Category: History - British
In venturing to place before the public this little work--which takes up a line of enquiry never before attempted,--I would solicit criticism, not of that slashing condemnatory kind which destroys a statement without pointing out its correction;--that would only break my head,...
The fields of seals are now quite plain, except sometimes in those of ladies. In the first seal of Roheis de Gant, Countess of Lincoln before 1156, lilies are introduced, to fil...
1. Part 1In venturing to place before the public this little work--which takes up a line of enquiry never before attempted,--I would solicit criticism, not of that slashing condemnatory...
4. Part 4Over all this boiling-up of busy-ness sat Henry VII. and Henry VIII., as almost irresponsible sovereigns, and out of it grew the Commons of England! The population meantime incr...
3. Part 3Many of these seals are marvels of design and execution. At the very end of the century we notice so much is sought to be represented that the designs in consequence become flat...
6. Part 6This is the character of many examples occurring down to about the year 1650, when a greater profusion of mantling began to be shown: of this the seal of Sir Edward Nicholas, en...
5. Part 5The earliest English instance of No. 17 which I have noticed appears in the _Visit. Hunts, 1613_ (Camden Society), p. 4, with the arms of Clifton, but no exact date is attached.
7. Part 7This proposed well-illustrated book would not only be most valuable and instructive to the Antiquary, it would also possess a far wider and general interest, because these are t...