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 207
, undoubtedly derived his appellation, De Loupe,from his device, which was a Wolfs head : and in an oldmanuscript attributed to William de Brito (a.d. 1170), thepoet thus sings the praises of one of the ancestors of theArundel family, whose bearing was then, as it has sincecontinued, a Swallow—in… … Fig- 353.—Supporter to a Shield, from the lower frieze around St. Stephens Chapel,Westminster, from Smiths Antiquities of Westminster. B CHAPTER XVI. DEGREES OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY. EFOEE treating of the various gi-ades of Rank, asthey now exist, it will be necessary to give a shortaccount of…
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