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 139
icially contrived by Caesar, because itwas not lawful for a private man to stamp his own figureupon the coin of the Commonwealth. Cicero, who was socalled from the founder of his family, that was marked onthe nose with a little wen, like a vetch (which is Cicer inLatin), instead of Marcus Tullius… … > *\i wm*it Fig. 231. KNOTS, BADGES, REBUSES, ETC. 133 The Reader is referred to the chapter on Armes par-lantes, where other forms of Rebuses will be found treatedof* It commonly occurred that Knights who, on enteringthe Lists, wished to conceal their identity, would assume aDevice with an…
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