Thus much might be useful--the law closed one eye, the king opened the other.
Sometimes the king went so far as to avow his complicity.

These are audacities of monarchical terrorism.

The disfigured one was marked with the fleur-de-lis; they took from him the mark of God; they put on him the mark of the king.

Jacob Astley, knight and baronet, lord of Melton Constable, in the county of Norfolk, had in his family a child who had been sold, and upon whose forehead the dealer had imprinted a fleur-de-lis with a hot iron.

In certain cases in which it was held desirable to register for some reason the royal origin of the new position made for the child, they used such means.