07 A. TheCrests in these compositions of the fourteenth and fifteenthcenturies are almost invariably very large in jiroportion to theShields; and the same remark is equally applicable to the Creststhat are blazoned in the Windsor Garter-Plates. Thus, inNo. 523, p. 264, the Svxtns head and wings… … No. 707 A.—Seal of Eichard, Earl of Arundel. Another good example from the Garter-Plates I have alreadygiven in No. 626, PI. LXVI.: this commanding Crest forms a )> KNOTS ANU MOTTOKS. 269 part of the Achievement of the matenial ancestor of the Earl ofStafford, Humphrey dk BonujsT, last Earl of…
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