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OBSERVATIONS 
ON THE 
ARMORIAL BEARING 
OF THE 
Lonn of Manchester, 
; AND ON 
THE DESCENT OF THE BARONIAL FAMILY 
OF 
GRELLY. 
BY WILLIAM ROBERT WHATTON, F. A.S. 
(Read before the Society, Feb. 20th, 1824.) 
In soliciting the attention of the Society 
to the consideration of a question purely 
genealogical, it is not pretended to offer a 
point of any great difficulty, or to discuss a 
matter of much real importance. It is a 
subject in which the Antiquary and Herald, 
accustomed to pore over the dusty records of 
times gone by, are infinitely more interested 
than the Politician, the Critic, or the Phi- 
losopher. 
I am desirous, however, that the Armorial 
Bearing of a town of such consequence in 
the British dominions, as Manchester con- 
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