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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 265

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ewhat analogous to the Collar of S.S. was the decoration instituted by Henry the Eighth, formed by the letter H, alternating with a link of gold, but which seems to have been worn only by the King himself. At Lee Priory, Kent, is a portrait of that monarch, by Holbein, decorated with a chain of… … Fig. 373- At Windsor Castle is a portrait of Prince Henry, after-wards Henry YIII., in which the Collar is composed of redand white Roses alternately, with a knot, similar to thatshown above, between each Rose. CHAPTER XIX. SEALS AND MONUMENTS. I HAVE already adverted to the valuable…

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