English heraldry / [Charles Boutell].

  • Charles Boutell
Date:
1889
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Credit: English heraldry / [Charles Boutell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    heraldic descriptive sentences is determined, will be found in the last subdivision of this chapter. Examples of heraldic Language, Nomenclature, Style and Forms of Expression, will be given in abundance throughout the following chapters and sections of this treatise. With these examples students will do well to familiarise them- selves, by repeating them in writing: then, let them prepare additional examples for that “ practice,” which (as Parker’s “ Glossary of Heraldry” says, p. 60) “ alone will make perfect,” by writing down correct descriptions of heraldic compositions from the compositions themselves; after which process they may advantageously reverse the order of their study, and make drawings of these same (or, if they prefer it, of some other) heraldic compositions from their own written descriptions of them. When any heraldic description of a figure, device, or composition has been completed, a statement is made to signify the person, family, community, or realm whose armorial ensign it may be. This is done by simply writing the appropriate name, after the last word of the description ; or, by prefixing the word “ for” before the name when it is placed in the same position. Thus, a description of the three lions of England is to be followed by the word— “England;” or, by the formula—“for England.” If preferred, with equal consistency the arrangement may be reversed, and the Name, with or without the prefix “ for,” may precede the description : thus—“ England,” or “ For England,” three lions, &c. It is to be borne in remem- brance, that armorial ensigns are very generally attached to Arames, and—with the exception of Sovereign Princes— by comparison but rarely to Titles and Dignities. Blazon, Blazoning, Blazonry.—When a knight entered the lists at a tournament, his presence was announced by sound of trumpet or horn, after which the officers of arms,
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