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 pp. 157–247; the ‘Phœnix,’ 1707–8, i. 181–221; ‘A Collection of Tracts,’ 1721; ‘Paul Hentzner's Travels in England,’ 1797, with portraits; ‘Memoirs of Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth,’ edited by Sir Walter Scott, pp. 169–301; the ‘Harleian Miscellany,’ 1809, ii. 81–108, and the ‘Somers Tracts.’ A French translation of the work is appended to Gregorio Leti's ‘La Vie d'Elisabeth, Reine d'Angleterre,’ Amsterdam, 1703, 8vo, and an Italian translation made through the French appears in Leti's ‘Historia o vero vita di Elisabetta,’ Amsterdam, 1703. Another French version, by S. Le Pelletier, was issued in London in 1745.

Some Latin and English verses and epitaphs by Naunton on Lords Essex and Salisbury, and members of his own family, are printed in the ‘Memoirs,’ 1814, from manuscript notes in a copy of Holland's ‘Heroōlogia,’ once in Naunton's possession. Several of Naunton's letters to Buckingham between 1618 and 1623 are among the Fortescue Papers at Dropmore, and have been edited by Mr. S. R. Gardiner in the volume of Fortescue Papers issued by the Camden Society. Others of his letters are in the British Museum (cf. Harl. MSS. 1581, Nos. 22–3); at Melbourne Hall (Cowper MSS.), and at the Public Record Office.

A fine engraving by Robert Cooper, from a painting dated 1615 ‘in possession of Mr. Read,’ a descendant of Naunton's brother William, appears in ‘Memoirs of Sir Robert Naunton,’ 1814. Another engraving is by Simon Passi.

[Memoirs of Sir Robert Naunton, knt., London, 1814, fol.; Weever's Funerall Monuments, 1631, pp. 756–7; Fuller's Worthies, 1662, pt. iv. p. 64; Birch's Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth; Lloyd's Memoirs, 1665; Nichols's Leicestershire, iii. 515 seq.; Page's Suffolk, p. 119; Spedding's Life of Bacon; Cal. State Papers, 1618–35; Gardiner's Hist.; Strafford Papers, i. 369, 372, 389, 410–12. A paper roll, containing a ‘stemma’ of the Naunton family made by James Jermyn in 1806, is in Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 17098.] 

NAVARRE, JOAN {{sc|of} (1370?-1437). [See .]

NAYLER, GEORGE (1764?–1831), Garter king-of-arms, was fifth son of George Nayler, surgeon, of Stroud, Gloucestershire, and one of the coroners of the county, by Sarah, daughter of John Fark of Clitheroe, Lancashire. The Duke of Norfolk gave him a commission in the West York militia, and in recognition of his taste for genealogy appointed him Blanc Coursier herald and genealogist of the order of the Bath on 15 June 1792. His noble vellum volumes of the genealogies of the knights of the Bath, now in the library of the College of Arms, are eulogised by Mark Noble in the last paragraph of his ‘History’ of the college (1804). Nayler became an actual member of the college when appointed Bluemantle Pursuivant in December 1793. On 15 March 1794 he was made York herald. When the Emperor Alexander of Russia was to be invested with the Garter in September 1813, Nayler, greatly to his disappointment, was not included in the mission. By way of consolation, the Duke of York, to whom he was a persona grata, persuaded the regent to knight him (28 Nov. 1813). At the extension of the order of the Bath in January 1815, Nayler was confirmed in his position in connection with that order, and every knight commander and companion were required to furnish him with a statement of their respective military services, to be entered by him in books provided for that purpose. No salary was assigned to him in that capacity; his fees were trifling, and the ‘services,’ according to Sir Harris Nicolas (Hist. of the Order of the Bath, 1842, pp. 248–9), ‘after the lapse of twenty-five years still, it is believed, remain unwritten.’ When the Hanoverian Guelphic order was established in August 1815, he was appointed its first king-of-arms, and in the following year a knight of the order. Again, when an order was instituted for the Ionian Islands by the title of the Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, he was also nominated its first king-of-arms on 17 April 1818. On 23 May 1820 he was promoted Clarenceux king-of-arms, in which capacity he officiated as deputy to the aged Sir Isaac Heard (then Garter) at the coronation of George IV, and succeeded him as Garter on 11 May 1822. He went on four missions to foreign sovereigns with the Garter: to Denmark in 1822, to Portugal in 1823, to France in 1825, and to Russia in 1827. From John VI of Portugal he received the insignia of a knight commander of the Tower and Sword, which he was licensed by George IV to wear (5 June 1824). He also received from Spain the order of Charles III.

Nayler died suddenly at his house, 17 Hanover Square, on 28 Oct. 1831, aged about 67, having just survived the abridged ceremonial of the coronation of William IV and Queen Adelaide, and was buried in the family vault at St. John's Church, Gloucester, on 9 Nov. He left a widow and four daughters. His portrait, painted by Sir William Beechey, was engraved in mezzotint by Edward Scriven. 