Borialium; Carolus Wriothesley, alias dictus Wyndesor; Willielmus Flower, alias dictus Chester; Laurentius Dalton, alias dictus Richemond; Edmundus Atkynson, alias dictus Somerset; Martinus Maroff, alias dictus Yorke; & Nicholaus Tubman, alias dictus Lancaster, heraldi armorum; ac omnes alii heraldi, prosecutores, sive purcivandi armorum, qui pro tempore fuerint, imperpetuum sint unum corpus corporatum, in re, factâ, & nomine, habeantque successionem perpetuam.

Necnon quoddam sigillum commune pro negotiis, & aliis agendis eorundem habere & exercere valeant imperpetuùm.

Ac quòd ipsi & successores sui, per nomina le Garter regis armorum Anglicorum, Clarenciceulx regis armorum partium Australium; Norry regis armorum partium Borialium, & heraldorum, prosecutorum, sive purcivandorum armorum, imperpetuùm • nuncupentur, & quod ipsi & eorum successores per eadem nomina sint personæ habiles & capaces in lege, ac nomen illud habeant & gerant imperpetuum.

Et quod iidem Garter rex armorum Anglicorum, Clarencieulx rex armorum partium Australium, Norry rex armorum partium Borialium, ac heraldi, prosecutores, sive purcivandi armorum, & successores sui, per hujusmodi nomen, terras, tenementa, hæreditamenta, & possessiones, ac bona & catalla quæcumque perquirere & habere possint, ac pro terris, tenementis, redditibus, & possessionibus, juribus, rebus, bonis, & catallis quibuscumque, in quibuscumque actionibus, causis, demandis, querelis, & placitis, tam realibus & personalibus quam mixtis, cujuscumque generis fuerint vel naturæ, in quibuscumque curiis, coram quibuscumque justiciaris aut judicibus, spiritualibus vel secularibus, placitare & implacitari, ac respondere & responderi valeant imperpetuum, prout in eodem modo quo cæteri ligei nostri personæ habiles & capaces in lege placitare & implacitari, respondere & responderi potuerunt & consueverunt.

Quodque prædicti Garter rex armorum Anglicorum, Clarencieulx rex armorum partium Australium, Norry rex armorum partium Borialium, & heraldi, prosecutores, sive pursevandi armorum, & eorum successores, ad eorum libitum invicem comorentur, ac ad dies, locos, & tempora congrua & oportuna, quotiens & quando eis placuerit, ad tractandum, communicandum, conferendum, concordandum inter seipsos, unà cum aliis, proconsilio & advirsamento pro bono statu eruditione & regimine facultatis suæ prædictæ, convenire possint.

Et,

Ut ipsi, recorda, irrotulamenta, & alia emolumenta, facultatem suam prædictam tangentia, & concernentia, magis securè & salvò custodire valeant & possint, & ut ipsi quenquam locum sive mansionem congruam in ea partea habeant.

De uberiori gratia nostra dedimus & concessimus, ac per præsentes, pro nobis hæredibus & successoribus nostrum præfatæ reginæ, damus & concedimus præfato Gilberto Dethyck, modo Garter principali regi armorum Anglicorum; Thomas Hawley, alias Clarencieulx, modo regi arınorum partium Australium; Willielmo Harvey, alias Norry, modò regi armorum partium Borialium; & aliis heraldis, prosecutoribus, & pur civandis

