England granted a pursuivantunder the title of Shrewsbury to George, Earl of March, for services rendered at the battle of that name, but we do not find that the office was continued.
This curious method of the wearing of the tabard by a pursuivant has long since been discontinued, if indeed it was ever generally adopted, a point on which I have by no means been able to satisfy myself.
The tabard of a pursuivant is of damask silk; that of a herald, of satin; and that of a king of arms, of velvet.
Now the murderer was unknown, by reason of the number, although the person stabbed accusedpursuivant of the king's, who was one of the company.
This accident hath hit thy humour, Gloster; From pursuivant I'll turn a hermit now.
Bring sugar in white paper, not in brown; For in white paper I have here a trick, Shall make the pursuivant first swoon, then sick.
When as the noble lords saw the king's pleasantness, They were right joyful and glad in their hearts: A pursuivant there was sent straight on the business, The which had oftentimes been in those parts.
So entirely did he expect to be summoned by a pursuivant that he thought it would lessen the fright of his family if a sham summons were brought.
As I was aware that the pursuivant knew me, I answered that I would be frank and open in everything that belonged to myself, but would say nothing that could affect others.
On a remonstrance being made by the Spanish Ambassador, King James disclaimed the summons, on which the magistrates of Louvain expelled the pursuivant from the town (More, Hist.
This would certainly lead the Swiss and others to investigate his own past, and the Pursuivant at Arms excluded from joust and tourney whoever "injured trade or merchant.
The rider in the centre sat his horse somewhat stiffly, and Anthony saw that his elbows were bound behind his back, and his hands in front; the reins were drawn over his horse's head and a pursuivant held them on either side.
The women, numbering fourteen or fifteen, were placed in a group with some eight men in hollow square round them; then came a dozen men, each with a pursuivant on either side.
Suddenly the hoofs sounded loud and near; and they heard the pursuivant below stand up from the bank opposite.
When as the noble lords saw the kinges pleasantness, They were right joyfull and glad in their hearts: A pursuivant there was sent straighte on the business, 15 The which had often-times been in those parts.
The pursuivant entered, and the Lord Mayor demanded: "With what message do you come to the gates of the city of Dublin?
The pursuivant galloped back; the gates were flung wide open; the Household Cavalry dashed through; and then came the Queen.
Stationing himself at the head of the lists, he bids hispursuivant challenge all comers.
Silence all boasts, you pursuivant of a caitiff master.
Said sire, having been ordered by his peers to give up a manor he had been withholding from his young nephew, sent a pursuivant before their tribunal formally declaring war.
Whoever finds him again shall be rewarded with a benediction from the Pope, a hundred oaths from the Cavaliers, forty kisses from the wanton wenches, and be made pursuivant to the next Archbishop.
A pursuivant spurred out of the ranks, and, halting twenty yards from the gate, raised his bugle with his herald's flag hanging down round it, and blew a summons.
A pursuivant spurred out of the ranks, and halting twenty yards from the gate, raised his bugle with his herald's flag hanging down round it, and blew a summons.
The pursuivant shouted aloud--"In the King's name, Hold!
Every hand seemed to be forwarding the pursuivantand the child, and it was Giles Headley, who, loosed from the hold of the executioner, stared wildly about him, like one distraught.
If a pursuivantbestrode him, he might discover through his means who be recusants a hundred miles around.
A pursuivant rode in front and cried aloud that those coming behind him were certain papists, foes to the gospel and enemies to the commonwealth, for that they had been seized in the act of saying and hearing mass in disobedience to the laws.
Our pursuivant and Bolton shall escort him to Dunbar, and ship him off for Flanders.
One pursuivant who attempted to execute a warrant there was murdered.
The herald Hope, forerunning Fear, And Fear, the pursuivant of Hope.
Or suppose Sir Valentine be not at home when you arrive, and require seeking lest he by chance fall in with the pursuivant ere you meet him.
Kit put the necessary question, taking care to show no more of his person than was needful, and to keep his eyes upon the firearms of the pursuivant and the two guards in the court.
And in the subsequent pursuit, when Hal's several impediments had given the pursuivant the best opportunities, Master Barnet had suffered most annoying checks.
He informed her that he intended to give her, on the morrow, her freedom, as the royal pursuivant had offered her an escort and might be trusted to treat a lady with respect.
Afire with wrath at this stolid churlishness, Hal caused Kit to remind Barnet that the lady had come into her present case through aiding the pursuivant himself.
Perchance they are the pursuivantand his men; perchance, Captain Rumney, with his band augmented!
A council's pursuivant was to leave London at three o'clock, with men to assure thy seizure.
He would rather it had been Barnet's, for then he should have been free of all doubt whether the pursuivant had indeed clung to the false chase.
When the pursuivant and his fellows rode up, soon afterward, on half dead horses, that stumbled before the inn, the fugitives were well forward on the Nottingham road.
That is true," thought Marryott, appreciating how much easier it was for the pursuivant to follow a trace left by three men than that left by one.
In the event of that disclosure, Hal saw safety for his mission in one desperate course; that was, to kill or disable the pursuivant and all his men.
The pursuivant to execute the warrant is to set out with men this afternoon.
After half-an-hour's absence, Cnut returned, bringing with him a pursuivant or herald.
King Richard ordered the pursuivant to lead Cuthbert to the royal enclosure.
