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rals, together with their several privileges and institutions, habits, robes CHARLES 1. and their fashions, herses, models, proportions, and allowances for the and also, the several fees of officers employed in the service." He married Elizabeth, daughter of Ebenezer Primecourt, of Canterbury; she remarried Eusebius Catesby, of Caster in Norfolk. He had one son, named John Vincent, who was a sensible man, a good genealogist, herald, and antiquary; but so ill an economist, and so fond of liquor, that he frequently pawned some of his father's literary labors, to pay tavern expenses. At length he was obliged to dispose of two hundred and forty manuscripts to his patron, the judicious Ralph Sheldon, of Weston in Warwickshire, Esq. They were, by the legacy of that gentleman, lodged in the College at Arms. He married, October 10, 1623, at St. Bennet's, Paul's Wharf, Edith Barber.

January 1625-6.-JOHN BRADSHAW, Esq.

Deputy chamberlain of the Exchequer. He bore, Argent, two Bendlets Sable, a Canton, checky, of the first and Azure. By Dorothy, his wife, he had Elizabeth, married to Thomas Fauconberg, of Great Ottrington in Yorkshire, Esq., and of St. Ann's-lane, Westminster, a member of parliament for that city, a justice of the peace, and auditor-general of the revenues to the Protector, Oliver. He died in 1655, and was buried in the chancel of St. Ann's chapel, in Westminster. This herald's great-grand-daughter married John Rivett, of Branston in Suffolk, Esq., who has a good portrait of Windsor, half length, in a ruff, and otherwise in the dress of the times in which he lived.

EDWARD NORGATE, Esq.-See Usurpation.
Patent dated October 28, 1633, only during pleasure.

CHESTER.

James 1.-HENRY CHITTING, Esq.

Purchased this place of Mr. Knight, He visited the counties of Berks and Gloucester for Camden, Clarenceux, and Lincoln for Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux. Chester dying January 7, 1637-8, Dr. Edward Sparke, minister of St. Martin's church, Ironmonger-lane, and vicar of Tottenham High Cross, preached his funeral sermon, which was published. He wrote the extinct Baronage; and of the Tenures of the County of Suffolk. I i Ann,

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CHALESI. Ann, his wife, was daughter of William Bennet, Gent. In the south Heralds, aisle of the church of St. Mary, in Islington, is a monument to her me. Chester: mory, bearing this inscription:

"To the sacred memory of ANNE, late wife of HENRY CHITTIN, Esq.,
"Chester herald at arms, eldest daughter of William Bennet, Gentleman, by Joice,
"widow of Richard Joselin, of New-hall-Joselins, in Essex, Esq., and daughter
"of Robert Atkinson, of Stowell, in the county of Gloucester, Esq. She had four
"children, whereof three are living, Thomas, Joyce, and Henry; of which last
"she died in child-bed, the 8th of May, 1630, in the 27th year of her age, and 4th
"of her marriage."
"Mors mihi vitæ.

"Life is death's road, and death Heaven's grave must be,
"Heaven is Christ's throne, and Christ is life to me.

"The angels of the Lord protect,

"All those that are his own elect.

"Vivit post funera virtus."

Mr. Chitting bore quarterly, Argent and Azure, on a Bend Gules, three Quaterfoils.

EDWARD WALKER, Esq.-See Norroy.

Patent January 31, 1637-8.-Created at Arundel-house February 8 following,
April 16, 1644.-WILLIAM DUGdale, Esq.

Deprived by the parliament; at the Restoration advanced to the office. of Norroy..

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March 2, 1592-3.-RALPH BROOKE, Esq.

His real name was Brookesmouth, but he called, and wrote himself Brooke, pretending that he was of the Brookes of Leighton, in Cheshire, being son of Jeffrey Brooke, of Wigan in the county of Lancaster, son of William, son of Thomas Brooke, steward to Thomas Earl of Derby, in 1473, who was fourth son of Thomas Brooke of Leighton. This vanity

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of changing the surname was not peculiar to him amongst the heralds, as CHARLES I. we have seen. He was bred to the trade of a painter-stainer, of which company he became free, September 3, 1576. Leaving this calling, he became an officer at arms. He was so extremely worthless and perverse, that his whole mind seems bent to malice and wickedness: unawed by virtue or station, none were secure from his unmerited attacks. He became a disgrace to the College, a misfortune to his contemporaries, and a misery to himself. With great sense and acquirements, he sunk into disgrace and contempt. We have seen his conduct to the great, the unoffending Camden: who returned his attack partly by silence, and partly by rallying Brooke, as intirely ignorant of his own profession, incapable of translating or understanding the " Britannia," in which he had discovered faults, offering to submit the matter in dispute to the Earl Marshal, the College of Heralds, the Society of Antiquaries, or four persons learned in these studies. Irritated still more, he wrote a "second discovery of errors," which he pretented to James I., January 1, 1619-20, who, on the 4th following, prohibited its publication. Anstis, Garter, printed it in 1723, in quarto. In it are Camden's supposed errors, with his objections, Clarenceux' reply, and his own answers. In the Appendix, in two columns, are placed the objectionable passages in the edition of 1594, and the same as they stood in that of 1600. In 1622, he published a valuable work, dedicated to James I., intituled, a "Catalogue and Succession of Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquises, Earls, and Viscounts of this Realm, since the Norman Conquest, "until 1619, &c." small folio, In his address to his Majesty he says, "he had spent fifty years labor and experience, having served his Majesty "and the late Queen Elizabeth, of famous memory, forty years and more." That no doubt might be entertained of his ability, he said he had in his custody the collections of the principal heralds deceased, before and during his time, adding, without ostentation be it spoken, he held his library better furnished than the office of arms. He does not neglect to intreat James to prohibit upstarts and mountebanks from impoverishing his Majesty's poor servants, the officers of arms, who labour daily, and spend both their bodies and substance in doing their duty. He was twice suspended and imprisoned, for scandalous misbehaviour: the first time for his shameful conduct to Segar, Garter, which has been mentioned in a former page; and in 1620, a petition was exhibited against him and Creswell, as disturbers

