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ABBOT ancient animal argent armour azure badge banner Baron bend bezants bird blazoned BOHUN bordure bore borne Cap of Maintenance charge chevron chief coats of arms collar College of Arms colour coronet crest crosses pattées crown devices dexter differenced different tincture diminutive Ditto DUKE eagle EARL Earl Marshal early EDWARD EDWARD III effigy emblem England engrailed ensign ermine escutcheon example feathers fesse field fleurs-de-lis Garter George gold guardant gules head heiress helm helmet HENRY HENRY III heraldic Heraldry Honourable Ordinaries impaled insignia JOHN King Knights label lines LORD lozenge mantle mark of Cadency Marshalling Martlet metal middle ages mitres monument motto mullets naiant NEVILLE Order of Knighthood ornamental pale passant placed PLANTAGENET points PRINCE quartered shield QUEEN represented RICHARD II rose roundel sable saltire seal semée shield of arms sinister sometimes Sovereign surmounted tabard tail term tincture vert Westminster Abbey wings worn wreath
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Page 337 - England, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron...
Page 76 - The variations of colour have been evidently made for distinction, and the gold lion of England and the red lion of Scotland were equally honourable. It may not be out of place to call attention here to the numerous inns throughout the country still bearing the signs of " the red lion" and
Page 153 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Page 244 - GROSVENOR to bear the same arms within a bordure argent, — this concession being made in consideration of the good presumptive evidence that had been adduced in support of his claim ; but the King finally decided, on an appeal to him, that the arms were exclusively those of SCROPE, and that they could not be borne simply differenced with a bordure by GROSVENOR, considering that "a bordure is not a sufficient difference between two strangers in the same kingdom, but only between cousin and cousin...
Page 8 - ... which is opposite to the left hand of the person looking at it, is the dexter side (A, No.
Page 3 - And sigh'd my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment, Whilst you have fed upon my signories, Dispark'd my parks, and fell'd my forest woods, From mine own windows torn my household coat, Raz'd out my impress, leaving me no sign, Save men's opinions, and my living blood, To shew the world I am a gentleman.
Page 348 - November in the three and fortieth year of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lady ELIZABETH by the grace of GOD QUENE OF ENGLAND FRAUNCE and IRELAND Defender of the Fayth &c 1 600. " (Signed) WILLM. CAMDEN, Clarencieux Kinge of Armes.
Page 169 - That the Lucys were fond of litigation is implied by the opening lines of " The Merry Wives of Windsor," and justified by history. In the conversation between Shallow, Slender, and Evans, Slender says, " They may give the dozen white luces in their coat." To which Shallow replies,
Page 25 - And on his breast a bloody cross he bore, The dear remembrance of his dying Lord. For whose sweet sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead (as living) ever him adored: Upon his shield the like was also scored, For sovereign hope, which in his help he had...
Page 170 - A fabulous heraldic monster, with the body of a lion and the head of a man, having horns on the head.