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 144
ere effectedby a variety of arbitrary arrangements—such as changingthe tinctures of the Coat; adding, or suppressing, some minorCharge; substituting one Ordinary for another; enclosingthe Shield within a Bordure, &c.; but as, by these methods,a Coat of Arms, after a few generations, frequently… … HANDBOOK OF HEBALDBY. original, much confusion and uncertainty were necessarilyengendered. A simpler plan was subsequently devised—that of adding certain recognised figures to the Coat—whichin no way, however, changed its identity. The first of these Marks of Cadency is the Label, orFile, which is…
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