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Definition of Hatchments
1. hatchment [n] - See also: hatchment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hatchments
Literary usage of Hatchments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of the Kings of England: Now First Collected from the Originals in by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1848)
"Trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well, letting you wit, that whereas the
hatchments of the late duke of Somerset, attainted and put to execution duly ..."
2. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"... for the distribution of black for mourners, for the furnishing the hearse with
velvets, palls of cloth of gold, escutcheons, banners, and hatchments, ..."
3. Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society by Essex Archaeological Society (1906)
"J hatchments of the family of Wroth (plate presented by PAGE Mr. WC Waller) 11 J St.
Mary's Church, Kelvedon (block lent by the Rev. ..."
4. Letters of the Kings of England, Now First Collected from Royal Archives and by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1848)
"'s letter concerning the hatchments of the Duke of Somerset? Trusty and well-beloved,
we greet you well, letting you wit, that whereas the hatchments of the ..."
5. Handbook of Heraldry: With Instructions for Tracing Pedigrees and by John Edwin Cussans (1893)
"Fig. 392.—From the Effigy of SIR WILLIAM DE STAUNTON, in STAUNTON Church, NOTTS (AD
1326). CHAPTER XXII hatchments . ..."
6. A Picturesque Promenade Round Dorking, in Surrey by John Timbs (1822)
"... of a few family hatchments, and two or three neat monuments to the memory of
departed worth. On the right of a glazed door, leading from the middle ..."
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