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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 J. DEBRETT, OPPOSITE BURLINGTON HOUSE, PICCADILLY, AND
T. EGERTON, WHITEHALL.

1804.

ISTOR LIC.

XC 23 1878

NEW-YORK

ΤΟ

HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

GEORGE III.

BY THE GRACE OF GOD,

MONARCH

OF THE

UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT-BRITAIN AND IRELAND, ELECTOR OF HANOVER, &c. &c.

DEFENDER OF THE FAITH,

FATHER OF HIS OWN PEOPLE,

PROTECTOR OF OTHER NATIONS,

AND THE

PATRON OF AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, LEARNING, AND SCIENCE,

THIS VOLUME IS,

BY ROYAL PERMISSION,

MOST HUMBLY INSCRIBED,

BY

HIS MAJESTY'S

MOST LOYAL, AND MOST DUTIFUL

SUBJECT, AND SERVANT,

MARK NOBLE.

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