item: #1 of 8 id: 16273 author: Anonymous title: The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science date: None words: 31509 flesch: 76 summary: [Illustration: PURPURE] PURPURE, or _purple_, is expressed by diagonal lines, drawn from the sinister to the dexter side of the shield. [Illustration: SABLE] SABLE, or _black_, is expressed by horizontal and perpendicular lines crossing each other. keywords: argent; arms; azure; bend; book; centre; chief; cloth; coats; colour; cross; dexter; edition; england; english; escutcheon; example; fess; field; figures; gules; heraldry; honour; illustration; knights; lines; lion; new; order; ordinary; pale; point; price; proper; shield; sinister; title; word cache: 16273.txt plain text: 16273.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 22943 author: Falkner, John Meade title: The Nebuly Coat date: None words: 119766 flesch: 76 summary: The doctor and the organist gave effect to the presentation by a nod, and something like a shrug of the shoulders, which deprecated the Rector's conceited pomposity, and implied that if such an exceedingly unlikely contingency as their making friends with Mr Westray should ever happen, it would certainly not be due to any introduction of Canon Parkyn. Put on some more coal, Mr Westray; it is a sinful luxury, a fire in September, and coal at twenty-five shillings a ton; but we must have _some_ festivity to inaugurate the restoration and your advent. keywords: afternoon; anastasia; architect; bellevue; bishop; church; clerk; coat; cullerne; dark; day; dear; door; doubt; end; evening; eyes; face; fire; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; hope; hour; house; interest; joliffe; lady; left; letter; life; lodge; look; lord blandamer; making; man; martin; matter; mind; miss; miss joliffe; moment; money; mr joliffe; mr sharnall; mr westray; mrs; night; open; organist; parkyn; people; picture; place; poor; read; rector; room; round; saw; service; set; sir; table; things; thought; time; tower; voice; way; westray; window; work; years cache: 22943.txt plain text: 22943.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 38951 author: Lower, Mark Antony title: The Curiosities of Heraldry date: None words: 88716 flesch: 69 summary: [211] Previously to this event the family arms had been the punning device of 'Sable, on a bend voided argent, three _walnut_ leaves or,' and the crest, 'A _walnut_ tree fructed proper.' Sire William Videlou, de argent, a iij testes de _lou_, de goules. keywords: account; ages; ancestors; animal; antient; antiquity; argent; armorial; armory; armour; arms; author; azure; badge; battle; bear; bearing; bend; blazon; book; bore; century; chapter; character; charges; chief; co.; coat; cobham; college; colour; common; cornwall; country; court; crest; cross; dallaway; date; day; days; descendants; dragon; duke; eagle; earl; edward; england; english; ensigns; esq; example; families; family; father; field; figures; following; form; french; garter; general; gentleman; gentry; gold; good; gules; half; hand; head; henry; heraldric; heraldry; heralds; history; honour; house; iii; illustration; instance; john; john de; kind; king; knights; line; lion; london; lord; manner; men; motto; names; nobility; occur; office; officers; order; origin; period; persons; place; present; reader; red; reign; richard; right; royal; says; science; second; shield; sir; sire; son; state; subject; supporters; thomas; time; title; use; vide; white; william; word; work; writers; year cache: 38951.txt plain text: 38951.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 41617 author: Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles title: A Complete Guide to Heraldry date: None words: 273706 flesch: 66 summary: Mrs. Mary Chisholm or Gooden in 1827 matriculated the _undifferenced_ arms of Chisholm [Gules, a boar's head couped or], without supporters, but in 1831 the heir male _also_ matriculated the same _undifferenced_ arms, in this case with supporters. keywords: animal; appears; argent; armorial; armory; arms; augmentation; azure; badge; bart; base; battle; bear; bend; black; blazon; bordure; bore; british; cadency; canton; case; centre; century; chapter; character; charge; charles; chevron; chief; coat; colour; coronet; country; course; crest; cross; crown; date; day; days; demi; design; dexter; difference; distinction; doubt; duke; eagle; earl; edward; england; english; ermine; escutcheon; example; fact; families; family arms; father; fess; field; fig; figure; flag; fleurs; following; form; france; garter; general; george; german; gold; grant; great; guardant; gules; hand; head; heir; helmet; henry; heraldic; heraldry; heralds; holding; husband; iii; illustration; insignia; instance; john; king; knights; label; late; leaves; line; lion; livery; lord; lyon; mantling; mark; matter; means; mother; motto; new; number; occur; office; official; order; origin; pale; passant; period; person; place; point; position; practice; present; prince; proper; purposes; quarterings; quarterly; queen; rampant; rank; reason; representation; richard; right; rose; royal; rule; saltire; scotland; scottish; seal; second; shield; single; sinister; sir; son; sovereign; subject; supporters; term; thomas; time; town; tree; use; vair; vert; way; white; wife; william; wings; wreath cache: 41617.txt plain text: 41617.