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| ====== The Prior and Murray-Prior coat of arms ====== | ====== The Prior and Murray-Prior coat of arms ====== |
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| Families with the status of [[wp>Gentry|gentry]] and above, were entitled to their own [[wp>Coat_of_arms|coat of arms]].((http://www.burkespeerage.com|Burkes Peerage; http://www.heraldryaustralia.org)) | Families with the status of [[wp>Gentry|gentry]] and above, were entitled to their own [[wp>Coat_of_arms|coat of arms]].((http://www.burkespeerage.com|Burkes Peerage; http://www.heraldryaustralia.org)) |
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| The photo far left is a faded painting of the Prior crest.((Provenance: From Geoffrey M-P to T.A. M-P.)) The black and white drawing of the crest is by TLM-P.((Provenance: J. Godden.)) It appears that TLM-P had tried to find out what the Prior coat of arms were, and got it slightly wrong. On 23 November 1885, he wrote in his //Imperial Family Bible containing the Old and New Testaments// (London: Blackie and Son, 1845).((Provenance: J. Godden.)) Part of it is hard to read now, but it appears to describe his crest as he drew it: that the family arms are ‘Sa. on a bend arm, three chevronels gn. between stars of eight point wavy’. Motto: Malo mori quam foedari. Seat: Rathdowney, Queens County. This all was part of his determination to assert his family's gentry status. As Burke's entry 'Prior of Netherfield' in his //Landed Gentry// book, TLM-P 'obtained confirmation of Arms from the Ulster King of Arms 1888 - Quarterly 1 and 4, vert on a bend ermine three chevronels gules (PRIOR); 2 and 3 per fess gules and or four mullets countercharged (MURRAY).' You really have to be into heraldry to understand - or, easier by far, just look at the following photo of a section of the parchment scroll sent to TLM-P and which confirmed the M-P coat of arms. As seen, it retained the Prior motto, translated as 'death before dishonour'. The first photo below is of the parchment scroll acquired by TLM-P; the second is a close-up of the M-P coat of arms.((Provenance: T.A. & M.T. M-P.))\\ {{:mp_family_scroll2enhance.jpeg?direct&500|}} {{:mp_crest_cropped.jpg?direct&400| }} \\ | The photo far left is a faded painting of the Prior crest.((Provenance: From Geoffrey M-P to T.A. M-P.)) The black and white drawing of the crest is by TLM-P.((Provenance: J. Godden.)) It appears that TLM-P had tried to find out what the Prior coat of arms were, and got it slightly wrong. On 23 November 1885, he wrote in his //Imperial Family Bible containing the Old and New Testaments// (London: Blackie and Son, 1845).((Provenance: J. Godden.)) Part of it is hard to read now, but it appears to describe his crest as he drew it: that the family arms are ‘Sa. on a bend arm, three chevronels gn. between stars of eight point wavy’. Motto: Malo mori quam foedari. Seat: Rathdowney, Queens County. This all was part of his determination to assert his family's gentry status.\\ |
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| | TLM-P achieved confirmation of his family's gentry status in October 1888 when, as described in Burke's entry 'Prior of Netherfield' in his //Landed Gentry// book, TLM-P 'obtained confirmation of Arms from the Ulster King of Arms 1888 - Quarterly 1 and 4, vert on a bend ermine three chevronels gules (PRIOR); 2 and 3 per fess gules and or four mullets countercharged (MURRAY).' You really have to be into heraldry to understand - though a copy can be see here: [[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-885982511/view|Grant of arms]]. Or you can look at the following photo of a section of the parchment scroll sent to TLM-P and which confirmed the M-P coat of arms. As seen, it retained the Prior motto, translated as 'death before dishonour'. The first photo below is of the parchment scroll acquired by TLM-P; the second is a close-up of the M-P coat of arms.((Provenance: T.A. & M.T. M-P.))\\ {{:mp_family_scroll2enhance.jpeg?direct&500|}} {{:mp_crest_cropped.jpg?direct&400| }} \\ |
| {{:family_bible_glenn_list.jpg?300|}} Another depiction of family arms in one of TLM-P's family bible.((Provenance: Glenn M-P))\\ | {{:family_bible_glenn_list.jpg?300|}} Another depiction of family arms in one of TLM-P's family bible.((Provenance: Glenn M-P))\\ |
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