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Page xiii - OF YORK. Whereas the King's most excellent Majesty, being desireous that the Nobility of this his Realm should be preserved in each degree as well in...
Page xiv - Commission) to advertise you, and all other his Majesties good and Loyal Subjects of this County, that, as you and they tender his said Majesties pleasure herein, from henceforth you forbear, in any writing or otherwise, to attribute unto them those additions of Esquire or Gentleman, until the said persons so assuming those Titles shall stand to and justify the same by the Law of Armes of this his Majesties Realm; or that you be ascertained thereof in writing, by advertisement from me the said Norroy...
Page xiii - Writers or any other whatsoever they be to call name or write in any Assize Sessions Court or any other open place or places or else to give or use in any Writing the addition of Esquire or Gentleman...
Page xiii - ... to peruse and take knowledge of all manner of coat armour, cognizances, crests, and other like devices, with the notes of the descents, pedigrees, and marriages, of all the nobility and gentry therein; and also to reprove, control and make infamous by proclamation, all such as unlawfully, and without just authority, usurped or took any name or title of honour or dignity.
Page xii - ... then a youth of seventeen or eighteen years, but already remarkable for his skill in the transcribing of pedigrees, and the tricking and depicting of armorial bearings.-fIt is evident that in the earlier years of the Restoration the pride of family was not universally prevalent in the county of York. Nearly one-third of the whole number of gentry whom the herald called upon to appear before him with proofs of their arms and pedigrees treated his summonses with neglect. The following precept,...
Page xiii - ... unlawful arms, crests, cognizances, and devices, " in plate, jewels, paper, parchment, windows, gravestones and monuments or elsewhere wheresoever they be set or placed." He was also to make infamous by proclamation any person who unlawfully and without just authority had " usurped and taken upon him any name or title of honour or dignity as esquire, gentleman or other." A person summoned to appear before an Officer of Arms might satisfy him that the arms he bore were lawfully his, by grant to...
Page xiv - Crests as above said, and taken upon them those titles and dignities of Esquire or Gentleman; and having received no sufficient proof of such their right thereunto, and my own justification for allowance thereof according to the trust reposed in me by his said Majesty in that behalf, but that they have presumptuously usurped the same, without any good ground or Authority, contrary to all right, and to the antient and laudable custome of this Realm, and usage of the Law of Armes: do hereby declare,...
Page 16 - Out of a ducal coronet or a dexter arm embowed in armour proper, the hand grasping a sword argent, pommelled and flamed of the first. He refers to tho Visit, of Shropshire, but there i
Page xxii - In this list may be recognised a few of the wellknown antient gentry of the county, besides many heads of families whose descendants at this day would have rejoiced had they then placed their pedigrees upon record. But the majority of the names were probably then of little note, and are now wholly lost sight of.
Page xiii - ... England, more fully doth appear. Know ye therefore that I, the said Norroy, in pursuance and accomplishment of his said Majesties desire, and furtherance of his service herein, having in my last visit within this County of York, by due summons, required the persons whose names are hereunto annext, to shew unto me by what right they do use and bear any such Arms, Cognizances, and Crests as above and take upon them those titles and dignities of...