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Portcullis, told the late Mr. Brooke, Somerset, that he was like a satyr, GEORGE II. both in person and manners: the former is evident from a mezzotinto por- Pursuivants. trait of him in a kit-cat size, representing him in a Russian dress. Mr. Townley had an impression of this plate. He sat for the portrait of the Friar in Hogarth's print of the Gates of Calais. As it produced him the name of Friar Pine, he was hurt that he had complied with Hogarth's solicitations. Mr. Pine, the eminent portrait painter, was his son.

Mach, 1757.-RALPH BIGLAND, Gent.-See Somerset.

Dec. 1752.-JOHN WARD, Esq.-See next reign.

ROUGE-DRAGON.

Geo. 1.-ARTHUR SHEPHERD, Gent.

Secretary to the Earl Marshal, and Registrar of the College; and was near fifty years Deputy Secretary of the Excise. He died March 2,

1755-6.

1756.-HENRY HILL, Gent.-See Windsor.

May 23, 1758.-THOMAS SHERIFF, Gent.—See next reign.
Jan. 1745-6.-PETER TOMS, Gent.-See next reign.

HERALD S EXTRAORDINARY.

MOWBRAY.

Geo. 1.-JOHN DUGDALE, Esq.

Only son of William Dugdale, Esq. grandson of Norroy, and great grandson of Garter. He never rose to be an Herald in ordinary. He was buried at Shustock, August 7, 1749. In the chancel is a very handsome pyramidal monument, which has, beneath a sacrophagus of black marble, this inscription:

"Beneath lye deposited

"The body of JOHN DUGDALE, of Blyth-Hall, Esq.

"And Mary his wife. "She was sole daughter

" Of

Rouge-dragon

Heralds

Extraor

dinary.

Mowbray.

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Being the last male of Sir William Dugdale's descendants, he devised by will the seat of Blyth-Hall, with the estate, to Richard Guest, Esq. the son of Richard Guest, Gent. by Jane his sister, who out of respect to Garter Dugdale's memory, has lately obtained his Majesty's permission to assume the surname and arms of the great Antiquary, his maternal ancestor. His eldest son, and heir-apparent, Dugdale-Stratford Dugdale, Esq. of Merevale, in the county of Warwick, is married to the Honorable Charlotte, youngest daughter of Lord Curzon. I am indebted for extracts from the parish register of Shustock, and monumental inscriptions in that church relative to the Dugdale's family, to my respected friend the Rev. Thomas Blyth, rector of Elmdon, and vicar of Packwood in Warwickshire.

Arundel.

ARUNDEL.

1735.-FRANCIS HUTCHENSON, Esq. -See Chester.

Patent July-Creation Sept.

JOHN CHEALE, Esq.

THOMAS BEWES, Esq. -See next reigu.

Officers, &c. of the Bath.

OFFICERS BELONGING TO THE ORDER OF THE BATH, BATH AND GLOUCESTER KINGS AT ARMS, AND HANOVER HERALD.

Bath, &c.

Geo. 1.-Honorable GREY LONGUEVILLE,

Seated at Shidlington in Bedfordshire, descended from Grey Longueville of that place, Esq. second son of Sir Michael Longueville, who

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Officers, &c.

married Susan, daughter of Charles, and sister and heir of Henry Grey, GEORGE II. Earls of Kent. His town residence was in Queen-Square, Westminster. He was very greatly esteemed, having had several important places. He of the Bath. was a teller of the Exchequer, and paymaster of the forces at Minorca. Having a taste for literature, he was elected member of the Society of Antiquaries, July 28, 1725. He attended, as Bath King at Arms, the funeral of Queen Caroline. His death happened September 29, 1745. Oct. 1745.-Honorable EDWARD YOUNG.

WILLIAM WOODLEY, Esq.

Jan. 4, 1757.-SAMUEL HORSEY, Esq.-See next reign.

GENTLEMAN USHER OF THE RED ROD, AND
BRUNSWICK HERALD.

Geo. 1.-EDMUND SAWYER, Esq.

CHARLES FREWIN, Esq.-See next reign.

Gentleman

Usher of Red
Rod, and
Brunswick.

GENEALOGIST, AND BLANC COURSIER HERALD.

Geo. 1.-JOHN ANSTIS, Jun. Esq. LL.D. F. A. S. and
Garter principal King at Arms.

