An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland: Forming an Extensive Ordinary of British Armorials; Upon an Entirely New Plan, in which the Arms are Systematically Subdivided Throughout, and So Arranged in Alphabetical Order, that the Names of Families Whose Shields are Found on Buildings, Monuments, Seals, Paintings, Plate, Etc., Whether Mediæval Or Modern, Can be Readily Ascertained, Volume 1 |
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Page 165 - Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Great Steward of Scotland, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
Page 364 - Quarterly, 1st, az.,a castle of three towers arg., masoned sa., standing on a rock ppr., doors and windows gu., on the top of the middle tower a cock, and on each of the others an eagle or ; 2nd, gyronny of eight, or and sa ; 3rd, or, a fesse chequy, az.
Page 213 - ... and become stereotyped concerning it renders its appearance extremely rare, but in at least two cases it occurs without, as far as I am aware, carrying any such meaning. At any rate, in neither case are the coats " bastardised " versions of older arms. These cases are the arms of Shiffner : " Azure, a bend sinister, in chief two estoiles, in like bend or ; in base the end and stock of an anchor gold, issuing from waves of the sea proper ; " and Burne-Jones : " Azure, on a bend sinister argent,...
Page 348 - Corporation seal represents a bridge thrown over a river, and consisting of one large arch and two demi arches ; on the river, a single-masted vessel, one half whereof appears to be got through the bridge, but with the mast and round top on the other side of the bridge.
Page 451 - Sable, a chevron or, between three lamps (the two in chief, one light each facing each other, the lamp in base with two lights) argent garnished or, illuminated proper.
Page 348 - Michael standing in a porch, mitred and vested ppr. ; his dexter hand elevated to heaven, praying over three children in a boiling cauldron, of the first; in the sinister hand a crosier or.
Page 476 - Joiners' company, incorporated llth of Elizabeth, 1569. Arms —Gules, a chevron argent, between two pairs of compasses in chief, extended at the points, and a sphere in base or, on a chief of the last, a pale azure, between two roses gules, seeded of the third, barbed vert, on the pale an escallop shell of the second.
Page 97 - Baronet by patent dated Nov. 2, 1813; on the extension of the order of the Bath, was appointed a Knight Commander; and, in Oct. 1818, promoted to the dignity of a Grand Cross of that order. He received, in 1822, an honourable augmentation to his arms, — on a chief azure, a mount vert, thereon a lion in the act of tearing the standard of the Mahratta prince Holkar, and, beneath, the word MADRIPORE.
Page 317 - The Blazon of his Armorial Ensigns reads: "Or a double headed Eagle displayed Gules charged on the breast with an Eastern Crown of the first, on a Chief Vert pendent from a chain two oval Medallions in Pale the one bearing arabic characters and the other a dagger in fess the blade wavy the point towards the dexter in relief Or, the said medallions and chain being a representation of a personal decoration called the Order of the Golden Sword conferred upon him by the Chief or King of Atcheen in Sumatra...
Page 22 - Sutton ; second and third, or, two bars az. a chief, quarterly, of the second and gu. the first and fourth quarters...