se aes as ou 
but the paelviewiths being only candidates, probationers, or 
noviciates, aud not really offi 
properly eee a Ne the term hera 
that — could not t the di ity of herald, without 
stone, or enfigus = eo Indee ceat-arms them- 
kings of arms, fee Kine of arms. 
) Of the fix heralds in England, who have had a long fuc- 
ceffion, and continued to receive falaries from the public, 
Wi indfor hs as his denomination from the royal caltle or palace ; 
Chefter, Lancafler, Richmond, pray ts and York from coun- 
ties or fhires, which ae at fundry times, as e = 
man obferves, been the pa or appe 
yeunger fons of the crown. And inde 
ralds with moft of thefe titles, fometimes hii feo to ae 
pte s and fometimes to the nobility, who had thefe ho- 
nours.. We fhould obferve, eereei that although their 
vhihos are taken from territories or earldoms, yet thefe offi- 
eers are not local as to any couse er or jurifdiétion 
to be executed in thofe places only ; for no one herald is ei- 
ther circumferibed within any province, or quclated from 
officiating within the precinéts of thofe counties whofe titles 
are borne by — but the titles are merely nominal, as 
are officers at large, fomewhat like titular bifhops. 
fer herald i is faid by fir Henry Spelman to have been intti- 
el under Edward II1.; but though no fuch officer is men- 
tioned in any of the records of that king’s reign, it is cer- 
tain that he was a known and eftablifhed herald in the time 
of Richard. 
year of Rasasd Iil.; sie Re the title of a cafler 
Scut Racked. was: a as to an < of 
arms noes to the nobility as well as tothe crown, The 
‘of Ri herald occurs in the eighth year of Henry 
Vi. likewife in the 12th year of Edwar 
enr 
d IV., in rel 
the 
crown. "ee: have referred the creation of Somer/et herald 
mrp ign re od with but it appears that Henry 
» in his gth yeary con an o— —— this title. 
ta? Se pa in 
Windjor king of arms and teehee a ti sas air 
Windsor. About the rapt be of —- IV.-a Wind- 
herald. is 
rom: about the year 
. “aga, fons Si of Windfor heralds hath th beemuninter- 
ae 
~ cetter. 
tolls, and all troublefome oifices. 
HER 
ruptedly continued. The earlieft recéitd j in which the 27 
herald is Se isa —— of the firit year of Richard 
om the reign of Henry VII. to the prefent times 
the fucefion hath been ieansacnend: 
er the fix titles already enumerated, in gener a in 
efi nha been continued down to this time, it m 
mproper to mention fome others, who were probaly etude 
Me the nobility, and took their titles from the counties, cities, 
and places which had, at fome time or other, been dukedoms or 
earldoms: fuch were Arundel, Bedford, Buckingham, Car- 
lifle, Clarence, Cornwall, Der by, Blavlet; Exeter, Gloucefter, 
Hertford, Hereford, Huntingdon, Leicefler, Northamp. 
ton, Nottingham, orfolk, Stem pee ae Pembroke, 
Salifbury, Shrew{bury, Suffolk, Wales, Wainick asd Wor: 
Some of our heralds hae derived their titles from 
provinces and territories which either are or formerly have 
been fubject to our fovereigns, as Bourdeaux, Bruniwick, 
Guienne, Guifn anover, aine,. &c. ‘The arms, 
quarterings, Space ters, and badges of the crown, have 
o given denominations to heralds; fuch are Faucon, Fleur- 
de-lis, Leopard, Rofe, and Blanc ent iers ‘This is like- 
wife the cafe with refpeét to places where fignal ee 
have been obtained; as Agincourt and Nazer. Other: 
again, from fome collateral circumftance, which it is not fiat 
ceffary to mention. 
For fome ages paft the crown hath occafionally iffued a 
— dire&ted to the earl ma arfhal, commandin 
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mat 
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me 
or 
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that no.man can be made a king of arms, befiice hee is ak 
herald; and at other times to enlarge the number of heralds, 
-for the better and eafier performance of the fervices required 
; by the crown, from the officers of arms. The three heralds 
pear war and’ peaces 
to attend to ae guste of the bearings of arms, and to 
fearch oo &c. under the authority of the earl marfhal 
and his deputy 
‘The fix heralds, with se! three kings at arms, and the 
four purfuivants, are a college, (which fee,) cr corpera- 
tion ; erected into fuch by charter of Richard III: who 
granted them divers privileges, as to be free from fubfidiesy 
Ss and Norrey 
the awe and regu. thereof. : ae 
ccording to. ‘its modern acceptation ome is - 
fidered, not only as ‘the fcience cpt ‘ 
ing him, in 
blazons, _ 
3 and their coe 
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