Charnock, 4 vols., 1794.
English Army-Lists, etc., 1661-1714, by Charles Dalton, 6 vols., 1892-1904.
Lives of British Admirals, by John Campbell, 4 vols., 1779; new edition, 8 vols., 1812-17; abridged edition, 1847.
Of the two works of the Old Record Commission, dated 1801 and 1837 respectively, the latter will be found especially useful, as it contains returns from many of the various depositories of documents in Great Britain, notably The Tower, Houses of Parliament, etc.
Cotton’s Fasti contains a store of information, biographical and genealogical, about Church dignitaries, and certain searches among parochial registers may be obviated by a perusal of Marshall’s Parish Registers, for, as has previously been mentioned, a great many of such are obtainable in print.
The International Genealogical Directory should be consulted, as it contains much which might be of great importance to the searcher. He should also make himself acquainted with the very useful genealogical handbooks published by Mr. C. A. Bernau of Walton-on-Thames.
The number of County Histories increases rapidly, and the pedigree-hunter should consult those which are connected with the special districts in which he is interested.
From the Victoria County Histories to those compiled by private individuals, all may be of more or less importance to the genealogical student.
CHAPTER XI
THE PAINS AND PLEASURES OF PEDIGREE-HUNTING
Is pedigree-hunting a dry and generally uninteresting matter, valuable only for the information to be derived from it, or is it a source of interest in itself, even if considered apart from its results?