 | Stacey Grimaldi - England - 1828 - 372 pages
...which ignorance, however, a greater regularity in arms ensued. It was afterwards enacted by statute,4 that every freeholder should have his proper seal...shire, or send his attorney with the said seal, and they who wanted such seals were to be amerced or fined. Every gentleman used then to send his 1 Fusbrooke's... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1846 - 414 pages
...letters of their own names, flowers, knots, birds, beasts, &c. It was afterwards enacted by statute, that every freeholder should have his proper seal...shire, or send his attorney with the said seal, and they who omitted this duty were amerced or fined. The earliest Heraldic document that has been handed... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1889 - 562 pages
...OF ARMS. — Sims, in his ' Manual for the Genealogist,' p. 295, says:— "It was enacted by statute that every freeholder should have his proper seal...to appear at the head court of the shire, or send bis attorney with the sail seal ; and they who wanted such seals were to be amerced or fined. Every... | |
 | English essays - 1851 - 950 pages
...statutes that every freeholder should have his proper seal of arms, and should either compear himself at the head court of the shire, or send his attorney with bis said seal, and they who wanted such seals were to be amerciat or fined ; no that commonly gentlemen... | |
 | Richard Sims - Archives - 1856 - 560 pages
...James V. ordered that all evidences should be subscribed as well as sealed. It was enacted by statute,i that every freeholder should have his proper seal...shire, or send his attorney with the said seal ; and they who wanted such seals were to be amerced or fined. Every gentleman used then to send his seal... | |
 | Richard Sims - Archives - 1856 - 584 pages
...James V. ordered that all evidences should be subscribed as well as sealed. It was enacted by statute,1 that every freeholder should have his proper seal...shire, or send his attorney with the said seal; and they who wanted such seals were to be amerced or fined. Every gentleman used then to send his seal... | |
 | John Bernard Burke - History - 1860 - 608 pages
...letters of their own names, flowers, knots, birds, beasts, &c. It was afterwards enacted by statute, that every freeholder should have his proper seal...shire, or send his attorney with the said seal, and they who omitted this duty were amerced or fined. The earliest Heraldic document that has been handed... | |
 | Richard Sims - Archives - 1861 - 656 pages
...James V. ordered that all evidences should be subscribed as well as sealed. It was enacted by statute,1 that every freeholder should have his proper seal...shire, or send his attorney with the said seal ; and they who wanted such seals were to be amerced or fined. Every gentleman used then to send his seal... | |
 | Richard Morris Smith - Quakers - 1877 - 324 pages
...sundry statutes, that every freeholder should have his proper seal of arms, and should compear himself at the head court of the shire, or send his attorney with his said seal ; and they who wanted (ie, had not), such seals even to be emerciat or fined, so that... | |
 | Cornwall (England : County) - 1893 - 248 pages
...a mark of additional honour, and the following proves all this was authorized : — "It was enacted that every freeholder should have his proper seal...shire, or send his attorney with the said seal, and they who wanted such seals were to be amerced or fined ; every gentleman used then to send his seal... | |
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It was afterwards enacted by statute, that every freeholder should have his proper seal of arms; and he was either to appear at the head court of the shire, or send his attorney with the said seal, and those who omitted this duty were amerced or fined. 
