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"in presence of the nobility, the officers of state, and other great men, "after a suitable sermon preached in the Royal Chapel, and his crown was "of the same form with the imperial crown of the kingdom. On solemn " occasions he wears the regalia above described; at all other times he wears the oval gold medal, or badge, on his breast, suspended by a broad ribbon. He has the absolute disposal of all the offices in his own court, and of the heralds and pursuivants' places. The messengers at "arms throughout Scotland are also created by him, and are amenable to "his jurisdiction; and the powers vested in him by his commission are the same with those of the Sovereign, in all matters relative to the marks of gentility." In point of literature the Scotch College has been very defective, if we except Sir David Lindsay, Lion, the contemporary of Sir Thomas Wrythe, Sir Thomas Wall, and Sir Christopher Barker, Garters, a wit and a poet, but who, in his acrimony towards the Romish clergy, was extremely indecent. He died in 1553, deprived of all his other honorable and lucrative employments. He had more wit than discretion, more fire than judgment, more learning than propriety of conduct: he was more admired than esteemed; hated in prosperity, and unpitied in disgrace. His poems are printed in one small volume, and the fragments of his plays in MS. are in the collection of Mr. William Carmichael. There are in Scotland six heralds: Albany, Rothsay, Snowdown, Marchmont, Yla, and Ross; and Unicorn, Kintire, Bute, Dingwell, Ormond, and Carrick, pursuivants.

ANN.

GARTER, PRINCIPAL KING AT ARMS.

Ja. 11.-Sir THOMAS ST. GEORGE, Knight.

Eldest son of Henry St. George, Garter, and grandson of Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux. He had been long a member of the College. Charles II. sent him, in 1669, with Somerset, Garter Walker's deputy, as assistants to Sir Thomas Higgons, when he presented the ensigns of the Order of St. George to John-George, Duke of Saxony. Probably that Prince presented him with the sword which he wore at his investment; for with it, upon his return, his own Sovereign knighted him. His patent is said to have been not as extending to the term of his life, but only " during good behaviour," having the power of revocation. Sir Thomas was

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Garter.

ANN.

Garter.

more than seventy when he received it. In the year 1690, the Elector of Brandenburgh having been elected a knight companion of the Garter, pleading the infirmities of age, and urging the impropriety of being absent whilst the Parliament was sitting, he was allowed to appoint a deputy; yet in the following year, being then seventy-six, as King William declared his intention of personally presenting the Order to the Duke of Zell, he thought his duty demanded his accompanying his Sovereign. Going, therefore, he invested that Prince in his bedchamber with the Garter and George, being assisted by the Dukes of Norfolk and Ormond, with the Earl of Devonshire. Mr. King tells us, he carried the habit of the Order, which the Duke of Zell" essayed" to put on, but without any ceremony. Sir Thomas received sixteen medals of gold, valued £380, and seventy-three guineas, as a composition for the habit. Lancaster had eight such medals, valued about £148. The Secretary had fifty guineas; the footmen five guineas each. He was allowed by his Majesty forty shillings per diem for his expenses, whilst absent. Two years after the Garter being ordered to be delivered to the Duke of Saxony, " as he had been a year a widower, and "was engaged in a new amour," he declined going, especially, as he foresaw it would be a winter journey, and knew the length of the way, having had the honor to deliver the Order to that Duke's grandfather: Mr. King, Lancaster, was therefore constituted his deputy. Surviving several years, he died more esteemed as a good, and more respected as an elegant man, than praised for his knowledge in those studies, which had given such celebrity to the reputation of his predecessor, Sir William Dugdale. He was buried in the church-yard of Woodford in Kent, March 11, 1702-3. Over his remains was erected an altar tomb, inscribed :

"Here lyeth the body of Sir THOMAS ST. GEORGE, Knight, Garter prin"cipal king of armes, who died the sixth day of March, 1702-3, in the 87th year of his age, and was buried the 11th day of the same. He married to his second "wife, Anne, daughter of Sir John Lawson, Knight."

At the head of the tomb are the arms of Sir Thomas, with the augmentation of the royal arms of Sweden, empaling, per Pale, a Chevron counterchanged; above, is the Crest.

Sir Thomas' first wife was Clara, daughter of the Rev. John Pymlow, rector of Cliff, in the county of Northampton. She was buried t Wood

ford,

ford, November 14, 1691. By her he had three sons and three daughters.
1. Thomas St. George, Esq., who, by Damaris, daughter and coheir of
Robert Renter, of London, who fined for Alderman, had Eleanor, an only
child, heir to both him and her grandfather; she married Thomas Dare, of
Tainton in Somersetshire, Gent. and left by him two children, Thomas and
Clara. 2. William. 3. George, who both died young. 4. Eleanor, mar-
ried to Thomas Coote, of Cootehill in the county of Caven, Esq., third son
of Richard, Lord Coote, of Coloony, and brother to Richard Earl of Bel-
lamont. 5. Rebecca; and 6. Clara. Garter, by his second marriage, had
one daughter, Isabella, born and baptized September 4, 1693, at St. Ben-
net's Church, Paul's Wharf, at which time he must have been about seventy
eight years old, and yet lived to see her nine years of age. Garter's widow
and relict died Febr. 7, 1720-1.

