This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...head "--has St. John's head on the charger, his head having also reached Penzance as it did Trimingham and Amiens. Oxford has a red ox on a rippling river which are the arms of the county; and in many other cases the arms assumed by the county are those of the county town. The heralds used to say that a county ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...head "--has St. John's head on the charger, his head having also reached Penzance as it did Trimingham and Amiens. Oxford has a red ox on a rippling river which are the arms of the county; and in many other cases the arms assumed by the county are those of the county town. The heralds used to say that a county is neither a country, nor a corporation, nor a person, and consequently cannot bear arms, but the counties did so all the same, for they could not do without seals, and hence arms, and hence a flag such as can be seen flying from the Middlesex county hall at Westminster. The counties which were ancient kingdoms have had insignia for centuries, and the later shires took arms which were mostly from the towns from which they took their names. Many of these arms make handsome flags Berkshire flies the five heads of Reading; Buckinghamshire the swan of the Bohuns, after the earl; Cambridgeshire has the three boats under a bridge; Cheshire the three lions and wheatsheaves which were the arms of Earl Randle. Derbyshire has the stag in a ring fence of Derby; Devonshire the castle of Exeter; Dorsetshire the castle with the Tudor arms of Dorchester; Essex the ship and three daggers which represent the old seaxes of the Saxons that are shown in truer form in the arms of Middlesex that make so bold a display as an escutcheon on the Cross of St. George. Hampshire has the three roses of Southampton, it being really Southamptonshire, corresponding with Northamptonshire which similarly flies the castle and lions of Northampton. Hertfordshire has a stag in a park; Huntingdonshire has the stag being shot at under a tree by Robin Hood, whom some say was its earl, though Robin is often given a red coat instead of one of Lincoln green. Kent is known by its...
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