Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare And Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis;
Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare And Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis;
John Timbs
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Another trusty serrice of the Officers-at- Araas is the bearing of letters and messages to soTereign princes and > in anthority : these ofBcers were the <* ChiTalers of Armes," or bts Riders, the original King's Messengers ; and adjoining the ' Kmght-Rider-street.
AflMNig the CmriotUiet of the College are, the Warwksk Roll, with figures of all the Earls of Warwick from the Conquest to Richard III. ; a Toumament Roll of Henry VIlI.*s time; a sword, dagger, and tnr- QQois rioff, said to haTe belonged to James lY . of Scotland, who fell at Flodden-neld; portrait of the warrior Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, from his tmnb in Old St. Paul's ; pedigree of the Saxon kings, from Adam, with beantifttl pen-and-ink illustrations ifemp, Henry Yill.) ; and a Tolume in the handwriting of " the leamea Camden," created Clarenceux in U97. Among the other officers of note were Sir William Dugdale, Garter ; Elias Ashmole, Windsor Herald, who wrote the Hittory of ikt Order of ike Garter j John Anstis, Garter ; Francis Sandford, Lsnesater Herald, who wrote an excellent Genealogical History of England; Sir John Yanbrugh, who was made Clarenceux as a compli- ment for building Castle Howard, but sold the situation for 2000/.
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