Category: History - Other
The art of heraldry, or armoury, as the old writers called it, consists in blazoning the arms and telling the descent and history of families by certain pictorial signs. Thus from age to age an authenticated register of genealogies has been kept and handed on from generation t...
The art of heraldry, or armoury, as the old writers called it, consists in blazoning the arms and telling the descent and history of families by certain pictorial signs. Thus fr...
2. CHAPTER IINothing is more fascinating in the study of heraldry than the cunning fashion in which it tells the history either of a single individual or of a family, of an institution, or o...
3. CHAPTER IIIAlthough in many shields the field presents an unbroken surface, yet we often find it cut up into divisions of several kinds. These divisions come under the head of _simple char...
4. CHAPTER IV"To blazon," says Guillim, "signifies properly the winding of a horn, but to blazon a coat of arms is to describe or proclaim the things borne upon it in their proper gestures a...
5. CHAPTER VAngels, as also human beings, are very rare charges, though Guillim quotes the arms of one Maellock Kwrm, of Wales, where three robed kneeling angels are charged upon a chevron,...
6. CHAPTER VIIn dealing with charges of living creatures, we shall observe the following order: (_a_) "Animals of all sort living on the earth"; (_b_) "such as live above the earth"; (_c_) "...
7. CHAPTER VIIThe Earl of Perth has a "sleuthhound, collared and leashed" for his crest; that of the Biscoe family is a greyhound seizing a hare. A dog chasing another animal must be blazoned...
8. CHAPTER VIIIFish occur rarely in heraldry, for although they were considered typical of unfailing industry and vigilance, "always swimming against the stream and never falling asleep," yet...
9. CHAPTER IXUnder this heading so many and such various objects are included that we cannot attempt to mention one half of the items in this miscellaneous collection. First come crowns, mit...
10. CHAPTER XQuartering means dividing the shield into quarters, so that several coats of arms may be represented on the same escutcheon. Fig. 54 shows the simplest form of quartering--viz.,...
11. CHAPTER XIIn this chapter we must say a few words about the five "achievements" which are shown in the coloured plates. These represent respectively the armorial bearings of a duke, marqu...
12. CHAPTER XIIThe first was the pennon; this was an armorial lance flag, narrow and tapering, and was the mark of knightly rank. Sometimes it was triangular in form, but it was oftener forked...