er per paleindented arg. and gu., the tinctures of his shield. This Banner isconsidered to refer to one of the great Barons many lordships,the Honour of Hinkley in Leicestershire : (see Introduction toSir Harris Nicholas Roll of H. III., p. xiii.) Banners were in use in the middle ages at sea, as… … Fiate XXIA FLAGS. 289 with armorial insignia, and tlius the sails themselves becameFlags, as in No. 530, PI. XXXV. Many equally curious andinteresting illustrations of this practice occur in early seals. During the times of the Tudors, and indeed towards the close /of the Plantagenet era also, the…
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