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Heralds' Office

American  

noun

  1. the official heraldic authority of Scotland.


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He had found time for a visit to the King-at-Arms and the Heralds' Office.

From Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

There, I think, you could not have had a more circumstantial account of a royal wedding from the Heralds' Office.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Horace Walpole

Four officers of the Heralds' College, whose duty it is to attend the King-at-Arms on public occasions, and preside over certain departments of the Heralds' Office.

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

He now had a lodging in the Heralds’ Office, and spent much of his time in London examining the records in the Tower and the Cottonian and other collections of MSS.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

He has testimony of this more authentic than the Heralds' Office, or any human testimony.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury

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