Looking through the glass at the Ripley Scrolls

[Paul Ferguson]

Interview with Jennifer Rampling:

https://www.communitynews.org/towns/prin...8ea38.html

https://library.princeton.edu/alchemy

[Carl Lavoie]

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"Princeton owns two Ripley Scrolls, one of which was […] made by the English herald Leonard Smethley in 1624".

Herald, heraldry, checks out.

Do we know more about this guy?

https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b...anuscripts

[Paul Ferguson]

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"Princeton owns two Ridley Scrolls, one of which was […] made by the English herald Leonard Smethley in 1624".

Herald, heraldry, checks out.

Do we know more about this guy?

https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b...anuscripts

*Ripley

Smethley seems to have been an arms-painter, hence the connection with the scroll. The extract below is from the Athenaeum no. 2546, reviewing the 'Chetham Miscellanies'         

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See the relevant volume of the 'Chetham Miscellanies' here:

https://tinyurl.com/42je9mux

Smethley's name is sometimes spelt Smedley.

[Carl Lavoie]

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Indeed, Ripley.

Thanks, Paul, for the article on Smethley (Smedley.) Seems to have been judged a rather lousy deputy herald by his contemporaries.

Another officer of arms/herald that would come to mind, of course, is Elias Ashmole:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Herald

[Paul Ferguson]

Video about the Ripley Scroll exhibition at Princeton:

https://dpul.princeton.edu/alchemy/feature/virtual-tour