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Excerpt from Heralds' College and Coats-of-Arms, Regarded From a Legal Aspect: With a Postscript Concerning Prescription, and an Appendix of Statutes and Cases
F we may judge from the voluminous correspondence, often very acrimonious, concerning coats-of-arms and the right to bear them, which from time to time appears in the newspapers, it is evident that the science of heraldry, effete and obsolete though some may think it, still, in certain ranks of life, excites no little interest. Such correspondence may be mostly classed under two heads; letters from genuinely armigerous persons who feel aggrieved at the number of bogus coats-of-arms which are in existence, and letters from the users of such bogus coats, which generally resolve themselves into attacks upon the officers of arms and Heralds' College, too often it is to be feared originating merely in some petty personal grievance. It may be worth while, therefore, to consider the origin of coat-armour, and the right to bear it in relation to the officers and College of Arms. 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.
