The Visitation of Shropshire, Taken in the Year 1623, Volume 28 |
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Page xxvi - ... called heralds, who consider it only as a matter of lucre and not of justice: whereby such falsity and confusion have crept into their records, (which ought to be the standing evidence of families, descents, and...
Page xxvi - The marshalling of coat-armour, which was formerly the pride and study of all the best families in the kingdom is now greatly disregarded; and has fallen into the hands of certain officers and attendants upon this court, called heralds, who consider it only as a matter of lucre, and not of justice: whereby such falsity and confusion have crept into their records (which ought to be the standing evidence of families...
Page ix - ... power to give them, and that all persons should make it appear to officers to be appointed, by whose gift they enjoyed such arms, excepting those who had borne arms with the King at the battle of Agincourt.
Page xix - If I can find anything in our books at the office to justifye the arms you drew with his descent, I will do it ; but I have allready perused some books, and can find nothing out ; therefore it will be requisite that he do look over his own evidences for some seals of arms, for perhaps it appears in them ; and if so, and that they have used it from the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reigne, or about that time, I shall then allome thereof, far our directions are limiting us so to do, and not a shorter...
Page xlvii - Gentry therein contained, but also to reprove, control, and make infamous by Proclamation all such as unlawfully and without just authority, vocation, or due calling do, or have done, or shall usurp or take upon him or them any name or title of honour or dignity...
Page xiii - AT THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS IN THE REIGN OF JAMES I. From a " List of Persons who were disclaimed as Gentlemen of Coat " Armour by the Heralds at the Visitations of the various Counties " of England, with an introduction by John Paul Rylands, FSA " Guildford : 1888," I extract the following relating to persons in our county ; they were all disclaimed at the Visitation of 1623.
Page xlvii - Scriveners, Clerks, Writers, or other whatsoever they be, to call, name, or write in any Assize, Sessions Court, or other open place or places, or to use in any writing the addition...
Page 260 - Azure, on a saltire engrailed sable, five escallops of the field, on a chief of the second a lion passant of the first.
Page xiv - Staffordshire have made uoe proofe of their Gentry, bearing noe armes, and yet, before tyme, had called and written themselves Gentlemen, and were therefore disclaymed in the chiefe places of the Hundreds wherein they dwell.
Page xxiii - The said Sr. Ric. hath putt away his lady and wife and kepeth a concobyne in his house, by whom he hath divers children.