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ELIZABETH. of this gentleman, who appears to have been a person of abilities. He was probably soured by losses and disappointments. His name is usually spelt Turpyne: he bore Gules, on a Bend Argent, three Lions' Heads erased, Sable.

Heralds. Windsor.

April 24, 1583.-NICHOLAS DETHICK, Esq.

Eldest son of Sir Gilbert Dethick, knight, Garter. He was employed upon the Continent. In 1579, he was in France: in 1581, he took a letter from the English to the Swedish court. He was there at Whitsuntide in the following year. Garter Anstis says, he had license to remain two years abroad, to improve himself in foreign languages, and gain experience. He died January 19, 1596, aged fifty-seven, without leaving any issue, and was buried at St. Catherine Cree's church, 27th, at the expense of his younger brother, Dethick, Garter. He married Eleanor, daughter of Robert Clough, of Minsterley, in Shropshire, whom he left in necessitous circumstances. The disappointment in being superseded as Clarenceux had such an effect upon him, that it brought on a complaint which caused his death. It is the more to be lamented, because it appears that in the year preceding, Lord Burleigh had marked him down as proper to be Clarenceux; and great as Camden's merit was, he probably would not at that time have had the place upon Lee's death, had Dethick survived another year. As Lord Burleigh was an excellent judge of the qualifications for an herald, we must suppose Windsor well skilled in the duties of his office: it was therefore the greater mortification to remain an herald, whilst his younger brother presided in the College. It was a singular circumstance, that two of the Garters, Sir John Writh and Sir Gilbert Dethick, should be succeeded by their younger sons, as heads of the heraldic body, whilst their eldest ones were never raised higher than the rank of heralds.

THOMAS LANT, Esq.

Created October 22, 1597.-Patent, November 19, 1600.

The custom of having the patent dated so long after the creation, became usual in this and the next reign. There were two other heralds, and three pursuivants, created on the same day in which this herald was. Lant is placed amongst the most learned of the College. He was marked for the office of Richmond herald by Lord Burleigh, in 1595. We have ́a treatise written by him upon Heraldry. He petitioned Elizabeth to prefer

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him to 'the office of an herald, alleging, that he left all other hopes of ELIZABETH. preferment to serve her most excellent Majesty, accompanying it with a catalogue of all the officers of arms, shewing how they have risen by degrees. It probably had the effect he desired; it is still kept in the College library. It is not only defective, but very erroneous. There is also another remain of his, called " Lant's Roll," which is far more valuable, though it has the same faults; but the arms are, I presume, accurate: besides, this is continued down by some future herald, to the accession of Charles I. The dates are put in this latter part, and being from personal knowledge, it is of undoubted authority. At Sir Philip Sidney's funeral, an uncommon pomp was displayed, Elizabeth, the nation, and the Dutch, uniting to shew this honor to the remains of so illustrious a character. Cooke, Clarenceux, marshalled it. As Lant had been originally a servant to that great and good man, he, with appropriate labor, designed thirty-four plates, exhibiting the funeral procession: they were engraved by Theodore de Brie. Amongst a number of other portraits, there is one of this herald, which gives him aged thirty-two: it is a small oval head. This set of plates is become very scarce. An author says, he was sent with the Earl of Nottingham, in his embassy to Philip III. of Spain, to take the oath to the peace concluded between the courts of London and Madrid, in 1604. This is undoubtedly erroneous, as he died in 1600. His arms were Party per Pale, Argent and Gules, a Cross engrailed, all counterchanged; in the Dexter Chief, a Cinquefoil of the second.

RICHARD ST. GEORGE, Esq.-See next reign.

CHESTER.

Ilen. VIII.-WILLIAM FLOWER, Esq.-See Norroy.

ROBERT COOKE, Esq.-See Clarenceux.
Created January 29, 1561-2.-Patent, February 8 following.

1566.-JOHN HART, Esq.

Who wrote a book upon the Reformation of English Orthography. He

died about six o'clock in the afternoon of July 16, 1574. Gules, a Fesse, between three Fleur-de-lis, Argent.

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EDMUND KNIGHT, Esq.-See Norroy.

Heralds. Created at Hampton Court, on Allhallow's Eve, 1574, by Robert Earl of Leicester.

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March 26, 1592.-JAMES THOMAS, Esq.-Sec next reign.

YORK.

8 Mary 1.-MARTIN MAROFFE, Esq.

His name is written by Lant, Marlfe: he does not give his arms. Mary's charter calls him Marruf. He died April 20, or 21, 1563.

WILLIAM COLBORNE, Esq.

Patent, January 25, 1564.-Created April 19, 1565.

His patron was Lord Cobham, whose friend he is called. He had license to travel, by a warrant dated June 20, 1559, to improve himself inforeign languages. He was buried in the chancel of the church of St. Dunstan in the West. On a brass plate, fixed to a pillar, on the upper part of it, is this inscription:

"Here before lyeth WILLIAM COLBORNE, Esquyer, late Yorke herald at "armes, who decesed on Saturday the 13th of September, 1567, and was buried on "Monday, the 15th day of the same monthe. Seur et Loyall."

