Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873 · London : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons · leaf 62
page, when treating of the coronet now actually be-longing to a Duke, our author remarks,— The opinion is prevalent that this distinctive form of coronet appears for the firsttime placed upon the basinet of prince John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, in his effigyat Westminster, a.d. 1336. That there… … THE BLACK PEINCE. been the prototype of the Dukes strawberry-leaf coronet. From the jewelled circlethat encompasses the basinet there rise sixteen leaves, with a second series of the samenumber and much smaller size alternating with the larger ones. These leaves differvery slightly from those that…
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