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 57
Fig. 53- … 1=/ Fig. 54. * Potent is an old name for crutch, and is still used in thatsignification in Norfolk, where it is pronounced pottent. Chaucer,in the Romaunt of the Rose, writes : When luste of youth wasted be and spente,Then in hys honde he takyth a potent. T1NCTUBES. 53 Counterpotent. In this the…
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