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CHARLES I. turbers of the whole body of Heralds. On October 15, 1621, I suppose to expel him the College, it was solemnly argued, whether he was an herald. Noy, the Solicitor-general, attempted to prove he was not; upon what principal does not appear: on the contrary, Whitfield, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, greatly favouring him, it was determined that he was. On December 4, following, he and Creswell, Somerset, were summoned, for having spoken contemptuously of the Earl Marshal. The very honorable delegates, their judges, unanimously sentenced them to the Marshalsea prison. Though his compere in ill-behaviour was soon after obliged to resign his situation in the College, yet Brooke escaped that disgrace, dying in his office, universally odious. Had he been as amiable as he was vicious, he would have deservedly worn what he aspired to, the crown of a provincial king at arms, his merit as an herald having been known to Lord Burleigh, who had designed to have raised him, had his quietness been equal to his knowledge. He died October 15, 1625, aged seventy-three, and was buried in the church of Reculver, in Kent, against the south wall of which, on a tablet of black marble are his effigies, about a foot in height, habited in his tabard, with a cloak, trunck breeches, boots, and spurs, with short hair and beard. Above this figure are his arms, Or, a Cross engrailed, Party per Pale, Gules and Sable; on a Chief of the second, a Lion passant guardant, of the first. The monument bears this singularly quaint epitaph:

"Here under, quit of worldly miseries,

"RALPH BROOKE, Esq., late York herald, lies.
"Fifteenth of October he was last alive,

"One thousande sixe hundred twenty and five:

Seaventy-three yeares bore he fortune's harmes,

"And forty-five an officer of armes :

"He married Thomasin, daughter of Michael Cob, of Kent,

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Segiant at armes, by who two daughters God him lent.

Survyving, Mary, Wylliam Dicken's wife,

"Thomasin, John Ecton's: happy be their life."

As a frontispiece to York's second "Discoverie," is an engraving of him, taken from the monument, the whole of which is given. Mr. Dallaway has given the monument, omitting the inscription. York,, by his will, left his loving friend, Captain l'Isle, his best garment, and a hoop

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hoop ring of gold, of forty shillings value; to his good friend, Mr. T. CHARLES I, Williams, a ruby ring, in token of the many favors he had received from Heralds. him; to Mr. Thomas Godman, the younger, a gold ring, of forty shillings price; to his loving fellows of the College of Arms, five marcs for a dinner or supper, when they should meet together; and appointed his loving daughter, Mary Dawkins, sole executrix.

Nov. 25, 1625.-WILLIAM LE NEVE, Esq.-See Norroy.

GEORGE OWEN.

Warrant to the Earl Marshal to create him, December 9, 1633.

SOMERSET.

James 1.JOHN PHILIPOTT.

A native of Folkston, in Kent, descended from an ancient and respectable family, long seated in that county. From his infancy he had a taste for heraldry and antiquities. He was greatly trusted by Camden, Clarenceux, who employed him much as his deputy, or marshal, in his visitations, as did Sir Richard St. George, whilst Clarenceux, and Sir John Burroughs, when Norroy. In 1636, he published a Catalogue of the Chancellors of England; in the following year another edition of his first patron, Camden's, Remains, with additions. When the civil war broke out, he honorably and undauntedly followed, whithersoever his duty led. The university of Oxford conferred upon him, in July 1643, the degree of Doctor of Laws in the following year, unhappily, he fell into the hands of his enemies, being surprized by the parliamentarians, whilst in his quarters, at a village situate about two miles from the city of Oxford, by some forces from the garrison at Abingdon, who sent him up to London a prisoner: he soon obtained his liberty. It was his Majesty's intention to reward his just merits, skill, integrity, ardent loyalty, and fidelity, in the worst of times, by giving him the place of Norroy; but he died prematurely, in great obscurity, in London, according to Wood, or near Eltham in Kent, as Mr. Hasted says, November 25, 1645. He was buried in the church of St. Bennet, Paul's Wharf, in London. Upon a grave-stone in Eltham church is this inscription, conveying great information relative to Philipott's family.

Somerset.

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