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 273
device on the Sigillum Secretum, or Privy Seal,often differed as much from the Armorial Bearings as theImpress did from the Badge or Crest. I may quote as anexample the Seal of John de Cusance, who, in the year 1342,attested a deed by affixing a Seal bearing a profile head, withthe motto, Je suis… … Fig. 375.—Seal of Sir John Fray. that the legend reads Thenk fayr Thenk (p = th)* or Thenk ay Thenk ; and that the word * Fayr, is simply ananagram of Fray. The colour of the wax affords but little evidence of thedate of the impression : it may, however, be stated that,in general, wax of its…
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