Magnae Britanniae notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain. With diverse remarks upon the ancient state thereof / by John Chamberlayne.

  • Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703.
Date:
1737
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Credit: Magnae Britanniae notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain. With diverse remarks upon the ancient state thereof / by John Chamberlayne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    »» Queen was delivered of lier firft Child in Caernarvon CafUe in Wales. The Prince hath ever fince been ftiled Prince of Wales, Duke of Aquitain and Cornwal, and Earl of Chefter and Flint* which Earldoms are always conferred upon him by Letters- Patent. Since the Union of England and Scotland, his Title hath been Magna Britannia Princeps, but more ordinarily the Prince of Wales. The King of England's eldeft Son (fo long as Normandy remained in their Hands) was always ftiled Duke of Nor¬ mandy. Anciently the Arms of the Princes of Wales, whilft they were Sovereigns, bear quarterly, Gules and Or, four Lions paf fant guardant count ere hanged. The Arms of the Prince of Wales at this Day differ from thofe of the King only by Addition of a Label of three Points, charged with nine Torteaux; and the Devife of the Prince is a Coronet beautified with three Oflricb Feathers, inferibed with Ich Dien, which in the German Language fignifies, I ferve• This Device was born at the Battle of Crejfy, by John King of Bohemia, fervin'g there under the French King, and there flain by Edward the Black Prince; fince worn by the Princes of Wales, and by the Vulgar called the Prince's Arms• IBtgRitifjSL] The Prince, in our Law, is reputed as the fame Perfon with the King, and fo declared by a Statute of Henry the Eighth, He hath certain Privileges above other Perfons. To imagine the Death of the Prince, or to violate the Wife of the Prince, is made High Treafon. He can retain and qualify as many Chaplains as he fhall pleafe. Yet as the Prince in Nature is a diftimft Peifon from the King, fo in Law alfo, in Lome Cafes, he is a Subject, holdeth his Principalities and Seignories of the King, giveth the fame Refpect to the King as other Subjects do. JELcbenueaM The Revenues belonging to the Prince, fince much of the Lands and Demefnes in Cornwal have been alienated, are efpecially out of the fm Mines in thatDutchy, which with all other Profits thereof amount yearly to the Sum of 14,000 /. 2. The Revenue of the prefent Prince, as efta- blifhed by Act of Parliament, amounts to 100,000 l. per An¬ num, clear of all Deductions whatever. The Revenues of the Principality of Wales, furveyed three « hundred Years ago, was above 4,680/. yearly; arichEitate, according to the Value of Money in thole Days. ’ rill the Prince came to be fourteen Years old, all Things belonging to the Principality of Wales were wont to be dif- pofed of by Comonfticmers, confifting of fome principal Perfons of the Clergy and Nobility.