 In a direct line from the above, descended sir NICHOLAS DAWNAY, who, in the reign of Edward II., obtained the king's charter for a market every week at his manor, and a fair every year at Shunnock...  Journal - Page 165by Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1891Full view - About this book
 | John Debrett - 1803 - 566 pages
...fmger, and giving it to fir William, ordered, in perpetvam rti memoriamy that his ereft fhould be a demy Saracen, with a lion's paw in one hand, and a ring in the other, which is the family cogni2ance to this day ; and the ring is ftill in the poffeffion of vifcount Downe.... | |
 | 1809 - 628 pages
...fmger, and giving it to sir William, ordered, in ptrpcluam rci memoriam, that his crest should he a demy Saracen, with a lion's paw in one hand, and a ring in the other, which is the family cognizance to this day; and the ring is still in the possession of viscount Downe.... | |
 | John Debrett - 1820 - 828 pages
...giving it to sir William, ordered in perpetuam rei memoriam, that his crest should be a demi-Saracen, with a lion's paw in one hand, and a ring in the other, which is the family cognizance to this day ; and the ring is still in the possession of viscount Down.... | |
 | John Debrett - 1825 - 672 pages
...giving it to sir William, ordered in perpetuam rei memoriam, that his crest should be a demiSaracen, with a lion's paw in one hand, and a ring in the other, which is the family cognizance to this day ; and the ring is still in the possession of viscount Down.... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1846 - 414 pages
...presenting it to Dawney, ordered that, to perpetuate the event, he should bear, as a crest, a demi-Saracen, with a lion's paw in one hand, and a ring in the other. The first Viseount was Sir John Dawney, MP for York, who was raised to the peerage of Ireland, the 19th... | |
 | 1857 - 876 pages
...this day in the possession of the family,) and ordered that he should bear for crest a demi-Saracen, with a lion's paw in one hand and a ring in the other. The first of the Dawnays who was made a baronet was Christopher Dawnay, of Cowick, a staunch cavalier ;... | |
 | Robert Theodore Gunther, Amy Neville Rolfe Günther - 1914 - 508 pages
...his finger and presented it to Sir Wm. and ordered that he should bear the crest of a demi-saracen with a lion's paw in one hand and a ring in the other, which ring is still preserved. THOMAS PALMES, living 1419. m. Alice, d. of John Pickering of Ellerton.... | |
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