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Leicestershire Pedigrees and Royal Descents (Classic Reprint) William George Dimock Fletcher No preview available - 2018 |
Leicestershire Pedigrees and Royal Descents (Classic Reprint) William George Dimock Fletcher No preview available - 2018 |
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2nd Earl 2ndly Agnes Alice Anne Anstey April argent Arms Arthur Ashby Ashby Folvile August Bainbrigge Barkby Bart BELLARS Blaby Bourchier Burke's Landed Gentry Burton Overy Camb Capt Carlton Curlieu Catherine Charles Chester Coll Count of Hainault Crick Derby descent from EDWARD Dorothy Duke Edmund EDWARD III Eleanor Eliza Elizabeth Fletcher Frances Freer George Grey gules Hall Hannah Hartopp Hesilrige High Sheriff Holland Ibstock issue 2 sons James Jane Joan Joseph July June Kibworth King Leic Leicester Little Dalby Lockington Loddington London Loughborough manor March Margaret Maria Mary Nevill Nichols Noseley Pedigree Philippa Plantagenet Pochin prov Quenby Quorndon Ralph rector Richard Robert Rothley Temple ROYAL DESCENT Rutland Samuel Sarah Sept Shareshill Sir Henry Sir John Sir Thomas Slawston Theddingworth Ulceby vicar Warw widow wife Wigston William Wollaston
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Page 52 - she had the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity of old age — and all at eighteen — the birth of a princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, and the death of a malefactor for her parents
Page 52 - the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity of old age, and all at eighteen ; the birth of a princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, yet the death of a malefactor, for her parent's offences.
Page 106 - ... unworthily, though certainly not fully, carried out. In 1753, when the interest of the church had slept for two hundred years, William Hanbury, then twenty-five years of age, was instituted on his own petition, to the rectory of Church Langton. This singular man was an antiquarian, an architecturist, an ecclesiologist, a campanologist, an ardent lover and cultivator of church music, and a learned ritualist, at a time when a man with the spirit of any one of these was a curiosity. I am not afraid...
Page 155 - Argent, a cross engrailed sable between four pellets, each charged with a pheon or, on a canton azure a ducal crown gold.
Page 80 - Crest: Out of a ducal coronet or a plume of five ostrich feathers argent, therefrom issuant a falcon rising of the last. O' BYRNE Gules a chevron between three dexter hands couped at the wrist argent.
Page 36 - Crest.-A dexter arm embowed, vested vert, cuffed argent. In the hand proper, an arrow, pointed downward or, feathered of the second, pheoned azure.
Page 28 - An English author. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow, and was appointed treasurer of the household to Queen Charlotte. This office he resigned in 1818 and passed the later part of his life at Naples. During his long residence in Italy he became thoroughly acquainted with its language and literature, and wrote Italian verses with considerable fluency.
Page xii - Crest. On a chapeau, Gules, turned up ermine, a peacock in pride, proper. Supporters. Two unicorns, argent, their horns, manes, tufts, and hoofs, Or.
Page 80 - Argent on a bend sable three popinjays or, collared gules. CREST — A popinjay rising or, collared gules.
Page 75 - On a wreath, out of a ducal coronet or, a pelican argent, vulning herself proper.