Armorial bindings; Bookplates, English; Heraldry -- Great Britain
In 1761 the Princess married George III., King of England, and
her married life was uneventful. As Queen she devoted herself
entirely to domestic matters.
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CHETWYND, WALTER
_Arms._--Quartered.
1. Az., a chevron between 3 mullets or. _Chetwynd._
2. Arg., 2 chevrons az. _Bagot._
3. Quarterly, arg. and az., on a bend gu., 3 fleurs-de-lys or.
_Garshall._
4. Arg., 3 bars sa. _Raymond._
5. Gu., 10 billets or. _Salter._
6. Sa., 3 fishes naiant in pale or. _Verney._
7. Gu., a lion rampant erm. _Meriford._
8. Gu., 5 piles issuing from the sinister. _Henderson_ (?).
9. Sa., 3 pheons arg. _Egerton_ of Shropshire.
10. Paly wavy of 6, arg. and gu. _Gurnon._
11. Arg., a chevron between 3 oak leaves vert. _Haslerigg._
12. Az., a lion rampant or. _Hetherfield._
[DEMOCRITUS. _Anatomy of Melancholy._ Oxford, 1628.]
Walter Chetwynd (born circ. 1620, died 1693) was a son of
Walter Chetwynd of Ingestre, in Staffordshire. He was Member of
Parliament for Stafford, and for Staffordshire, and Sheriff in
1680.
Chetwynd was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and an Antiquary,
particularly as concerned the County of Staffordshire. He was
a friend of Dr. Robert Plot, who wrote _The Natural History
of Staffordshire_ in 1686, and assisted him in many ways. His
collections of drawings and manuscripts were nearly all lost in
a fire at Ingestre in 1882.
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CHITTING, HENRY
_Arms._--Quarterly; arg. and az., on a bend gu., 3 quatrefoils of the
first. _Chitting._
_Crest._--A talbot's head erased arg.
_Helmet._--That of an Esquire.
_Motto._--FIDELITATE ET SAGACITATE.
_Initials._--H. C. (Henry Chitting).
[_Collection of rolls of the reigns of many kings._ Stowe, 601.]
Henry Chitting (born 1580 (?), died 1638) was a herald and
genealogist. In 1618 he became Chester Herald, and conducted
several of the heraldic visitations of English counties.
Chitting wrote a valuable work on the _Extinct Baronage of
England_, and others of less general importance.
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CHOLMONDELEY, GEORGE, THIRD EARL CHOLMONDELEY
_Arms._--Gu., in chief 2 helmets in profile arg., and in base a garb
or. _Cholmondeley._
_Coronet._--That of an Earl.
[FAERNI. _Fabulae._ London, 1743.]
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