Notes on the original and beginning of surnames, the means of our ancestors attaining to the rank and order of gentlemen, the first using of seals in charters and deeds in England, the punishment inflicted for counterfeiting another's seal, arms when first hereditary, arms why and by whom set up in church windows, the punishment inflicted on a son in his coat armour for abusing his mother, the granting of arms from great earls and passing of coats from one private person to another, and of burying the dead, epitaphs, tombstones, embalming dead bodies, etc.
MS. Rawl. C. 155, fols. 251–261
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Title
Notes on the original and beginning of surnames, the means of our ancestors attaining to the rank and order of gentlemen, the first using of seals in charters and deeds in England, the punishment inflicted for counterfeiting another's seal, arms when first hereditary, arms why and by whom set up in church windows, the punishment inflicted on a son in his coat armour for abusing his mother, the granting of arms from great earls and passing of coats from one private person to another, and of burying the dead, epitaphs, tombstones, embalming dead bodies, etc.
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MS. Rawl. C. 155, fols. 251–261
Date
Date not recorded at time of cataloguing
Language
English
Physical extent
1 item
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Collection contents
Rawlinson C: History, Theology
Collections of Rev. John Lewis, M.A., of Margate
Notes on the original and beginning of surnames, the means of our ancestors attaining to the rank and order of gentlemen, the first using of seals in charters and deeds in England, the punishment inflicted for counterfeiting another's seal, arms when first hereditary, arms why and by whom set up in church windows, the punishment inflicted on a son in his coat armour for abusing his mother, the granting of arms from great earls and passing of coats from one private person to another, and of burying the dead, epitaphs, tombstones, embalming dead bodies, etc.
