Augmentations have sometimes been made to the arms of English families by foreign monarchs.
Charles I rewarded many of his adherents with augmentations of arms--the only recompense some of them ever received.
Knights of other Orders and Knights Bachelors do not, as such, use any augmentations on their shields.
These accessories are found either as augmentations on the shield or additions outside it, and by their help it is often easy to narrow down the limits within which the owner must come.
Now each of these augmentations tends to produce additional Sunday work, both to the department and to the public.
Further augmentations took place, consequent on the great extension of British supremacy.
The great augmentations required during the war were effected partly by raising additional regiments, but principally by increasing the number of battalions, some regiments being given as many as four.
Hence it is by no means certain that a majority of votes, even in the Senate, would be unfriendly to proper augmentations in the number of representatives.
What colorable reason could be assigned, in a country so situated, for such vast augmentations of the military force?
They refer to "augmentations of ministers' stipends.
Orders for Augmentations came from the Protector and Council, and there was no part of his work in which the Protector seemed to have more pleasure.
This rule does not apply to bordures, nor very stringently to augmentations or crests, and it is not so rigidly enforced in Foreign as in British Heraldry.
War with France commenced in 1793, and was followed by augmentations to the Army.
In the several augmentations made to the regular Army after the early part of the reign of Queen Anne, no new Regiments of Horse were raised for permanent service; and in 1746 King George II.
Yesterday Bellot Strait was again examined, but the five miles of close pack occupied precisely the same position as if heaped together by contending tides; considerable augmentations were moreover seen drifting in from the western sea.
These gifts of a world to civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in that case is culpable.
Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are augmentations of force.
But if we take only, on a moderate calculation, the taxes in the provinces which he has already cited, they will amount, considering the augmentations made by Augustus, to nearly that sum.
These successive augmentations ruined the empire; for, with the soldiers' pay, their numbers too were increased.
There were severalaugmentations won at the Battle of Waterloo, {594} and the Waterloo medal figures upon many coats of arms of Waterloo officers.
But landscape has very extensively been made use of in the augmentations which were granted at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries.
Consequently, the augmentations to commemorate entirely pacific actions are considerably fewer in number.
The arms of Lord Gough are most remarkable, inasmuch as they show no less than two distinct and different augmentations both earned by the same man.
The rule is also disregarded entirely as regards augmentationsand Scottish cadency bordures.
Knights of any Order have the circle of that order within which to place their shields, and baronets have the augmentations of their rank and degree.
Augmentations which have no other basis than mere favour of kings, or consanguinity to the Royal Family, are not uncommon.
Augmentations have been less frequently conferred in recent years than was formerly the case.
There are many gorgeous legends relating toaugmentations and arms which are said to have been granted by William the Conqueror as rewards after the Battle of Hastings.
Two cases are known of augmentations to the arms of towns.
And if they extinguish wanton eviction, they will also extinguish those demands for unjust augmentations of rent, which are only formidable to the occupier, because the power of wanton or arbitrary eviction is behind them.
I by no means guarantee that the whole song I proceed to give is what was sung at the dinner: I suspect, by the completeness of the chain, that augmentations have been made.
The steps are numbered to correspond with the steps of the Gregorian rule, so that it can be seen whataugmentations the latter requires.
They shall also take a special care that, by such augmentations as be or shall hereafter be appointed by the Senate, every benefice in this nation be improved at least to the value of £100 a year.
But for the Chancellor of the Augmentations the heavy silence of calamity, like the waiting at a bedside for death to come, seemed to fall upon them.
Cromwell turned upon the Chancellor of the Augmentations who stood in the shadow of the tall mantelpiece.
Truly,' he bleated piteously, 'it stands in the register of the Augmentationsas the worshipful knight says.
The hitherto silent men laid back their heads to laugh, and the Chancellor of the Augmentations suddenly rubbed his palms together, hissing like an ostler.
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