[Baronets are not entitled, _as such_, to bear supporters, which are
the privilege of the peerage and the knights of the orders.
There are many baronets who by virtue of especial warrants from the
sovereign have, as acts of grace and favour, in consideration of
services rendered to the state, received such grants; and in these
instances they are limited to descend with the dignity only. No doubt
there are some private families who assume and improperly bear
supporters, but whose right to do so, even under their own statements
as to origin and descent, has no legal foundation. "NOTES AND QUERIES"
afford neither space nor place for the discussion of such questions, or
for the remarks upon a correction of statements in the works quoted.]
_Answer to Fisher's Relation._--I have a work published at London by Adam
Islip, an. 1620, the title-page of which bears--
"An Answere to Mr. Fisher's Relation of a Third {225} Conference
betweene a certaine B. (as he stiles him) and himselfe. The conference
was very private till Mr. Fisher spread certaine papers of it, which in
many respects deserved an Answere. Which is here given by R. B.,
Chapleine to the B. that was employed in the conference."
Pray, who _was_ the chaplain? I have heard he was the after-famous
Archbishop Laud.