This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...are extant, and which, how, and when extinct. By names which I call " extinct," understand not existent in any signal anal remarkable lustre proportionable to their jbrmer greatness, though possibly some obscure under-houghs, truly derived thence, may still be in being. That worthy doctorf' hath made ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...are extant, and which, how, and when extinct. By names which I call " extinct," understand not existent in any signal anal remarkable lustre proportionable to their jbrmer greatness, though possibly some obscure under-houghs, truly derived thence, may still be in being. That worthy doctorf' hath made many converts in physio, to his seeming paradox, maintaining the circulation of the blood running round about the body of man. Nor is it less true, that gentle blood. fetcheth a circuit in the body of a nation, running from yeomanry, through gentry, to nobility; and so, retrograde, returning through gentry to yeomanry again. My father hath told me, from the mouth of sir Robert Cotton, that that worthy knight met in a ' Casnsn's " Britannia" in Cambridgeshire. f Dr, Hervey, morning a true and undoubted Plantagenet holding the plough in the country.. He might add arms to ancient names, where he could recover any certainty therein; for I am confident that hereditary arms are not so ancient as the Conquest, but fixed in families about the beginning of Henry III.; finding, before that time, the warlike devices of the sons not the same with the fancies of their fathers, and their grandchildren differing from both. ' If any say that I have already gone too far in this subject, who am no herald by profession, but only Kr';pu, Prwco, " a crier " in the spiritual acceptstion of the oflice; yea, that this savours of revenge, as if, because so many in this age invade my calling, I in requital have made incursion into other men's professions; like men that take "letters of mart," not caring whom they wrong, so they repair themselves for their former sustained or pretended...
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