SYNOPSIS.

PART I.

CHAPTER I.

Military Origin of Armorial Bearings — Their adoption for Secular Purposes — Seals, authentic and forged — Personal Effigies on Ecclesiastical Seals — Seals of Benedictine and Cistercian Abbots — Personal Arms introduced — The various kinds of Seals — Ancient gems — Arms of Sees and Abbeys, how composed — The Crosier, or Pastoral Staff — Ecclesiastical Foundations of the Kings of France — Arms of Italian Sees — Arms assumed — Preuves de Noblesse — Brisures, Marks of Cadency, or of Illegitimacy, in Ecclesiastical Arms — The Mitre as a Heraldic Charge — Series of Seals of the Benedictine Abbots of Molk — Arms on Ecclesiastical Vestments, etc. pp. 3 — 31

CHAPTER II.

External Heraldic Ornaments, Spiritual and Temporal — The Coronet, its use on the Continent — The Temporal Sword — Helmets and Crests used by Ecclesiastics — Military Fiefs held by Ecclesiastics — The Church Militant — The Ecclesiastical Hat, etc pp. 32 — 38

CHAPTER III.

ECCLESIASTICS BELOW ABBATIAL RANK.

Arms in a Cartouche — The Biretta , and the Ecclesiastical Hat — The Chanter's Baton — Protonotaries — Canons and Chanoinesses — Noble Chapters — Their Insignia — The use of the Amess, or Amusse, at Home and Abroad — Mitred Canons and Dignitaries — Lay Honorary Canons — Priors and Prioresses — The Bourdon — The Pastoral Staff — Mitred Priors — Provosts and Deans — Official Arms of Cathedral Dignitaries — Clerical Members, and Officers of Military Orders of Knighthood — Chaplains of the Order of St. John — Canons of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, etc. pp. 39 — 57

CHAPTER IV.

ABBOTS AND ABBESSES.

The Crosier, or Pastoral Staff — Its History — The Celtic Staff The Bachul More , and S. Fillan's Quigrich — The Crutch, or Tau-headed Staff — Mediaeval Crosiers — The Mitre — Its History — Anglo-Saxon Mitres — Different kinds of Mitres — Their Colour — Abbes - commendatoires — Custodinos — Abbe's Reguliers — The Sudarium — The Abbatial Hat — Ensigns of Temporal Jurisdiction — Ecclesiastical Princes and Princesses — The Cordcltirc pp. 58 — 78

CHAPTER V.

BISHOPS.

Official Arms, how borne — Bishops Elect — The Ecclesiastical Pairs de France — French Coronations — Arms of the Pairies — The Mantle — German, Italian, and French Usages — The Mitre and Pastoral Staff — The Temporal Sword — Military Fiefs — Helmets — English Uses — The Episcopal Hat — Temporal Dignities attached to Ecclesiastical Offices — Coronets — The Mitre as a Crest — Gonfanons — Advout ( s — Vidames , etc. pp. 79 — 107

CHAPTER VI.

ARCHBISHOPS, LEGATES, PRIMATES, PATRIARCHS.

The Pallium — Exceptional uses of it — The Archi-episcopal Cross — Legates — Temporal Dignities — Primates and Patriarchs — The Double-traversed Cross — The Archi-episcopal Hat — The Patriarchal Tiara, etc pp. 108 — 133

CHAPTER VII.

CARDINALS.

The Red Hat, biretta , and calotte — Use of Coronets — Cardinals from Regular Orders — Arms of Patronage — Composed Arms pp. 134 — 149

CHAPTER VIII.

The Tiara — The Keys — The Triple-Cross — The ferula — The Pavilion de VEglise — "Cardinal Camerlengo" sede vacante — Popes from Regular Orders — Supporters of Papal Arms pp. 150 — 157

CHAPTER IX.

POPES.

Arms of the Popes from 1444-1894 pp. 158-167

PART II

CHAPTER I.

Arms of English, Scottish, and Irish Sees blazoned, with Historical and Heraldic Notes — Arms of English Deaneries, and certain Ecclesiastical Foundations pp. 171 — 228

CHAPTER II.

Arms of Colonial Sees pp. 229 — 251

CHAPTER III.

Archbishops and Bishops, Electors and Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, and in Central Europe pp. 252 — 333

CHAPTER IV.

Abbeys, and other Princely Foundations of the Empire

PP. 334-351

CHAPTER V.

Arms of Abbeys and other Religious Houses in Great Britain

PP. 352 — 393

CHAPTER VI.

Abbeys, Monasteries, etc. in Germany, Switzerland, France, the Low Countries, and Styria pp. 394 — 411

CHAPTER VII.

ARMS AND DEVICES OF REGULAR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES.

