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	King of Arms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		King of arms is the senior rank of an officer of arms.
		In England, the authority to grant a coat of arms is subject to the formal approval of the Earl Marshal in the form of a warrant.
		At the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the kings of arms used a coronet trimmed with sixteen acanthus leaves alternating in height, and inscribed with the words Miserere mei Deus secundum magnum misericordiuan tuam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_of_arms (338 words)

	Garter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Garter, the item of clothing in the modern world
		Garter Principal King of Arms, an officer of the Order of the Garter, is also the senior King of Arms at the College of Arms and, therefore, the senior English officer of arms
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Garter (153 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Sir Colin Cole
		Garter is ex officio the senior member of the College of Arms, a corporation whose membership is fixed at 13 officers of arms - four pursuivants, six heralds and three kings of arms.
		As Garter, Cole liberalised the rules devised by Anthony Wagner for the admittance of new officers to the College.
		It was considered at the time that Garter Cole, as the principal heraldic adviser to the Crown, should have tried to prevent this unnecessary diminution of the College's authority, but unfortunately he was hampered by lack of rapport with his Sovereign.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/02/21/db02.xml (933 words)

	THE LAW OF ARMS IN NEW ZEALAND
		The prerogative to grant arms is exercised in New Zealand by the deputy to Garter King of Arms, the New Zealand Herald of Arms Extraordinary to Her Majesty The Queen(60).
		Garter King of Arms, exercising the authority of the Earl Marshal, is not similarly limited.
		Grants of Arms continue to be made by the kings of arms (Garter alone for personal grants, all three for corporate arms), under the authority of a warrant of the Earl Marshal.
	www.geocities.com /noelcox/Law_of_Arms.htm (15446 words)

	Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons - College Arms
		At the base of the Arms is a grassy mount decorated with flowers of the Papaver somniferum (opium poppy), an allusion to the contributions of dentistry to the field of local anaesthesia.
		JOHN F. "The bearing of arms is a dignity conferred by the Sovereign through officers of the Royal Household" Thus Charles Low succinctly describes the elaborate procedures which were followed in the process of acquiring the Arms now borne by the College.
		The College Arms were granted by Letters Patent given under the seals of Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter Principal King of Arms, J. Walker, Clarenceux King of Arms and W.J.G. Verco, Norroy and Ulster King of Arms.
	www.racds.org /college/college_arms (870 words)

	Heraldry
		Arms were appreciated, if not created, for the purpose of identifying leaders in combat.
		Arms in Scotland are granted by the Court of the Lord Lyon, the Lord Lyon being the principal heraldic officer of the Scottish kingdom.
		Unlike his English counterpart, Garter Principal King of Arms, Lyon is a judge as well as a herald, and has full authority to issue rulings in his Court.
	www.hereditary.us /her2.htm (944 words)

	Worshipful Company of Insurers
		The achievement from the Garter Principal King of Arms was presented in 1980.
		Arms: Azure a Cross Argent thereon another Gules charged with a Pair of Scales Or between in dexter chief and sinister base a Drag Anchor enfiling a Mural Crown and in sinister chief and dexter base a Salamander Gold in flames proper.
		The crest that surmounts the helm is formed by a tower (for the City of London) with the portcullis (safeguards), wheat-sheaves (life assurance, farming insurance and the arms of the CII), and a sword (that of St Paul, patron of the City, for support of the City and its Institutions).
	www.wci.org.uk /arms.asp (341 words)

	College of Arms
		The aim of the newsletter is to keep interested members of the public up-to-date with the activities of the College of Arms and its officers, including matters of genealogical and heraldic significance such as recent grants of arms and recently recorded pedigrees.
		Peter Gwynn-Jones, C.V.O., Garter Principal King of Arms, gave a lecture with this title to the Heraldry Society at the Society of Antiquaries in Burlington House, Piccadilly.
		The lecture covered such topics as the disputes between the sixteenth-century kings of arms, the granting of crests to women in the Tudor period and the question of the species of bird represented in the arms of the College of Arms itself.
	www.college-of-arms.gov.uk /Newsletter/002.htm (1627 words)

	College of Arms Foundation - Activities
		King Henry V created the position of Garter King of Arms in 1417 for the service of the Order and decreed that Garter should be the doyen of the heralds.
		The office of Ulster King of Arms and Principal Herald of Ireland was established by King Edward VI of England in 1552 to oversee all aspects of Irish heraldry.
		The Foundation was delighted to receive a request from Christopher Mann of the College of Arms Trust for a grant toward the exhibit being organized by the College of Arms in honor of The Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002: a display of the Garter Crests of Knights of the Garter who died during the reign.
	www.coaf.us /activities.html (9321 words)

