An essay to heraldry in two parts. The first containing ... the body of heraldry: the second, honour civil and military; being a treatise of the nobility and gentry of England ... The whole illustrated with variety of ... sculptures .. (1684)
Blome, Richard, d. 1705 · London, Printed by T.B. for Rich. Blome .. · leaf 365
to the third defcent,who are Gentlemen of Blood. FourthlyGentlemen of Coat Armour and not ofblood, as when the King gives them andtheir Heirs a Lerdjlrip by vertHe thereofthey may bear the Coat Amour of the oldLord, the Heralds approving thereof, andprovided the faid old Lords Family is ex-tinct.… … HERALDRY. %5S blood •, bu: note that no Chriflian Soldiermay bear another Chriflian s Coat al-though varq lifted by hi >n in Battle,butmay bear his Coat, in the fmifter Quarterwith the proper Coat of fuch aGen-tleman that he killed or put to flight, pro-vided it be done in an Army Royal…
Heraldry · Nobility
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