A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain and Ireland: Or, A Complete Register of the Hereditary Honours, Public Offices, and Persons in Office, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time, Volume 1

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G. G. J. & J. Robinson, 1788 - Great Britain
 

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Page 5 - ... carried by a king at arms, who presents it kneeling to the lord chancellor, who reads it, and then congratulates him on his becoming a member of the house of peers, and invests him with his parliamentary robe. The patent is then delivered to the clerk of the parliament, and the...
Page 255 - Marfhal ; and further, gave them power to bear in their hand a gold truncheon, enamelled with black at each end ; having at the upper end of it the King's arms engraven thereon, and at the lower end his own arms.
Page 2 - ... the elbow with ermine, having four rows of spots on each shoulder ; his parliamentary robes are of fine scarlet cloth, lined with...
Page 2 - Markin-Reve, and by the Germans Markgrave, took its original from Mark or March, which, in the language of the northern nations, is a limit or bound, and their office was to guard or govern the frontiers of a province. It has the next place of honour to a duke, and was introduced several years after that title had been established, in England. The first on whom it was conferred, was the great favourite of king Richard II., Robert de...
Page 255 - August, 1622, to constitute Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel, earl marshal for life ; and the next year (with the advice of the privy council) granted letters patent, wherein it was declared that, during the vacancy of the office of lord high constable of England, the earl marshal had the like jurisdiction in the court of chivalry, as both constable and marshal jointly ever possessed. And on the 19th of October, 1672, King Charles II. was pleased to grant to Henry lord Howard, and the heirs male of...
Page 171 - England, twelve lord chancellors, two lord treasurers, and two lord presidents of the north. It is rated in the king's books, 39 Henry VIII., 1546, at 1609Z.
Page 273 - Signet, who make out grants, patents, 8.c. which have the sign manual, to which the Signet being added, it is a warrant to the Privy Seal, as the Privy Seal is a warrant to the Great Seal. The...
Page 117 - Bulkeley, who not only alienated many of the lands belonging to it, but even fold the bells of the church. This diocefe contains the whole of Carnarvonfhire, except...
Page 1 - Edward, commonly called the Black Prince, was created duke of Cornwall. The only ceremony at his investiture was girding him with the sword. When John of Gaunt, son of king Edward III. was created duke of Lancaster by the same monarch, he had investiture, not only by the king's girding him with the sword, but by putting on him a cap of fur, under a coronet of gold, set wtth precious stones.

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