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 23
e cause, and I everafterwards had reason to remember with some satisfactionmy having on that occasion broken the Ten Command-ments. Mr. Bigland bears further testimony to thepractical value of Heraldry; for, in his Observations onParochial Registers, he writes: I know three familieswho have… … Lion passant guardant, from a Window in Ely Cathedral. CHAPTER I. THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF HERALDRY. Coates of Armes were inuented, by our wise auncestors, to these3 ends: The first was, to honour and adorne the family of himthat had well deserued towardes his countrye. The seconde, to makehim more…
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