Hill press, in a volume entitled ‘Miscellaneous Antiquities,’ 1772, 4to (cf. Dallaway, Inquiries into the Origin and Progress of Heraldry, p. 222). 5. Verses in praise of J. Guillim's ‘Rudimentes of the Arte of Armorye,’ circ. 1610, Addit. MS. 26680. 6. ‘The Genealogie or Pedegree of … Captaine Sir William Cole of the Castell of Eneskillen,’ 1630, compiled in collaboration with William Penson, Lancaster herald. This was privately printed [London?], 1870, 4to, with additions under the certificates of Sir W. Betham and Sir J. Bernard Burke, Ulster kings-of-arms. 7. ‘R. Jacobi I Delineatio Metrica,’ being Latin verses addressed to James I and the Emperor Charles V, Royal MS. in British Museum, 12 G. ix. 8. ‘Aspidora Segariana, or the Grants, Confirmations, &c. of Sir W. Segar,’ Addit. MS. 12225: a copy collated by Simon Segar, his great-grandson. 9. ‘The Earl Marshal his Office both in Peace and War. Set down by the Special Commandment from the King's Majesty's own Mouth,’ printed in Guillim's ‘Display of Heraldry,’ ed. 1724, from the Ashmolean MS. 856, p. 431. 10. ‘Pedigree of the Family of Weston, of Sutton Place, Surrey. Addit. MS. 31890. 11. ‘The Arms and Descents of all the Kings of England from Egbert to Queen Elizabeth,’ Addit. MS. 27438. 12. ‘Baronagium Genealogicum: or the pedigrees of the English Peers, deduced from the earliest times … including as well collateral as lineal descents. Originally compiled … by Sir W. Segar, and continued to the present time by Joseph Edmondson,’ 6 vols., London, 1764–84, fol. 13. ‘Original Institvtions of the Princely Orders of Collars,’ Edinburgh, 1823, 4to, privately printed from a fine manuscript on vellum, in the library of the Faculty of Advocates; dedicated to James I.
To him has been attributed the authorship of ‘The Cities great Concern, in this Code or Question of Honour and Arms, whether Apprenteship extinguisheth Gentry?’ 1675 (Moule, Bibl. Heraldica, p. 194). The real author was Edmund Bolton [q. v.]
His great-grandson, Simon Segar (fl. 1656–1712), son and heir of Thomas Segar of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, was admitted a member of Gray's Inn in 1656. On 14 June 1677 he was appointed collector of all the duties of the house, except commons due to the steward. In 1674 he was appointed second butler and library keeper, and in 1675 several sums of money were paid to him for ‘setting up of the Readers' coates of armes in the Library’ (Douthwaite, Gray's Inn: its History and Associations, 1886, pp. 23, 178, 279). He published ‘Honores Anglicani; or Titles of Honour the Temporal Nobility of the English Nation (quatenus such) have had, or do now enjoy,’ London, 1712 and 1715, 8vo (MOULE, pp. 278, 279). He was also the author of ‘A Table showing the number of gentlemen admitted into the society of Gray's Inn in each year from 1521 to 1674, with an alphabetical List of the Benchers and Treasurers and other matter directly drawn from authentic sources’ (Harleian MS. 1912).
[Addit. MS. 34217 f. 2 b; Anstis's Order of the Garter, i. 398; Ashmole's Hist. of the Garter, Append. n., lxxiv. pp, 418, 618; Bromley's Cat. of Engr. Portraits; Brydges's Censura Lit.; Letters of George, Lord Carew, to Sir Thomas Roe, pp. 72, 73; Dallaway's Inquiries, p. 122; Foster's Gray's Inn Admission Register, preface; Granger's Biogr. Hist. of England; Guillim's Display of Heraldry (1724), i. 56, 419; Harleian MSS. 1084, 1107 art. 21, 1301 art. 7; Lansdowne MS. 255, art. 65; Moule's Bibl. Herald, pp. 37, 52, 194, 279; Nichols's Progr. Eliz. iii. 41; Nicholas's Memoir of Augustine Vincent, p. 55; Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. xi. 430; Noble's College of Arms, pp. 172, 181, 186, 203, 202, 230, 293; Weever's Funeral Mon. p. 682.]
SEGRAVE, GILBERT de (d. 1254), judge, was second son of Stephen de Segrave (d. 1241) [q. v.], by Rohesia, daughter of Thomas Despenser. His elder brother having died in their father's lifetime, he succeeded to the family estates in Leicestershire in 1241. Dugdale seems to have been in error in describing him as a canon of St. Paul's, for he does not appear in the lists. In 1231 Gilbert de Segrave had a grant of Kegworth in Leicestershire, and shortly after was made governor of Bolsover Castle. He was appointed justice of the forests south of the Trent in 1242 (Rôles Gascons, i. 104, &c.) and governor of Kenilworth Castle. In 1251 he was one of the justices to hear pleas in the city of London, but was not noticed as a judge after January 1252. In 1253 he accompanied the king to Gascony (ib. i. 2131, 2195, 2199, 2620). In January 1254 he was sent home by the king as one of his messengers to ask for money from the parliament (Matt. Paris, v. 423). Afterwards he rejoined the king, and was in Gascony on 16 June, and at Bordeaux as late as 7 Sept. (Rôles Gascons, i. 3792, 4015). Very soon afterwards, having obtained a safe-conduct from Louis IX, he started home through Poitou in the company of John de Plessis, earl of Warwick [q. v.], and other nobles. The party was treacherously seized by the citizens of Pons in Poitou, where Segrave fell ill, and died in prison before 8 Oct. (cf. ib. i. 3487; Ann.
