Benjamin Smithurst, Britain's Glory and England's Bravery (1689)
Date
1689
Author
Book title
Britain's Glory, and England's Bravery Wherein is shewed The Degrees of Honour from the Prince to the Peasant, with the Honour of the Nobles, and Previleges of the Commons; the proper Places and Precedency of all Persons from the Throne to the Bondman; more particularly in Coronations, Processions, Feasts, Funerals and other great Assembly: As also Honour of Arms, Power of Heralds, Signification of Charges in Coat-Armour; with an Armorial Dictionary, explaining the Terms of Heraldry. And an account of all the Orders of Knighthood in Christendom, and of the Weights and Measures of England. To Which is added A Continuation of the Historian's Guide, from November, 1687, where the Third and Last Impression ends, to June, 1689
Publication place
London
Publisher
William Crook
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- heraldry
- weights and measures
Summary
"There being many words in the foregoing Treatise, which are not here explained (although most are,) and many other Terms of Art, and some peculiar Charges, which are not therein mentioned, I have thought good to insert the following Table, for the benefit of such who are willing to be instructed therein." (p. 157) For the glossary, see pp. 157-68; and for "Of Weights and Measures of England, &c.," see pp. 169-72.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Abacat, a Cap of High Estate, worn by some Kings. (p. 157)
sample: Abacat, a Cap of High Estate, worn by some Kings. (p. 157)
Alston
XVIII.II.457
Wing
S4356
