Preface to the Tenth Edition

English Heraldry by

Nearly Five Hundred Illustrations

Drawn and Engraved on Wood by Mr. R. B. Utting and Others

Eleventh Edition

Thoroughly Revised with an Additional Chapter by

A. C. Fox-Davies

Of Lincoln’s Inn Barrister-at-Law

London: Reeves & Turner

1914

Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh

Preface to the Eleventh Edition

This standard work of reference has been revised throughout, and enlarged by the addition of an extra chapter on Peerage Dignities.

A. C. FOX-DAVIES.

Lincoln’s Inn, November 1913.

In the revision of this well-known work I have held my hand, rather than the contrary, trying to bear always in mind that it was the hand-book of Mr. Charles Boutell and not a production of my own. My alterations have been concerned chiefly in bringing the volume up to date, a necessity imposed by the creation of new orders of knighthood, and change of Sovereign. I have certainly omitted a few remarks which I have thought might be the cause of leading students of the science astray: I have altered ambiguous wording to emphasise the real, and I have no doubt the originally intended meaning. But in many points which, being deductions, are naturally matters of opinion, I have left herein various expressions of Mr. Boutell’s opinion, with which I can hardly say I personally altogether agree or would myself put forward. I hold that it is no part of an editor’s duty to air his own opinions under the protection or repute of another’s name, and herein I have inserted nothing for which my own opinion is the only authority.

A. C. FOX-DAVIES.

Lincoln’s Inn, June 1908.