Edward Walker (officer of arms) neither Walker nor Bysshe (who had been appointed Clarenceux) took any steps to comply. The Commissioners let matters go at that, but in 1672 Charles II revived the office of hereditary Earl Marshal in the Howard family, giving it to Henry Earl of Norwich, later Duke of Norfolk. The new Earl Marshal was not a man to be trifled with, and very shortly made an order, said to have been drafted by Dugdale, with which he required Walkers compliance. Walker was so ill-advised as to petition the Privy Council claiming a right to grant arms independently of the Earl Marshal’s
Norragh (hereditary barony) Norragh (hereditary barony) The Barony of Norragh in County Kildare was an Irish feudal barony- the holder had the right to call himself Baron, but did not hold a peerage and had no right to sit in the Irish House of Lords. It was granted by Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Leinster and Earl of Pembroke, also known as Strongbow, to Robert St. Michael before 1176. In 1220 Peter de Norrach, probably a descendant of St. Michael, was baron of Norragh. In 1241 Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke granted Geoffrey son of Peter two-thirds of the barony