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 238
rimson. It is no longer used asa covering for the head, but is allowed to fall over the rightshoulder. The Hat is of black velvet; and is decorated with aplume of white ostrich and black heron feathers. The Collar is of gold, weighing thirty ounces, and isformed of twenty-six pieces, being the… … Fig. 295. From the Collar depends the George, which is a repre- 232 HANDBOOK OF HERALDRY. sentation of the Patron Saint of England, on horseback,piercing the Dragon with a lance. The Star was devised in the second year of King Charlesthe First, by surrounding the Badge with rays of silver.
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