Heraldry as art : an account of its development and practice, chiefly in England (1907)
Eve, George W., d. 1914 · London : B.T. Batsford ; New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 311
that part of the arms.In early examples the pen-dant parts are wider than therest, in some cases much wider, as in the Garter Plateof Gaston de Foix, Comte de Longueville and Captalde Buch, whose label is charged with a complete coatof arms repeated on each point, a cross charged with liveescallop… … innr Fig. 289. Fig. 290. teenth and nineteenth centuries had become as squatand ugly as the still common type (Fig. 290). In ordinarycadency the label which extends from side to side of theshield is no longer used, being reserved for membersof the Blood Royal, and a shortened form takes its place…
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