Second Edition. Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 13, 15 May 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. Great Britain

INTERESTING CEREMONY. DEPRIVATION OF ORDERS. [IINITID PfiHß ASSOCIATION, j (Received 9.10 a.m.. London, May 14.^ It is expected that the King-at-arms, j upon receipt of the Royal warrant, will proceed to Windsor Castle in order that the Knight banners may be taken down.. There have been only three degradations up to 1793. including the Duke of Monmouth, whose spur,s were taken off and. his sword broken above his head. Heralds then tore down his hanner and the helmet and spurned them with their feet from St. George's Chapel. (James, Duke of :Monmouth (1649J 1685) was the, natural son of Charles 11, who headed a rebellion against James 11, but, being unsuccessful, at Sedgmoor, was captured and subsequently executed.) j THE KINC-AT-ARMS. In England there are three Kings-at-Arms, namely, Garter, Clarencieux, and Norroy. The first of. these is styled "the principal King-at-Arms," and the others "provincial Kings-at-Arms," their duties being confined to the districts south and north of the Trent respectively. In Ireland, Ulster-King-at-Arms corresponds to Garter, and in Scotland the Lyon-King-at-Arms. Norroy is a corruption of Nordroi (northern King) that herald having, in the days of Norman knighthood, been especially appointed to business North of the Trent, whilst formerly Surroy (southern King) took southern England under his charge; but Edward 111. having appointed his son, the Duke of Clarence, Clarencieux Knight-at-Arms, substituting him for Surroy, that latter designation. was dropped. The three chief orders of titular Knighthood to which the 'Kings" are attached are (a) Order of the Garter, (b) Order of the Thistle, (c) Order of St. Patrick, whose mottoes in the star of decoration are (a) Honi soit qui mal y pense, "Evil to him who evils thinks," (b) Xemo me impuue lacessit, "No one annoys me with impunity," and (e) Quis separabit? "Who shall separate?" Garter-King-at-Arms acts as registrar and secretary to the other English orders, and is also King-at-Arms to the order of St. Michael and St. George. His power includes,, under the Earl Marshall, Hereditary office of the Duke of Norfolk, and conjointly with the provincials, the regulating and granting of Arms in England and Wales, and the control of all matters concerning his own order; for this reason he is (dways attached to any mission for investing a foreign potentate. He also supervises the proceedings of state ceremonies and the management of coronations; and at the commencement of every session he lays on the table of the' House of Lords the roll of the Lords temporal, and assists at the introduction' of all newly-created peers. THE BANNERS REMOVED. (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, May 14. The banners, including those of the Crown Prince were removed to-day.