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 183
, it is impossible to determine withprecision. Menestrier inclines to the belief that they deducetheir origin from the Shields of Knights being supportedat Tournaments by attendants grotesquely habited, so as torepresent Saracens, Lions, Dragons, &c. That Shields wereso supported during… … Fig. 278. CREST, WREATH, MANTLING, ETC. mounted by a Bend. In another place, a Sagittarius, armedwith a Falchion, is seen guarding a Shield charged withthree Piles ; and in the third example, a figure with thebody of a Fish and the legs of a Lion (?), habited in adoublet, with a plain Helmet on its…
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