Salford Annual Heraldry Day.

Cheshire Heraldry Society Chairman, Harold Storey, sent a note to members today reminding us that Derrick Walkden and The Lancashire Heraldry Group have taken over the running of the Annual Study Day at Salford from The Greater Manchester Heraldry Society. 

The meeting will run from 10 am to 4 pm on 7th. October, at Hemsley House Masonic Hall, SALFORD.
This is opposite Salford University and there is good parking space at the rear of the building.
Talks scheduled are -
Malcolm HOWE on "The Red Rose in Lancashire Heraldry"
Ben EDWARDS on "16C. Armorial Glass from Hampton Court at Preston"
Mike CRESSWELL on "Beastly Boroughs & Monstrous Municipalities"
Margaret EDWARDS on "The Making of a Stained Glass Window"
A good buffet lunch will be served, plus refreshments at the end.  This is paid for in the entrance fee of £15.
You can pay by cheque made out to "LFHHS - Heraldry Group".  If you post this to A. D. Walkden, 2 Butterlands,
PRESTON, PR1 5TJ, it will assist them in arranging the catering.

Puns, cants and a bit of fun.

Just for a bit of fun, I've designed a logo for a tee shirt - if you have any punning or canting design ideas why not share them with me ? ... no one else needs to know!

The earl of Macclesfield

I suspect that I'm no different to most heraldry addicts in that I regularly search for other addicts contributions to the world of heraldry. Yesterday, a Cheshire link caught my eye on David Appleton's excellent blog.

It's surprising where heraldry with links to Cheshire fetches up and David's blog entry reminded me that I hadn't yet found a home on the web for the image I made some time ago of the arms of the earl of Macclesfield.



My reader will already know that I have a fondness for Cheshire heraldry but I have another sort of (very tenuous)link with the earl of Macclesfield (of the second creation). We were both born in Leek. That however is where our career paths separated!

What tincture rules?

12the quarter: Gules, a lion rampant Sable guttee de l'armes [ ] ?

The 12th quarter of the arms of Brereton of Ashley, as recorded in the Visitations of Chester 1613, are an unusual but not unpleasant design. Unfortunately they are not identified and in fact marked as "doubtful" - probably because of the dreaded tincture rule (which is in fact more than once broken in "genuine" ancient Cheshire arms).

Bosdon of Newbold Astbury

Bosdon of Newbold Astbury



Bosdon of Newbold Astbury
Described in the 1613 Visitations of Chester as - Arms: Argent, a fess between three d Sable, these arms obviously predate any recorded grant and therefore have no blazon. According to the Visitations recorded by the Harleian Society the arms are taken from an image temp Henry VII in The College of Arms. 

According to the MS the charge in this coat has been called a fish hook, a Roman "S" and a bird bolt, but it does not seem to be any of these. Mr. Everard Green, Rouge Dragon, who contributed the drawing from which the above facsimile representation is taken, suggests that the object may perhaps be a winding-horn, worn around the neck of the huntsman.

Burke's Peerage & Gentry - International Armorial Register

Just between you and me, I thought I'd just let you know that I'm in the process of obtaining quotes for the printing and publication of Volume One of The Armorial Register Limited's book entitled "Burke's Peerage & Gentry International Register of Armorial Bearings". Here's a taster of the cover and a draft registration page:

You are cordially invited ....

Today was one of those rare but pleasant days where the post (mail) was dominated not by bills but by heraldry:  I received my copy of Tak Tent, the magazine of The Heraldry Society of Scotland (always a welcome read) along with a pleasant note from Alan Fennely, Secretary of the Greater Manchester Heraldry Society, thanking me for agreeing to present my talk on The Heraldry of the 1605 Conspirators. It is always a pleasure to hear from Alan and I shall look forward to meeting once again a number of increasingly familiar faces in Manchester in November.

Power point slides of the Gunpowder talk.

 The Talk is to be held on Saturday 6th November at 2 p.m. at The Friends Meeting House on Mount Street Manchester (behind the Central Reference Library) and you are cordially invited to attend.

Tak Tent informs all that The Heraldry Society of Scotland has now published its syllabus for 2010 - 11.

Lectures are held in the Royal Scots Club 30 Abercromby Place Edinburgh (unless otherwise noted) and I can vouch for the warm reception guests will receive so if you are able to attend, whether a member of the Society or not, please do so. I reproduce the syllabus below for your benefit:

Saturday 25th September 2010 - Ulster Scots, their heraldic connections - Prof Jim Floyd.

Saturday 30th October 2010 - The Herald's Tabard: The Outward Show - Mark Dennis, Ormond Pursuivant of Arms.

Saturday 4th December 2010 - The St. Andrew Lecture - Lord Lyon Sir James Balfour Paul - an appreciation - Charles Burnett, Ross Herald of Arms. ........... Followed by The St. Andrew Dinner.

Saturday 29th January 2011 - Heraldic Quiz 0 Liam Devlin, Quiz Master.

Saturday 26th February 2011 - The Death of Heraldry (provisional title) Clive Cheeseman, Richmond Herald.

Saturday 26th March 2011 - Scottish Medical Heraldry - Dr. Beverly Bergman.

Saturday 30th April 2011 - Excursion.

Saturday 28th May 2011 - AK Bell Library Perth - AGM & Member's Miscellany.

And last but most certainly not least - a reminder that the syllabus for the meetings of the Cheshire heraldry Society can be found on their web page: http://cheshire-heraldry.org.uk/society