An essay to heraldry in two parts. The first containing ... the body of heraldry: the second, honour civil and military; being a treatise of the nobility and gentry of England ... The whole illustrated with variety of ... sculptures .. (1684)
Blome, Richard, d. 1705 · London, Printed by T.B. for Rich. Blome .. · leaf 281
exorbitant from tbz genralc our ft of Nature eitb r for qu :li-ties or tffence, and of theft th reart divtrs forts, as Amphibix, tb tis fuch as live fomitim-s as if theywere Wat\r Greatarts, and othertims as if L ind Creatures, sfndthof of a more Prodigious Shape,being formed, or rather… … HERALDRY i<?5 Examples ofMonftruous CREATURES, I. \ RG E N T , a Beaver ere&edjt\ Sable, devouring a Fifh, pro-per. TheBeaver hath hisTail orlyFi/fc, whichhe keeps for the moft part inthe Water,his hinder Leggs are like a Swan, andhis foremoft like a Dogg; fohefwimswith the one, whilft he…
Heraldry · Nobility
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