W., F. S · Boston, D. Lothrop and company · leaf 51
is really a very pretty anagram ofthe word Lorraine you will easily understand me. The prosaicheraldists of to-day who call heraldry a corpse, and turn up theirnoses at our pretty fairy-like tales, insist that it was on this accountthat the arms were chosen. The English tell a tale to match it,and… … Vesey, or de Vesci. are very proud of that connection, they can prove a much older andnobler pedigree than the Northumberland barons could show. In-deed, the first ancestor whom they deign to claim is Charlemagnethe great. Emperor of France and of all theWest. His fifth son had a son, and that…
Heraldry
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