Visitations of England

The heralds of England would visit all the armorial families in a county and report on the genealogy of that family, and to what arms the family were entitled. This sometimes meant that families which claimed arms, were denied the right to bear arms. Heralds were appointed by the ruler of England. Although these were done in the 16th and 17th century, they cover the genealogy of every important family in England at the time, and some of the genealogy extends back into the medieval period.

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Visitation Index
Visitations by County https://sites.google.com/site/cochoit/home/visitations
Harleian Society Visitation Series https://sites.google.com/site/cochoit/home/visitations/harleian-society-visitation-series
Medieval Source Material on the Internet

Bedfordshire 1566, 1582, 1634 free on Google Books
Berkshire 1566 free on Google Books
Berkshire 1532, 1566, 1623, 1665/6 free on uk-genealogy.com
Buckinghamshire 1566 free on archive.org
Buckinghamshire Visitation, 1634
Cambridgeshire 1575, 1619 free on Google Books
Cambridgeshire 1619 free on Google Books
Lancashire and Part of Cheshire 1533, by Thomas Benalt free on Open Library
Cheshire 1580 free on Google Books
Cheshire 1613, free on archive.com
Cheshire 1613, free on scfhs.org (as a zipped MS Word file)
Cornwall 1530, 1573, 1620 with additions by Vivian (surname index starts on page 643) at UK-Genealogy
Cumberland 1615 free on Google Books
Cumberland 1615 free on archive.com (Foster's pedigrees...)
Derbyshire 1662 free on Google Books
Devon, 1564 free on ukgenealogyarchives.org
Devonshire free on uk-genealogy.org, online trees by Nigel Batty-Smith
This appears to be an attempt at creating family trees based on the visitation, not a visitation itself.
I can't see from this, which visitation year it is supposed to reflect.
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Devonshire 1620, free on Google Books
Devonshire 1620, with a paid subscription to ancestry
Devonshire 1531, 1564, 1620 with additions by Vivian
Dorsetshire 1565, by William Harvey, free on archive.org
Dorsetshire 1623, free on uk-genealogy.org
Durham 1575, 1615, 1666 free on archive.org
Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 Vol 1,  Vol 2 free on Google Books
Gloucestershire 1623 free on ukgenealogyarchives.org
Supplement to the Visitation of Gloucestershire 1682/4 free on Google Books
    The above work is a supplement, covering up to "Cartwright"
Hampshire 1530, free on archive.org
Herefordshire, 1569, free on Google Books
Hertfordshire 1572, 1634 (with additions) free on Google Books
Huntingdonshire 1613 free on Google Books
Huntingdon 1613, by William Camden free on archive.org

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Ireland
    Vol 4 (1904)
Kent 1619-21, free on uk-genealogy.org
Kent, 1663, free on Google Books
Lancashire and Part of Cheshire 1533, by Thomas Benalt free on Open Library
Lancaster 1567, by William Flower free on archive.org
Lancaster 1613, by Richard St. George free on archive.org
Lancaster 1664-66 by Sir William Dugdale Part I, Part II, Part III free on archive.org
Leicestershire 1619 free on Google Books
Lincolnshire 1562-64
Lincolnshire 1666 free pdf on University of Iowa website
London 1568 free on Google Books
London 1633/4 Vol 1, Vol 2 free on Google Books
Middlesex, Munday's Pedigrees, free on archive.org
Middlesex, 1663
Norfolk 1563 Vol 1, Vol 2 free at "Family History Archives" at BYU
Norfolk 1563, 1589, 1613 free on Google Books
Norfolk 1563, 1613, free on uk-genealogy.org
Norfolk 1563, Vol 2, free on Google Books
 
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The North 1480-1500 Part I, Part II, Part III free pdf at University of Iowa website
The North (Part 1) free on archive.org
Northamptonshire 1564, 1618-19 free on Google Books
Yorkshire and Northumberland 1575 free pdf at University of Iowa website
Northumberland 1615, by Richard St George, 1878 edition, free on Archive.org
Northumberland 1615, by Richard St George, 1878 edition free on Google Books
Nottingham 1569, 1614 on Google Books
Oxford 1566, 1574, 1634 with a paid subscription to Ancestry
Oxford, 1566 free on Google Books
Rutland 1618-19 free on Google Books
Shropshire 1623 A-J, 1623 K-Y on Google Books
Somerset 1551 and 1573 free on Google Books
Somerset 1623 free on uk-genealogy.org
Staffordshire 1583 free on google books
Staffordshire, 1614 and 1663/4, free on Google Books
Suffolk 1561, 1577 & 1612 free on Internet Archive
Surrey 1530 free on Google Books
Surrey 1530, 1572 and 1623 free on Google Books
Sussex 1530 and 1633 free on Google Books
 
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Wales
Vol 1 (1893), Vol 2 (1894), Vol 3 (1895), Vol 5 (1897), Vol 6 (1898), Vol 7 (1899), Vol 9 (1901), Vol 10 (1902), Vol 11 (1903), Vol 13 (1905), Vol 14 (1906), Vol 15 (1908), Vol 16 (1909), Vol 21 (1921)
Notes: Vol 2 (1897),  Vol 3 (1898), Vol 4 (1902), Vol 5 (1903), Vol 6 (1906), Vol 7 (1907),  Vol 9 (1911), Vol 10 (1913), Vol 12 (1917)
Warwick 1619 free on Google Books
Westmoreland 1615 free on archive.org (Foster's pedigrees...)
Wiltshire, 1565, free on Google Books
Wiltshire, 1623, free on uk-genealogy.org
Worcestershire 1569 free on Google Books
Worcestershire 1569] free on archive.org
Yorkshire 1563/4 free on Google Books
Yorkshire 1563/4 free pdf at the University of Iowa website
Yorkshire and Northumberland 1575 free pdf at the University of Iowa website
Yorkshire 1665-6, by William Dugdale
    link free on archive.org, Vol III (1917)
    Another link
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