English Heraldry

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Reeves and Turner, 1908 - Heraldry - 343 pages
 

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Page 297 - The Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench.
Page 1 - With shame I confess it, my dear Miss Vernon, the mysteries couched under the grim hieroglyphics of heraldry are to me as unintelligible as those of the pyramids of Egypt.
Page 296 - Council. The Lord Privy Seal. The Lord Great Chamberlain. The Lord High Constable. The Earl Marshal. The Lord High Admiral. The Lord Steward of Her Majesty's Household. The Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household. Dukes, according to their patent of creation. Marquises, according to their patent of creation. Dukes' eldest sons. Earls, according to their patents. Marquises
Page 139 - He who looks at Martin's ape, Martin's ape shall look at him !" having reference to their crest, of "an ape observing himself in a looking-glass.
Page 268 - ... or. Motto.— Dieu et mon Droit in the compartment below the shield, with the Union rose, shamrock, and thistle ingrafted on the same stem. Arms have been ascribed by heralds to the Saxon and Norman monarchs of England in the 10th and llth centuries ; but as heraldry was, in point of fact, unknown till the middle of the 12th c., they must be dealt with as fabulous. However, at a...
Page 310 - October, the xxxviij. yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God Quene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faythe, etc.
Page 298 - Eldest sons of the younger sons of Peers. Eldest sons of Baronets. Eldest sons of Knights.
Page 310 - Gould, on a Bend Sables, a Speare of the first steeled argent. And for his creast or cognizaunce a falcon his winges displayed Argent standing on a wrethe of his coullers: suppo(rting) a Speare Gould steeled as aforesaid sett vppon a helmett with mantelles & tasselles as hath ben accustomed...
Page 310 - After a preamble it is stated that being by " credible report informed that John Shakespeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon in the county of Warwick, whose parents and late antecessors were for their valiant and faithful service advanced and rewarded by the most prudent prince King Henry the Seventh of famous memorie...
Page 5 - ... immunity in respect of any complicity with the views of their respective authors. It cannot be too often repeated that the Council, as a body, has no theories of its own. Its formation is due to the existence of some facts which cannot and ought not to be ignored. First, the almost universal desire common in all ages of the world, and amongst all races of men, for obtaining more command over the comparatively unoccupied space which has continually eluded all attempts, although man observes that...

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