CHARLESII. Garter. GARTER, PRINCIPAL KING AT ARMS. Cha. 1.-Sir EDWARD WALKER, Knight. Restored with his royal Master, who, by a signet, signed at Whitehall, in October 1662, gave this truly loyal Garter £50. per annum, as an augmentation to his salary. Sir Edward Walker was son of Edward Walker, of Roobers, in Netherstowey in Somersetshire, Gent. by Barbara, daughter of Edward Salkerid, of Corby-Castle in Cumberland, Esq. John Walker, Garters' grandfather, was son of Edward, second son of Humphry Walker, of Staffordshire, Esq. Garter, originally a domestic servant to the Earl of Arundel, was appointed by him secretary at war, in the expedition into Scotland in 1639. There is little doubt but that his father's being a roman catholic recommended him to that nobleman's notice. From this peer's service it is easy to suppose he went into that of the Sovereign, because he had shewn himself equally faithful and dexterous. Charles I. gave him the same post, to which, in June 1614, he added that of clerk extraordinary of the Privy Council. He steadily adhered to the King in all his misfortunes. After the battle of Cropredy-Bridge, in 1644, being desired to wait upon Sir William Waller, one of the parliament generals, with a message of grace, he requested that a trumpet might first be sent for a pass, because "the barbarity of that people was notorious, "so that they regarded not the law of arms or of nations." Garter's precaution was judicious, the trumpeter being sent back with the most marked contempt. Whilst he remained at Oxford with his Majesty, the University -conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts, November 1, 1644. He received the honor of knighthood, February 2, 1644-5, in that city. In 1648, he sent a letter to the Parliament, during the conference for peace, requesting more persons might be permitted to attend upon the King; but the House declined doing any thing in it, unless his Majesty, or their commissioners, wrote for that purpose. As he had been true to the father, so he was equally faithful to the son, whose court he joined at Brussels. He attended his royal Master into Scotland, in 1651: the rigid, sour covenanters of that kingdom, however, however, refused their permission for him to come near the person of his Sovereign. After the unfortunate event of that expedition, and Charles' subsequent escape to the Continent, he again joined the exiled Monarch, serving him in the same capacities he had the late King. He was so odious to the Commonwealth and the Protectors, that he was accounted, on this side the Channel, "a pernicious man." His abilities, and the office he filled, made him so great an object of jealousy, that he had spies placed over his conduct. From these wretches we learn, that June 26, 1654, he was at Amsterdam, probably upon some public service: in 1656, he was at Bergen, within six leagues of Calais, mustering the King's little army which did not amount to 700 men. These, however, were with difficulty kept together, mutinies happening every day; nor can it be wondered at, the privates having only four, the gentlemen no more than six stivers a day. As Garter, we must suppose he had not much employment during the Usurpation; but as the only herald in Charles' little court he was sometimes applied to as such. In 1658, he granted an honorable augmentation to the arms of Stephen Fox, Esq. afterwards, knighted: Sir Stephen is well known for his distinguished abilities as a statesman, for his longevity, and as progenitor of the Fox', Earls of Ilchester and Barons Holland. At the Restoration he received the reward of his distinguished loyalty. He died suddenly, at Whitehall, February 19, 1676-7, deservedly lamented as a man of tried integrity and very considerable abilities. He published " Iter Carolinum, being a succinct account of "the necessitated marches, retreats, and sufferings of his Majesty, King Charles I., from January 10, 1641, to the time of his death in "1648, collected by a daily attendant upon his sacred Majesty during "all that time." His " Military Discoveries" were printed in 1705, in folio. He assisted Lord Clarendon in that part of his History of the Rebellion which relates to military transactions. He was buried in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin, in Stratford upon Avon church. Against the east wall is this inscription: "M. 'S. " EDWARDI WALKER, Equ. Aurati, ex antiqua ejusdem nominis stirpe (de` "Casterne in agro Staff.) oriundi; Qui per omnes Curiæ Heraldicæ, gradus ascendens, CHARLESII. Garter. CHARLESII. ascendens, in principalem Regem Armorum Anglicanum titulo Garter, merito Garter. "tandem evectus est; serviente nuper civili incendio a Secretis Belli Regi Carolo "Primo.-Carolo deinde Secundo ad interioribus Conciliis, Clericus fideliter inserviit: Uxorem Agnetem Joh. Reeve, de Bookern, S. Th. D. in com. Surr. filiam, juxta huic tumulatam duxit; equa filiam unicam suscepit, Barbaram, quain "Johanni Clopton, Equ. Aurato nuptui dedit; obiit xx Febr. Anno Domini, “M,DC,LXXVI. ætatis LXV.” Provincial Clarenceux. The arms upon the monument are, first and fourth, Argent, on a Cross of England, Or, St. George, Gules, five Leopards' Faces, Or; second and third, Argent, a Chevron between three Crescents, Sable: impaling, Azure, a Cross of Lozenges, Ermine. The first bearing was an augmentation granted to him. He used for a crest, a Wheatsheaf, issuing out of a crown of a king at arms, supported by a white lion and a red dragon, allusive to his offices of Blanch-lion, Rouge-dragon, and Chester, previous to his promotion of Garter's place. These are painted in a window at Clopton, with the motto, " Loyaulte mon honneur." There is a large coarse engraving of him writing upon a drum, Charles I. dictating. This is before his "Historical Discourses." There is a small 8vo. portrait of him. Sir John Clopton, Knt. Garter's son-in-law, died April 18, 1719, aged eighty. Lady Clopton, his daughter, December 10, 1692, aged forty-seven. They are buried with the Cloptons, in Stratford church. Their issue was six sons and four daughters, Edward, John, Hugh, John, William, Charles, Agnes, Barbara, Elizabeth, and Jocosa. The eldest, Edward, was baptized in Garter's lodgings in the College of Arms, by Dr. John Earles, Lord Bishop of Salisbury, October 26, 1663. John, the second son, born January 8, 1664, was baptized in St. Bennet's church, Paul's Wharf. May 26, 1677.-Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE, Knight.-See next reign. PROVINCIAL KINGS. CLARENCEUX. Cha. 1. Sir WILLIAM LE NEVE, Knight. Descended from a very ancient and respectable family of the Neves, originally of France, and as it had been written with the article le, he adopted it. He was born at Aslacton, near Ashwell-Thorp, in Norfolk, and educated at Caius College, Cambridge. Being greatly recommended as Provincial Kings. Clarenceux. as a person of worth, amiable manners, great skill in heraldic pursuits, CHARLES II. education, fortune, and gentility, he was created Mowbray herald extraordinary to forward his promotion in the College. In 1625, he attended the embassy extraordinary to the court of France, when Sir Thomas Edmonds went thither, relative to the union of his Sovereign with the princess Henrietta Maria, daughter of the late Henry IV. He had allowed him for his tabard eight yards of purple colored damask, and two yards of the same colored velvet, to guard it. He had for his diet. 6s. 8d. per diem, and the same sum for bounty, with the charges of transportation and postage for himself and two servants. In 1633, he went with his Majesty to Scotland, to assist at his coronation in that kingdom. He was knighted upon St. George's day at Whitehall, in 1634. He accompanied the Earl of Arundel, in 1639, when he went to the Continent. The civil war breaking out, he was in his Majesty's suit when the sword was first drawn at the battle of Kineton, or Edgehill, in Warwickshire : previous to which he proclaimed pardon to the Parliament army, if they would lay down their arms: but Lord Clarendon remarks,“ he did it "with great marks of fear, having a feeling sense of danger." Duty overcoming timidity, during the course of the unhappy disgraceful war, he several times, in his tabard, preceded by a trumpeter, summoned garrisons, and upon their refusing to surrender, declared them traitors, at the great and eminent risk of his life. Being with his Majesty at Oxford, that university honored him, November 1, 1642, with the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws. In 1646, the Parliament not only deprived him of his office of Clarenceux, but seized his estate, sequestering it until they had obtained £523. 16s. 8d. a sum at that time of great amount. Fear, anxiety, grief for the misfortune of his Sovereign, and his own private ones, conspired to deprive him of reason. By an inquisition taken October 2, 1658, he was adjudged insane: in March 1660, by another inquisition it was found that he still continued so. The Restoration happening two months after, his Majesty gave his place to the deposed Garter, Bysshe, conditionally that he allowed so much towards the maintenance of the unhappy lunatic: but as he was legally invested with it for life, it could only be excused from the distracted state of the times. The care of his person, in August following, was given to Robert le Neve and Catherine le Neve. He survived the return of the monarchical form of government, Provincial CHARLESII. government, for which he had undergone so much, but a little more than a year; but as he always remained in the same deplorable state, he was incapable of joining the general joy that event diffused throughout Clarenceur. the kingdom. the kingdom. Dying at a house fitted up for the reception of maniacs at Hogsden, now Hoxton, his body was conveyed to the church of St. Bennet's, Paul's Wharf, and buried there, August 15, 1661. His deranged faculties were a public misfortune. Most of his collections came into the possession of Sir Edward Walker, Garter; some of them he gave to the College, others he left to Sir John Clopton, who married his daughter and heir. Sir EDWARD BYSSHE, Knight. This king at arms had no small vanity, pretending that he, and six others, his ancestors, were not only Lords of Burstow, in Surrey, but of many other lands in the same county, as well as of the manor of Byshecourt, between Burstow and Smalfield: it is however, supposed that his grandfather was only a miller. His father was Edward Bysshe, of Burstow in Surrey, and a bencher of Lincoln's-Inn. He practised much in the Court of Wards, by which he obtained a very considerable fortune. He erected the seat of Smalfield, in the parish of Burstow, where Clarenceux was born, which he jestingly called Woodcocks'-heads. Camden, October 1, 1617, granted him arms; but this circumstance was suppressed in Morgan's Gifts of Camden, printed in the Sphere of Gentry. In 1634, being the next visitation held in that province, the pedigree was carried up three descents higher, and several marriages were inserted. The mother of Clarenceux was Mary, daughter of John Turner, of Ham, in Blechingley, Esq. Sir Edward became a commoner of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1633, being then eighteen years old: from thence he removed to Lincoln's-Inn, before he had taken a degree in the university. He became a barrister, and mixed with the busy scene that distracted the kingdom. Declaring for the Parliament, he was returned a member of the House of Commons for Blechingley, and having taken the popular side, he was, on the 23d November, 1640, appointed one of the committee to consider of the proceedings and powers of the court of the High Constable and Earl Marshal, and of the fees of the heralds, which committee passed their report the 29th of that month, that the court of the |