. The Ancestor : a quarterly review of county and family history, heraldry and antiquities ... Shields from Clifton Reynes. THE DELAFIELDS AND THE EMPIRE THE enemies of the Holy Roman Empire said that it wasneither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. But evenin its last years, when it was feeble as the old giants whomBunyans pilgrims passed by the roadside, it was a splendidshadow, and the titles deriving from it, its princedoms andcountships, seem memorials in Europe of a mysterious govern-ance more sacred than any with which the chancelleriesreckon to-day. In England we are not curious of titles
. The Ancestor : a quarterly review of county and family history, heraldry and antiquities ... Shields from Clifton Reynes. THE DELAFIELDS AND THE EMPIRE THE enemies of the Holy Roman Empire said that it wasneither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. But evenin its last years, when it was feeble as the old giants whomBunyans pilgrims passed by the roadside, it was a splendidshadow, and the titles deriving from it, its princedoms andcountships, seem memorials in Europe of a mysterious govern-ance more sacred than any with which the chancelleriesreckon to-day. In England we are not curious of titles. To our publicthe Earldom of Arundel with seven hundred years of Englishhistory at the back of it and an Earldom of Ballyshannon,the price_ of a squireens vote for the union, are held in equalhonour. Much more then are the less understood titles ofcontinental folk accepted without distinction. A countship isfor most of us a foreign earldom, although the title becomesflighty and unsubstantial by translation, and all counts are when his full dignity is proclaimed, the Count of the
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