W., F. S · Boston, D. Lothrop and company · leaf 279
requested instead to be permitted 126 DA.MK HKllALDllV. to place the arms of his family upon the breast of a hawk. Hispetition was granted, and the lords of the manor have since thattime always so borne their arms. In France, where supporters are treated with more respect thanis the crest, they… … credit to the vivid Irish imagination. Their ancestor, the first earlof Kildare, bore the nickname Nappagh, or ape, from a littleadventure that befell him when an infant. He was but nine monthsold when his father and grandfather were both killed in a battlewaged between them and their old-time…
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