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 24
h as Morgan, whoassert that our first parents were thelawful bearers of cote-armure. ToAdam was assigned a shield gules, andto Eve another, argent: which latterAdam bore over his as an inescutcheon,his wife being sole heiress. The sameauthority informs us that, after thefall, Adam bore a garland of… … 20 HANDBOOK OF HEBALDRY. the gentilman Japeth came Habraham, Moyses, Aron, andthe profettys, and also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary,of whom that gentilman Jhesus, ... by his modreMary, prynce of cote-armure. Ferne, in his Blazon ofGentrie, assigns distinctive armorial bearings to the…
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