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Nottingham.

by his Majesty, was born at Blackemore in Essex. On June 18, 1525, HEN. VIII. when only six years of age, he was elected a Knight of the Garter, created Earl of Nottingham, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, at the palace of Bridewell in London; on July 26 following, he was constituted Admiral of England, Ireland, Normandy, &c., and in the nineteenth year of that reign, Lord Warden of the east, west, and middle marches of Scotland; in the twenty-second year Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. A deputy being appointed to perform the duties of that high office in his name. Educated with Henry, the gallant Earl of Surrey, first at Windsor, then at Paris, he married Mary, that nobleman's sister, the daughter of Thomas, third Duke of Norfolk. He died at St. James' palace, July 24, 1536, when only about seventeen years of age, without issue, and was buried at Thetford, in Norfolk. He was a Prince of great hopes. Leland has celebrated his learning. The King grieved for his death very much, as he tenderly loved him; it was believed he had serious thoughts of obtaining a settlement of the Crown upon him, in failure of legitimate issue in the male line. 'I have given these particulars of this only natural child of Henry, because it explains the reason why a pursuivantship of the title of Nottingham was founded, and also because it evinces, that our Sovereigns gave such names to their officers of arms, as were those of the titles of their favorite princes and peers.

WILLIAM HASTINGS, Gent.-See Portcullis.

May 17, 20 Hen. VIII. i.e. 1528.-RICHARD CROKE, Gent.-See

Rouge-dragon.

He had a warrant of the above date, for a coat of arms of sarcenet of the Duke of Richmond and Somerset, and yet it is allowed by all, that he was an officer of arms to the King. Does not this Does not this prove, that Jennings, Lancaster, might have been herald both to Henry VIII. and the Earl of Northumberland?

22 Hen. VIII.-THOMAS TRAHEYRON, or TRAHERN, Gent.-See Portcullis. Created at Windsor.

This office was held by patent from the King, yet the late Mr. Brooke, Somerset, thought he was created a pursuivant, not to the King, but to the Duke of Richmond. The last pursuivant having the tabard of the Duke's arms, seems also to countenance the idea; yet they have

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Pursuivants Extraordinary.

HEN. VIII. ever been esteemed also royal pursuivants, and as such regularly taken from hence to be pursuivants in ordinary. In Traheyron this office expired, owing to the death of the Duke of Richmond, to whose honor it had been created. Garter Anstis says, it is evident that Hastings was Rouge-croix, as well as Nottingham to the Duke of Richmond, with a salary of £10, though by it he became intitled to less of the partition money. This appears all mistake: he was not Rouge-croix, but Portcullis.

Berwick.

Calais.

BERWICK.

Hen. VII.-THOMAS WALL, Jun. Gent.-See Rouge-croix.
14 Hen. VIII.-LEONARD WARCUP, Gent.-See Rouge-croix.
Created at Guildford on Allhallows-day.

CHARLES WRYTHE, OR WRIOTHESLEY, Gent.-See Rouge-croix.
HENRY RAY, Gent.-See next reign.

CALAI S.

Neither Lant nor Weaver give any pursuivants of the name in the former part of this reign, and yet it is improbable, that there should be a vacancy in it for any considerable time, owing to the importance of the place, if the pursuivants had been stationed at any time there; but as there was a peace between the English and French Crowns at Henry VIII.'s accession, there might be no particular reason for there being a Calais pursuivant. It will be seen in the reign of Mary I., that such pursuivants who bore the names of places in France, actually resided there in times of There were probably more than one Calais pursuivant before Mylner. An officer of this name was with Henry VIII. at his royal interview with Francis I.

war.

THOMAS MYLNER, Gent.-See Rouge-dragon.

24 Hen. VIII.-RICHARD RATCLIFFE, Gent.-See Blue-mantle.
Created at Calais.

28, or 30 Hen. VIII.-MARTIN MAROFFE, Gent.-See Rouge-croix.

Patent.-March 4.

LAURENCE DALTON, Gent.-See Rouge-croix.

NICHOLAS FAIRLEWE, OR FELLOW, Gent.-See next reign.

GUISNE S.

HEN. VIII.

Extraor

The names of the officer at arms of this place, previous to Jennings, I Pursuivants have no where seen. Guisnes was also with Henry VIII. at the meeting of the two Sovereigns.

1521.-WILLIAM JENNINGS, Gent.-See Lancaster. Probably he was not taken immediately from hence, but became a pursuivant in ordinary, before he was appointed an herald. He is not mentioned by Lant.

JOHN HUTTON, Gent.-See Blue-mantle.

ALLAN DAGNALL, Gent.-See Portcullis.

Created at Bridewell Palace by the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, on Allhallowsday in 1528.

30 Hen. VIII. FULK AP HOWELL, Gent.-See Rouge-dragon. Created at Calais 24 King Henry VIII. on Allhallows-day.-Patent so late as July 6. 1536.-WILLIAM FLOWER, Gent.-See Rouge-croix.

