generosus

Quo die vir generosus et doctrina clarus, Samuel Johnson, LL.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

It would be interesting to know how a pauper came to be a "generosus."

The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

Westminster Hall, and, if I had set down _generosus Anglus_, it would have then construed rather a gentle Englishman than an English gentleman.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

As for _generosus_, as I have read in good writers _Vinum generosum_, for a good cup of wine and _equus generosus_ for a courageous horse, so I never heard _generosus_ alone so used, to signify a gentleman born, but only on the gross Latin current in

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

Colman, with one of the two, was admitted as an Honorary Burgess on Oct. 8, 1781, being described as vir generosus; the other had been admitted earlier.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

'Quo die vir generosus et doctrina clarus, Samuel Johnson, LL.D. receptus et admissus fuit in municipes et fratres guildae: praefati burgi de Aberdeen.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Doncaster, who died 1st July, 1653, is described on a brass plate to his memory, in the church at Wadworth, as "generosus."

Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

Quo die vir generosus et doctrina clarus, Samuel Johnson, LL.

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767

H.S.E. JOHANNE. FE.TON, de Shelton antiqua stirpe generosus: juxta reliquias conjugis

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

H.S. E. S.muel Pitt, generosus, E.vardi Pitt de S.ratfield-S.a, in comitatu S.uth'ton, armigeri, filius natu septimus.

Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812