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Honorable Ordinaries. - Sub-Ordinaries: Grosvenor

Old Chester - but a short ride from Liverpool, and which every American whose eyes have never gazed upon a walled city is anxious to visit - belongs to the Grosvenors, now Dukes of Westminster; and, should you ever visit it, you would, unless it had rained Americans the day before, stop at the Grosvenor Hotel. If your countrymen had flocked there just before you, you would have to content yourself at the very clean and sweet Queen's Hotel; but nice as the accommodations are that they offer there, you would miss the sensation you might feel when eating your chops and sleeping on curtained beds in a house whose name, to a herald, recalls a long, bitter, though wordy war of five years' duration. Such a war it was when a Grosvenor strove to defend his right to wear a golden bend on an azure shield, against the representative of an old and noble family named Scrope. Two big books, which were at one time, and perhaps are even yet, carefully kept in the Tower in London, attest the violence with which each contestant supported his claim. Frequently in such cases a duel was fought between the contending parties to settle the dispute, and when two knights during the days of Richard II. met to decide the question before the Palace of Westminster, there were more spectators to witness the scene than there had been, not long before, to see the coronation of the king. Bend.

Scrope was the lucky fellow in this case, either because he proved a better claim than Grosvenor was able to do, or because, being better known, he had a much larger number of friends amongst the judges who formed the court.

It was decided that Scrope should bear the simple original shield, but permission was given to Grosvenor to display the arms if he would put a border of silver around the shield. This pleased neither Grosvenor nor the king, to whom the Scrope. matter was referred. The king decided that Scrope should carry the disputed arms, and Grosvenor must assume those of the Earls of Chester, with whom he was connected. With a sore heart, he did ☆☆ ☆ Duke of Buccleuch Duke of Athole.

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HONORABLE ORDINARIES - SUB-ORDINARIES. so, but strove to comfort himself by retaining the colors of his former coat, blue and gold. The Grosvenor shield thenceforth displayed a golden sheaf of wheat upon a blue background.