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CHARLES II or even having given her a bad, or provoking word. Fortunately she dying April 1, 1668, it freed him from the ferocity of her son, Mr. Man-waring, who was near destroying him. He married his third wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Dugdale, Garter, November 3, in that year. She surviving him, died at Lambeth, in April, 1701. Mr. Ashmole is buried in the church of that place, where is this inscription to his memory:

"Hic jacet inclytus ille et cruditissimus ELIAS ASHMOLE, Liechfeldiensis, "Armiger, inter alia in Republica munera, Tributi in cervicias contra rotulator, fecialis autem Windsoriensis Titulo per Annos plurimos dignatus. Qui post duo connubia in Uxorem, duxit tertiam ELIZABETHAM, GULIELMI DUGDALE, "Militis, Garteri, Principalis Regis Armorum, Filiam. Mortem obiit 18 Maii, "1692, anno ætatis 76. Sed durante Museo Ashmoleano, Oxen. nunquain "moriturus."

This is upon a black marble slab, at the east end of the south aisle, on the north side. Near it is an achievement set up for him, bearing quarterly, Sable and Or, the first quarter on a Fleur-de-lis of the second; Ashmole impaling Dugdale, viz. Argent, a Cross Moline Gules, and a Torteaux; with this motto, " Ex una omnia.".

There are these engraved portraits of him, one inscribed Elias Ashmole, Mercuriophilus Anglicus, before his " Fasciculus Chemicus." A bust, quarto size, by Faithhorne, for which he was paid £7. There is a copy of this by Vandergucht, before his Antiquities of Berks, and a paltry one with the head of Lilly, the astrologer, prefixed to their lives, which are printed together, with that of Charles I. Svo.: it is by J. Lodge. In 1664, his portrait was drawn by Mr. le Neve in his tabard, and he sat for a second picture to Mr. Ryley. In the Ashmolean Museum are painted portraits of him, le Neve the painter, his friends Lilly and Selden, with several of the Tradescant family. He was, I believe, the first who collected engraved portraits. Wood says, " in his (Mr. Ashmole's "in library) he saw a thick paper book, near a yard long, containing on every side of the leaf two, three, or more pictures or faces of eminent persons in England, and elsewhere, printed from copper-cuts, pasted on "them, which Mr. Ashmole had with great curiosity collected. He re"membered his telling him, that his mind was so eager to obtain all faces, that when he could not get a face by itself, he would buy the book, tear it out, paste it in his blank book, and write under it from whence he had "taken

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"taken it. An admirable portrait this," says the author of the anecdotes CHARLES II.. of Mr. Bowyer, "of our modern portrait collectors, who have sent "back many a volume to the bookseller's shops, stripped of its engraved "honors. *The book of prints collected by Mr. Ashmole was con"sumed with the rest of his library.".

Oct. 22, 1676.-JOHN DUGDALE, Esq.-See next reign.

It may be here necessary to observe, that he obtained this place by the recommendation of his brother-in-law, Ashmole, though the pursuivants, Mess. Dethick and Sandford, offered Mr. Ashmole £300,if he would resign it in favor of either of them; but having agreed. with Mr. Dugdale, he moved the Earl Marshal that he might succeed. him, which that nobleman granted, April 17. It was not, however, carried. into execution, until the October following.

CHESTER.

THOMAS LEE, Esq..

A very skilful herald. He was as much beloved by Henry, Earl of Norwich, deputy Earl Marshal to his father, the Duke of Norfolk whom he afterwards succeeded, as he was disliked by Sir Edward Walker, Garter, upon whose death he had the offer of succeeding; but he declined it, owing to his ill health, desiring no other recompence for his assisting his lordship with his advice against Sir Edward, than the promise, that he would take care of his son-in-law, Mr. May, then Rouge-dragon, and of Mr. King, who afterwards succeeded to Mr. May, as that gentleman did to him at his death, which happened soon after, April 23, 1677.

THOMAS MAY, Esq.-See next reign.

Nominated April 24;-Patent, May 6,-Created, June 24, 1677.

* The same writer adds, "a most noted collector told a person at Cambridge, who now "and then sells a head, that his own collection must needs be large and good, as it rested on "six points: 1. I buy; 2. I borrow; 3. I beg; 4. I exchange; 5. I steal; 6. I sell." I am a s considerable collector of engraved portraits, but I content myself with buying and exchanging.. as I did when I collected coins and medals.

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YORK.

GEORGE OWEN, Esq.-Returned from Norroy.

