Excerpt from Sir John Vanbrugh, Vol. 1 of 2: Edited by W. C. Ward
What authentic intelligence we possess of the birth and parentage of Sir John Vanbrugh is derived mainly from three sources: the first, an account furnished by himself, in 1714, to the Earl of Suffolk and Bindon, Deputy Earl Marshal, on the occasion of his claiming the right to bear the arms of his family; the second, the scanty information collected by his colleague in the College of Arms, Peter Le Neve; the third, certain parish registers in London and Chester. Of the last two sources of information, unexplored by previous biographers of the dramatist, I have made considerable use in the following pages. The first, already familiar to students of Vanbrugh, supplied Mark Noble with the particulars published in his History of the College of Arms London, 1804.
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