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  Constable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In some states, a constable may be appointed by the judge of the Court in which he or she serves; in others the constable is an elected or appointed position at the village, precinct or township level of local government.
A constable is an elected officer of the county for the Justice of the Peace Court and must live in the precinct to which they are elected.
Texas constables are elected officials, similar to a sheriff, who are responsible for providing services for their precinct justice of the peace, but also for his county, and the state district courts.
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 Lord High Constable - LoveToKnow Watches
The constable was originally the commander of the royal armies and the master of the horse.
The constableship was granted as a grand serjeanty with the earldom of Hereford by the empress Maud to Milo of Gloucester, and was carried by his heiress to the Bohuns, earls of Hereford and Essex.
The Lacys and Verduns were hereditary constables of Ireland from the 12th to the 14th century; and the Hays, earls of Erroll, have been hereditary constables of Scotland from early in the 14th century.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lord_High_Constable   (183 words)

  
 Great Officer of State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lord High Stewardship was held by the Earls of Leicester until 1399 when the holder became the Sovereign; and since 1421, a Lord High Steward has generally only been appointed temporarily either for the day of a coronation or for the trials of peers (before 1948).
Lord High Chancellor - The Lord Falconer of Thoroton
The Lord Justice General was originally an important noble, though in the 19th century, the office was combined with that of Lord President of the Court of Session.
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 Lord High Constable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are two royal offices in the United Kingdom of Lord High Constable:
Sweden's riksmarsk is commonly rendered as Lord High Constable of Sweden in English.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_High_Constable   (103 words)

  
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William de la Haye, Butler of Scotland, was granted a charter of the feudal Barony of Erroll in Perthshire in 1178.
Sir Gilbert de la Haye, third feudal Baron of Erroll, and co-Regent of Scotland in 1255; married Lady Idoine, daughter of William Comyn, Earl of Buchan, and sister of the Constable of Scotland.
The 18th Earl was Lord High Constable during George IV's visit to Scotland in 1822, and he lavished a fortune on the affair, which nearly ruined him.
members.lycos.co.uk /JohnDelgaty/ClanHay.htm   (401 words)

  
 Historic Earls and Earldoms of Scotland - Chapter IV - Earldom and Earls of Erroll - Section IX
James, Lord Boyd, fifteenth Earl of Erroll, and nineteenth Lord High Constable of Scotland, was a nobleman of striking personal form and stature, distinguished also for his amiable mind and high and generous spirit.
Earl James, as Lord High Constable of Scotland, was present and officiated at the coronation of George III., on the 22nd of September, 1761.
The functions of the High Constable of Scotland at this ceremony were much the same as those described at the coronation of George II.
www.electricscotland.com /WEBCLANS/earldoms/chapter4s9.htm   (1175 words)

  
 PEERAGE - Online Information article about PEERAGE
But, except in the House of Lords, the precedence of the lord chancellor of Great Britain or the lord keeper of the great seal is the same whether he is a peer or a commoner.
The lord steward and the lord chamberlain of the household are always peers, and have seldom been under the degree of earls.
The wives and children, for example, of the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord high chancellor or the speaker of the House of Commons do not participate in their official rank but only in their personal rank, whatever it may be.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAS_PER/PEERAGE.html   (6438 words)

  
 Lord Errol
Lord Erroll believed that Kenya's economy could recover if the settlers were allowed to make decisions without the long delays they suffered through the bureaucratic colonial administration.
Lord Erroll had the fascist emblem copied in silver which he wore on the sporran with his traditional Scottish dress to the Blackshirt Cabaret Ball, where the guests were entertained by the Blackshirt Dance Band* and the Blackshirt Salon Orchestra*.
In June 1934, Lord Erroll, was at the big Olympia meeting, when the Blackshirts had their first real victory against the attempts by the Communist Party to end free speech in Britain.
www.oswaldmosley.com /people/lorderroll.html   (668 words)

