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Page 396
... head of the house could alone use the pure unaltered coat . Even the heir apparent , or heir presumptive , had no right to use the ancestral coat . without some variation ; in common with the other cadets he had to bear it with a ...
... head of the house could alone use the pure unaltered coat . Even the heir apparent , or heir presumptive , had no right to use the ancestral coat . without some variation ; in common with the other cadets he had to bear it with a ...
Page 398
... House of Lords , Imperante Victoria , may be the head , or still more . probably the cadet , of a family of untitled gentlemen who can trace their descent in the male line , if they care so to do , to a companion of the Norman ( 398 )
... House of Lords , Imperante Victoria , may be the head , or still more . probably the cadet , of a family of untitled gentlemen who can trace their descent in the male line , if they care so to do , to a companion of the Norman ( 398 )
Page 399
... head of a race of gentlemen traceable back to the Conquest , from a junior branch of which sprang the celebrated house of Stafford , ducal under the title of Buckingham . " ( The Rise of Great Families , p . 33 , 1873. ) Still there has ...
... head of a race of gentlemen traceable back to the Conquest , from a junior branch of which sprang the celebrated house of Stafford , ducal under the title of Buckingham . " ( The Rise of Great Families , p . 33 , 1873. ) Still there has ...
Page 400
... head of the house , and to other cadets ; and in many cases also to suggest his maternal descent . I have Dr BURNETT'S authority for stating that : - " In the Official Register of Arms from 1672 up to 1888 the entries for members of the ...
... head of the house , and to other cadets ; and in many cases also to suggest his maternal descent . I have Dr BURNETT'S authority for stating that : - " In the Official Register of Arms from 1672 up to 1888 the entries for members of the ...
Page 401
... head of the house . " One of the principal duties imposed on LYON by the Scottish Parliament in 1592 , is the assigning of proper differ- ences to cadets , and the bearing of arms without such differences was made penal , by the ...
... head of the house . " One of the principal duties imposed on LYON by the Scottish Parliament in 1592 , is the assigning of proper differ- ences to cadets , and the bearing of arms without such differences was made penal , by the ...
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argent argent and azure argent and gules Armory augmentation AUSTRIA azure badge banner Barons baton bears bend-sinister bendlet blazon bordure bore borne brisure cadency cadets canton CASTILE Chapter charged CHARLES Chequy chevron chief colour componé Comte coronet Count of FLANDERS Countess Counts crescent crest cross crown d'argent d'Azur d'or debruised descent dexter difference differenced dimidiated DOUGLAS Duchy Duke eagle displayed Earl EDWARD EDWARD III ENGLAND engrailed ermine escallops escucheon en surtout examples fess FLANDERS fleurs-de-lis FRANCE golden granted gueules gules head heiress helm HENRY HENRY III heraldic Heraldry horns illegitimacy impaled Imperial JEAN King knight label lion rampant lion rampant gules Lord LOUIS mantling Marquises martlets motto mullets Ordinary pairle pale PHILIP placed Plate Prince quartered coat Quarterly Queen Roll Royal Arms sable saltire Scotland Scottish seal Seigneur semé shield sinister Sir JOHN supporters term applied tincture vert VRÉE WILLIAM wings
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Page 750 - Know Ye .that We of our princely grace and special favour, have given and granted and by these Presents do give and grant unto him the said...
Page 750 - SPEKE, Esquire, Captain in our Indian Military Forces, in connection with the discovery of the sources of the Nile, and who was, by a deplorable accident, suddenly deprived of his life before he had received any mark of our Royal favour ; and being desirous of preserving in his family the remembrance of these services by the grant of certain honourable armorial distinctions to his family arms : — Know ye that we, of our...
Page 534 - In his own country the king granted these honourable augmentations to his armorial ensign : a chief undulated, argent; thereon waves of the sea; from which a palm tree issuant, between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a ruinous battery on the sinister, all proper...
Page 750 - ... des armes de celuy qui le portera, et sur le dit lambrequin au plus haut du sommet, sera assis le dit Tymbre, et autour d'iceluy aura vn tortil des couleurs que voudra le Tournoyeur. " Item, et quand tous les heaulmes seront ainsi mis et ordonnez pour les departir, viendront toutes Dames et...
Page 398 - He was twentieth in descent from Geoffrey Lord Saye, who was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Charta. The family, paternally of Yorkshire origin, is descended from John Twisleton, of Barley, Yorkshire, who married the Hon.
Page 627 - SUPPORTERS are figures of living creatures placed at the side, or sides, of an armorial shield, and appearing to support it. French writers make a distinction, giving the name of Supports to animals, real or imaginary, thus employed ; while human figures or angels similarly used are called Tenants.
Page 652 - ... qui y appartiennent. Et s'il les a, il doit à la première bataille , où il se trouvera , apporter un pennon de ses armes, et doit venir au...
Page 604 - ... their Coats of Arms in the British dominions. But this was not always the case in Germany; for some of the great ecclesiastics, archbishops, bishops, abbots, and even others held their fiefs direct from the emperor, and as such were liable to feudal military service. Spener, the great German herald, says that in Germany, at any rate, universal custom is opposed to the omission of the crest, and ecclesiastics retained the full knightly insignia. On the other hand, in the southern kingdoms, clerics...
Page 652 - ... il doit, à la première bataille où il se trouvera, apporter un pennon de ses armes et doit venir au connétable, ou aux...
Page 628 - The old romances give us evidence that this custom prevailed ; but I think only after the use of supporters had already arisen from another source. "There is really little doubt now that Anstis was quite correct when, in his Aspilogia, he attributed the origin of supporters to the invention of the engraver, who filled up the spaces at the top and sides of the triangular shield upon a circular seal with foliage, or with fanciful animals. Any good collection of mediaeval seals will strengthen this...