Created at Westminster, July 10.

RICHARD WITHERS, Gent.-See next reign.

HAMP NE S.

Henry VIII. had a pursuivant of this name with him in 1520, when he went with a most splendid retinue to meet Francis I.

22 Hen. VIII. BARTHOLOMEW BUTLER, Gent.-See Rouge-croix.

Created at Windsor.

1536, 28 Hen. VIII.-GILBERT DETHICK, Gent.-See Rouge-croix. Created June 16, at Hampton Court, then called York House.-Patent 18 following.

WILLIAM HARVEY, Gent.-See Blue-mantle.

EDMOND ATKYNSON, Gent.-See Blue-mantle.

NICHOLAS TUBMAN, Gent.-See next reign.

RISE-BANK.

dinary. Guisnes,

Hamhnes.

The office seems to have been neglected in the first years of this reign. Rise-bank. Probably the King had not seen the necessity of continuing those

offices

offices of pursuivants extraordinary established, but at length adopted the

Pursuivants plan.

Extraordinary

Mont-orgueil.

Newhaven.

Boulogne.

JOHN NARBOONE, Gent.-See Blue-mantle.

RICHARD STORKE, Gent.

Created at Bridewell Palace by the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, on Allhallowsday, in 1528.

He died in this office in the same year in which he was promoted to it. His arms were Azure, a Stork Argent, beaked and membered Gules, within a Border Ermine.

JUSTINIAN BARKER, Gent.-See Rouge-croix.

WILLIAM LAMBARDE, Gent.-See next reign.

MONT-ORGUEI L.

Hen. VII. RANDOLPH JACKSON, Gent.-See Mont-orgueil Herald.
The office of Mont-orgueil pursuivant ended in him.

NEW HAVEN.

The name of this office was taken from a town so called, which stands in the mouth of the river Seine, in France; not from a place in Sussex, which bears the same name. I have never seen who had this office, but I make no doubt but Edmondson, Mowbray, is accurate in saying, that Henry had a pursuivant called Newhaven.

BOULOGNE.

Boulogne, a large, handsome, sea-port town in Picardy, is the capital of the Boulonnois, in France. In 1544 Henry sent an army In 1544 Henry sent an army of thirty thousand men against this place, divided into three battalions. The van was led by Thomas Duke of Norfolk; the rear by Lord Russel, assisted by Henry, Earl of Surrey, marshal of the field. Having landed at Calais, they marched to Montreuil, where they were joined by ten thousand of the Emperor's forces, under the command of Admiral Count de Buris. The whole marched, and laid siege to Boulogne. At the same time, the main body of the army of England, conducted by Charles, Duke of Suffolk, the King's lieutenant, accompanied by Henry Fitzalan, Earl of

Arundel,

Arundel, marshal of the field, Sir Anthony Brown, master of the King's
horse, with many others, also landed at Calais. They having encamped
near Boulogne, waited the arrival of the King. His Majesty, royally
attended, landed at Calais, July 14. The next day, at a conference with
Don Bertram de la Cueva, Duke Albuquerque, commander of the Em-
peror's auxiliary forces, and Count de Bures, Admiral of the Low Countries,
it was settled, that the Duke of Suffolk, then lying with the troops under
his command at Marquison, or Marquise, should immediately invest Bou-
logne, whilst the other part of the army was to undertake the siege of Mon-
treuil. His Grace reconnoitred the outworks of Boulogne, on Friday, July 18..
On the following day he broke up his camp, and sat down before the lower
town, called Bas Boulogne, which was taken the Monday following, though
the beseiged made a very gallant sally from the high town.
The King
hearing this news, having dismissed the Emperor's admiral, left Calais,.
July 25. He encamped that night at Marquison; on the next he went to
join his army, which lay before Boulogne, which surrendered September 14,
Holyrood-day. It was delivered up by M. de Santblemont and M. de,
As, who having that day dined with the Lord Marshal, the Earl of
Arundel went to the King of England, and fully settled the conditions
with his Majesty, who sent " my Lord great Master, with others to him
appointed," and these " went to receive the toune, and the officers of armes
"there appointed to sett up the King's banners and flags, as well in the
"castele as in the toune, and a proclamation in the toune, that all those
that wolde tarry, abyde, and remayne, and be sworne to the King,
shold have their bodyes and goods saufe. Wherefore divers men,.
"women, and priests, and others, tarryed upon the same, and all the
"reste that would not, avoided the toune, men, women, and chil-
"dren."
Several of the members of the Herald's College attended.
his Majesty; but I do not see who particularly, except Garter and
Richmond. The King having seen the unhappy inhabitants leave the
place, marched into it "with great state and splendor, on Thursday the
eighteenth, where he remained until Tuesday the thirtieth of that
"month; when having made certain knights at his lodging within the
"town, incontinent he departed to his ship, and so into England."
No doubt when he knighted his brave officers, he also, in honor of the
exploit in obtaining the place, christened a new pursuivant by the name

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Pursuivants
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Boulogne.

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