  
 Historic Earls and Earldoms of Scotland - Chapter IV - Earldom and Earls of Erroll - Section II
The Constable was supreme judge in all matters of riot, disorder, bloodshed, and murder, committed within a circuit of four miles of the King’s person, or of the Parliament and Council representing the Royal authority in His Majesty’s absence.
In time of Parliament the High Constable rode on the King’s right hand and carried a white baton in token of command, and accordingly sat apart from the rest of the nobility upon the King’s right hand, having the honours lying before him.
In early times the High Constable and his deputies had a right to take custom, in name of fees, of all kinds of goods brought to the markets for sale, wherever the Parliament or the Session was sitting.
www.electricscotland.com /WEBCLANS/earldoms/chapter4s2.htm   (1434 words)

  
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Lord Hailes, who is one of the best philologists in Great Britain, who has written papers in _The World_[134], and a variety of other works in prose and in verse, both Latin and English, pleased him highly.
Lord Gardenston is the proprietor of Laurence Kirk, and has encouraged the building of a manufacturing village, of which he is exceedingly fond, and has written a pamphlet upon it[233], as if he had founded Thebes; in which, however, there are many useful precepts strongly expressed.
Lord Monboddo received us at his gate most courteously; pointed to the Douglas arms upon his house, and told us that his great-grandmother was of that family.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/0/4/5/10451/10451.txt   (17682 words)

  
 Henry VIII of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In 1493, the young Henry was appointed Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
Lord Rochford was beheaded soon after the trial ended; the four others implicated had their sentences commuted from hanging, drawing and quartering to decapitation.
The Lords Spiritual, as members of the clergy with seats in the House of Lords were known, were for the first time outnumbered by the Lords Temporal.
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 Peerage and Nobility of the Royal Houses - English & Scottish Nobility   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Primate of All England.
The Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland during the sitting of the General Assembly.
Every Lord Lieutenant of a County and every Lord Lieutenant of a County of a City during his term of office, and within the limits of his jurisdiction, shall have prece- dence before the Sheriff Principal having concurrent jurisdiction in the said County or County of a City.
www.scotlandroyalty.com /peerage.html   (2835 words)

  
 Conservative Future - Issues - Constitutional Change: King Tony?
As the prime minister launches a fresh constitutional assault on the House of Lords a senior officer of the royal household has warned that Tony Blair is in danger of becoming an ‘elected dictator’.
The Earl of Erroll, the lord high constable of Scotland, warned that Blair has ‘dismantled’ some of the most important constitutional checks on government.
Lord Falconer, the Lord Chancellor, who will lead Blair’s new assault on the Lords, insisted this weekend that the power of the upper house should be curbed in any new reforms.
www.conservativefuture.com /issues/issue.cfm?obj_id=129245   (366 words)

  
 Lords Hansard text for 25 May 1999 (190525-25)
The noble Lord, Lord Marsh, has not had the benefit of centuries of exquisite inbreeding, and therefore one could not expect him to be able to discharge his public responsibilities as a role model in the way of which one would have been confident when looking to the noble Earl, Lord Onslow.
It is well known to most of us--I hope it is well known to all of us--that the function of the Lord High Constable of Scotland is to defend the person of Her Majesty north of the Border.
My point was not that the Lord High Constable had a duty currently in Parliament here, but merely that by widening those involved to cover the full scope of the officers of state within the United Kingdom, it became more of a United Kingdom Parliament than it currently appears to be to some observers.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld199899/ldhansrd/vo990525/text/90525-25.htm   (1699 words)

  
 GLOSSARY - BURKE'S GUIDE TO BRITISH TITLES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It may be hereditary, in which case it is specifically applied to a lord of Parliament in the peerage (2) of Scotland and colloquially or loosely to a male who holds the title of baron, earl, marquess or viscount, either substantively or as a courtesy title.
The Lord Chamberlain, Lord High Almoner, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Lord Steward and some Lords-in- Waiting are Court appointments.
The Lord Great Chamberlain is the holder of a hereditary ceremonial post concerned with the sovereign's attendance at Parliament and great state occasions such as the lying in state of a recently deceased sovereign and the coronation of the new one.
www.burkes-peerage.net /sites/peerage/sitepages/page66-lord.asp   (432 words)