His arms were Argent, a Chevron between three Bugle-horns, Sable, stringed, Or. He is frequently, in old writings, called Colbarne.

1567.-RALPH LANGMAN, Esq.

He bore Argent, between two Water-bougets, Sable, a Pile of the second, charged with a Portcullis of the first: the latter, no doubt, was taken from his having been Portcullis pursuivant.

1569.-WILLIAM DETHICK, Esq.-See Garter..

HUMPHRY HALES, Esq.

Created at Greenwich, by Robert Earl of Leicester, in his Chamber, on Whitsunday,
June 4, 1587.

Brother to Sir James Hales, knighted by Queen Elizabeth, at Cobhamhall, in September 1573, son of Christopher Hales, of the Dungeon, near Canterbury, eldest son of Sir James Hales, a Justice of the Common Pleas. Hales, York, was bred to the law, but his genius inclining him to pedigrees, he was recommended, in 1581, by the Earl of Leicester, to George Earl

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of Shrewsbury, then Earl Marshal, and by that means first brought into ELIZABETH the College. He died in June 16, 1591. His arms were Gules, three Arrows, Or, feathered and bearded Argent; being the same arms as the Baronet family of Hales, of Woodchurch in Kent, descended from a younger branch of this family, as are those of Breakesborne in the same county. There are no descendants remaining, either of York, or his brother Sir James.

March 16, 1592-3.-RALPH BROOKE, Esq.-See next reign.

SOMERSET.

Edw. VI.-EDMOND ATKYNSON, Esq.

Was a very useful servant of the Crown. In 1547, Edward VI. sent him to the Bishop of Westminster, then ambassador at the Imperial Court. He went the next year with letters, first to Sir Philip Hobby, ambassador to the same Monarch, afterwards into France. He carried the King's par don into the counties of Northampton and Buckingham, in 1549. In the same year he received a coat of arms (i. e. tabard) of damask. He attended on the Bishop of Ely, and Viscount Montague, ambassadors to the Papal Court, in the reign of Mary. She committed to his care the Duchess Dowager of Suffolk, when she had fallen under displeasure, on account of her openly deriding the Roman Catholic religion. This lady, fortunately for herself, retired with Mr. Bertie, who had married her, to the Continent, having eluded Somerset's vigilance. He died December 1, 1570. His arms were Argent, a Cross Fleury, between four Mullets, Sable. What peculiar situations was this herald placed in! Having the heraldic name of Somerset, he was nominated by the council to attend upon Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Protector; he became confidential to Mary; and remained faithful to Elizabeth.

1570-ROBERT FLOWER, Esq.

It is singular, that his name is not mentioned in any catalogue as an herald or pursuivant; yet it is certain he was Somerset herald, for in the Harleian Catalogue, No. 6063, is a deputation from William Flower, Esq. Norroy, to Robert Flower, Esq., Somerset, with full power to act in his room. It is dated in 1570, in which, or the following year, it is probable he died. No doubt he was a relation to Norroy. A a 2

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1571.-ROBERT GLOVER, Esq.

Son of Thomas Glover, of Ashford in Kent, the place of his nativity. The contempory provincial kings availed themselves of his skill and unwearied attention, by sending him to visit many of the counties in their Marches. Elizabeth permitted him to travel abroad for improvement. In 1582, he attended Lord Willoughby with the order of the Garter, to Frederick II. of Denmark. In 1584, he waited, with Clarenceux, on the Earl of Derby, with that order to the King of France. No one was a greater ornament to the College than this gentleman; the suavity of his manners was equal to his integrity and skill, he was a most excellent, and very learned man, with a knowlege in his professson which has never been exceeded, perhaps been paralleled; to this, the best writers of his own and future ages bear testimony. He left MS. genealogies of the nobility of this kingdom in Latin. His nephew, Mr. Thomas Milles, translated and published it, to "revive the name and learned memory of his deceased "friend and uncle, whose private studies for the public good deserved a "remembrance beyond forgetful time." It now is known by the name of "Milles' Titles of Honor." His answer to the Bishop of Ross' book, in which Mary Queen of Scots' claim to the Crown was asserted, was never published. He made great collections of what had been written by preceding heralds, and left of his own labors relative to arms, visitations of twenty-four counties, and miscellaneous matters belonging to this science, all written by himself. He assisted Camden in his pedigrees for his Britannia; communicated to Dr. David Powell, a copy of the history of Cambria, translated by H. Lloyd; made a collection of the inscriptions upon the funeral monuments in Kent; and, in 1584, drew up a most curious survey of Herewood Castle, in Yorkshire. Mr. Thoresby had his collection of the county of York taken in 1584, as Marshal to Flower, Norroy, as also his catalogue of Northern Gentry, whose surnames ended in son Somerset died in London, says Stow, April 14, (Lant and others, 10,) 1588, aged only forty-five years. His remains were deposited in St. Giles' church, Cripplegate. His loss was severely felt by all our lovers of English antiquities. How much more could he have done with his assiduity, had he lived to as great an age as Camden or Sir William Dugdale, when he did so much at so early an one? There cannot be a doubt, but that he would have become a provincial king, if not Garter, had he lived to an

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