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 96
n asissuant. Demi-lions passant or passant guardant are of morerare occurrence, the latter generally in conjunction withanother object, as in the arms ascribed to the Cinque Portson the seal of Sandwich (Fig. 103), where the demi-lionsare joined to the hulls of ships. This evidently arosefrom the… … 84 HERALDRY AS ART Chester, wherein the lions of England are conjoined with the wheatsheaves of the Earldom. Among the separate parts of animals used alone or in repetition a lions head is a frequent charge, and it follows the general rule ofbeing represented in profileunless otherwise…
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