Heralds' College

American  

noun

1. a royal corporation in England, instituted in 1483, concerned chiefly with armorial bearings, genealogies, honors, and precedence.

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heralds' college British  

noun

1. another name for college of arms

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Example Sentences

The pedigree recorded at Heralds' College is as follows.

From A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c. by Whitmore, William Henry

We cannot, then, accept the version of his family history that satisfied the complaisant Heralds' College.

From William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts by Forestier, A. (Amédée)

It is a certificate of good birth more satisfactory than any which the Heralds' College or the Genealogical Association can furnish.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard

Nor does the decoration stop here, for the whole is a veritable Heralds' College for all the noblest families of Portugal in the early years of the sixteenth century.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

Le Neve states, in his MSS. preserved in the Heralds' College, that he became a tapster in the King's Bench Prison, and was tried and imprisoned for cheating in 1711.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various