Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . WATCH (•2) LLOYD-STANLEY. 440 A SYLVAN CITY. —descendants of English and Scottish sovereigns, rela-tives of British nobles, representatives of tlie landedgentry of the Mother Isle, collegians and men of Just how many of these distinguished emigrants hadsought Americas broad shores to escape hanging, localchronicles magnanimously refuse to disclose. That,however, one of the early members oi the ProvincialCouncil had left England because of the in-ovoking ex-istence of a superfluity of wives, and that the
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . WATCH (•2) LLOYD-STANLEY. 440 A SYLVAN CITY. —descendants of English and Scottish sovereigns, rela-tives of British nobles, representatives of tlie landedgentry of the Mother Isle, collegians and men of Just how many of these distinguished emigrants hadsought Americas broad shores to escape hanging, localchronicles magnanimously refuse to disclose. That,however, one of the early members oi the ProvincialCouncil had left England because of the in-ovoking ex-istence of a superfluity of wives, and that the daughterof another early councillor—who was also at one timechief magistrate of the province—married a pirate, can-not be authoritatively denied. A distinctive element of that phase of society popu-larly known as aristocracy, whether monarchial ordemocratic, is heraldry, which, in encyclopedical Ian- THE RTnilT TO BEAU ARMS. 441 .Ullage, is defined as the art of arranging and explain-ing in proper terms all that relates or appertains to tiiehearing of arms, crests, hadges, qiiarterings and otiierhereditary marks of honor. As a rule, in Europeancountries and in Great Britain all distinguished fami-lies, not onl}^ those helonging to the nohility, hut to thelanded gentry as well, hea
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