Some four or five years after his experiences at Braddocks he narrowly escaped his pursuers in this way; and in 1605, when the "pursuivants" were scouring the country for him, as he was supposed to be privy to the Gunpowder ❋ Allan Fea (1908)
"Little John" was busily engaged burrowing into the masonry the dreaded "pursuivants" arrived; but somehow or other he slipped between their fingers and got away under cover of the surrounding woods. ❋ Allan Fea (1908)
How effectually "Little John's" peculiar ingenuity baffled the exhaustive searches of the "pursuivants," or priest-hunters, has been shown by contemporary accounts of the searches that took place frequently in suspected houses. ❋ Allan Fea (1908)
It was not an uncommon thing for a rigid search to last a fortnight and for the "pursuivants" to go away empty handed, while perhaps the object of the search was hidden the whole time within a wall's thickness of his pursuers, half starved, cramped and sore with prolonged confinement, and almost afraid to breathe, lest the least sound should throw suspicion upon the particular spot where he lay immured. ❋ Allan Fea (1908)
a fine old stone fireplace that was stripped of its overmantel, etc., of carved oak by the "pursuivants" in their vain efforts when Father Gerard was concealed in the house. ❋ Allan Fea (1908)
Heralds and pursuivants, blazing in their fantastic yet splendid armorial habits, and pages of honour, gorgeously arrayed in the garb of other days, waited upon the princely banqueters. ❋ Unknown (2008)
For it must be remembered that at this period heralds were only dispatched from sovereign princes to each other upon solemn occasions; and that the inferior nobility employed pursuivants, a lower rank of officers at arms. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The officers of his household attended in their order, together with heralds and pursuivants, the grotesque richness of whose habits had a Bingular effect among those of the high clergy in their albes and dalmatiques, and of the knights and crown vassals who were arrayed in armor. ❋ Unknown (2008)
At each of these portals were stationed two heralds, attended by six trumpets, as many pursuivants, and a strong body of men-at-arms for maintaining order, and ascertaining the quality of the knights who proposed to engage in this martial game. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“Half the sum my present necessities compel me to accept; of the remaining half, distribute one moiety among yourselves, sir squires, and divide the other half betwixt the heralds and the pursuivants, and minstrels, and attendants.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
And on the next day following Sir Tristram met with pursuivants, and they told him that there was made a great cry of tournament between King Carados of ❋ Unknown (2003)
Scotland and the King of North Wales, and either should joust against other at the Castle of Maidens; and these pursuivants sought all the country after the good knights, and in especial King ❋ Unknown (2003)
Let all the honest men who lie [pinched?] up at the prisons or the pillories, in custody of the pursuivants of the High-Commission Court, marshal them. ❋ Unknown (2003)
There stood the Herald who bore the name of this land, and behind him his four pursuivants, Oak and Apple, Thorn and Elder, each wearing the badge of his naming. ❋ Norton, Andre (1973)
The pursuivants derive theirs from the old royal badges. ❋ Norton, Andre (1973)
Behind stood the heralds, trumpeters and pursuivants in their bright garb of office. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
Some time before, the pursuivants had proclaimed the event and distributed to the knights who were to take active part the shields of arms of the four _juges-diseurs_, or umpires of the field. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
As the monarch and the free baron drew near, the princess slowly, gracefully arose, while now grouped around the throne stood the heralds and pursuivants of the lists. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
Also, there were four and twenty heralds and pursuivants, and sixty lords and knights. ❋ William Francis Dawson (N/A)
A herald, two pursuivants, and a trumpeter, occupied the foreground of the scene; behind them, some three hundred paces off, upon a rising ground, was drawn up in battle-array the main body of the ecclesiastical forces. ❋ Various (N/A)
