One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.
At a sign from Montjoye, the royal herald, twopursuivants stirred the air with the blast of golden trumpets.
Proclaim again," he said; and once more the pair of pursuivantsblew their trumpets and once again Montjoye made his singular proposition of pardon to the assemblage.
The king ordered his pursuivants to go out against Hrut, and make an end of him, to which his men were instantly ready.
The pursuivants entered--hardy, shrewd-looking men, with the city arms decking them wherever there was room for them.
It was despatched by the city pursuivants - The only men who safe might ride; Their errands on the border side and a meeting was appointed in the Rathhaus for the day of their expected return.
All turned now, to his mind, on whether the rest of the conspirators could evade the pursuivants or not.
Her Grace must have her money for her ships and her men, and for her pursuivants to catch us all with; and it is we that must pay.
War had been declared upon them, without justification, by the secular authorities, and physical instruments, including pursuivants and the rack, were employed against them.
I dared not question him further; {456} and finding nothing more to their purpose, the pursuivants retired.
My first thought, when Muriel had announced to me the coming of the pursuivants in search of Mistress Ward, was to thank God she was beyond their reach, and with so much prudence had left us in ignorance of her abode.
There is a warrant out against her," I answered, and told him of the pursuivants coming to seek for her at our house.
He goes to send pursuivants for my father," was her thought, and her conclusion was correct.
Now she pushed forward with the utmost expedition, hoping to reach the Hall before the pursuivants started.
Even now the pursuivants are on their way to take thee.
And our pursuivants must have their warrants again, and take all the priests they can; whereof Master CROSS took fourteen or fifteen in a very short space.
I dared not question him further; and finding nothing more to their purpose, the pursuivants retired.
This was the cry with which heralds and pursuivants were wont to acknowledge the bounty received from the knights.
The pursuivants are grotesquely dressed with bright parti-colored mantles and bliauts.
Instantly two keen trumpets answer each other from opposite ends of the lists, and two pursuivants come forward.
Behind follow the humbler born heralds andpursuivants who will assist them, and encourage the combatants with such cries as: "Remember whose son you are!
Nay, one of the pursuivants opened the door and looked out; and some of the servants said that he must have seen me as I passed.
The searchers being thus entered, it hath been usual with pursuivants to run up the stairs and into the chambers with their drawn swords, enough to drive the weaker sort of women and children out of their wits.
Acting on this information, the persecutors sent a Justice of the Peace to me one day, with two Queen's messengers, or pursuivants as they call them.
Forthwith they sent two of their best messengers, or pursuivants as they call them, to two gentlemen of the county, who were Justices of the Peace, bidding them search the house carefully with their men.
While the Justice of the Peace was rummaging my books, one of the pursuivants searched my person, and opening my doublet, he discovered my hairshirt.
The fact was, that four Priest-hunters, or pursuivants as they are called, with drawn swords were trying to break down the door and force an entrance.
The Jesuits were tracked by pursuivants and spies, dragged from their hiding-places, and sent in batches to the Tower.
And if it was able to hale a man from the shadow of the Cathedral at Antwerp and the protection of the Duke of Alva into the hands of pursuivants at Yarmouth within the space of a few hours, who then was safe?
Mr. Graves and I are the magistrates here, and we say that this gentleman shall sup and sleep here in peace, so you may take your pursuivants elsewhere.
Well, the pursuivants got back to Cockermouth with their lives, but not much else; and reported to the magistrates that the wild Irish themselves were little piminy maids compared to the folk they had visited that day.
That I would not tell them; let them find that out with their pursuivantsand that crew.
The other two pursuivants separated and each moved a few steps off and remained just out of sight.
Mr. Frankland from East Grinsted, with a couple ofpursuivants and a company of servants.
Then one or two more pursuivants came up the dark passage bearing flaming torches with them.
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