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Grants Of Armorial Bearings
COLLEGE OF ETON . THE first two of the following documents were most likely issued in the year 1439 or 1440 , when the Bishop of Bath and Chancellor
of England was Thomas Bekyngton . On the 30 th of July , 1440 , King Henry the Sixth , probably at the suggestion of Bekyngton , visited Winchester , and examined the plan of Wykeham ' s foundation there , preparatory to the settlement of the college which he projected at Eton . The charter of foundation passed the Great Seal in 1441 .
The power to issue commissions for levying persons or things necessary for the king ' s service was for many ages a branch of the royal prerogative , and still exists in the impressment of seamen . The third document , is a grant of relicks to the college by Henry the Sixth , & c .
The fourth document is the grant of arms to the College of Eton , inrolled , 1 . January 27 , Henry VI ., 1449 : * and the fifth a grant to Roger Keys , clerk , for his service during the building of the college ; in which grant Thomas , his brother , and his descendants , are
included . The substance of the grant to Keys is as follows : — " Considering the acceptable and laudable services which our beloved clerk , Roger Keys , in many and divers ways renders , and will in future render to us , as well in our operations connected with the building of our
Royal College of St . Mary of Etoir , as in other respects , and wishing to impart our grace to the same Roger , and Thomas Keys , his brother , and his [ descendants ] , by the before-mentioned honours , privileges , and dignities , we ennoble , and make and create noble , the same Roger and Thomas , as well-deserving and acceptable to us , and also the
children and descendants of the said Thomas . And in sign of this nobility , we give and grant for ever the arms and ensigns of arms depicted in these our letters , with the liberties , immunities , privileges , franchises , rights , and other distinctions to noble men due and accustomed . " Per chevron Gules and Sable , three keys Or , the wards of the two in chief facing each other , and of the one in base to the sinister .
The words of this grant are very remarkable . It would appear from them , that in the reign of Henry the Sixth the same principle prevailed in England , which then and now exists in France and other countries , namely , that the right to bear arms rendered a man noble ; and , therefore , that it is a perversion of the original designation of the term to confine it to Peers . The arguments stated in favour of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Grants Of Armorial Bearings
COLLEGE OF ETON . THE first two of the following documents were most likely issued in the year 1439 or 1440 , when the Bishop of Bath and Chancellor
of England was Thomas Bekyngton . On the 30 th of July , 1440 , King Henry the Sixth , probably at the suggestion of Bekyngton , visited Winchester , and examined the plan of Wykeham ' s foundation there , preparatory to the settlement of the college which he projected at Eton . The charter of foundation passed the Great Seal in 1441 .
The power to issue commissions for levying persons or things necessary for the king ' s service was for many ages a branch of the royal prerogative , and still exists in the impressment of seamen . The third document , is a grant of relicks to the college by Henry the Sixth , & c .
The fourth document is the grant of arms to the College of Eton , inrolled , 1 . January 27 , Henry VI ., 1449 : * and the fifth a grant to Roger Keys , clerk , for his service during the building of the college ; in which grant Thomas , his brother , and his descendants , are
included . The substance of the grant to Keys is as follows : — " Considering the acceptable and laudable services which our beloved clerk , Roger Keys , in many and divers ways renders , and will in future render to us , as well in our operations connected with the building of our
Royal College of St . Mary of Etoir , as in other respects , and wishing to impart our grace to the same Roger , and Thomas Keys , his brother , and his [ descendants ] , by the before-mentioned honours , privileges , and dignities , we ennoble , and make and create noble , the same Roger and Thomas , as well-deserving and acceptable to us , and also the
children and descendants of the said Thomas . And in sign of this nobility , we give and grant for ever the arms and ensigns of arms depicted in these our letters , with the liberties , immunities , privileges , franchises , rights , and other distinctions to noble men due and accustomed . " Per chevron Gules and Sable , three keys Or , the wards of the two in chief facing each other , and of the one in base to the sinister .
The words of this grant are very remarkable . It would appear from them , that in the reign of Henry the Sixth the same principle prevailed in England , which then and now exists in France and other countries , namely , that the right to bear arms rendered a man noble ; and , therefore , that it is a perversion of the original designation of the term to confine it to Peers . The arguments stated in favour of