Armorial bindings; Bookplates, English; Heraldry -- Great Britain
The beautiful crest of a peacock in pride upon a chapeau
was adopted by the Manners family after the marriage, in
the fifteenth century, of Sir Robert Manners of Etal,
Northumberland, with Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Thomas,
10th Lord Ros, whose crest it was. The family crest of Sir
Robert Manners was a bull's head erased gu., ducally gorged and
chained or.
[Illustration]
MANNERS, JOHN, DUKE OF RUTLAND
_Arms._--Or, 2 bars az., a chief quarterly of the second and gu.; the
first and fourth quarters each charged with 2 fleurs-de-lys or, the
second and third quarters each charged with a lion of England or.
_Manners._
This chief was originally gu., and the change made in it, incorporating
the fleurs-de-lys of France and the lion of England, was an
augmentation granted in consideration of descent from Edward IV.
_Coronet._--That of a Duke.
[SETTLE. _Fears and Dangers fairly display'd._
London, 1706.]
John Manners (born 29th May 1638, died 10th January 1710) was
the son of John Manners, ninth Earl of Rutland, and succeeded
his father in the Earldom in 1679.
Before this, however, he had been created Lord Manners of
Haddon. He carried the Queen's sceptre with the cross at the
coronation of James II. He supported the Protestant cause, and
the Princess Anne at one time took refuge at Belvoir Castle,
and when she presently became Queen she created Lord Manners
Marquis of Granby and Duke of Rutland.
[Illustration]
MARY, QUEEN OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND IRELAND
_Arms._--Quarterly.
1st and 4th, France.
2nd and 3rd, England.
As used by Henry VIII. (q.v.).
_Crown._--Royal.
[_Epitome operum divi Augustini._ Cologne, 1549.]
The Princess Mary (born 18th February 1516, died 17th November
1558) was the daughter of Henry VIII. and his first wife,
Catherine of Aragon. In 1553 she succeeded her brother Edward
VI. on the throne of England.
In 1554 Queen Mary married Prince Philip, afterwards Philip
II., King of Spain, but the marriage was neither happy nor
popular.
The bindings made for Queen Mary often show her coat-of-arms
encircled by flames. They were bound by Thomas Berthelet, who
had been Royal Bookbinder to Henry VIII. Most of the books
are bound in calf, but some are in embroidered velvet, and
show the pomegranate flower. Mary also used the badges of
the fleur-de-lys and the portcullis of the De Beauforts. Her
initials, "M. I.," are sometimes used on her bindings. Queen
Mary used the same supporters as Henry VIII. in the latter part
of his reign, namely, the lion and the red dragon, but they do
not show on any of her books. Queen Mary's books came to the
British Museum in 1757.
[Illustration]
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND
_Arms._--Or, a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counterflory
gu. _Scotland._
As used by James I. (q.v.).
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