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civandis prædictis & successoribus suis, totum illud capitale mesuagium nostrum, sive donum, vocatum Derby Place, cum pertinentiis, scituatum & existens in parochiis Sancti Benedicti & Sancti Petri, intra civitatem nostrum Londoniæ, in quodam vico ibidem ducente ab ostio Australi ecclesiæ cathedralis Sancti Pauli usque quenquam locum ibidem vocatum Paules Whorfe, ac etiam omnia domos, ædificia, cameras, shopas, sellaria, solaria, gardina, terras, vacua, funda, & casiamenta nostra quæcumque, eidem capitali mesuagio sive domui, vocato Derby Place, spectantia sive pertinentia, aut cum eodem dimissa locata usitata seu occupata, existentia modo in tenura sive occupatione Richardi Sakevyle, militis, ac nuper parcellam terrarum possessionum & hæreditamentorum Edwardi comitis Derbiæ, ac reversionem & reversiones prædicti capitalis mesuagii, sive domûs, ac cæterorum præmissorum, cum pertinentiis & cujuslibet inde proficua quæcumque, reservata super quibuscumque dimissionibus sive concessionibus de præmissis, seu de aliqua inde parcella, quomodò factis, adeò plenè & integrè, ac in tam amplis modo & forma, prout dictus Edwardus comes Derbiæ, aut aliquis alius sive aliqui alii præmissa, aut aliquam inde parcellam; antehac habentes, possidentes, aut scisiti inde existentes, unquam habuerunt, tenuerunt, vel gavisi fuerunt, habuit, tenuit, vel gavisus fuit, seu habere, tenere, vel gaudere debuerunt aut debuit, & adeò plenè laborè & intigrè, ac in tam amplis modo & forma, prout prædictum capitałe mesuagium sive domum, ac cætera omnia præmissa, ad manus nostras seu ad manus præcharissimi fratris nostri, Edwardi sexti, nuper regis Angliæ, ratione vel prætextu alicujus escambii devenerunt seu devenire debuerunt, ac in manibus nostris jam existunt, seu existere debent vel deberent,

Habendum, tenendum, & gaudendum prædictum capitale mesuagium, sive domum, ac cætera omnia & singula præmissa, cum pertinentiis præfatis Gilberto Dethyk, alias Garter regi armorum Anglicorum; Thomæ Hawley, alias Clarencieulx regi armorum partium Australium; Willielmo Hervy, alias Norrey regi armorum partium Borialium, & heraldis, prosecutoribus, sive purcivandis armorum predictis, & successioribus suis, imperpetuum, ad proprium opus & usum ipsorum Gilberti Dethyk, alias Garter regis armorum Anglicorum; Thomæ Hawley, alias Clarencieulx; Willielmo Harvey, alias Norrey; & aliorum prædictorem heraldorum prosecutorem sive purcivandorum armorum & successorum suorum imperpetuùm,

Tenendum de nobis, ac de heredibus & successoribus nostrum præfatæ reginæ, in libero burgagio civitatis nostræ Londiniæ, pro omnibus redditibus servitiis, exactionibus, & demandis quibuscumque, pro inde nobis aut hæredibus vel successoribus nostrum præfatæ reginæ, quomodò reddendis, solvendis, vel faciendis,

Et ulterius, de ampliori gratia nostra, dedimus, & concessimus, ac per præsentes, pro nobis hæredibus & successoribus nostris, damus & concedimus præfatis le Garter regi armorum Anglicorum; Clarencieulx regi armorum partium Australium; Norry regi armorum partium Borialium ; & aliis heraldis, prosecutoribus, sivè purcivandis armorum prædictis, omnia exitus, redditus, reventiones, & proficua prædicti capitalis mesuagii, ac cæterorum omnium & singulorum præmissorum cum pertinentiis, a festo

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annunciationis Beatæ Mariæ Virginis ultimò præterito, hucusque provenientia sive

crescientia.

Habenda eisdem le Garter regi Anglorum Anglicorum, Clarencieulx regi armorum partium Australium, Norry regi armorum partium Borialium, & aliis heraldis, prosecutoribus, sive purcivandis armorum prædictis, ex dono nostro, absque compoto seu aliquo alio pro inde nobis, hæredibus, vel successoribus nostris, quo modo reddendo, solvendo vel facendo;

Eo quòd expressa mentio, &c.

In cujus rei, &c.

Teste rege & reginâ, apud Hampton Court, decimo octavo die Julii.

Per breve de privato sigillo.

D.

REGULATIONS PROPOSED BY SIR WILLIAM DETHICK, KNT. GARTER

KING AT ARMS.

I. The contents of their corporation, in all points, for the assembly, government, erudition, &c., in the office and officers of arms, to be kept and observed.

II. Chapters, general and particular, to be had and summoned.

III. The order and attendance for waiting at the court in high feasts to be dutifully performed.

IV. The house and college of the office of arms to be in good order, inhabited and repaired.

V. The general library in the office, and records there, to be preserved, ratified, and augmented.

VI. The kings, heralds, and pursuivants of arms, to be there at convenient times attendant, upon pain.

VII. The visitations made by Garter, Clarenceux, and Norroy, to be limited or appointed to the heralds or pursuivants, and no other.

