A treatise on heraldry, British and foreign : with English and French glossaries (1896)
Woodward, John, 1837-1898 · Edinburgh ; London : W. & A.K. Johnston · leaf 302
then usually borne on coroneted helms. In Great Britain the crest has become the part of thearmorial insignia most generally employed. We find itdivorced not only from the coat of arms, but from itshelm, doing the duty of a badge on household furniture,on silver plate, on servants buttons, on the… … ( 241 ) knightly helm ; that the use of a crest by ladies(unless they are sovereign princesses) is an indefensibleanomaly ; and that to speak (as people who ought to bebetter informed often do) of a whole achievement—arms, helm, crest, and motto—as our crest is as absurdas it would be to call a…
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