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argent argent and gules azure Badge-a Badge-the beaked blue Bohun Bourchier Boutell Bowen knot bull's head Burke charged Clan Coll collared and chained College of Arms Colours-argent Colours-four stripes Colours-gules coronet crest crowned Cussans cypher Dacre depicted design from Prince Doyle dragon ducally gorged Duke of John Earl of Henry Earl of John Earl of Stafford Edward erect argent ermine falcon Family of Stafford fleur-de-lis Garter gold gorged and chained grant gules Harl head erased Henry VIII Heraldic Badges heraldry King knot Fig Lancaster lion livery colours Lord Mayster Motto Mowbray mullet Norfolk officers of arms ostrich feather erect Planché Political Poem portcullis Prince Arthur's Book ragged staff red rose Richard rose-en-soleil Royal Warrant sable and gules Seal shield silver Sir John Stafford knot Standard Standard-MS Stourton Suffolk sun-burst swan three ostrich feathers tournament Tudor rose unguled Vide Fig Viscount Wales whyt William Stafford wings elevated Woodward wreath
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Page 157 - We welcome a second edition of this valuable work. . . Mr. Loraine Petre is an authority on the wars of the great Napoleon, and has brought the greatest care...
Page 35 - Laws of Arms without the Let or Interruption of any Person or Persons whatsoever...
Page 15 - He thinks there may be also an allusion to the old proverbial phrase of "dining with Duke Humphrey;" which is said to have originated in the fact that one of the aisles in St. Paul's Cathedral, called Duke Humphrey's Walk, was a place where those who had no means of getting a dinner used to loiter during the usual hour of the meal, as if detained by some business. Cf. Gabriel Harvey's Foure Letters, etc., 1592 : " to seeke his dinner in Poules with Duke Humphrey...
Page 158 - THE THAMES From Chelsea to the Nore A Series of 31 full-page Lithographs (5 in Colour). By THOMAS R. WAY. With a descriptive text by WALTER G. BELL. Uniform with " Reliques of Old London," "Architectural Remains of Richmond, etc.," " Ancient Royal Palaces,
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Page 46 - Fig. 677 represents the famous badge of the "broomcod " or " planta genista," from which the name of the dynasty was derived. It appears to have been first used by King Henry II., though it figures in the decoration of the tomb of Geoffrey, Count of Anjou. " Peascod " Street in Windsor of course derives its name therefrom. The well-known badges of the white and red roses of York and Lancaster have been already referred to, and Fig. 678, the well-known device of the " rose-en-soliel " used by King...
Page 52 - When we arrive at the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century...
Page 157 - THE HOUSE IN ST. MARTIN'S STREET. Being Chronicles of the Burney Family. By CONSTANCE HILL, Author of " Jane Austen, Her Home, and Her Friends," " Juniper Hall,
Page 35 - Gules and sable beaked and mernbered of the Second ; to be used and borne at all times and upon all occasions by the said Earl of Stafford and the heirs males of his body, and such persons to whom the said Earldom shall descend according to the Law and Practice of Arms without the let or interruption of any Person or Persons...
Page 56 - every standard or guydhome is to hang in the chiefe the Crosse of St. George, to be slitte at the ende, and to conteyne the crest or supporter, with the poesy, worde and devise of the owner...