The manual of heraldry : being a concise description of the several terms used, and containing a dictionary of every designation in the science. Illustrated by four hundred engravings on wood (1800)
Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL, Boston Public Library (John Adams Library) BRL · London : Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. ... · leaf 52
ic, on the sinister sidethe paternal arms of the bishop. Second, the arms ofthe femme; the widow of a bishop has a right to ex-hibit the arms of the see over which her husband pre-sided, as though his death has dissolved all connectionwith the see. She has a right to emblazon all that willhonour… … 44? MANUAL OF HERALDRY, CHAP. VII. ORDER OF PRECEDENCY. The order of precedency to be observed in Englandwas settled by an act of parliament passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of Henry VIII. The order hasbeen varied at different periods to accord with the alter-ations in the families of…
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