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Heraldry and floral forms as used in decoration; (1922)

Cole, Herbert · London & Toronto, J. M. Dent & Sons ltd.; New York, E. P. Dutton & co. · leaf 115

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Duke of Wellington are a striking and appro-priate use of the principle of augmentation. To distinguish and103 I04 HERALDRY commemorate his notable services to his country a shield of pretence,or inescutcheon, charged with the Union device of Great Britainand Ireland, was added to the arms of his… … Norfolk, and his posterity, for the victory at Flodden Field on 9thSeptember, 1513, in which battle James IV. of Scotland was slain,a commemorative augmentation to his shield. The Howard arms, asthey then stood, consisted of a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchee.To this a small shield…

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