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Title: Proceedings
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Subjects: Archaeology -- Periodicals Somerset (England) -- Antiquities Periodicals England -- Antiquities Periodicals
Publisher: Dorchester, Eng. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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\m^djti Kratdrg in i^ Panor io\x^ QJ go\(i\\ ^(adbiinr, luithi\\^ lci;alclr^ and ;Jtonum((ub in thij djhuiirlt. BY A. J. JEWERS, F.S.A. TT will be well to take the heraldry in the manor house-*- first, treating it chronologically, and commencing with theshields in the glass of the alcoved window at the west end ofthe north or exterior side of the hall. This window, or ratherwindows, forming the front and sides of the alcove, had theirupper portion filled with a very fine series of twenty-fourshields of amies, of which, however, one is quite gone. Theseare arranged in two rows, but without any definite order. Thecharacter of the heraldry and the style of drawing would enableus to determine very closely the date of the glass, even with-out the aid of the exact date given on the inscription; andthat they were specially for the glorification of the house ofHastings, and to commemorate its descent from the ancientowners of this manor, and apparently to show the relationshipof the builder o

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