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Parliament. He died 1692, aged 76.
And others there are of
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THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
Sir William Dugdale, author of the celebrated Monasticon and the
Antiquities of Wanvickshire, is another equally remarkable man. Born
in 1605, the friend of Sir Christopher Hatton and
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\ Sir Henry Spelman, he became Chester Herald, 1644.
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I He attended Charles I. at the battle of Edgehill, and
remained with him till the surrender of Oxford to
the Parliament, 1646. Charles II. made him first
Norroy, and finally Garter King of Arms ;
and he
died 1686, aged 80.
Elias Ashmole, founder of the Museum at Oxford
which bears his name, was another. He was the son
of Simon Ashmole, a saddler at Lichfield, an improvident
man, who, it is said, "loved war better than
" making saddles and bridles."
Born 1617, he became a chorister of
Lichfield
Cathedral ;
then a student in law and music ;
a
solicitor in Chancery ; an attorney of the Common
Pleas a ;
gentleman of the ordnance in the garrison
at Oxford ;
and student at Brasenose College. He
then became captain in Lord Ashley's regiment, and
comptroller of the ordnance ;
a botanist, a chemist,
and an astrologer. He was an adept at sealengraving,
casting in sand, and " the mystery of a
"working goldsmith." Charles II. made him Windsor
Herald at the Restoration, arid from that time preferment
followed preferment, he becoming a barrister, F.R.S., M.D.; refusing
twice the office of Garter, and the honour of representing Lichfield in
Cm Hi m..
whom I can only give a passing
mention :
John Guillim,
the author of the famous
Display of Heraldry : John
Edmondson, Mowbray Herald,
also author of one of
the standard works on this
subject Sir John Vanbrugh,
:
Clarenceux King of Arms, a
well-known dramatic author,
and the architect of Blenheim, Castle Howard, Grimsthorpe, and other very
massive and ponderous edifices ; for whom a wag proposed this epitaph
:
"Lie heavy on him, earth, for he
Laid many a heavy load on thee."