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 27
rs, bearing date 116 4, which deviceis a Lion ram^mnt. Alexander Nisbet affirms that this samecharge was borne by Egbert le Prison ninety years pre-viously, but of this there exists no positive proof. Stephen,Earl of Richmond, anno 1137, is rejDresented on his sealas bearing on his right arm a… … 22 HANDBOOK OF HERALDRY, monotony of a plain surface, was very early practised; and to tills custom must be ascribed the curious fact that a chessman, preserved in the Biblio- theque Nationale at Paris, and supposed to have belonged to Charlemagne (temp. 827)^ is represented supporting a shield,…
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