. Peeps at heraldry . the wisdom of the learned ; and thesingle letters stood for the thoughts of absent or silentscholars. In the Conroy arms, the field is charged with anancient book, open, indexed, edged or. This chargerepresents the honourable and hereditary office ofLeanachie bard and herald to the OConnors, Kings ofConnaught. The motto under the coat of arms signi-fies that history once written in this book cannot bedestroyed by time. It was the privilege of the ancientbard of the tribe to stand alone with the new-madeKing upon the sacred mount of Cam Fraoich and thereto deliver into his
. Peeps at heraldry . the wisdom of the learned ; and thesingle letters stood for the thoughts of absent or silentscholars. In the Conroy arms, the field is charged with anancient book, open, indexed, edged or. This chargerepresents the honourable and hereditary office ofLeanachie bard and herald to the OConnors, Kings ofConnaught. The motto under the coat of arms signi-fies that history once written in this book cannot bedestroyed by time. It was the privilege of the ancientbard of the tribe to stand alone with the new-madeKing upon the sacred mount of Cam Fraoich and thereto deliver into his hands the white wand or sceptre ofroyalty. Mechanical objects follow next—ploughs, harrows(the Harrows bear three harrows), scythes, spades>cartwheels (the latter occur in the arms of Carter andCartwright). These are all typical of husbandry, andsuggest agricultural industry on the part of the originalbearers. Chaucers son-in-law, Sir Payne Roet—deriveddoubtless, from the French rouet, a wheel—bore three 64. Inanimate Objects as Charges wheels on his shield, and in blazoning this coat of arms(Fig. 52), Guillim quotes Plinys fable of the Romanfarmer who was accused to the authorities of being amagician, because his fields were fruit-ful, whilst those of his neighbourwere barren. Wait, said the farmer, and Iwill show you my conjuring tools ;and therewith he produced his ploughand a cartwheel. From this anec-dote we gather that Sir PayneRoet must have been distinguished as an agriculturist. Then come the implements for making clothes aswell as some items of dress. Wool-cards are borneby the Cardingtons ; shuttles by the Shuttleworths ;Sir John Maunsel bears three maunches (sleeves) ;the Bartlelots, gloves ; the Hose family bear stock-ings ; the Arthurs of Ireland three boots, blazonedas three Irish brogues; the Huths have a hat[hut being the German for hat). One family of Palmers charges their shield withthree palmers staves ; another has a pilgrims Spences bea
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