Excerpt from Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show Which Arms in Use at the Moment Are Borne by Legal Authority I refer to The Noble and Gentle Men of England. He took a far less ambitious standpoint than the Norman Conquest, simply including within his covers all those then Arms-bearing families who had held their land in legitimate uninterrupted male descent since the reign of King Henry VII. To the present day. Of all the landholders of to-day, of all the county families within or without the pages of Walford of all the names in Burke's Peerage or in Kelly's Upper Ten Thousand, how many families, titled and untitled together, think you does his book contain Three hundred and thirty. Some number of the very older families are Saxon, but the great majority only take their start from the Wars of the Roses, that great social upheaval which shook to its very foun dation the aristocracy of England. Read De Nova Villa, and read the Last of the Barons, if you wish to know what became of the ancient families of England. Of the twenty - five Barons who signed or affixed their seals to Magna Charta, of which we so proudly boast, not a solitary male descendant is known to exist. Fuller, writing in his book, Worthies of Bedfordshire, says Hungry Time hath made a glutton's meal on this Catalogue of Gentry (the list of gentry of the reign of Henry and hath left but a very little morsel for manners remaining. 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.

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Armorial porcelains comprised the output of most European ceramics factories in the 18th and 19th Centuries in response to the large quantity of armorial porcelain services that were being imported from China bearing the coats of arms and crests of aristocratic families. Whereas these armorial services have been identified and covered for most porcelain manufactories the information relevant to their production by the two relatively short-lived Nantgarw and Swansea China Works has not been addressed as a theme until now. As an integral component of the holistic forensic appraisal of porcelain, a functional and decorative artwork manifestly part of our cultural heritage and its ongoing preservation , the recording and identification of such artefacts is material for the future establishment of a database of factory production . The Nantgarw and Swansea factories only operated for a limited period in the second decade of the 19th Century and their porcelains were much appreciated for their high quality and desirability by Georgian households. Today, examples are to be found in many museums and ceramics collections and continue to excite the interest of specialists and the general public . This text provides the first comprehensive assessment of armorial porcelains from these two factories and the methodology and procedure for the identification of unknown armorial bearings and crests is illustrated; individual bearings are discussed in detail and existing incorrect assignments in the literature are re-appraised. The difficulties in attribution of armorial heraldic achievements that are only minimally depicted are considered and directions for further studies using historical documentation are invoked. This book therefore fills a currently existing gap in the ceramics literature of the 19th Century.