The Order of S. Benedict — "Black Friars" — The Cistercian Order — Semi-religious Military Orders in the Peninsula — The Bernardines, Feuillants, Trappists — Congregation tie St. Maur — Les Fillies Anglaises — Clugniacs — The Carthusian Order — Chartreux — les Petits Augustins — les Augustins dtfchausses — Augustine Canons — "The Black Canons" — The Premonstratensians — "The White Canons" — The Franciscans — Minorites, Frhres mineurs — Qordeuers — Observantins, les Recollets — Capuchins — Tiercelins — The Dominicans, Frhres Precheurs — Jacobins — The Carmelites — Minimes — Bonshommes — Servites — Mathurins, or Trinitarians — The Jesuits — The Nuns of the Visitation — The Gilbertines — The Celestines — Order of Camaldoli — Ursulines — Th^atins — Oratorians pp. 412 — 425

CHAPTER VIII.

ARMS OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.

English Universities : — Oxford — Cambridge — Arms of Regius-Professors at Cambridge — Durham and affiliated Colleges — London — Victoria U ni versity.

Scottish Universities St. Andrews — Glasgow — Aberdeen — Edinburgh.

Irish Universities The University of Dublin — Trinity College — The Royal University of Ireland.

Universities of Melbourne and Sydney.

Foreign Universities : — Heidelberg — Paris — Prague — Mentz — Greifswald — Basel — Gratz — Salzburg — Nurnberg — Breslau — Besan^on — Caen — Valence — Coln — Wien (Vienna) — Erfurt — Bologna — other Italian Universities pp. 426 — 456

APPENDIX A.

ON THE USE OF SUPPORTERS BY ECCLESIASTICS.

English and Scottish Examples — Modem Instances — Foreign Examples — Papal Supporters pp. 457 — 471

APPENDIX B.

CONTINENTAL CHAPTERS ; AND PREUVES DE NOBLESSE.

Nobility — Its legal definition — Continental noblesse — The feudal system in Germany and Gaul — The Tourneys — Ebenbiirtigkeit — Nobility by Diploma — Freie , und Leibeigene — Servitiurn militare — Mittel-frcie — Semper liberi — A delige — Nobiles- minores — Patrician, or Burgess, families of the "Free Cities" — Proofs of Nobility — The German Chapters and their requirements — Canonesses — Italian Chapters and Orders — French Chapters — Canons-Counts — Chanoinesses- Com t esses — Noble Chapters in the Low Countries — Dames- Chevai tires at Nivelle — Badges and Decorations — Noble Chapters in Austria, Bavaria, Sweden, and Denmark pp. 472 — 495

APPENDIX C.

Papal Grant of Mitre to the Abbot of Kelso. p. 495

APPENDIX D.

ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE ARMS OF THE ENGLISH SEES.

Episcopal Arms assumed — Episcopal right of mutation — What constitutes "authority" — Gloucester — Salisbury — Bangor — Hereford — Durham — Wells — Canterbury — Roman Catholic Sees pp. 495 — 499

APPENDIX E.

Seals, etc., of American Bishops pp. 499 — 500

APPENDIX F.

List of the Sees in France at various times pp. 501- 503

LIST OF PLATES.

I. Arm's of Archbishops, Cardinals, etc. facing page 14

II. of Abbeys, Bishops, and Archbishops " 16

III. " of Canons, Abb4 and Prior " 40

IV. " of Protonotary oe Bern age, and Chanter Le Masle " 42

V. Crests, Badges, etc. 46

VI. Arms of Dean of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, ami Abbe de Trisay " 54

VII. " of Abbesses " 60

VIII. Mitres , etc., from Ancient Seals " 66

IX. Arms of Bishops of Puy and Troyes " 74

X. " of Ecclesiastical "Pairs de France" " 84

XI. " of Bishops of Dol, and Cahors " 86

XII. " of Prince-Bishop of Metz " 110

XIII. " of Archbishop, Knight of St. John, etc. " 118

XIV. " of Archbishops of Bordeaux, and Rouen " 120

XV. " of Prince-Archbishops, and Electors of Cologne " 124

XVI. " of Prince-Archbishop, and Elector of Mainz " 128

XVII. " of Archbishop Bausa, and Cardinal De' Medici " 132

XVIII. " of Cardinals Richelieu and Berullk " 140

XIX. " of Popes Pius IX. and Leo XIII " 166

XX. " of English Sees " 174

XXI. " of English Sees " 176

XXII. " of English Sees " 182

XXIII. " of English Sees " 184

XXIV. " of English Sees " 186

XXV. " of English Sees " 190

XXVI. " of Irish Sees " 202

XXVII. " of Irish Sees " 206

XXVIII. " of Irish and Scottish Sees 214

XXIX. " of Scottish Sees " 224

XXX. " of Colonial Sees " 232

XXXI. " of Colonial Sees " 238

XXXII. " of Colonial Sees " 242

XXXIII. " of Colonial Sees " 244

XXXIV. " of Colonial Sees " 248

XXXV. " of Colonial Sees " 250

XXXVI. Seals, Medals, etc. 300