A

HISTORY

OF THE

COLLEGE OF ARMS.

AND THE LIVES OF ALL THE

KINGS, HERALDS, AND PURSUIVANTS,

From the Reign of

RICHARD III.

FOUNDER OF THE COLLEGE,

UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME.

WITH

A PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION

RELATIVE TO THE

DIFFERENT ORDERS IN ENGLAND,

PARTICULARLY THE GENTRY,

SINCE THE

NORMAN CONQUEST.

TAKEN FROM RECORDS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND OTHER THE MOST INDISPUTABLE AUTHORITIES.

BY THE REV: MARK NOBLE, F. A. S. OF L. AND E.
Rector of Barming, in Kent, and Domestic Chaplain to George Earl of Leicester.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. EGERTON, R. FAULDER, R. LEA, VERNOR AND HOOD, J. WALKER,
W. I. AND I. RICHARDSON, T. BOOKER, J. ASPERNE, AND E. LLOYD.

1805.

44.P

PATRON OF AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, LEARNING, AND SCIENCE,