Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ..., Volume 45Society, 1894 Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes. |
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Page 128 - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition...
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Page 38 - This is the immutable resolution, and shall be the undoubted practice of him, who accounts it the chiefest glory to be " ' His Majesty's most loyal and obedient subject, "
Page 37 - I return you this answer : that I cannot but wonder whence you should gather any hopes from me, that I should (like you) prove treacherous to my Sovereign ; since you cannot be insensible of my former actings in his late Majesty's service ; from which principle of loyalty I am no way departed.
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Page 109 - Tenterden, sonne of J. Baker of the same place, sonne of Simon Baker of Feversham, co. Cant., was a bearer of tokens of honour, and did allow and confirm to the said George Baker and to his posterity, and to the posterity of Christopher Baker, these arms, etc., etc.
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Page 131 - But you'd better keep from pannel and from glass. For if there you lay a brush, It may put you to the blush, Should the Lyon at your scutcheon make a dash ; If your Arms, so well devised, Are not " duly authorised," All your quarters may some morning get a smash.
Page 120 - July, in their first and second years, re-incorporated the kings, heralds, and pursuivants of arms, by their former names ; and to the intent that they might reside together, and consult and agree amongst themselves for the good of their faculty, and for the depositing and secure preservation of their records, inrolments, and other documents and papers, granted to them a messuage, with its appurtenances, called Derby-house, situate in the parish of St.
Page 48 - To make an appropriation by which the tithes of a parish were transferred to a spiritual corporation was a practice of early date. The monastic institutions were eager to obtain such a transference, as it was a source of considerable revenue. To effect it, they were in the habit of obtaining the patronage of such churches as they were able, as a necessary step. But in order to the appropriation of these, the permission of the Pope, as well as the license of the King and of the bishop, who both had...