 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1846 - 414 pages
...these invaluable documents are set forth the principal hereditary achievements of the kingdom, and all who can deduce descent from an ancestor, whose armorial...be shown, the party must, if it be possible, prove his right as descending from some original grantee, or, in fault of that proof, must memorialise the... | |
 | sir John Bernard Burke - 1850 - 516 pages
...these invaluable documents are set forth the principal hereditary achievements of the kingdom, and all who can deduce descent from an ancestor, whose armorial...be shown, the party must, if it be possible, prove his right as descending from some original grantee, or, in fault of that proof, must memorialize the... | |
 | John Bernard Burke - History - 1860 - 608 pages
...these invaluable documents are set forth the principal hereditary achievements of the kingdom ; and all who can deduce descent from an ancestor whose armorial...be shown, the party must, if it be possible, prove his right as descending from some original grantee, or, in fault of that proof, must become a grantee... | |
 | Lemuel Cushing - 1877 - 152 pages
...thirty years. The Heralds' Visitations are preserved as a book of record, and those who are enabled to deduce descent from an ancestor whose armorial ensigns have been acknowledged in any of the Visitations are entitled to carry those arms by right of inheritance. BDKEB'S " General Armory."... | |
 | 1902 - 116 pages
...authority and value." Burke says that, "All persons who can deduce descent from an ancestor whose armoral ensigns have been acknowledged in any one of the Visitations,...entitled to carry those arms by right of inheritance." Of the Crests, Burke has this to say: "The Crest yields in honour to none of the heraldic insignia.... | |
 | St. Louis Public Library - 1915 - 434 pages
...much of the plate brought with them from the Old World being engraved with their Arms. All persons who can deduce descent from an ancestor whose armorial...entitled to carry those Arms by right of inheritance." Davies, ACF, ed. Armorial families. 1895. Ref. 929.8 Art of heraldry; an encyclopaedia of armory. 1904.... | |
 | William Armstrong Crozier - Heraldry - 1904 - 110 pages
...Visitations, documents of high authority and value. All persons, whether in Great Britain or America, who can deduce descent from an ancestor whose armorial...inheritance. When however, no such descent can be shown, the person must, if possible, prove himself to be descended from someone whose right has been admitted... | |
 | William Armstrong Crozier - Heraldry - 1904 - 164 pages
...distinguishing between proper and improper assumptions of Coat Armor is still an important one. All persons who can deduce descent from an ancestor whose armorial...inheritance. When, however, no such descent can be shown, a person must, if it is possible, prove himself to be descended from some one whose right has been... | |
 | William Armstrong Crozier - Heraldry - 1904 - 170 pages
...Arms by right of inheritance. When, however, no such descent can be shown, a person must, if it is possible, prove himself to be descended from some...fault of that proof must become a Grantee himself. During the Revolutionary and Civil Wars in this country, many public and private records bearing seals... | |
 | Adna James Fogg, John Lemuel Murray Willis - 1907 - 156 pages
...arms, and were styled Esquires, to produce their authority for bearing or using the same. All persons who can deduce descent from an ancestor whose armorial ensigns have been acknowledged in any one of these visitations, are entitled to carry those arms by right of inheritance. Nobles bore their arms,... | |
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All persons who can deduce descent from an ancestor whose armorial ensigns have been acknowledged in any one of the Visitations, are entitled to carry those arms by right of inheritance. 
