Magnæ Britanniæ notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain. With diverse reflections upon the ancient state thereof / By John Chamberlayne.

Edward Chamberlayne

Date:: 1741

Credit: Magnæ Britanniæ notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain. With diverse reflections upon the ancient state thereof / By John Chamberlayne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$‘Book It. of GREAT-BRITAIN: 38x _ Sometimes alfo the Chancellor hath proclaimed, andthe Re- ' ri ‘gifler read, Lion and his Brethren ftanding by. ____ Ordinarily the Proclamation begins and ends with, God fave | the King. | ms, When War is proclaimed, it is done on the Crofs, at the Cajile-Gare, and Peer and Shore of Leith. The Ordering and Marfhalling of Funeral Solemunities be- longed alfo formerly to the Kings at Arms. | . The Reverfing of Arms after Sentence of Forfeiture, belongs alfo to the King at Arms, and is thus performed. | When the Sentence of Forfeiture is pronounced againit any _ Man in Parliament, the great Doors are caft open, Lion, Hes _falds, and Purfuivants preceded by the Trumpets in. their - Formalities, come in and advance with Sound of. Trumpet, *rill they be within the inner Bar, when the Heralds and Pur- fuivants ftand at the End of the Table, and the Trum peters _ on aBench hard by the Bar, and the King at Arms advances _ tothe Throne, and ftepping up, ftands a Degree below the _ Chancellor until the Sentence be read, and then, -after Sound of ‘Trumpet, he or his Deputy holding in his Hand One E/cue- chron of che Arms of the fore-faulted Perfon (every. one of the Heralds and Purfuivants holdiog the like) fay thus, Con- form to this Sentence of his Majefiy’s High Coramiffioner, and States of Parliament now pronounced againf? A, B. finding hive guilty of the Crime Treason, fore-faulting him in Life and Fortune, and ordering his Arms to be reverfed and torn in Manner thereiz contained : I, his Majefty’s Lion King at Arms, affified by my Brethren the Heralds and Purfuivants, do in his Majefty’s Name, and by his Authority, openly reverfe, tear, and trample under Foot [at which Words they firft reverfe, and then tear and throw away the Arms] thefe Armorial Enjigns of the faid A. B. and intimate the fame to be Cancelled, Delate, and Rafed forth of the Books and publick Regifiers of Arms 3 and declare the faid A. B, as being a Traitor, and Difloyal, and the De/cendants of his Body to be henceforth unable and unworihyto bear any Coat- - Armour, or any Mark or Token of Honour for ever. From thence they go to the Crofs and do the fame. . 1f the Seztence be pronounced by the Lords of the Jufticiary, a like Form is ufed. ; If the Perfon be of ordinary Quality, the Heralds and Pur- fuivants do it; if he be a Peer, -Lion or his Deputy is pre- fent. bie Laft of all, fome E/cutcheons of the Arms reverfed are affixed on the Crofs, with the fore-faulted Perfon's Name, and. rhe Word of a Traitor ; and if any {uch Perfon: have their Arms Regiftered in the Lion’s Books, they are rafed out. CHAP,$