. Wakefield memorial : comprising an historical, genealogical and biographical register of the name and family of Wakefield. pal fromthose of purer ages. Edward VI reinstated the heralds in an establishment on the site of that which theyat present occupy. From that period, as might have been expected, heraldry has inEngland become more settled and scientific: authentic treatises have illustrated, estab-lished, and enriched the subject; and there are no variations in the system worth record-ing here. England, indeed, may justly claim the honour of having maintained with thegreatest effect the p
. Wakefield memorial : comprising an historical, genealogical and biographical register of the name and family of Wakefield. pal fromthose of purer ages. Edward VI reinstated the heralds in an establishment on the site of that which theyat present occupy. From that period, as might have been expected, heraldry has inEngland become more settled and scientific: authentic treatises have illustrated, estab-lished, and enriched the subject; and there are no variations in the system worth record-ing here. England, indeed, may justly claim the honour of having maintained with thegreatest effect the purity and significancy of heraldry. The control which the College ofArms has always exercised in the assignation of heraldic bearings has prevented manyof the absurdities which disfigure foreign coats-of-arms, where sovereigns, totally ignor-ant of the principles of the art, and at least virtually absolute, have obtruded not only in-consistent devices on their distinguished subjects, but contradictory rules on the scienceitself.—Transcripts from the Encyclopaedia of the Fine Arts, London, 1848. The Town of Boston. 15. S 1 i^ =■ ?- S-1 i ? >> Note.—This map is reduced 50 per cent, calculate scale accordingly. 16 The Town of Boston. Winthrops company located chiefly within the space comprised between what arenow Milk. Bromfield. Tremont. and Hanover streets and the water. Pemberton Hill wasalso a favorite locality, as we shall have occasion to note. The North End. by removalsand accessions soon became also settled: that portion of the town lying north of Unionstreet being thus designated, while all south of that boundary was called the South End.(p. 10.) ■For a hundred years Boston must be considered as little more than a sea-shorevillage, straggling up its thicket-grown hillsides. (p. 2.) The records show that inApril. 1633. the price paid for the whole peninsula of Boston was £30. assessed upon theinhabitants of the town, some paying 6s and some more, according t
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