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 185
ven others, by Lions. In Smiths Antiquities of Westminster, drawings are givenof thirty-five grotesque monsters, doing duty as Supportersto the Shields on the lower frieze around St. StephensChapel. One of these figures is represented at the end ofthis chapter. In some of the early impressions of… … Fig. 279. CREST, WREATH, MANTLING, ETC. 179 the neck of the Animal which supports it. Double Sup-porters were not generally adopted until the Fourteenthcentury. Over the entrances of regal residences—as at Bucking-ham Palace—and the lodge-gates of the Seats of the Nobility,we frequently see the…
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