Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, Volume 2order of the trustees, 1892 - Seals (Numismatics) |
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armour Beaded border bend Cabled border caparisoned carved gothic panel cast from chipped cast from fine cast from indistinct central spike chequy chevron betw chief chipped impression cinquefoil conical helmet coronet couché counterseal Creamy-white crescent Crest crown cusped Dark-green diapered Dict Earl Early 13th cent edge chipped embattled engrailed ermine estoile fess betw fleur-de-lis Green Harl hauberk of mail head erased helmet and nasal Horse galloping injured by pressure inner edge IOHANNIS John Late 12th cent Legend wanting Lewis Linc lion rampant long convex shield lozengy lxxxv martlets matrix mullets Norf Northt ornamental mantling ornamental shield ornamented with ball-flowers pale perfect placard Plaster cast Pointed oval quarterly Robert saltire shield of arms shield with central side SIGILL SIGILLVM small ball-flowers spandrils sprigs of foliage strap Suff Sulph surcoat Suspended sword Temp Thomas Topogr trefoil wavy WILLELMI William wreath wyverns
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Page 444 - Heleye^' co. Salop. 7026. [Temp. Edw. III.] Green: very imperfect. About \\ in. when perfect. [Harl. ch. 45 E. 38. | A shield of arms, coucht: fretty, for a fret, AUDLEY. Crest on a helmet, with grating, and lambrequin, a (griffin's?) head and wings erect.
Page 730 - blotted out. 80 yeares since." Between the chancel and this yle another monument, more costly, arched over, of white stone too, the statue of a knight, armes, and a ruffe, and gathered breeches, and a lady by him ; these two coates often carved : POULET. Quarterly, in the 2nd and 3rd quarters a fret, over all a fess [NORREYS]. The statues of four sons : Joh'es P. films et heres ; Amos [sc. Amias] P. filius 2d"9 ; Henr. P. filius 3 ; Tho. P. f. 4, obijt 14 July, 1611. Phillipus P. f. quintus.
Page 219 - Within a carved rosette of eight semicircular cusps, with a sunken trefoil in each spandril, and suspended by the strap or guige from an oak-tree between two slipped branches of the same, a shield of arms : ENGLAND, with a label of five points.
Page 332 - To the r. In armour ; hauberk of mail, surcoat, sword, shield of arms slung by the strap over the shoulder. Horse galloping. Arms as on rev.
Page 783 - Crest on a helmet and lambrequin, out of a ducal coronet, a plume of ostrich feathers. Supporters [two?] demi-lions. Within a carved gothic panel, ornamented with ball-flowers along the inner edge. Stg