[251] Glory of Generositie, p. 15.
[252] The vignette is copied from the common seal of the College, which has the following legend in Roman characters:
+ SIGILLVM · COMMVNE · CORPORACIONIS · OFFICII · ARMORVM.
[253] Dallaway.
[254] The former appellation was given to this mansion because it was originally the inn or town residence of Sir John Poulteney, who flourished under Edward III, and was four times lord mayor. Stowe calls it Cole-Herbert, but by other authors it is generally spelt as in the text. The name Cold-Harbour is common to many farms in the southern counties of England. There are several in Sussex which are by no means remarkable for the bleakness of their situation, and a house in Surrey bearing this singular designation is placed in a remarkably sheltered spot, at the foot of a range of hills. Harbour means not only a sea-port or haven, but any place of shelter or retreat: the epithet ‘cold’ is doubtless a corruption of some other word.
[255] The title of Surroy was changed to Clarenceux by Henry V, in compliment to his brother Thomas, duke of Clarence; the first king of this name having been the private herald attached to the duke’s establishment.
[256] Quoted by Dall. p. 141.
[257] At modern funerals it is no part of the heralds’ duty to render their ‘coats’ guttée des larmes!
[258] Equal, probably, to £1200 or £1500, at the present value of money.
[259] After the death of Richard upon the field of Bosworth, a pursuivant (perhaps one of his own creation) was employed to carry his remains to Leicester. “His body naked to the skinne, not so much as one clout about him,” says Stowe, “was trussed behinde a Pursuivant of Armes, like a hogge or calfe.”