VIII. The burials or funerals to be orderly and duly served, and certificates entered.

IX. All painters, glaziers, goldsmiths, &c. for dealing in arms and pedigrees, to be inhibited.

X. Arms, pedigrees, searches, and all precedents, and acts of honor and gentility, and all other things, with the consents of the three kings of arms, in the general office, to be set out and registered.

XI. The profits and commodities faithfully collected, and generally to such as deserve well duly parted.

And whilst York herald, in 1584*, propounded the setting up of an office in the court of wards, for the enrolling of descents and pedigrees of every one that was ward, or sued livery, for the public preservation of the remembrance of parents and progenitors, and of the conjunction of the blood and kindred with good proportion, to preserve that law in Magna Charta, cap. v. and the statutes at Marton, cap. vi. and vii. wherein the disparagements for marriages are especially forbidden. The wards did not enjoy the benefit of law in that point, so that some preservation in blood, in the course of that court, might go jointly together with the preservation of the inheritances.

The establishing such an office in the said court of wards, as he shewed to the Lord Treasurer, Burleigh, master of that court, would first tend to the adorning of it, for the honor and renown of the Queen, tending to a more perfect preservation of the genealogies and descents of her wards, and to perpetuate the same, and most convenient for the nobility and gentry of her realm. And, secondly, it would be a good and direct means to try and keep the records of the truth, against sundry occurrences and subtilities, contrived in prejudice of the minors and heirs in the said court.

And whereas it might be objected, that such an office seemed to be needless, since the heralds, in their own office, were diligent to search and register all pedigrees: To this he answered, that the heralds of arms had been long time past messengers of princes, allowed for their language, travel, and experience; but as to their dealings in pedigrees of nobility they did but privately collect and observe the marriages and issues of princes, nobles, and gentlemen, for their better knowledge and remembrance; whereof they took notice upon sight, relation, or slender surmises. But this action was intended to be committed to the custody of one private, secret, and sworn officer, a herald; and the pedigrees and consanguinities to be registered in this court should be grounded upon matter of record and warrant, provided by officers, traversers, and inquests, containing the names of the persons, times, and ages. Secondly, the form and manner of the pedigrees in this court should contain in the roundlet or circle of each descent, a certain notice of the age, time, liveries, and obiit of each person, convenient only for this court. Thirdly, this would be very grateful to the ward in his minority, for so careful a remembrance of his pedigree, and it would carry with it a proof of the deserts of the ancestors towards their posterity. For herein should some note be made of the tenure of the lands and manors, if it seemed good, with this addition, primus acquisitor; which might affect children with a grateful and respectful sense of those from whom they derived their estates and honors.

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This, says Leake, Garter, was an ingenious project, and might, had it taken, have redounded considerably to his advantage, who had now been an attendant officer of arms twenty years, and complained of the mean profits thereof to be very small and uncertain; though with patience he at length got advancement.

Ε.

OWING to these constant jars, Lord Burleigh, Lord High Treasurer of England, Cha. Lord Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral of England, and Henry, Baron of Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's household, Knights of the most noble order of the Garter, and deputed by commission for the office of Earl Marshal of England, set out orders to be observed and kept by the kings, heralds, and pursuivants of arms, that then or thereafter should be. Which, after recapitulating most of the most memorable circumstances that had happened from a very early period, beginning with noticing sundry ancient ordinances, statutes, and decrees, made and established as well by the most high and mighty Prince, Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence, &c. as by divers other constables and Earl Marshals of England succeeding, until the time of Thomas, late Duke of Norfolk, for the good estate, rule, and government of the office and officers of arms, they make the orders, of which these are the titles :

I. The scite of the house appropriated to the College of Heralds.

II. Records to be safely kept.

III. Daily attendance in the office.

IV. Prerogative and office of Garter.

V. Burials, &c. for Garter.

VI. Office of provincial kings.

VII. Burials, &c. for the provincial kings.

VIII. Arms to be given, with consent of the Earl Marshal.

IX. None to trick or publish arms to posterity, without privity of the office.
X. Chapters to be holden for learning, knowledge, and doubts.

XI. Allowance of pursuivants.

XII. Avoiding of controversies, the gall hitherto.

XIII. How far authority is yielded to the king's chapter.

XIV. Power in visitations.

XV. Oath for performing and due keeping of these statutes.

These orders were made in consequence of the report of Sir Edward Hoby and Sir George Carew, deputed by Lords Burleigh and Howard, who had been appointed