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A synopsis of heraldry, or, The most plain, short, and easie way for the perfect attaining of that art, : containing all necessary directions, in order thereunto: there being about 300 coats of arms, and about 50 crests engraven on copper plates; and The atchievements of the kings of England since K. Egbert of the Saxon race. The paternal coats of the nobility of England, with a list of the Knights of the Garter the arms of the archiepiscopal and episcopal sees; and of the two universities, and the several colledges in them; and of the Inns of Court, and other houses of law in London; with some hundreds of gentlemens coats, all truly blazoned. To which is added an alphabetical table, for the ready finding any name whose coat is herein blazoned
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Official, semi-official, and personal papers of six generations of the Egerton family, particularly those accumulated by Sir Thomas Egerton, 1540?-1617, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount of Brackley, Solicitor-General (1581-1592), Attorney-General (1592-1594), Lord Keeper (1596-1603), and Lord Chancellor (1603-1617); Sir John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, 1579-1649, President of the Council of Wales (1631-1649); John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, 1622-1686, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (1660-1686); John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, 1646-1701, President of the Board of Trade (1696-1699), First Lord of Admiralty (1699-1701), Speaker of the House of Lords (1697 and 1700); John Scrope Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, 1681-1745, a Whig courtier under Anne and George I, and Francis, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, 1736-1803
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