Armorial of Jersey : being an account, heraldic and antiquarian, of its chief native families, with pedigrees, biographical notices, and illustrative data; to which are added, a brief history of heraldry, and remarks on the mediæval antiquities of the island (1859)
ion, in any way, with the science in question, for whereas the very head and front ofthe value of coat-armour consists in its identification with departed ancestral greatness, badgeswere valueless except in connection with their wearer. iEsop entered into this feeling while..writing the fable of… … To arrive at the conclusion, therefore, that Hereditary Coat-armoiu- was nothing more thanan invention produced by parent necessity, to perpetuate the doughty prowess of the Crusaders,is, I think, simply stating the truth; and further, that any attempt, however zealous anddetermined, to claim for…
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