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Advantages Resulting From The Study Of Heraldry.
period of the Conquest to the present day . First , wc have the two lions , the insignia of the Conqueror's Norman dukedom , as the arms assigned by him to England . A third lion was added by Henry III ., in right of his wife , Elinor of Aquitaine , a single lion being the arms of that dukedom . Thuswhen we see two lions only as the arms
, of England , we know them to be of earlier date than the reign of that sovereign . Again , the introduction of the Jleur de lis , and their alteration from semee , or an indefinite number , to three , forms another period in the annals of our national arms . Extending from Edward III ., who first introduced them in right of his mothera daughter of the
, King of France , to that of Henry V ., who reduced them to three , as they have ever since been borne by the sovereigns of both countries . Again , the introduction of the arms of Scotland and Ireland into the national escutcheon in the
reign of James I ., of those of Hanover on the accession of the House of Brunswick , and their omission by our present sovereign , may * all be made use of as emblazoned representations of the events which they commemorate . That a knowledge of Heraldry and genealogy is of essential service to the lawyer , the most sceptical , as to the
real usefulness of Heraldry as a study , can hardly venture to doubt . Many instances have occurred in which legal questions of the most intricate nature , and after a prolonged contest of many years , have been decided by the production of a coat of arms from the " storied window" of the parish church , or the mouldering tomb of an almost
forgotten ancestor . Thus in questions of pedigree , upon which titles and considerable possessions sometimes depend , families and intermarriages may be traced from the coats of arms borne by particular individuals . Burton , the author of the history of Leicestershire , himself an excellent lawyerwas so sensible of the value of Heraldic memorials
, , that , in order to make them still more useful to posterity , he collected copies of coat armour from church windows and monuments for the avowed purpose , as he himself says , " Of rectify ing armouries and genealogies , and of giving such testimony and proof as might put an end to many differences . " The same author in another passage says :
" The antiquity of a church window for the proof of a match and issue , hath been delivered to a jury at an assize , and been accepted . " Again , Bigland , who wrote a Treatise on Parochial Registers in the year 1761 , says ; " 1
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Advantages Resulting From The Study Of Heraldry.
period of the Conquest to the present day . First , wc have the two lions , the insignia of the Conqueror's Norman dukedom , as the arms assigned by him to England . A third lion was added by Henry III ., in right of his wife , Elinor of Aquitaine , a single lion being the arms of that dukedom . Thuswhen we see two lions only as the arms
, of England , we know them to be of earlier date than the reign of that sovereign . Again , the introduction of the Jleur de lis , and their alteration from semee , or an indefinite number , to three , forms another period in the annals of our national arms . Extending from Edward III ., who first introduced them in right of his mothera daughter of the
, King of France , to that of Henry V ., who reduced them to three , as they have ever since been borne by the sovereigns of both countries . Again , the introduction of the arms of Scotland and Ireland into the national escutcheon in the
reign of James I ., of those of Hanover on the accession of the House of Brunswick , and their omission by our present sovereign , may * all be made use of as emblazoned representations of the events which they commemorate . That a knowledge of Heraldry and genealogy is of essential service to the lawyer , the most sceptical , as to the
real usefulness of Heraldry as a study , can hardly venture to doubt . Many instances have occurred in which legal questions of the most intricate nature , and after a prolonged contest of many years , have been decided by the production of a coat of arms from the " storied window" of the parish church , or the mouldering tomb of an almost
forgotten ancestor . Thus in questions of pedigree , upon which titles and considerable possessions sometimes depend , families and intermarriages may be traced from the coats of arms borne by particular individuals . Burton , the author of the history of Leicestershire , himself an excellent lawyerwas so sensible of the value of Heraldic memorials
, , that , in order to make them still more useful to posterity , he collected copies of coat armour from church windows and monuments for the avowed purpose , as he himself says , " Of rectify ing armouries and genealogies , and of giving such testimony and proof as might put an end to many differences . " The same author in another passage says :
" The antiquity of a church window for the proof of a match and issue , hath been delivered to a jury at an assize , and been accepted . " Again , Bigland , who wrote a Treatise on Parochial Registers in the year 1761 , says ; " 1