Garter. home or abroad, he had allowed him 6s. 8d. per diem, and his expenses for himself and two servants borne besides. Various sums are noticed as paid to him. On his return from Ireland he received twenty marcs; the same sum when he returned from Germany and Bretagne; and upon his coming home from an hasty and special commission to Calais, Guisnes, and other places, he received £100. These sums, with the perquisites of his office in the College, as an officer to the knights-companions of the order of the Garter, must have greatly enriched him; and he appears to have prudently used his wealth, keeping the due, but difficult medium, between profusion and penuriousness. Created Jan. 26, 1505-6.--Sir THOMAS WRYTHE, Knt.-See next reign. Provincial Clarenceux. PROVINCIAL KINGS AT ARMS. CLARENCEUX. Edw. IV. Sir THOMAS HOLME, Knt. He was appointed by Henry VII., in the second year of his reign. Ilis Majesty highly trusted him. He was sent seven times to Philip Duke of Burgundy, five to Charles, his son, and twice to the Duke of Bretagne: for his services, Henry granted him an annuity of £20, out of the customs, and subsidies of Exeter and Dartmouth; also £20, issuing from the lordship of Walden in Essex. He died in 1493. By his will, dated in that year, he bequeathed to his wife a considerable property, nominated her executrix, and directed that she should perform her former trust. She was Christian, widow and executrix of John Garland. This king at arms bore for his arms Or, three Bars Azure: on a Canton Argent, a Chaplet Gules. Lant says, from his poverty, he became one of the poor knights of Windsor, 22 Edw. IV.; a just judgment upon him for going from Falcon pursuivant extraordinary, over the heads of eight or nine heralds and pursuivants. If he was poor in the reign of Edward, he was rich in that of Henry. CLARENCEUX, otherwise called RICHMOND. MARCH. HEN. VII. Provincial MARCH. Edw. IV.-WILLIAM BALLARD, Esq. He was the son of Thomas Ballard his mother was the daughter of Thomas Walch. He left a book of the genealogies of the gentry within his province. It cannot properly be called a visitation, because it was done prior to any order or commission of that kind; but it might give rise to the custom of the heralds going visitations. In him the office of March expired; this province, consisting of Wales, Cheshire, Devon, and Cornwall, was divided between the other provincial kings at arms. It is singular, that Lant does not mention him as a king, only putting him down as an herald in the reign of Edward IV. He neither specifies what offices he bore, previous to his being an herald, nor gives his baptismal name, nor his arms. Kings at March. NORROY, otherwise called RICHMOND. (Probably) 1485.-ROGER MACHADO, Esq.-See Clarenceux, alias Richmond. Upon the accession of Henry VII., the same plan was adopted as had been used by the two last Sovereigns, Edward and Richard, by creating king of arms, with the same title the monarch had used when a subject. To effect this, Henry wholly suppressed that of Gloucester, and also incorporated that of Norroy with what had been his province. He was the better able to effect this, because Champney, Gloucester, either resigned, or was deprived, and More, Norroy, fell so greatly under the royal displeasure, that he was excepted out of the statute of resumptions, passed in the first year of this reign. I suspect that Gloucester and Norroy had attendedRichard III, to Bosworth: perhaps had proclaimed Henry a traitor. Whilst Machado retained this office, he wrote himself Richmond king at arms, or Richmond Norroy: when he left this place it resumed its name of Norroy only. NORRO Y. 1493. CHRISTOPHER CARHILL, Esq.-See next reign. HERALDS. Norroy. HEN. VII. Heralds. Windsor. " HERALD S. WINDSOR. Edw. IV. RICHARD SLACKE, Esq. He was sent in his tabard, bearing the arms of England and France, August 25, 1485, to deliver a message to the lord-mayor of York, and his brethren, that Richard had fallen, and Henry been proclaimed.. Though the city of York lamented the death of King Richard, late lawfully reigning over them, yet when Henry's herald came there, they ordered the ceremonial of proclaiming him on the 25th of August, only three days after the battle of Bosworth. The proclamation was "delivered unto the mayre and his brethere by one of the King's herolds, called Wyndsore, "in the counsail chambre, having upon hym a cote armor of the armes of England and Fraunce; which herold shewed unto the mayre, by mouthe, "that the King's grace grete him and bredre wele, and would be as good "and gracious Lord unto this city, as any of his progenitours were before "him; with othyr much wordes of comforth: wherefore he desired hym, "on the King's behalve, to make a proclamation," in the words still extant in the records of the city, by which it was wisely forbidden to injure those who had been sent from York to assist Richard, and were now returning home. It also specified, that “ Richard, Duc of Gloucestre, late "callid King Richard, had been slayne at a place called Sandeford, "within the shyre of Leicestre, and brought dede of the feld unto "the towne of Leicestre, and ther was laide oppenly, that every man might se and luke upon him;" mentioning, also, the noblemen and gentlemen killed with their Sovereign. Amongst the former, it mistakenly gives "Thomas late Erle of Surrey," who, taken after the battle, became a prisoner, but at length being pardoned, was allowed the honors of his father, the Duke of Norfolk, who was numbered with the slain. He, and Robert Rawdon, Gent. one of the King's sergeants, were directed to attack Dr. Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and Sir Richard Ratcliff, knight, bring them to his highness, and seize all their moveables. The former, however, obtained leave to remain four or five days at " Mas « ter "ter Neleson Place in York, for his ease and rest.”* For this service he had six marcs and four angels given him. October 14, following, he received, at the Exchequer, £20 more, as a reward for his fidelity and the propriety of his conduct. Previous to his being sent to France he received the same sum in the Michaelmas term. He was so much in the royal favor, that Henry gave him a splendid donation towards purchasing his wedding clothes, and received also a grant, November 18, 1486, of twenty marcs, to be paid him annually as long as he lived. In 1498, his Majesty gave him the custody of Clarendon Park, in Warwickshire, also for life. His death happened in May, 1502. By his will he bequeathed his crimson velvet gown and doublet of cloth of gold to be distributed amongst the priests of St. Dunstan, in Flect-street, where he desired to be buried, before the image of our Lady St. Catherine. He left bequests to St. Mawdelyn, in Old Fish-street, London, of which he was a parishioner. To Sir William St. Maure (Seymour) his best horse and best saddle. He appointed his wife residuary legatee, desiring her to dispose of his property to the pleasure of God, and the good of his soul, as she should think meet. She is named executrix, and Richard Dykons, Gent. executor, and Sir William St Maure, knight, supervisor of his will. He bore Azure a Cross formè, extending to the extremities of the shield. The Chief and Dexter Bars Ermine, the Base and Sinister, Or. Upon the centre a Lozenge girony, countercharged of the same colors. Lant's Roll makes him originally Comfort pursuivant extraordinary, afterward Rouge-croix in ordinary. Probably this is accurate. The office of Windsor appears not to have been filled up in this reign. Lant's Roll calls John Younge Windsor; but it is well known he never had that place, but that of York. * This great divine, Dr. Stillington, keeper of the privy seal, then chancellor to Edward IV., was sent to the Duke of Bretagne to demand Henry, then an exile, now his Sovereign. He had ever been true to Edward IV. and his family. Retaining his hatred to Henry, he assisted Lambert and Warbeck, perhaps, in conjunction with Edward IV.'s sister, the Duchess Dowager of Burgundy. The King taking him, in 1487, from the University of Oxford, whither he had fled for protection, confined him in Windsor Castle, where he died in 1491. 5 HEN. VII. Heralds. Carlisle. HEN. VII. Heralds. Chester. York. Somerset. CHESTER. Rich. 111. THOMAS WHITING, Esq. Henry VII. granted him the same salary as Richard had, and this immediately after his accession. September 25, in his second year, he gave him a new patent without noticing any former one, charging the Exchequer with the payment of his salary. He attended the French ambassadors to Kenilworth Castle, after which he was sent to France. In 4. Henry VII. he went to Dover, to conduct the French ambassadors to court. Soon after he was dispatched into France again" with Sir John Risley:" Query, if not Garter Writhe, ambassador. The following year he went to France, with the servants of the Pope's legate, to the Duke of Burgundy, for which he received a reward. The next year he attended the French ambassador from London to Dover, and conducted the ambassador of Bretagne to the King's presence at Bury. He was living, and received his salary 10. Henry VII. This office does not appear to have been filled up after his death. YORK. Rich. 111.-JOHN WATERS, Esq. Dying in 1500, he was buried in Grey-Friers' Church, now Christ Church, in London. His arms were Sable, upon a Bend wavy Argent, two Waves Azure, between three Swans of the second. THOMAS TONGE, Esq.-See next reign. SOMERSET. Erected into a royal office in the ninth year of this reign, in honor of the house of Somerset, from whence this monarch descended. I have not seen the first herald of this title or name. It had been vacant before it was given to, JOHN YOUNG, Esq.-See next reign. RICHM ON D. Henry appointed this name first for a king at arms, afterwards for an Richmond. herald. ROBERT |