Allen, Phoebe · London : A. and C. Black · leaf 75
d that a plume of ostrich featherswas often used by King Stephen as his badge, with the motto of hisown making: Vi nulla invertitur ordo—No force alters theirfashion —in allusion to the fold fall of the feather, which wasneither shaken nor disordered by the wind, and therefore symbolizedthe… … Peeps at Heraldry a favourite number. The Wardes and Temples bearfive ; the Chadwicks and Brownlows charge the orleof their shield with eight martlets. The Pawne familybear three peacocks in their pride(see Fig. 45), and this same chargeoccurs in the arms of the Peacocks ofDurham. A phoenix is…
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