The Book of the Court; Exhibiting the Origin, Peculiar Duties, and Privileges of the Several Ranks of the Nobility and Gentry More Particularly of the Great Officers of State, and Members of the Royal Household; with an Introductory Essay on Regal State and Ceremonial and a Full Account of the Coronation Ceremony, Etc |
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... Barons and great men of the realm , who , being Peers of the King's Court , gave , as occa- sion required , their attendance there , and more particularly as many of them were invested with the Great Offices of the King's Court . The ...
... Barons and great men of the realm , who , being Peers of the King's Court , gave , as occa- sion required , their attendance there , and more particularly as many of them were invested with the Great Offices of the King's Court . The ...
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... Baron with 40 servants For a Banneret with 24 servants For a Knight of the Household with 16 servants For a Squire of the Household with 6 servants - 1000 0 0 500 0 0 - 200 0 0 - 100 0 0 50 0 0 The account then defines the particular ...
... Baron with 40 servants For a Banneret with 24 servants For a Knight of the Household with 16 servants For a Squire of the Household with 6 servants - 1000 0 0 500 0 0 - 200 0 0 - 100 0 0 50 0 0 The account then defines the particular ...
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... Baron of Warminster , to King George the Third , on Monday the 13th September 1786 , the king , queen , and princesses being entertained at Longleat by the Lord Viscount Weymouth . Charles II . was likewise entertained in the same way ...
... Baron of Warminster , to King George the Third , on Monday the 13th September 1786 , the king , queen , and princesses being entertained at Longleat by the Lord Viscount Weymouth . Charles II . was likewise entertained in the same way ...
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... Baron Abinger , Lord Glenelg , Right Hon . the Speaker , Right Hon . T. P. Courtenay , Right Hon . Sir Robert Peel , Bart . Right Hon . Wm . Sturges Bourne , Right Hon . Sir J. Beckett , Right Hon . Sir S. Canning , Right Hon . Sir G ...
... Baron Abinger , Lord Glenelg , Right Hon . the Speaker , Right Hon . T. P. Courtenay , Right Hon . Sir Robert Peel , Bart . Right Hon . Wm . Sturges Bourne , Right Hon . Sir J. Beckett , Right Hon . Sir S. Canning , Right Hon . Sir G ...
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... barons and knights holding in capite , according to the number of their respective fees . For instance , in Norfolk and Suffolk , the Earl of Clare paid fourscore and fourteen pounds and odd , for his own knights ' fees and the knights ...
... barons and knights holding in capite , according to the number of their respective fees . For instance , in Norfolk and Suffolk , the Earl of Clare paid fourscore and fourteen pounds and odd , for his own knights ' fees and the knights ...
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Page 417 - Anoint and cheer our soiled face With the abundance of thy grace. Keep far our foes, give peace at home : Where thou art guide, no ill can come.
Page 415 - Christ, at or after the consecration thereof, by any person whatsoever ; and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the Mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous.
Page 419 - O Lord, with the Holy Ghost the Comforter, and daily increase in them Thy manifold gifts of grace ; the spirit of wisdom and understanding ; the spirit of counsel and ghostly strength ; the spirit of knowledge and true godliness ; and fill them, O Lord, with the spirit of Thy holy fear, now and for ever. Amen.
Page 35 - Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law? And will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the united church of England and Ireland, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established within England and Ireland, and the territories thereunto belonging...
Page 35 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 415 - And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 441 - It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting God.
Page 141 - With lokkes crulle, as they were leyd in presse. Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of evene lengthe, And wonderly deliver, and greet of strengthe.
Page 379 - From Paul's I went, to Eton sent, To learn straightways the Latin phrase, Where fifty-three stripes given to me At once I had. For fault but small, or none at all, It came to pass thus beat I was; See, Udal, see the mercy of thee To me, poor lad.
Page 415 - ... the Pope or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man or absolved of this declaration or any part thereof, although the Pope or any other person or persons or power whatsoever should dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.