Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 85
Washingtons — a fac-simile of the illumina-tion that has stood fur centuries in the old andtime-worn book I studied so carefully in theHeralds College. And here it is. The bars on the shield, you see, are in perpen-dicular shading, signifying red and white stripes,and the mystery as to the origin… … THE WASHINGTON ARMS X CREST. FROM HERALDS COLLEGE. LONDON. arms. argent, two bars gules, in chief threemullets of the second. crest: a raven with wings indorseb proper,issuing out of a ducal coronet or. England, the highest authority in the world onancient church and heraldic matters, seems to…
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