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 45181 author: Hope, W. H. St. John (William Henry St. John), Sir title: Heraldry for Craftsmen & Designers date: None words: 54315 flesch: 75 summary: Arms of St. Edward, from the tomb of Edmund duke of York, _ob._ 1402, at King's Langley. Lozenge of arms from the monument at Westminster of Frances Brandon duchess of Suffolk, _ob._ 1559. keywords: abbey; arms; badge; banners; blue; brass; century; church; collar; crest; cross; duke; earl; edmund; edward; effigy; examples; fig; george; gold; helm; henry; heraldry; house; iii; illustration; john; king; king henry; lady; lancaster; large; lion; lord; plate; queen; red; richard; robert; seal; shield; silver; sir; stafford; stall; supporters; thomas; tomb; use; vol; westminster; white; wife; william; york cache: 45181.txt plain text: 45181.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 46374 author: Reed, Edward Tennyson title: "Mr. Punch's" Book of Arms date: None words: 4926 flesch: 59 summary: =Crest= / out of a wreath of laurels vert, a veteran hawk-eyed eagle of the law, robed sanguine and wigged proper poudree in horse-hair, collared, furred and laced, reguardant in pince-nez. =ij= a knight-veteran of the pencil, or heraldic tenniel proper cartonee, historic in achievement and masterly in technique, most ably seconded sambornois / =iij= two hemispheres proper representing all the world and his wife purpure in mirth, reguardant hilarious a charivari of the town, under a dexterous editorial baton urgent burnandy, going strong / =iiij= in a gallery of the press an alert dog-tobee fleur-de-lucee reguardant watchful and wary a party-coloured parliament-house embattled nightly in session. keywords: baron; crest=; dexter; ground; heraldic; iiij=; ij=; illustration; lion; motto=; proper; rampant; sinister; supporters= cache: 46374.txt plain text: 46374.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 55439 author: Allen, Phoebe title: Peeps at Heraldry date: None words: 24010 flesch: 73 summary: (A charge is the heraldic term given to any object which is _charged_, or represented, on the shield of a coat of arms.) The Pyne family bear three pineapples, the Herrings bear three herrings, one, Camel of Devon, bears a camel _passant_; the Oxendens bear three oxen; Sir Thomas Elmes bears five elm-leaves; three soles figure on the coat of arms of the Sole family, and to the description of the last armorial charge, old Guillim quaintly adds: By the delicateness of his taste, the sole hath gained the name of the partridge of the sea. keywords: armorial; arms; badge; bear; bearings; blazoning; chapter; charges; chief; coat; colour; crest; cross; dexter; earl; family; field; fig; footnote; french; guillim; head; heraldic; heraldry; heralds; illustrations; john; king; lion; lord; motto; page; page illustrations; red; shield; sir; term; use; white; wings; word cache: 55439.txt plain text: 55439.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 58212 author: Shirley, Evelyn Philip title: The Noble and Gentle Men of England or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties. date: None words: 67187 flesch: 72 summary: ** This list also, it must be remembered, does not profess to give an account of all those families whose descent may possibly be traced beyond the year 1500, but merely of those who were in the position of what we now call _county families_ before that period. And here I must again beg to remind the reader, that the intention of this work is not to give an account of every family whose pedigree may be continued in the male line beyond the time which I have mentioned (the beginning of the sixteenth century), but of those only who were established as _county families_, inheriting arms from their ancestors, at that period. keywords: ancestor; argent; arms.--_argent; azure; baronet; baronetage; bend; bore; branch; branches; brother; brydges; castle; century; charles; chevron; chief; co.; coat; collins; conquest; county; cross; daughter; earl; edward; edward ii; elder; elizabeth; esq; estate; extinct; family; fess; george; great; gules; hall; heiress; henry; henry i.; henry iii; history; house; i. p.; iii; illustration; ireland; john; john de; king; leland; line; lord; lysons; manor; marriage; parish; pedigree; period; present; reign; representative; richard; richard ii; robert; roger; roll; sable; seat; second; sir; sir henry; sir john; sir richard; sir thomas; sir william; son; thomas; time; vol; william; wotton; year cache: 58212.txt plain text: 58212.txt