	The American Heraldry Society :: Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Washington's correspondence is likewise replete with references to his coat of arms, whether he is exchanging letters on family genealogy with the head of the English heraldic establishment or giving instructions on the decoration of a new carriage.
		Evidence of the Washington arms being used in Virginia dates back to 1735 at the latest, when they were carved on the tombstone of Major John Washington's daughter, Elizabeth (the President's first cousin), who died in February of that year.
		Washington's arms were also used throughout the decoration of the house at Mount Vernon, most notably as a carving on the wooden mantelpiece in the front parlor, completed in 1783, as well as on the frame of a portrait of King Louis XVI of France (along with the French royal arms).
	www.heraldrysociety.us /presidents/index.php?page=Washington (1359 words)

	Windward Islands
		The lettering on the garter does not follow the usual convention, in which the inner edge of the garter is used as the line on which words are written.
		Garter wrote that the crown used as a crest was a personal prerogative of the King and unsuitable for any other person or body.
		In January 1940 the Governor suggested that the garter should be replaced by a plain white ring bearing the same inscription, and that the ground within the ring should be white and not blue, but as far as I know this was not done, and the badge remained as before.
	www.fotw.net /flags/gb-windw.html (1214 words)

	Seaford Town Council - Coat of Arms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is believed that the coat of arms was mounted on the original chain of office presented to S.U.D.C. by F M Coldstream of the Corner House as a memorial to his son who died on active service in India.
		The document is signed and sealed by Sir George R Bellew (Garter Principal King of Arms), Sir Arthur W S Cochrane (Clarenceux King of Arms) and Sir Gerald W Woolston KCB (Norroy and Ulster King of Arms), all three being Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.
		The original coat of arms is now on display at the Council Offices in Broad Street, together with the new coat of arms warranted to the town on the 30th May 2001.
	www.seafordtowncouncil.gov.uk /coatofarms.php (383 words)

	The Royal Borough's Coat of Arms
		The Council's Coat of Arms was granted by the College of Arms on 10 December 1965.
		The Shield comprises three Crowns on ermine, symbolising the Royal status of the borough, and an Abbot's Mitre signifying the centuries old connection of Kensington with the Abbey of Abingdon and of Chelsea with the Abbey of Westminster.
		The Boar is taken from the arms of the De Vere Family who were Lords of the Manor of Kensington for 500 years.
	www.rbkc.gov.uk /YourCouncil/general/coatofarms.asp (264 words)

	Guardian \| Lion and family boar united in Camilla's coat of arms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The coat of arms has a distinctly porcine air, featuring a rampant wild boar with a chained crown around its neck, supporting the shield on one side and the head of a boar on the shield itself.
		The Queen was said by Clarence House to have taken a keen interest in her daughter-in-law's coat of arms, which was designed for her by the College of Heralds.
		Peter Gwynn-Jones, Garter Principal King of Arms, who is the country's senior heraldic official, said: "It has been a great pleasure to work on preparing the duchess's coat of arms and to ensure that the identity of her own family is clearly displayed in this new form."
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5241392-103690,00.html (279 words)

	WLV - The Coat of Arms
		Coats of arms are granted by Letters Patent from the senior heralds, the Kings of Arms.
		A right to arms can only be established by the registration in the official records of the College of Arms of a pedigree showing direct descent from an ancestor already appearing therein as entitled to arms, or by making application through the College of Arms for a grant of arms.
		The whole to be borne and used forever hereafter by the University of Wolverhampton by its Common Seal or otherwise according the Laws of Arms.
	asp.wlv.ac.uk /Level3.asp?UserType=11&Level3=1165 (234 words)

	Hissem_George Lissant Genealogy
		The mortar, made principally of burnt sea shells, is now almost as indissoluble as that of a Roman fortress A very narrow single light to the south sheds a kind of "darkness visible" upon the altar, and the doorway is scarcely wile enough to admit a bulky man.
		Under the Normans, the manor of Heysham was held by the serjeantry or service of cornage, the lord being bound by his tenure to meet the King on the borders of the county, with his horn and a white wand, to introduce him into the county and to attend him on his departure.
		His widow, Agnes de Heysham, in 1199, complained to King John that Roger de Leicester had married his daughter to Thomas, her son, who ought to be a royal ward, in order to acquire the custody of Thomas, and his land, consisting of five carucates in Hessen and Catton, without the King’s consent.
	balder.prohosting.com /shissem/Hissem_George_Lissant_Genealogy.html (4875 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Society for Creative Anachronism College of Arms 15910 Val Verde Drive Houston TX, 77083-4921 713-918-2947 herald@sca.org 12 December 2001 To all the College of Arms from Master François la Flamme, Laurel Principal King of Arms, greetings.
		Moreover, while "Pelican Sovereign of Arms" was based on "Order of the Pelican", that may not be the case for "Laurel King of Arms".
		Rose Sovereign of Arms was a popular title among the heralds, some of whom noted that there was briefly a Rose Herald in the English College from time to time from 1553 on.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/loar/2001/09/01-09.loi (554 words)

