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 192
ANTLING, ETC. 185 first Earl of Chester, undoubtedly derived his appellation,De Loupe, from his device, which was a Wolfs head : andin an old manuscript attributed to William de Brito (a.d.1170), the poet thus sings the praises of one of the ancestorsof the Arundel family, whose bearing was then,… … Supporter to a Shield, from the lower frieze around St. Stephens Chapel, Westminster. CHAPTER XVI. DEGREES OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY. T) EFOKE treating of the various grades of Rank, as theynow exist, it will be necessary to give a short accountof the origin of those degrees, and to explain by…
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