The manual of heraldry : a concise description of the several terms used and containing a dictionary of every designation in the science / by Francis J. Grant (1914)
Grant, Francis James, Sir, 1863-1953 · Edinburgh : J. Grant · leaf 53
nd, the arms of thefemme; the widow of a bishop has aright to exhibit the arms of the seeover which her husband presided, as, though his death hasdissolved all connection with the see, she has a right toemblazon all that will honour her deceased husband. The frame was sometimes ornamented with… … 40 CHAPTER VII ORDER OF PRECEDENCY The order of precedency to be observed in England wassettled by an Act of Parliament passed in the thirty-firstyear of the reign of Henry VIII. The order has beenvaried at different periods to accord with the alterationsin the families of the reigning monarchs,…
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