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Excerpt from The Armorial Windows Erected, in the Reign of Henry Vi: By John Viscount Beaumont and Katharine Duchess of Norfolk in Woodhouse Chapel, by the Park Beaumanor, in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire; Including an Investigation of the Differences of the Coat of Neville
It is necessary to be aware of this usage if we endeavour to understand the design and import of some assemblages of arms that we still occasionally meet with, and of the many now destroyed that are described by our Old topogra phers and heralds. Our modern ideas would lead us to conclude that such displays represented the ancestry and alliances of the party erecting them, and so they generally did; but they were not limited to the relationship of consanguinity, for they frequently signified feudal dependence and political adhesion, and were tokens of respect and emblems of party beyond the precincts of family alliance.
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