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Excerpt from America Heraldica: A Compilation of Coats of Arms, Crests and Mottoes of Prominent American Families Settled in This Country Before 1800
A. What had been his European origin, and whether he belonged, by well-established lineal descent, to a family entitled to coat-armor.
B. Such a family being found to have existed, at the stated time, in the Old World, we had to trace the origin of its coat of arms, whether it came in its possession by prescriptive right, - as to gentlemen of old lineage, - or had been granted, in later times, by the sovereign.
In Great Britain and Ireland, the records of the London College of Heralds (for England), of the Edinburgh Lyon Herald (for Scotland), of the Dublin Ulster king-at-arms (for Ireland), easily settle almost all doubtful questions, with the help of the old especially important in the matter of prescriptive right to coat-armor.
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A. What had been his European origin, and whether he belonged, by well-established lineal descent, to a family entitled to coat-armor.
B. Such a family being found to have existed, at the stated time, in the Old World, we had to trace the origin of its coat of arms, whether it came in its possession by prescriptive right, - as to gentlemen of old lineage, - or had been granted, in later times, by the sovereign.
In Great Britain and Ireland, the records of the London College of Heralds (for England), of the Edinburgh Lyon Herald (for Scotland), of the Dublin Ulster king-at-arms (for Ireland), easily settle almost all doubtful questions, with the help of the old especially important in the matter of prescriptive right to coat-armor.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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