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 Shield represented in No. 158 is drawn from an original example of the age of Edward I. in the Heralds’ College.

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

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 seems that Andros placed on record at Heralds' College a very elaborate pedigree of his family, September 18th, 1686, a few days before he sailed to assume the government of New England.

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

He had intended them for the use of his fellow Kings-at-Arms; but it was said that he had some pique against the Heralds' College, and so 'cut them off with a volume.'

From The Great Book-Collectors by Elton, Charles Isaac