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 24
lawfulbearers of cote-armure. To Adam wasassigned a shield gules, and to Eveanother, argent: which latter Adambore over his as an inescutcheon, hiswife being sole heiress. The sameauthority informs us that, after theFall, Adam bore a garland of fig-leaves, which Abel quarteredwith Argent; an apjole… … 20 HANDBOOK OF HERALDRY, the profettys, and also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary,of whom that gentilman Jhesus, ... by his modreMary, prynce of cote-armure. Feme, in his Blazon ofGentrie, assigns distinctive armorial bearings to the ancientEgyptian kings, and to the gods of the Roman…
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