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Friday, 25 June 2021

Courtesy titles of the children of disclaimed Peers

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 Continuing my sojourn into back copies of The Coat of Arms, in a letter (Volume XII No. 86 April 1971) Patrick W. Montague-Smith, Editor, D...
Thursday, 24 June 2021

The arms of Gover

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 I have always enjoyed reading although, for some strange reason, I have always been drawn more to fact than to fiction. Being a heraldry ad...

Humphrey Lloyd, Alderman, 1624.

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  Humphrey Lloyd, Alderman, 1624. Arms: Quarterly of eight coats: 1, Argent, a cross engrailed the ends fleury Sable, between four Cornish c...
Wednesday, 9 June 2021

A despicable fake

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I came across this (undated) letter, purporting to be from Garter King of Arms while searching for something quite unrelated. It is such a d...
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Wednesday, 2 June 2021

John Lloyd, L.L.B., 1608.

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Sometimes, I hit a brick wall and this evening was one of those times. I am coming to the end of the letter L in the Funeral Certificates an...
Tuesday, 1 June 2021

Sir Urian Legh, Knight, 1627.

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 The latest addition to the Funeral Certificates series is that of   Sir Urian Legh, Knight, 1627. Arms: Quarterly 1, Azure, two bars Argent...
Sunday, 30 May 2021

Victorian oil painting Twemlow of Hatherton

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Sold by Bonhams, Auction House, on the 28th April 2010, from the Sampson and Horne Collection, for £660 including premium. A VICTORIAN OIL O...
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The Cheshire Heraldry and Heraldry Addict Web Sites are the public face of a Heraldry Addict, a brand or trading style of Martin Goldstraw. Martin Goldstraw is the author and illustrator of the Cheshire Heraldry web site and the book CHESHIRE HERALDRY – THE VISITATIONS OF 1533 TO 1580. He is also one of the two Directors and a founder of the publishing company The Armorial Register Limited. Born at a very early age in Leek, a town in rural North Staffordshire known as the Queen of the Moorlands, his interest in the heraldry of the County of Cheshire began when it became apparent that the origins of the surname Goldstraw lie in the surname of Goostrey. The village of Goostrey is within the bounds of the County Palatine of Cheshire. Heraldry is something of an addiction as far as Martin is concerned and he was pleased to be granted armorial bearings of his own from the College of Arms at the commencement of the new Millennium.
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