1663 updated ... slightly!

I've had a wee bit of time this week to return to the Visitations and have added a few more images to the 1663 pages. 

http://cheshire-heraldry.org.uk/visitations1663/CV1663_6.html

Just occasionally I find what are probably transcription errors in the Harleian manuscripts and one such (it seems to me) is that of the record of Grosvenor of Eaton which has the quarter for Eaton erroneously recorded as Per Pale Sable and Argent, a cross patonce counterchanged. The Eaton coat is quarterly Argent and Sable, a cross patonce counterchanged as in the Eaton of Sandbach coat; which, ironically, is actually recorded as being not proved!



The arms of Eaton of Sandbach.

One for the diary - Heraldic Study Day

The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society has just published details of their forthcoming Heraldry Study Day.



You can download the poster and booking form from The Cheshire Heraldry Society site.

http://cheshire-heraldry.org.uk/society/salford-poster.pdf

http://cheshire-heraldry.org.uk/society/salford-application.pdf

Ex Libris - a welcome addition to heraldic online browsing

It's always a pleasure to hear from fellow heraldry addicts and especially so when one gets the opportunity to share another's passion.

Peter Harling, Fellow of The International Association of Amateur Heralds, has just dropped me a note informing me that he has created a website introducing all to part of his ever growing heraldic bookplate collection. It's a very welcome addition to my favourites folder.



http://armorialbookplatesmodern.weebly.com/

Heraldry in the news.

I've had quite a busy week since my talk on the arms used by the Town Council of Knutsford. It was an absolute pleasure to meet with the staff and volunteers from the Knutsford Heritage Centre who, along with an attentive audience, made me most welcome. Photos were taken with a view to reporting on the series of talks given during February and I was rather surprised, upon my return from holiday (I had a marvelous week with my extended family), to find that the Knutsford Guardian had published a wee bit about the talk. One of the most enjoyable aspects of giving a talk on heraldry is that it presents the opportunity to answer questions; I am very pleased to report that the Knutsford audience took full advantage of the session to satisfy their curiosity both general and specific to the town arms.

I reproduce here the photo used in the article; I am smiling honest!

 

With me is Dorothy Webster and we are  looking at an old Knutsford guide book.

Photo courtesy Knutsford Heritage Centre/Knutsford Guardian.

I really do recommend a visit to the heritage Centre.

http://www.knutsfordheritage.co.uk/

A long shot - Will's Cigarette Cards - Arms of Public Schools

Some time ago I stumbled across a couple of Will's Cigarette Picture-Card Albums at our usual visit to a local antique fair; I paid six pounds for the two albums, which I think was a bargain. Both albums, at first glance appeared to be complete. The first album, The Arms of Companies, is complete but the second album, The Arms of Public Schools, has a cheeky duplication which lent the initial appearance of being complete. After I got home, whilst relaxing over the compulsory cuppa, I noticed that the card for Shrewsbury School was a duplication. After some online searching I discovered that the missing card is that of Edinburgh Academy. Now comes the quest to obtain the missing card!



This series was issued by Will's Cigarettes UK in 1906.

I have a spare Shrewsbury School but need Edinburgh Academy to complete the set.

Lectures for February

It's that time of the month again. On Saturday (Feb 18th) Dr Andrew Gray will be giving us a talk on "East Indiamen and Other" and this month on Saturday 25th I will be giving a talk at The Knutsford February Forum.



The February Forum is a series of four Saturday lunchtime talks organised by The Friends of Knutsford Heritage Centre. Talks start at 12 noon and are followed by light refreshments. Details are available from Knutsford Heritage Centre 01565 650506.

Parliament Logo should be axed says "adviser"!

 It must be the silly season again. Despite the fact that we are in a financial depression we appear to still be spending money on salaries for people in such public posts as chairman of the Speaker’s Advisory Council on Public Engagement. Yesterdays Telegraph newspaper reported that Dr Jonathan Drori, chairman of the Speaker’s Advisory Council on Public Engagement has told MPs that the Parliamentary "logo" is “hardly welcoming”.

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9019327/Parliament-logo-should-be-axed-according-to-adviser.html

A typical display of the usual ignorance. It isn't (as we here all know) "the parliamentary logo"; it is but one of the many Royal badges used by parliament with the permission of the Crown. Parliament can if it so wishes take yet another step to divorce itself from its historical links with the Crown and spend countless (useless) thousands of pounds commissioning a marketing company to devise for it a rather twee fashionable logo which will doubtless have to be changed again and again to keep it "up to date and politically correct" or, if it chooses to be more rational, it can simply ignore the advice of Dr Jonathan Drori altogether and find other, more productive, ways to spend my hard earned tax pound. We are after all in a recession!