The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian MagazineBaldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1827 |
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... Arms , compiled in the early part of the reign of Edward the Second , circa 1310 , presents , among others , the subjoined instance of a colour being placed upon a colour : " Sir Richard de Rokesle , de azure a vj lioncels de argent a ...
... Arms , compiled in the early part of the reign of Edward the Second , circa 1310 , presents , among others , the subjoined instance of a colour being placed upon a colour : " Sir Richard de Rokesle , de azure a vj lioncels de argent a ...
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... arms ; who know no virtue but courage , and no aim but the pleasures of the day . " " It would be impossible to produce upon our stage this singular production of the genius , accuracy , and , I shall add , erudition of the Germans ...
... arms ; who know no virtue but courage , and no aim but the pleasures of the day . " " It would be impossible to produce upon our stage this singular production of the genius , accuracy , and , I shall add , erudition of the Germans ...
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... arms , or the license of his camp , promised most to gratify their ravening appetites : under him they ranged themselves even against the religion they professed ; and under him they con- tinued till their propensities were checked ...
... arms , or the license of his camp , promised most to gratify their ravening appetites : under him they ranged themselves even against the religion they professed ; and under him they con- tinued till their propensities were checked ...
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... arms of the bannerets of England , compiled in the early part of the reign of Edward the Second ; and now printed from a con- temporary MS . in the British Museum * . In the introduction * A copy of this valuable heraldic MS . has been ...
... arms of the bannerets of England , compiled in the early part of the reign of Edward the Second ; and now printed from a con- temporary MS . in the British Museum * . In the introduction * A copy of this valuable heraldic MS . has been ...
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... the most and perhaps the only satisfactory evidence of the arms of the knights in this country at the commencement of the four- teenth century , which is extant . notice . Instead of mere names , which , when 62 Parliamentary Writs , & c .
... the most and perhaps the only satisfactory evidence of the arms of the knights in this country at the commencement of the four- teenth century , which is extant . notice . Instead of mere names , which , when 62 Parliamentary Writs , & c .
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