  
 Lords Hansard text for 25 May 1999 (190525-24)
This office of Lord Great Chamberlain of England is of equal antiquity, having first been instituted in 1133 by Henry I, though the present holder's claims to the office have been subject to more complicated legal settlement than most of us would care to endure.
According to Sir Iain Moncreiffe, the Lord High Constable sat on a chair in front of the Throne with the Regalia on a table between him and the Earl Marischal.
Scotland and the Scots have had a great tradition of loyalty to their kings and monarchs down the centuries.
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/ld199899/ldhansrd/vo990525/text/90525-24.htm   (2429 words)

  
 Coronation of the British monarch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The offices of Lord High Steward and Lord High Constable have not been regularly filled since the 15th and 16th centuries, respectively; they are, however, revived for coronation ceremonies.
The Lord Great Chamberlain enrobes the Sovereign with the ceremonial vestments, with the aid of the Groom of the Robes and the Master (in the case of a King) or Mistress (in the case of a Queen) of the Robes.
By the Tudor period, the hereditary post of Lord High Steward had merged with the Crown, and so Henry VIII began the modern tradition of naming a temporary Steward for the coronation only, with separate commissioners to carry out the actual work of the court.
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None of this was ever disproved; it is not entirely impossible that they were the grandsons of Bonnie Prince Charlie, though the admitted adoption should have damaged their father's claim to be the rightful Earl of Errol, whatever the grandfather may have been.
Lord Lovat built them a "hunting lodge" on his estate, and our illustration is a detail from a self-portrait showing them standing in the main room.
It is high time that we welcomed the use of these setts without pretending that they are anything other than what they are: an interesting footnote in the history of tartans.
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 Scottish Castles Photo Library - Megginch Castle, Perthshire
Robert the Bruce appointed Sir Gilbert Hay of Erroll as Lord High Constable of Scotland in 1324 and a branch of that family, the Hays of Leys, was established at Megginch Castle in the Carse of Gowrie, just off the main road between Perth and Dundee.
In 1664, the property was sold to a branch of the Drummond family, who was 8th Lord Lennoch, Hereditary Seneschal of Strathearn.
She was one of only 90 hereditary peers to survive in the House of Lords restructuring and this redoubtable lady not only brought to that chamber a lot of common sense to issues but also armfuls of fresh flowers from her garden at Megginch.
www.rampantscotland.com /castles/blcastles_megginch.htm   (473 words)

  
 Red Clydeside: Resistance to fascism
Scotland in the 1920s and 1930s proved to be barren ground for the advancement of fascism.
The 22nd Earl of Erroll, the Lord High Constable for Scotland, was perhaps one of the most famous Scottish supporters of Mosley and the BUF.
One of the principal founders of the pro-Nazi 'January Club' was Captain Luttman-Johnson of Luncarty, and an influential member was Lord William Scott, Unionist MP for Roxburgh and Selkirk from 1935-50.
gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk /redclyde/redclyeve23.htm   (1024 words)

  
 Yester Castle and the Hay Family
On the King's return to Scotland de Haya's two sons were granted the lands of Erroll in the north and Tweeddale in the south.
Sir Gilbert De la Hay,3rd Lord of Erroll was co-regent of Scotland in 1225 and married Lady Idonea Comyn,their son Gilbert fought for King Robert the Bruce he was rewarded with the lands of Slains, near Aberdeen and hereditary position of Lord High Constable of Scotland.
Lord Lyndsay begged the King to allow him to charge with his horsemen down the hillside to divide the English before they could assemble.
www.maybole.org /history/castles/yester.htm   (2043 words)

