BARONETS' TRADE UNION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7891, 22 December 1903, Page 2

BARONETS' TRADE UNION.

HOW A PROPER COAT OF ARMS MAi M OBTAINED.

The announcement is made that the Honourable Society of the Baronetage has been dissolved and reconstituted under the style of the Standing Council of the Baronetage. The society -was founded in 1898 with tihe j objects of maintaining thfe ancient rights and privileges of th^ baronetage, and of taking steps to prevent the Unlawful Assumption of baronetcies, but the reoofostituted .council might do worse than also turn their attention to the unauthorised use of armorial bearings by in'einbers of their order. Among the baronets there axe t according to "Debrett," several who have hot coats of arms reco*deji to thefii in the Office^ ttf Arms, althougJP they habitually use them-. While there ire many people using ariiis to -vrhioh they are erititledi thfrife are even iniwe who, either from ignor&hoe of the rules which govern rightful use>j oir witiki A vietj to save themselves trouble and 6±pense" display arms to which they ia^e not- a shadow of right. Svtch persons, dfteil pi'efer the simple expedient of a visit to the nearest "heraldic stationer^' who obligingly fits them with a " coat." "To obtain a new grant in England, one of tie Officere of Arms Should 'be consulted* who -will prepare a petition to the Earl Marshal, asking thait jie will issue his warrant to the Kings of Atms to make the grant. This secured and the design settled, the patent is prepared and emblazoned, but before the transaction, is finished and the applicant legally entitled to the use of the arms, the tee (of which a portion goes to the Crown and a portion to the Officers of Arms interestedi) must. be paad, and; the patent signed' and officially sealed, and: recorded in the books of the College of Arms in Quean Victoria Street.