_Queen's Messengers_.--I should esteem it a favour conferred if any
of your readers could give me any memoranda touching the early
origin of the corps now termed Queen's Messengers, the former
"Knightes caligate of Armes." The only mention that I have read of
their origin is a brief notice in Knight's _London_, No. 131. p. 91;
but doubtless there exists, did I know what works to consult, many
more voluminous a history of their origin and proceedings than the
short summary given in the work of Mr. Knight. In whose reign were
they first created? and by whom were they appointed? In fact, any
data relating to their early history would very much oblige,