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Notes on the nimbus (1854)

French, Gilbert J. (Gilbert James), 1804-1866 · Bolton : Heaton · leaf 53

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Dei, or carried by our Lord, particularly in early pictures of His resurrection or of His descent into hell. When Henry Y., with his peers and men-at-arms, under¬ took the expedition against France, in which was fought the famous battle of Agincourt, it is recorded by a poet of the time that “ The… … Fi£- 97- eauxes, or Wastals, are borne by upwards of sixty English families, and figured in Guillem, * “ The History of the Battle of Agincourt,” by Sir Harris Nicolas, p. 248, and appendix, 71.

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