Bowyer , William , died 1569-1570 , public servant and antiquary Bowyer , Robert , died 1622 , public servant Povey , Sir , Thomas , Knight , 1613-c 1702, colonial entrepreneur and administrator

Collection donated to the College by Thomas Povey, colonial entrepreneur and administrator, 1669. Louise Campbell, in A Catalogue of Manuscripts in the College of Arms: Collections, vol 1 (1988), shows that at least six manuscripts, and probably another three, were written by William Bowyer, Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London from 1563, and that more manuscripts were added to the collection by his son, Robert Bowyer, Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London from 1604.