The manual of heraldry : being a concise description of the several terms used, and containing a dictionary of every designation in the science. Illustrated by four hundred engravings on wood (1800)
Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL, Boston Public Library (John Adams Library) BRL · London : Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. ... · leaf 59
>ADGE. A distinctive mark worn byservants, retainers, and followersof royalty or nobility, who, beingbeneath the rank of gentlemen, haveno right to armorial bearings. Therose and crown is the badge of theservants, &c., of the Kings of Eng-land : they are displayed as in the mannexed example.…
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