The handbook of heraldry : with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss., also, rules for the appointment of liveries, etc. etc. (1869)
Cussans, John Edwin, 1837-1899 · London : Chatto and Windus · leaf 128
anners wereadopted as Armorial Bearings at a very early date.As far back as the fifteenth year of the reign of Edwardthe Third, we read of the Stafford knot being the Badgeof the Duke of Buckingham ; and the Bourchier knot,that of Fitzwarren. Knots seldom appear as Chargesupon shields, but serve… … The Heneage Knot. 3 22 HANDBOOK OF BEE ALB BY. Figs. 224 and 226 are taken from monuments in St. Ed-munds chapel, Westminster : the former from that of John,Earl of Stafford ; and the latter fromthat of Humphrey Bourchier, who waskilled at the Battle of Barnet, in 1471.It will be observed that, in…
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