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Heralds' College

American  

noun

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


heralds' college British  

noun

  1. another name for college of arms

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I am now procuring all the information and things required by the Heralds' College.

From Canada and the States by Watkin, E. W. (Edward William)

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

Clarenceux King of Arms, an officer of the Heralds’ College, derives his style, through Clarence, from Clare.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various

This individual, according to the genealogists of the Heralds' College, was a younger son of Sir Baldwyn Malet of Enmore, in the county of Dorset.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)

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

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