lawfulbearers of cote-armure. To Adam w^asassigned a shield gules^ and to Eveanother, argent; which latter Adambore over his as an inescutcheon, hiswife being sole heiress. The sameauthority informs us that, after theFall, Adam bore a garland of fig-leaves, which Abel quarteredwith Argent ; an… … 20 Handbook of Heraldry the profettys, and also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary,of whom that gentilman Jhesus, ... by his modreMary, prynce of cote-armure. Feme, in his Blazon ofGentrie^ assigns distinctive armorial bearings to the ancientEgyptian kings, and to the gods of the Roman…
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