Sir HENRY ST. GEORGE, Knight.-See next reign.
Created April 26, 1703.-Patent June 2, following.

ANN.

Garter.

CLARENCEU X.

Cha. 11.-Sir HENRY ST. GEORGE, Knight.-See Garter. March 29, 1704.-Sir JOHN VANBRUGH, Knight.-See next reign.

NORRO Y.

Will. 111.-ROBERT DEVENISH, Esq.

Nephew to Sir Thomas and Sir Henry St. George, Garters in succession. He was Registrar of the College of Arms, until removed by the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, in favor of Mr. King, Rouge-dragon, afterwards Lancaster. Dying April 7,1704, aged 66 years, he was buried at Mortlake in Surrey. Over the west gallery in that church is a monument erected to his memory, the inscription upon which, shewing his marriage and issue, is here transcribed:

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"In memory of her affectionate parents, ROBERT DEVENISH, Esq. late Nor"roy king at arms, who died April 7, 1704, and of ELIZABETH his wife, eldest daughter of George Tucker, of Milton, in the county of Kent, Esq. who died "May 15, 1701, this monument is erected by Mary, their eldest daughter, and "now surviving child, and in memory also of her endearing, and intirely beloved

"sister,

Clarenceux.

Norroy.

ANN.

Norroy.

"sister, Elizabeth, who died May 25, 1717, whose bodies are interred near this "place."

May 25, 1704.-PETER LE NEVE, Esq.-See next reign.

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Descended from Sir Gilbert and Sir William Dethicks, successively Garters. He was the last person of his family who had a place in the College of Arms, after having occupied several for no less a space than two centuries. It was a great detriment to him to have been appointed an officer in it during the Usurpation, and at a time when his family had been peculiarly disaffected to a monarchical form of government. He died the oldest member of the heraldic body. Like many others of his family he was peculiarly partial to Poplar, in Stepney parish, where he died in June 1707, aged 84. He was buried there with his relatives on the 19th of that month. Richmond married Susanna, daughter of Henry Hall, of Poplar, merchant, whom he left his widow, in very distressed circumstances. They had no less than fourteen children, eight sons and six daughters. 1. Henry. 2. Thomas,

2. Thomas, baptized June 2, 1661, at St. Bennet's, Paul's Wharf. 3. Thomas. 4. Thomas; all of whom died young. 5. Gilbert Dethick, fellow of King's College, in Cambridge. 6. Thomas Dethick, living, and aged 24, in 1692; 7. Henry Dethick, living, and aged 18, in 1692. 8. George, died young. 9. Elizabeth. 10. Susanna. 11. Ann, baptized June 24, 1663, at St. Bennet's, Paul's Wharf; she died young. 12. Mary. 13. Thomasine; and 14. Ann. All these daughters, except the first, Ann, were living, and unmarried, in 1692. As the Dethicks were much connected with Doctors' Commons, I think it is probable, that it was one of Richmond's surviving sons, who was the Mr. Dethick, one of the senior Proctors of the Commons, that, at the age of 70, married, in September 1735, a young woman of the Mitre Coffee-house, Doctors' Commons, aged about 23 years. No very prudent alliance. Being the last of the name and family, he married to prevent their becoming extinct. It is singular, that from the birth of Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter, to the death of Henry Dethick, Richmond, his great grandson, was 207 years; great instances of longevity. Richmond, born in the reign of James I. saw the Usurpation, the Restoration, and the Revolution: swore fidelity to the Parliament, under Charles I. the Commonwealth, Oliver and Richard Protectors, Charles II. James IL.. William and Mary, and Ann !!!*

1707.-PETER LE NEVE, Esq.-See Norroy.

JOHN HARE, Esq.-See next reign.

LANCASTER.

Will. 111.-GREGORY KING, Esq.

Grandson of John King, a native of Leicester, who settling at Lichfield, had born there two sons, Gregory and Thomas. Gregory, the father of the Herald, also settled at Lichfield. His father left him "a fair house,

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garden, and orchard, without the north gate of that ancient borough," which he, an improvident man, disposed of in 1648. He married twice; first Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. J. Andrews, of Sandwich, in Kent, January 20, 1647-8. She died in April 1667. His second wife was Mar

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* There was a Mr. Dethick a gentleman of the Privy Chamber of Charles II. in 1679. Mr. Skippon in his Travels in 1663, mentions Mr. Thomas Dethick resident at Leghorn, as one of his merchants, i. e. bankers. The Mr. Dethick mentioned above as a proctor, was Mr. Henry Dethick a procurator general exercent in the Arches Court of Canterbury.

ANN.

Heralds.

Richmond

Lancaster.

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