SACKVILLE FOXx, Esq.-See next reign.

The other officers were, REGISTRARS, Edward Young, Esq., afterwards Bath, and Gloucester King at Arms and Hanover Herald; Charles Newton, Esq. and Colonel Cokayne. SECRETARY, Sir John Jenoure, Bart. MESSENGERS, Mr. Booth and Mr. Henry Foulkes,

Genealogist,

&c.

GEORGE III.

Acceded October 25, 1760.

GEORGE III.

No Sovereign ever ascended the throne with a more general joy than his present Majesty: all hailed a native Monarch. The Heraldic Body, as usual, joined in the procession to proclaim the death of the late, and the accession of the present Sovereign. As the King was a bachelor, the coronation was postponed until he chose to unite himself to a princess, that Britain might have a double happiness. When an arrangement had taken place, on Monday, July 13, 1761, of the deputy Earl Marshal, Thomas Howard, Earl of Effingham, officiating for the Duke of Norfolk, in compliance with his Majesty's order in council, commissioned the Heralds to make proclamation of the intended coronation, and of the first meeting to be held of the Court of Claims, at the usual time and places, and with the accustomed solemnity. The manner was this: Between eleven and twelve o'clock, the Officers at Arms, Sergeants at Arms, and others, mounting their horses, the trumpets thrice sounding at Westminster-Hall-Gate, Henry Hill, Esq. Windsor Herald, read his Majesty's proclamation aloud. The procession then began to move to Temple-Bar, where the constables of the city and liberty of Westminster were replaced by those of the inetropolis, the City Marshal attending. The cavalcade proceeded in this order:

party of Constables, with their staves, to clear the way.
The High-Constable of Westminster with his staff.

Knight Marshal's-men, two and two.
Trumpets, two and two.

Serjeant-Trumpeter in his collar, bearing his mace.
Henry Pujolas, Gent. Blue-Mantle, and Thomas Sherif, Esq. Rouge-dragon.
Pursuivants, in their tabards of his Majesty's Arms.

Henry Henry Hastings, Gent., Rouge-croix, in his tabard, having a Serjeant at Arms

on his left hand.

Thomas Brown, Esq. Lancaster, in his tabard and collar, having a Serjeant at Arms

on his left hand.

Serjeant at Arms.-Henry Hill, Esq. Windsor, in his tabard and collar.-Serjeant at Arms.

A party of Constables closing the procession.

At the bottom of Chancery-lane, Lancaster made proclamation, as he did in Cheapside. At the Royal Exchange, Rouge-croix performed the ceremony in Change time, which being ended, the people demonstrated their joy with loud plaudits, constantly crying, "Long live the King." The Lord Mayor of London gave an invitation to the Officers at Arms to dine at the Mansion-house, where they were entertained in a most elegant and polite manner.

The coronation was so much like the preceding ones, that it is unnecessary to particularize the ceremonial, especially as the whole has been engraven, and adorns the portfolios of our collectors in the graphic

line.*

At the royal marriage, a ceremony which Britain had not noticed for a century, the officers in the College attended, but neither Lion, nor Ulster, nor any of the English heralds or pursuivants extraordinary, though all had assisted at the coronation of the late and of his present Majesty. As to the heralds or pursuivants of Scotland, or Athlone pursuivant of Ireland, they have never been joined with the members of the English College in any procession. We have had, in this reign, several interviews with foreign poten

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* In the newspapers at this time was advertised, "The History of the Coronation of King "James II. and of his royal consort, Q. Mary, with an exact account of the preparations in order "thereunto: their Majesties most splendid processions, and their royal and magnificent feast in "Wesminster Hall: and of the claims that were, and of those that were not allowed. By Francis "Sandford, Esq. Lancaster herald at arms." They were to be had of Daniel Browne, bookseller, without Temple-Bar, price three guineas, bound. The copies on extraordinary large fine thick paper were four guineas each, also bound. They contained thirty-one large copper-plates, "curi"ously engraved after the life." Many certainly are portraits. At the same place were to be had, "The Ceremonies observed in the Coronations of the Kings and Queens of England, with "all the Particulars relating thereto; and a large Copper-plate of the Procession, and another " of the Champion's Ceremony, 4to. price 2s 6d." Others came out, shewing the Coronation of their PRESENT MAJESTIES.

GEORGE III.

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