ANTIQUARTO
Brenton Simons on history, genealogy, collecting, and the arts
THE ANTIQUARTO
Upcoming online program: "The College of Arms in the 18th Century"
Join us on June 24, 2021 at 1 p.m. ET for "The College of Arms in the Eighteenth Century." Presented by Peter O'Donoghue, York Herald and moderated by Nathaniel Lane Taylor, FASG. AmericanAncestors.org The early decades of the eighteenth century saw the College of Arms at its lowest point in its history, when its relevance and even its survival seemed to be in doubt. Very few grants of Arms were being made, heraldic regulation was increasingly ineffective, and the practices o