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Handbook of heraldry, with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss., rules for the appointment of liveries, &c. (1893)

Cussans, John Edwin, 1837-1899 · London, Chatto & Windus · leaf 38

An illustration from Handbook of heraldry, with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss., rules for the appointment of liveries, &c., 1893, leaf 38 — Rise and Progress of Heraldry 27 monarchs, as they served to familiarise the nobles with theuse of arms, and to foster a spirit of chivalrous daringamongst them. It was the custom, in these encounters, forthe combatants to assume some conspicuous device or figure—at first arbitrarily, but which in…

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