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 170
eldest son, Richard,his meliure Coronne; to his daughter, Lady Joan, his secondemeliure Coronne; and to another daughter, Lady Alice, histierce Coronne, or third best Coronet: from which it appears € OB 0 NETS AND HELMETS. 163 that they were formerly worn merely as ensigns of Nobility,arbitrarily… … Fig. 256. Cathedral (see Frontispiece), and the accompanying illustra-tion from the effigy, in St. Michaels Chapel, Canterbury, ofThomas, Duke of Clarence (who was second son of Henrythe Fourth), killed in the year 1420, show the style of orna-mentation that was in vogue during the latter part of…
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