The Manual of Heraldry: Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science

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J.S. Virtue & Company, 1876 - 132 ページ

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45 ページ - Marquises' eldest Sons. Dukes' younger Sons. VISCOUNTS, according to their Patents. Earls' eldest Sons. Marquises' younger Sons. Bishops of London, Durham, and Winchester. All other English Bishops, according to their Seniority of Consecration, (d) Bishops of Meath and Kildare.
5 ページ - Arms of Family, or paternal arms, are such as are hereditary and belong to one particular family, which none others have a right to assume, nor can they do so without rendering themselves guilty of a breach of the laws of honor, punishable by the Earl Marshal and the Kings-at-Arms.
58 ページ - Again the side of the shield which would be on the right hand of any A, the dexter chief. B, the precise middle chief. C, the sinister chief. D, the honour point. E, the fess point. F, the nombril point. G, the dexter base. H, the precise middle base. I, the sinister base. one standing behind it is called the dexter side, and the other side is called the sinister.
45 ページ - Chancellor of the Exchequer. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Master of the Rolls. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Judges and Barons of the degree of the Coif of the said Courts, according to Seniority.
4 ページ - ... foreign king or lord ; thus the Kings of England for many ages quartered the arms of France in their escutcheon as the descendants of Edward III, who claimed that kingdom, in right of his mother, a French princess.
17 ページ - ... used in coats of arms, and which are distinguished by terms appropriated to each of them. Common charges are composed of natural, artificial, and even chimerical things ; such as planets, creatures, vegetables, instruments &c. .The most judicious armorists admit only of nine honorable ordinaries, viz. The Chief; the Pale; the Bend; the Bend Sinister; the Fess : the Bar; the Chevron; the Cross; and the Saltier. Of these only six have diminutives, which are called as follows : That of the chief...
45 ページ - Speaker of the House of Commons. Viscounts' eldest Sons. Earls' younger Sons. Barons

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