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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850. Excerpt: ... PREFACE. The Author of the following pages feels bound to acknowledge that he has been greatly indebted, in the compilation of this Work, to Pegge's Curialia, which appeared in 1784. Many other sources have been referred to, in order to obtain fuller information, and to verify, or correct, statements in Pegge's Work, in the republication of his Memoir of the Corps, by Mr. Thiselton, in 1819, that seemed of doubtful accuracy. But, although no pains have been spared to glean any new facts and elucidations that had escaped the observation of preceding writers, the Author cannot but regret that he has not been enabled to give such a continuity to his historical VI PREFACE. account of the Band as he had originally hoped would be the result of his labour and researches. Many chasms unfortunately occur in the records of the Corps, through the abstraction or destruction of valuable documents; and it is much to be regretted that the details generally furnished by such official papers as are still extant should prove to be meagre in the extreme. The Author has consequently found it requisite to introduce occasionally some biographical and other illustrations, in order to impart to the work an interest beyond that of a dry register of facts. LONDON, MARCH 1, 1850. SOME ACCOUNT QUEEN'S HONOURABLE CORPS GENTLEME N-AT-ARM S. The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, as it is now designated, with the exceptions of the Yeomen of the Guard and the Sergeants-at-Arms, is the oldest corps in England. It was instituted soon after King Henry the Eighth ascended the throne, and was composed entirely of gentle'men of noble blood. In the preceding reign, a body of fifty archers had been enrolled, composed of yeomen, and styled the Yeomen of the Guard: a splendid corps, which at ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235677724
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 46
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235677729
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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