A heraldic and physiological curiosity : thirty-nine children of one father and one mother (seven sons and thirty-two daughters), amply proved / by Geo. Grazebrook.

  • Grazebrook, George, 1831-1917.
Date:
[1904]
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Credit: A heraldic and physiological curiosity : thirty-nine children of one father and one mother (seven sons and thirty-two daughters), amply proved / by Geo. Grazebrook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    his Services to his Grace and his Family, did by Warrant or Order under his Hand and Seal of his Office of Earl Marshall, bearing Date ye Eight day of August last past, Order and appoint Us to Grant Allow and Confirm ye said Arms and Crest so differenced as abovesaid. Know ye there- fore y* We ye said Garter and Clarenceux, in Pursuance of ye said Earl Marshall’s Order, and by Virtue of ye Letters Pattents of o1 * * 4' Offices, to each of us respectively Granted, under ye Great Seal of England, have allowed and confirmed and by these Presents do Grant allow and Confirm unto the said Thomas Greenhill ye said Arms and Crest with the Alterations and Addi- tions abovesaid, as in ye Margin hereof is more plainly depicted. To be borne and used for ever hereafter by him the said Thomas Greenhill and ye Heirs and other Descendents off his 15ody lawfully begotten, in Shield, Coat-armour, Penon, Seal, or otherwise according to ye Law of Armes, withoutt Lett or Interruption of any Person or Persons whatsoever. In Wittness where- of We ye said Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Armes have to these Presents subscribed our Names and affixed ye Seals of our Respective Offices ye first Day of Septem- ber, in yc Tenth year of the Reigne of or Sovereigne Lord William ye Third, by ye Grace of GOD King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Annoque Domini 1698. “Thomas St George, Garter, “Principall King of Armes. “ Henry St George, “ Clarenceux King of Armes.” I would draw attention to several interesting points : The William Ryley mentioned was called Norroy by the Parliament, and advanced to be Clarenceux on the death of Arthur Squibb in May 1646, after which Edward Byslie, who was named Garter in 1646, and Ryley seem to have constituted the whole staff of the Heralds’ College and took all the fees they could make. The proclamation 4 September 1660, addressed to Sir Edward Walker (he had been deposed in 1645 and was recreated Garter 1660), declares, “ Whereas Edward Bish, Arthur Squibb, and Wm Ryley have for divers years usurped,” etc. It then enacts that all grants of Arms made by them be null and void, and orders them to be destroyed and defaced. (The original is at the College—see my “ Earl Marshal’s Court in England,” pp. 58-9.) Therefore Thomas Greenhill’s father’s grant was null and yoid ! Among the Papers at the Heralds’ College there is a note that a drawing on