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
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
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ...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 of of chahging the surname was not peculiar to him amongst the heralds, as Charles we have seen. He was bred to the trade of a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ...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 of of chahging the surname was not peculiar to him amongst the heralds, as Charles we have seen. He was bred to the trade of a painter-stainer, of which VHIdsT 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 wrot 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 ..".
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