 | 1859 - 448 pages
...devices, with the notes of the Descents, Pedigrees, and Marriages of all the Gentry therein contained, but also to reprove, control, and make infamous by Proclamation...all such as unlawfully and without just authority, vocation, or due calling do, or have done, or shall usurp or take upon him or them any name or title... | |
 | John Bernard Burke - 1860 - 608 pages
...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...all such as unlawfully, and without just authority, usurped or took any name or title of honour or dignity." In these invaluable documents are set forth... | |
 | 1871 - 706 pages
...gentlemen, and to cause those thus summoned to show by what authority they claimed the distinction, 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. • The mode of procedure was this : — On... | |
 | John Wade - 1871 - 946 pages
...throughout contained ; and also to reprove, control, and make infamous by proclamation all such as shall unlawfully, and without just authority, usurp or take any name or title of honour or dignity, as esquire or gentleman," &c. From these visitations entries were afterwards made... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1864 - 1348 pages
...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...all such as unlawfully, and without just authority, usurped or took any name or title of honour or dignity." In these documents are set forth the principal... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1893 - 450 pages
...Descents, Pedegrees, and Marriages of all the Gentry therein contained : but also to reprove, controul, and make infamous by Proclamation all such as unlawfully, and without just Authority, Vocation, or due calling, do or have done, or shall usurp, or take upon him or them any Name or Title,... | |
 | Charles Worthy - 1896 - 542 pages
...marriages, and issue," and the Kings of Arms and Heralds who presided were required " to reprove, confronte, and make infamous by proclamation all such as unlawfully and without just authority doe usurp or take upon them any n ime or title of honour or dignity as esquire or gentleman." There... | |
 | Adna James Fogg, John Lemuel Murray Willis - 1907 - 156 pages
...realm, and had the power to summon all who bore or assumed arms, to produce their credentials, and " To reprove, control and make infamous by proclamation, all such as unlawfully and without authority took such unto themselves." some one whose right has been admitted. This is the test, and... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne - 1916 - 460 pages
...coat-of-arms was strictly prohibited. In the reign of Henry VIII the Kings-of-Arms had been empowered "to reprove, control and make infamous by proclamation...all such as unlawfully and without just authority, usurped or took any name or title of honor or dignity, as esquire, gentleman, or other." It is of course... | |
 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - 1855 - 466 pages
...pedigrees, marriages, and issue of the nobility and gentry therein, but also to reprove, controule, and make infamous by proclamation all such as unlawfully and without just authority doe usurp or take upon them any name or title of honour or dignity, as Esquire or Gentleman, or other,... | |
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peruse and take knowledge, survey and view of all manner of arms, cognizances, crests, and other like devices, with the notes of the descents, pedigrees, and marriages of all the nobility and gentry therein... 
