Handbook of heraldry : with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss. : rules for the appointment of liveries, &c (1882)
Cussans, John Edwin, 1837-1899 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 161
o bear one and thesame Arms without a Difference, not even to those of thesame Family, though they be Brothers thereof. In some few instances we find Labels represented uponShields as Charges, as in the case of thefamily Arms of Henlington, which are,Argent; a Label of fve points azure.The… … MARKS OF CADENCY, OR DIFFERENCES. 155 Shield after their purpose was accomplished, and thus be-came permanent Charges; or else, that they were intendedto indicate two different Families who had inadvertentlyassumed the same Arms. As a Label is merely an accidental Difference, and is notan integral…
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