The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-14

is jeweled and he sports twelve silver
balls. An earrs cOrOnet Is distinctive.
From the circle of gOld-the band which
fits around the head-rise several gold
spikes about five inches long tipped with
balls of silver, and placed between each
spike is a strawberry leaf of gold. The
COrOnet OF = marquis is cutie different
from the rest 1t has row of small
balls of silver fixed on he upper e6ye
of the gold mead band and between each
is a strawberry leaf. A dukes tccess of
dignity is indicated by a lavish display
Of jewels on the gold head band, while
running along the top is 4 wreath Of
straw berry Raves.
These coronets may be made to vary
in price according to the tastes and purse
of the purchaser. An economically dis
PCSed baron, who is not above substitute
ing gilt for gold. may obtain his rrcwn
of nobility as cheap at S125. and an earl
may provide himself with one mat will
pass muster in a crowd for SO, but their
average cost runs we'll Over 81 ,0P. while
for a dukes headpiece $500 is no- con-
sidered an eXtravagant price, and If be
sticks the jewels on Thick there is hardly
any limit to the money that may be ex-
pended on it. Yet even in their robes
and with their coronets on their heads Il
lot Of peers. as SHOW. can't be compared
with circus procession.
Choosing a Coat of Arms.
Though a peer may, if hard up, contrive
to qualify for his title without a coronet,
perative and that again means Smelling
out more money. The mode of procedure
for peers who have had arms previously
granted to them is a simple one. They
produce a certificate from the college Of
heralds, stating that their arms and
pedigrees have been recorded, and are
thereupon allowed supporters" which
are heraldic devices that are placed on
each side of their escutcheons. 1t is not
absolutely necessary to obtain support
ers to coats of arms, but it is regarded
as such a diStinction-only peers are al
lowed them-that there is no instance
on record of a peer failing to claim it,
and paying the bill. which amounts to
$310.50.
Peers just created who have not previ-
ously been granted arms have to address
memorial to the hereditary earl mar
shall, the Duke of Norfolk, praying that
a grant of a pattern of arms be issued 20
them. The earl marshal is supposed to
preside over the court at the college of
arms, though no earl marshal has done
ii for the last 100 years. But his juris-
diction remains and his court pictur-
esque chamber decked with the shields
of successive earls marshal and ancient
banners, is swept and garnished daily.
The earl marshal gets rid of the job by
issuing an order for the grant and sign
ing of such arms-supporters included
as may properly be worn by the appli-
cant
Must Be Recorded.
The papers cannot be signed until the
pedigree and arms have been recorded at
the college AS far az pedigree is con-
cerned the new peer need feel no trern-
Ors. If he can trace his lineage as far
back as his grandfather 1t sufficeth His
name will be enshrined in that most sa-
cred volume Of the British aristocracy,
Burke's Peerage, among divers naughty
blue bloods who might-but don't-trace
their descent to kings and ladies of
shady reputation. But fixing up the coat
of arms is q more difficult matter Ere
quently the applicant has a fancy for
arms which belong to somebody else.
These he cannot have, the college does
not grant the same arms twice The ul-
innate selection IL usually a matter of
careful arrangement and of diligent re-
search in the musty archives of an obso-
lete heraldry for demiseahorses, freakish
beasts and queer fowl of whose symbolic
nobody nowadays knows or
cares anything about
If the man is content with something
really applicable to his career the thing
is much easier done and with the happi-
est results. Nothing, for instance. could
well be more appropriate than the es-
of Lord Nelson, with its ex-
ploding bombs. its disabled ship, its plume
of triumph, its ruined battery, it's Span
ish man of war 1.-THE San josef and its
sailor armed with cutiass and pistols
When Mr.. Cubbitt, the contractor, be-
came Lord Ashcombe. he was not too
proud to adopt as his supporters a mason
and carpenter. And Lord Mount
Stephen might yroperly be prouder of the
pickax he wore on his shield when he