W., F. S · Boston, D. Lothrop and company · leaf 301
heraldry can read at a glance the colorsthat it possesses. Look at this one, belonging toSir John Hawkins, the famous navigator. Hisshield is black, and has three bezants, or, as wecalled them before, polka dots, in a row at thetop, and a little golden lion trotting along at thebottom of the… … Hawkins. by means of little lines and dots. If any part . ^ ^—^—jm^ of the shield were red, then he covered it with /a V^i A m very fine lines, running up and down. If it ^^ ,, ^r , h\ h^ .^^ were blue, then the lines were to run from side v A Ju ; /* ^ /j from the left-hand upper corner to the…
Heraldry
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