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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BANKURA , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, within the See also:Burdwan See also:division of See also:Bengal. The town has a See also:population of 20,737 The district has an See also:area of 2621 sq. m., and in 1901 its population was 1,116,411, showing an increase of 4% in the See also:decade. It is bounded on the N. and E. by Burdwan district; bannerets obtained a See also:place in the feudal See also:hierarchy between t r barons and knights bachelors, which has given rise to the See also:idea that they are the origin of See also:King See also:James I.'s See also:order of baronets. See also:Selden, indeed, points out that " the old stories" often have baronetti for bannereti, and he points out that in See also:France the See also:title had become hereditary; but he himself is careful to say (p. 68o) that See also:banneret " hath no relation to this later title." The title of See also:knight banneret, with the right to display the private banner, came to be granted for distinguished service in the See also:field. " No knight banneret," says Selden, of the See also:English See also:custom, " can be created but in the field, and that, when either the king is See also:present, or at least his royal See also:standard is displayed. But the creation is almost the self-same with that in the old See also:French ceremonies by the See also:solemn delivery of a banner charged with the arms of him that is to be created, and the cutting of the end of the pennon or streamer to make it a square or into the shape of a banner in See also:case that he which is to be created had in the field his arms on a streamer before the creation." The creation of bannerets is traceable, according to Selden, to the See also:time of See also:Edward I. " Under these bannerets," he adds, " See also:divers knights bachelors and esquires usually served; and according to the number of them, the bannerets received See also:wages." The last See also:authentic instance of the creation of a knight banneret was that of See also:John See also:Smith, created banneret at the See also:battle of Edgehill by See also:Charles I. for rescuing the royal standard from the enemy. See Selden, Titles of Honor (3rd ed., See also:London, 1672), p. 656; Du Cange, Glossarium (See also:Niort, 1883), s.v.

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