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In addition, however, to the various and numerous official documents of the Heralds’ College, several examples of one particular class of heraldic record have been preserved, the value of which cannot be too highly estimated.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
The pedigree of it may be commended to the examination of the Heralds' College.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William
Mr. Robertson ranks, indeed, with the four pursuivants of Heralds' College, from which the Scutorium was originally an offshoot.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
It is a term of contempt and derision, applied to symbolic bearings that are assumed without the authority of the Heralds' College.
From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous
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
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