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George. Portcullis was created as a pursuivant during the days of Henry the Seventh, to whom for certain family reasons the badge of Portcullis was particularly dear. As to Rouge Dragon, Digitized by Google WHAT HEBALDBT MEA118. 61 we must look to good Queen Bess for the cognomen bestowed on him. The object of this college when created was to keep track of all the coats-of-arms used by the various families in the kingdom, find out who was entitled to bear the arms which they displayed, and who ...were not. This was the more necessary as in those days the station and title of '^gentleman " in France and Germany exempted the possessor from taxation, and in England gave the preference for certain military and civil employments. These heralds had the right, when meeting any vehicle bearing a coatK)f-«rms that belonged not to the owners, to have it stopped, while they publicly blotted out the stolen ornament. This it was their duty to do in so humiliating a way as to n^ake the conscienceless upstart long for the mountains to fall upon him and the hills to cover him.
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