Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873 · London : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons · leaf 175
martlets are not as the martlet is now represented, but with beaks, legs, andlong tails. Their number, however, is properly five, one being placed at the foot ofthe shield, under the cross. 4 See in our vol. ii. p. 192, the shield of Saint Cuthbert of Durham and that ofSaint Oswald of Nostell… … HERALDRY VERSUS SYMBOLISM. 165 of the cohorts in the fifth century, the Constantiani, which might alsohave been impressed upon coins. This latter device (shown by Mr.Ellis in his Plato VII. fig. 8) consists of a sort of wheel-cross with abird in each of its four quarters. Mr. Ellis must be content…
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