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Advantages Resulting From The Study Of Heraldry.
know three families who have acquired estates by virtue of preserving the arms and escutcheons of their ancestors . " Sir William Dugdale 3 to whom we owe so much as a topographer and genealogist , derived the greater part of his information , relative to the foundation and early history of churches and religious houses , from a comparison of
coats of arms on tombs , windows , and other internal decorations , with original documents . Amongst the evidence offered by the Earl of Huntingdon , and accepted by the Attorney General in 1818 , in support of his claim to the peerage of Huntingdon , a very ancient coat of arms was producedemblazoned with the armorial ensigns and
quarter-, ings of the Earl of Huntingdon , empaled with those of Stanley , as an evidence of the marriage of Henry V ., Earl of Huntingdon , with the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley Earl of Derby . It is evident that , two centuries back , the correctness of coat armour was a subject of much consideration .
Herald painters , says Grimalde , were ( to ensure accuracy ) obliged to obtain license from the Heralds' College to pursue their occupations , and were punishable , and punished ^
for acting without such authority ; and , in 1594 , the Earl of Kent made a complaint , to the Lord Treasurer , that Garter King at Arms , had granted to George Rotheram to bear and quarter his ancient coat without any difference . But if Heraldry is useful , a knowledge of genealogy , or at any rate a facility of tracing family history , and bringing
the result to bear upon intricate and perplexed cases of a contested pedigree , or property depending on'it , is indispensable to the lawyer . Nothing contributes in a greater degree to information on this point , than the study of ancient monuments and grave-stones , for the sake of the inscriptions engraved on them . Sir Henry Chauncey , in
his history of Hertfordshire , says , " These being memorials of our once flourishing ancestors , designed to perpetuate their remembrance to future ages , are of no despicable use to Heralds in tracing pedigrees , or lawyers in making out titles to estates . " Thus , in the claim to the Berner ' s Baronyevidence was adduced before the House of Lords
, , to prove that the time of the death of a party was not as engraved upon the monument . Again , in the case of the Earldom of Huntingdon , search was made on the part of the claimant for ancient monuments and grave-stones which might establish his claim . Again , in the case of the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Advantages Resulting From The Study Of Heraldry.
know three families who have acquired estates by virtue of preserving the arms and escutcheons of their ancestors . " Sir William Dugdale 3 to whom we owe so much as a topographer and genealogist , derived the greater part of his information , relative to the foundation and early history of churches and religious houses , from a comparison of
coats of arms on tombs , windows , and other internal decorations , with original documents . Amongst the evidence offered by the Earl of Huntingdon , and accepted by the Attorney General in 1818 , in support of his claim to the peerage of Huntingdon , a very ancient coat of arms was producedemblazoned with the armorial ensigns and
quarter-, ings of the Earl of Huntingdon , empaled with those of Stanley , as an evidence of the marriage of Henry V ., Earl of Huntingdon , with the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley Earl of Derby . It is evident that , two centuries back , the correctness of coat armour was a subject of much consideration .
Herald painters , says Grimalde , were ( to ensure accuracy ) obliged to obtain license from the Heralds' College to pursue their occupations , and were punishable , and punished ^
for acting without such authority ; and , in 1594 , the Earl of Kent made a complaint , to the Lord Treasurer , that Garter King at Arms , had granted to George Rotheram to bear and quarter his ancient coat without any difference . But if Heraldry is useful , a knowledge of genealogy , or at any rate a facility of tracing family history , and bringing
the result to bear upon intricate and perplexed cases of a contested pedigree , or property depending on'it , is indispensable to the lawyer . Nothing contributes in a greater degree to information on this point , than the study of ancient monuments and grave-stones , for the sake of the inscriptions engraved on them . Sir Henry Chauncey , in
his history of Hertfordshire , says , " These being memorials of our once flourishing ancestors , designed to perpetuate their remembrance to future ages , are of no despicable use to Heralds in tracing pedigrees , or lawyers in making out titles to estates . " Thus , in the claim to the Berner ' s Baronyevidence was adduced before the House of Lords
, , to prove that the time of the death of a party was not as engraved upon the monument . Again , in the case of the Earldom of Huntingdon , search was made on the part of the claimant for ancient monuments and grave-stones which might establish his claim . Again , in the case of the