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
William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (French: "Guillaume le Maréchal") (11906 April 1231) was a medieval English nobleman and was one of Magna Carta sureties. He fought during the First Barons' War and was present at the Battle of Lincoln (1217) alongside his father William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, who led the English troops in that battle. He commissioned a biography of his father to be written, called "L'Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal". William was born in Normandy probably during the spring of 1190, the eldest son of William Marshal, 1st Earl of