  
 Khaleej Times Online - Dialogue must for co-existence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Honourable Lord Merlin Victor Hay, the Earl of Errol and Lord High Constable of Scotland and Member of the House of Lords, UK, the Rt.
Lord Merlin Victor Hay, the Earl of Errol, hailed the holding of the discussion as a wise step and said: "Poverty is a major issue that feed much of the trouble today.
Lord Ahmed of Rotherham began his speech by saying that there were two major points of conflict in history between the Muslims and the West — one was the crusades and the other was colonialism.
www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2006/February/theuae_February102.xml§ion=theuae   (675 words)

  
 Historic Earls and Earldoms of Scotland - Chapter IV - Earldom and Earls of Erroll - Section VIII
The office of Lord High Constable was not abolished by the Union, though, owing to the changed circumstances and the extinction of the Scottish Parliament, the duties of the office were very limited.
In April, 1708, the Earl of Erroll was conveyed prisoner to London, on suspicion of his being connected with the attempted French invasion in favour of the exiled King.
Their Lordships have agreed to offer it as their humble opinion to His Majesty that the Constable of Scotland do in the procession at his Majesty’s coronation walk on the right hand side of the High Constable of England, and Earl Marischal on the left hand of the Marshal of England.
www.electricscotland.com /webclans/earldoms/chapter4s8.htm   (1231 words)

  
 History of the Hay Clan
Members of the family were in Scotland in the 12th century - William de La Haye were cup bearers to King Malcolm IV who reigned between 1153 and 1165 and William de Haya was given the charter to lands around Errol a few years later.
Sir Robert Hay, the 7th Baron of Erroll, married Elizabeth, daughter of King Robert II and marriages to the daughters of the Earl of Strathearn and Earl of Buchan by other Hays increased the stature of the family still further.
The 18th earl was Lord High Constable of Scotland during the lavish state visit by King George IV to Scotland in 1822 which was orchestrated by Sir Walter Scott
www.rampantscotland.com /clans/blclanhay.htm   (552 words)

  
 MyClan.com : Clan Hay : Clan History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Hay was first created constable in 1309 and then, by charter dated 12 November 1314, the title was made hereditary.
The Lord High Constable was responsible for the personal safety of the monarch, and was sword bearer at coronations.
The eighteenth Earl was Lord High Constable during George IV’s visit to Scotland in 1822, and he lavished a fortune on the affair, which nearly ruined him.
www.myclan.com /clans/Hay_50/default.php   (877 words)

  
 JAG - Differencing ~ 2
The first of the early principles to be abandoned was the principle of specific combinations of colours signifying specific loyalties (and, indirectly, geographical origins).
In Scotland where there were several branches of the Berkeley/Barclay family, the crosses patée appeared also powdering the field, Azure crusilly a chevron Argent.
In Scotland the principal arms of the family remained Argent and Azure, but the crosses patée were soon reduced in number to three, so the field was no longer powdered or semé and the blazons were changed to read "a chevron between three crosses patée".
www.baronage.co.uk /jag-ht/jag009.html   (749 words)

  
 Scottish Clan Insignia
In Scotland, the lowest rank of the peerage is "Lord (or Lady) of Parliament." It is the equivalent of a baron in England or on the Continent.
The flag is 4 feet 6 inches long by 2 feet high, with a background of the main livery colour of the chief's arms.
Historically, the title of Earl Marischal of Scotland was hereditary in the Keith family, but I believe it was lost by attainder after the 1745 Jacobite rising.
www.fotw.net /flags/gb_clan.html   (3176 words)

  
 Historical perspective for Slains Castle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A historical perspective, drawn from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical, edited by Francis H. Groome and originally published in parts by Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh between 1882 and 1885.
This edition is copyright © The Editors of the Gazetteer for Scotland, 2002-2006.
From the windows the eye wanders over the sea that separates Scotland from Norway, and, when the winds beat with violence, must enjoy all the terrific grandeur of the tempestuous ocean.
www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/features/featurehistory4624.html   (440 words)

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