banneret

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In England that of a duke was seven yards in length, of a banneret four and a half, and of a knight-bachelor four yards.

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His son and heir, another Sir John, admiral of the king’s navy in the north, was a banneret who displayed his banner in the army that laid siege to Calais.

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The snow-white bannerets are dyed with blood of Moorish slain, And chargers rush all masterless across the littered plain.

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While the curtains are spread out all around, several small green and white bannerets stand at the upper and lower end of the sarcophagus.

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So stout a knight was he, that by his prowess he was made a double banneret, and was worth four thousand pounds in land.

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