	The Patent Granting Prof. Ragen's Arms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The significance of the emblems in the illuminated border.
		In the right border are the arms of the three kings of arms, showing their arms of office impaled with their personal arms and ensigned with the crowns of kings of arms.
		The College of Arms cannot grant arms to citizens of countries where H.M. The Queen is not sovereign—nor, for that matter, in Canada or Scotland, which have their own heraldic authorities to exercise that portion of her powers.
	www.siue.edu /~bragen/PatentPage.html (480 words)

	Camilla's coat of arms for her 58th birthday heralds new era - The Royal Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The arms, in bright blue, red, gold and green, show both the coat of arms of her husband, the Prince of Wales, and her father, Major Bruce Shand.
		The shield in the coat of arms is divided down the centre (impaled), displaying elements from Charles' arms.
		In England, new coats of arms are granted to individuals by the Earl Marshal of the College of Arms, which oversees the issuing of armorial bearings.
	www.royalarchive.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1013 (783 words)

	Dover Arms and Cinque Ports on DoverWeb Dover Kent England
		The only arms for the town of Dover currently registered with the College are those assigned to Dover District Council by a Letters Patent signed by the Garter Principal King of Arms, the Clarenceaux King of Arms and the Ulster King of Arms on 2nd October 1986.
		The coat of arms of the Cinque Ports is a familiar sight in Dover.
		This isn't strictly a coat of arms as it is unregistered with the College of Arms.
	www.dover-web.co.uk /doverarms.asp (669 words)

	A Cheshire Armorial - Grant of Arms to Bayley-Worthington
		From the reign of Queen Victoria, a rare and beautiful College of Arms manuscript document, granting the arms of Bayley-Worthington to Gibbon Bayley of Sharston Hall, Northenden, Cheshire.
		The full coat of arms is superbly painted in the top left corner (photo) of the letters patent in colour and gold, along with other arms at the top.
		The grant is signed and sealed by the Garter Principal King of Arms and Norroy Kings of Arms with their seals contained in gilt skippets attached by the original blue ribbons.
	cheshire-heraldry.org.uk /Bayley_Worthington.html (714 words)

	House of Lords - Companion to the Standing Orders and guide to the Proceedings of the Lords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The newly created peer and his two supporters, all in their Parliament robes,[521] with Garter Principal King of Arms[522] and Black Rod, assemble in the Peers' Lobby.
		Garter hands the new peer's Letters Patent to the Reading Clerk who has taken up a position by the first gangway on the temporal side.
		Meanwhile, Black Rod and Garter have moved to the spiritual side of the House between the Table and the Government Front Bench, facing the three peers.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld/ldcomp/ctso60.htm (784 words)

	United Kingdom: Prince William's standard
		The escallop is derived from the Spencer Coat of Arms: Quarterly Argent and Gules in the 2nd and 3rd Quarters a Fret Or over all on a Bend Sable three Escallops of the First.
		Mr Peter Gwynn-Jones, Garter Principal King of Arms, who is the senior herald and responsible for all matters of Royal Heraldry, said "It is a welcome innovation to incorporate maternal symbols into the Royal Family's arms and it is something that Prince William and his family wanted to do.
		As to the escallop's symbolism, Garter said, "There are references to the escallop being worn by pilgrims to the shrine of St James of Compostella, in Santiago, during the twelfth century.
	flagspot.net /flags/gb-pww.html (1000 words)

	Spring Hill Library, Coat of Arms
		The shield and crest were granted, on the third of April (1889), by: Sir Arthur Woods, Garter Principal King of Arms; Walter Aston Blount, Esquire, Clarenceux King of Arms; and George Edward Cokayne, Esquire, Norroy King of Arms.
		The Fess comes from the Arms of the Calthorpe family who were Lords of the Manor of Edgbaston.
		The Arms continued in use until a fresh grant became necessary to reflect the changes of the local government re-organisation of 1974.
	www.birmingham.gov.uk:81 /GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=15525&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=260 (766 words)

	The Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut: Coat of Arms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The mitre is a copy of the one painted on the roof of St. Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen in 1520 and is used in the Arms of the Diocese of Aberdeen.
		The Coat of Arms of the Diocese of Connecticut was granted under Patent of the College of Arms on February 15, 1924, responding to an application.
		These were the first arms granted to any diocese in the Episcopal Church in the United States by the College of Arms.
	www.ctdiocese.org /resources/archives/coatofarms.shtml (345 words)

	Early Music - Heraldry, the colourful coats of arms often worn by knights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Heraldry or the art/science of armorial bearings (armoury was the medieval term for heraldry), more commonly 'coats of arms', was in common practice throughout Europe although much of the evidence has disappeared due to various revolutions, wars and political changes which have ocurred throughout Europe over the past 700 years.
		That same year Henry created a new heraldic officer, Garter Principal King of Arms of Englishmen, whose province was the whole of England and Wales and who was responsible for issuing Patents of Arms for peers.
		The oldest known Patent issued by a King of Arms is dated 10 March 1439, and was issued by Sir William Bruges, first Garter King of Arms, to the Drapers' Company of London.
	www.earlymusic.i12.com /general/eliz_h.htm (310 words)

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