Curialia Miscellanea, or Anecdotes of Old Times: Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous: Including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, and the Manners and Customs of the Court, at an Early Period of the English History — John Shaqi
Curialia Miscellanea, or Anecdotes of Old Times: Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous: Including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, and the Manners and Customs of the Court, at an Early Period of the English HistoryPegge, Samuel
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Curialia Miscellanea, or Anecdotes of Old Times: Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous: Including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, and the Manners and Customs of the Court, at an Early Period of the English History
Pegge, Samuel
Anecdotes -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Early works to 1800; Pegge, Samuel, 1704-1796
The descendants of the illustrious houses of Cavendish, Osborne,
Boothe, and Darcy (for the venerable Duke of Leeds, whose age would
not allow him to attend, had sent his two grandsons, in whom the
blood of Osborne and D'Arcy is united); a numerous and powerful
gentry; a wealthy and respectable yeomanry; a hardy, yet decent and
attentive peasantry; whose intelligent countenances shewed that they
understood, and would be firm to preserve that blessing, for which
they were assembled to return thanks to Almighty God, presented a
truly solemn spectacle, and to the eye of a philosopher the most
interesting that can be imagined.
After service the company went in succession to view the old
house, and the room called by the Anti-revolutionists "The
Plotting-Parlour," with the old armed-chair in which the Earl of
Devonshire is said to have sitten, and every one was then pleased to
partake of a very elegant cold collation, which was prepared in the
new rooms annexed to the cottage. Some time being spent in this, the
procession began:
Constables with long staves, two and two.
The Eight Clubs, four and four; _viz_.
1. Mr. Deakin's: Flag, blue, with orange fringe, on it the
figure of Liberty, the motto, "The Protestant Religion, and the
Liberties of England, we will maintain."
2. Mr. Bluett's: Flag, blue, fringed with orange, motto,
"Libertas; quæ sera, tamen respexit inertem." Underneath the
figure of Liberty crowning Britannia with a wreath of laurels,
who is represented sitting on a Lion, at her feet the Cornucopiæ
of Plenty; at the top next the pole, a Castle, emblematical of
the house where the club is kept; on the lower side of the flag
Liberty holding a Cap and resting on the Cavendish arms.
3. Mr. Ostliff's: Flag, broad blue and orange stripe, with
orange fringe; in the middle the Cavendish arms; motto as No. 1.
4. Mrs. Barber's: Flag, garter blue and orange quarter'd,
with white fringe, mottoes, "Liberty secured." "The Glorious
Revolution 1688."
5. Mr. Valentine Wilkinson's: Flag, blue with orange fringe, in
the middle the figure of Liberty; motto as No. 1.
6. Mr. Stubbs: Flag, blue with orange fringe, motto, "Liberty,
Property, Trade, Manufactures;" at the top a head of King
William crowned with laurel, in the middle in a large oval,
"Revolution 1688." On one side the Cap of Liberty, on the other
the figure of Britannia; on the opposite side the flag of the
Devonshire arms.
Mrs. Ollerenshaw's: Flag, blue with orange fringe; motto as No.
1. on both sides.
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