America Heraldica: A Compilation of Coats of Arms, Crests and Mottoes of Prominent American Families Settled in This Country Before 1800 —— A Compilation of Coats of Arms, Crests and Mottoes of Prominent American Families Settled in This Country Before 1800

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ISBN: 9781331533948 出版年：2018 页码：265 Auguste Leroy Forgotten Books

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.