Mr. Owen, York, had attended the Earl of Arundel in his expedition abroad in 1639; going with Charles I. to Oxford, he was created LL.D. swerving afterwards from his duty he was peculiarly busy in promoting the cause of the Parliament, which procured him the place of Norroy king at arms. At the Restoration he was reduced to his legal situation. He distinguished himself by his intrepidity at the Coronation of Charles II. The royal footmen having seized the canopy, which had been carried over his Majesty in going to, and returning from the Abbey, he rescued it from them, and delivered it to the barons of the Cinque-Ports, whose just perquisite it was, for this he was much commended, whilst the footmen for their ill-conduct, were dismissed. He surrendered his patent of York herald in 1663, and died in the county of Pembroke, May 13, 1665.* He left in MS. a history of Pembrokeshire. He married Rebecca, only daughter of Sir Thomas Darrell, of Lillingston, Knt. who when at Lincoln's Inn, was selected for his comeliness to conduct the splended masque given to their Majestics, Charles I. and his Queen, at the Banquetting-house at Whitehall, on Candlemas night in 1635, and a second time, by special direction of their Majesties, to Sir Ralph Freeman, Lord Mayor of London, at Merchant Taylors' Hall where the Sovereign, as a mark of his royal favor and approbation, honored him with knighthood. This loyal Knight died at his seat of Castle-Camps, in the county of Cambridge, April 2, 1669, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, we may justly suppose, rejoicing as much in the Restoration of his Sovereign, as this his sonin-law was otherwise affected. Mr. Owen, York's wife, survived him. Quere, What relation was York to George Owen, of Henley, in the county of Pembroke, Esq. who left a manuscript in 4to. of various circumstances respecting the principality of Wales.

* Mr. Brooke, Somerset's, papers; others say, 1666.

1663-JOHN

1663-JOHN WINGFIELD, Esq.

Surrendering his place December 22, 1674, he died in the King's
Bench, December 30, 1678, and was buried at St. George's church.

ROBERT DEVENISH, Esq.-See next reign.
Created on February 23, 1674-5.

CHARLESI.

Heralds.

SOMERSET.

Sir THOMAS St. GEORGE, Knight.-See Norroy.
By signet, July 1660.

1679-80.-FRANCIS BURGHILL, Esq.-See next reign.

RICHMOND.

Cha. I.-GEORGE MANWARING, Esq.

June 18, 1660.*-HENRY ST. GEORGE, Esq.-See Norroy.

April 30, 1677.-HENRY DETHICK, Esq.-See next reign.

LANCASTER.

Cha. 1.-WILLIAM RYLEY, Esq.-Returned from Clarenceux.

Mr. Ryley was a native of Lancashire, and was one of Sir John Burrough's deputies, in his office of keeper or clerk of the rolls and records in the Tower, and was the occasion, no doubt, of his entrance into the College of Arms. There is a petition of his, as clerk of the records of the Tower, taken from an original, very fairly written upon vellum, addressed to the Lords and Commons, given in Peck's "Desiderata "Curiosa," which he borrowed from the MS. collections of John Nalson, LL.D. It was read August 11, 1648. In it "he solicits an increase of salary, because he had attended the service of the Parliament, relative "to the records, as he had been commanded, for seven years, without any consideration having been had for his pains, or family, which was

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CHARLESII. « numerous, whereby he was become extremely indebted, and grown "into deep poverty, as well in relation to his own subsistence, as to that "of the office, in the breeding and maintenance of clerks necessary for "the attendance of that place, which could not be longer useful than "was so supplied; he therefore prayed their honors taking into their "remembrance his study for twenty-four years in that office, the better "to enable him for their service, that they would please to take his "pains and charge, during these unhappy troubles, into their grave "considerations." What particular redress he obtained does not appear; but in Thurloe's State Papers we see, that he was paid by the Protector, Oliver, £100. a year salary, as clerk of the records in the Tower. He wrote to the secretary Thurloe, April 19, 1654, saying, that he was told by a gentleman of worth, there was an ordinance "to be drawn up for the improvement of the forests, and that the act for "the sale of them was declined; he therefore observes, that he might with "a clear conscience, and assured confidence affirm, that he had cordially "served his Highness, the Lord Protector, and the States, in all trusts reposed in him, and more particularly in the weighty business "of the forests, whereof his Highness hath had some special testimony, and "for which he had such great esteem with the committee of inspections, "and others before them, as likewise with the trustees for the sale of the "forests, as to merit an employment of agency under them, which he did "not decline, being most willing, with his best skill, to serve his Highness and the State: but knowing his place of Norroy king of arms to be an office of quality, though not of profit, and the agency "far inferior to that, amounting but to the degree of solicitor at most, in which employment he took great pains, was at much charges, but "had no recompence attached to it, and likewise noticing the declension "of some of the trustees in the execution of the forest business, in "which he humbly conceived he had, by his knowledge and long

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