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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 Heralds' College will refer them to me—not simultaneously, if I may trust Sir Albert Woods's tact—and I shall tell them that it belongs to neither, but to another William Laird altogether.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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
Those that survive from the past serve, like the Heralds' College, to set an official stamp on literary and scientific merit.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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
A small army of soldiers guarded the remains of the greatest warrior of his age; a whole heralds' college clustered about the lofty funeral banner on which all the arms of the Churchills were quartered.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by McCarthy, Justin
There are whole families who are born classical, and are entered in the heralds' college of reputation by the right of consanguinity.
From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by Hazlitt, William
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