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MARGARET
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BY
ANN SCRUGGS
CARRUTH)
THE COMPONENT PARTS OF A PRESENT-DAY COAT-OF-ARMS CONSISTS BASI-
CALLY OF THE SHIELD, AND THE HELMET, WITH OR WITHOUT CREST-WITH OR
WITHOUT'MANTLING. SOMETIMES MERELY THE SHIELD AND THE CREST ARE
PICTUJRED. MOTTOS WERE, IN MOST CASES, OF MUCH LATER ORIGIN THAN
THE SHIELD AND CREST, POSSIBLY NOT MUCH USED PRIOR TO THE FOURTEEN-
TH CENTURY.
THE SHIELD WAS THE BODY-COVERING, SO-TO-SPEAK. WHOSE SHAPE
GREATLY
THRU THE AGES. THE ROMANS AT ONE TIME HAD ROUND
OTHER PEOPLES
RECTANGULAR.
QUIRES KNOWLEDGE OF
WHICH OR WHEN IT IS
ING-DEVICE(S) ARE P
THE RIGHT TO BE
FROM MOST ANCIENT D
RULER ON A FOLLOWER
ING-MEN IN EARLIEST
DEVICES ON THEIR SH
ING THE ARMS OF THE
BOTH THE USAGE A
CHIVALRY" WHEN IT W
CAUSE OF THE
PROPERTY AND
ENDURED FROM
HUNDRED A.D.
TITLE. THIS
HAD TO BE ME
TENURE MEANT
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COMM ISS IONED
HOLDERS''CORT
LINEA GE I:
BEEN HELD MO:
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HAVE HAD TALL THIN ONES. STILL OTHERS ARE
To PICTURE THE CORRECT SHIELD, THEREFORE, RE-
THE TYPE IN USE AT THE TIME OR IN THE ERA IN
KNOWN THAT THE PERSON OR FAMILY WHOSE IDENT IFY-
INTED UPON IT FIRST USED THOSE DEVICES.
R ARMS DESCENDED, THEREFORE, IN A FAMILY; SOME
YS - OTHERS BEING SPECIFICALLY CONFERRED BY A
FOR OUTSTANDING FEATS OR LOYALTIES. THE FIGHT-
DAYS WERE RECOGNIZED BY THEIR COLORS AND THE
ELDS, THOSE OF LESSER SOCIAL RANK USUALLY BEAR-
R 1L IEGE-LORD",
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ND THE DESCRIPTIVE-TERMS DATE FROM THE "DAYS OF
AS BOTH SOC IALLY AND ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT. BE-
CE OF 'PRIMOGENITURE", WHICH ENTAILED DESCENT OF
FROM FATHER TO ELDEST SON, -A PRACTICE WHICH
IMATELY TWO THOUSAND B.C. UNTIL AROUND SIXTEEN
RTY, ESPECIALLY LAND, DESCENDED BY HERIDITARY-
UNIQUE TYPE OF TITLE IN THAT RIGID REQUIREMENTS
CIALLY REGARDING LINEAL TENURE. RECOGNIZED LEGAL
DGE AND PROOF OF A MINIMUM OF NINE IN SUCCESS ION
T, HENCE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE OFF ICE OF BARD,
SS I VE ACHIEVEMENTS AND DETAILS REGARDING THE
EEDANTS. KNOWING THIS WAS THE LAW FOR SO MANY
NS THE VALUE ATTACHED TO THE VISITATIONS MADE BY
ENT OUT BY QUEEN ELIZABETH I THRU OUT HER REA LM,
TE DOWN FROM THE LIPS OF THE BARDS OF EACH LAND-
DETAILS BY WHICH HIS TITLE WAS HELD.
, THEREFORE, TI
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ON. THEY DID
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OF THE PAST
WHY SHOULD
WHICH HAS
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