This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... a golden border and fringe, nor would the crosses at the present day be paUes fitchdes. The arms lately assumed by Cardinal Archbishop Vaughan are Gules, an Archbishops cross in pale or, over all a pall proper. The Archbishop's eminent predecessors, Cardinals Wiseman and Manning, were content to use only their personal arms, and had no idea of assuming a coat, which (since no tinctures are marked on the archi-episcopal seal) appears to the ordinary observer to be a direct annexation of the arms of the archi-episcopal See of Canterbury! It is curious that even the appearance of such a thing should have had the sanction of an officer of the College of Arms. Up to the present time Roman Catholic prelates in England have very rarely adopted official anus. The present Bishop of Salford has lately assumed Azure, a seated figure of the Blessed Virgin (crowned, sceptred and having in her hand a scapular supporting the Holy Child proper. APPENDIX E. SEALS, &C, OF AMERICAN BISHOPS. A considerable number, perhaps all, of the American Bishops employ official seals, but, though in the majority of cases these are engraved with appropriate ecclesiastical devices, the assumptions are often wanting in heraldic fitness. There are, however, in some cases attempts at more regular armorial design; and, as these are worthy of all encouragement, I very gladly comply with a special request to include in this volume some examples, in the hope that they may contribute to the formation of a better taste in future assumptions. The following are selected from a number of American Episcopal Seals, which were described in Notes and Queries, 6th Series, vii., pp. 484 and 502, by "H. W." (HENRY Wagner, Esquire) in June 1883. Alabama (1830). Argent, a key and pastoral...