The King Family Heraldry A Brief History Of The Origin Of The Families Of This Name In Old And New England Entitled To Bear Coat Armor Reprinted From The New York Genealogical Biographical Record

Author : John Reynolds Totten
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396083914
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Download or read book Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy, Vol. 1 written by John Reynolds Totten and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy, Vol. 1: Coat-of-Arms Member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and New England historic-genealogical Society. From the earliest period of English history up to the time of the Puritan revolution, the right to bear arms or use armorial insignia in any form was strictly regulated by the law of the land. The Heralds appointed by the'crown were delegated to grant the privilege to bear such arms, and were also empowered to prevent unauthorized individuals from exercising such rights under the penalty of the law. These Heralds in their periodic Visitations of the various counties of England, exercised their legal functions, and kept recorded in the archives of their office the rolls of those entitled to bear arms, together with a full heraldic description of the arms thus borne, and in many in stances the full pedigrees of the individual entitled to bear them. The manuscript records of these periodic Visitations have in many instances been placed before the public in printed duplicates of the original, giving the record of those in certain counties at the time of that particular Visitation who by the Heralds were recognized as having the indisputable right to use such armorial insignia. For the purposes of this article it is necessary to refer to only one of such published Visitation, viz me Visitations of Sussex in 1530 and in 1633-4, published by the Harleian Society of England. The right to bear arms was the official recognition of an existing aristocracy, and it was natural that at the breaking out of the Puritan reforms in England, the recognition of this aristocratic privilege should spring into some disrepute among those who swayed the destinies of the land at that time. It followed from this condition of affairs that during the time of the Puritan upheaval and subsequent thereto up to the present time the same rigid scrutiny of the use of armorial insignia in England has not existed as it did exist previous to that period. However, the right to bear arms exists by law today in England as it did in the past, even though the transgression of that same law is not punished now by the severe penalties in force before the Puritan revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.