| John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1846 - 414 pages
...Vere, "the blue boar ;" Percy, " the crescent and manacle," &c. &c. The MOTTO is, according to Guillim, "a word, saying, or sentence, which gentlemen carry...camp, and its use can be traced to a remote period. The learned Camden assigns the reign of Henry III. as the date of the oldest motto he ever met with,... | |
| John Bernard Burke - History - 1860 - 608 pages
...crescent and manacle;" Stafford and Bourchier, "the Knot." iBotto. The MOTTO is, according to Guillim, " a word, saying, or sentence which gentlemen carry...camp, and its use can be traced to a remote period. The learned Camden assigns the reign of Henry III. as the date of the oldest motto he ever met with,... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 808 pages
...special royal grant. A motto is, according to Guillim, " a word, saying, or sentenca which VOL. ix. — 8 gentlemen carry in a scroll under the arms, and sometimes over the crest." They had their origin in the war cries of knights, though there are instances of a motto being borne... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 814 pages
...!=pecial royal grant. A motto is, according to Gnillim, "a word, saying, or sentence which VOL. ir.— -8 gentlemen carry in a scroll under the arms, and sometimes over the crest.1' They had their origin in the war cries of knights, though there are instances of a motto being... | |
| William Henry Abbott - Heraldry - 1897 - 210 pages
...are never expressed on the wreath nor lambrequin. MOTTOES (L. inscriptis) — according to Guillim, a word, saying or sentence which gentlemen carry in...scroll under the arms and sometimes over the crest. Mottoes occasionally allude to the name of the bearer, and often to the bearings. They, no doubt, owe... | |
| 1902 - 116 pages
...to be the intention of the device), one might as well alter a coat of arms as a hereditary crest." in the ' cri de guerre' or the watchword of the camp,...remote period. Camden assigns the reign of Henry III. (1216-72) as the date of the oldest motto he ever met with. Other authorities, however, carry up the... | |
| Adna James Fogg, John Lemuel Murray Willis - 1907 - 156 pages
...their paraphernalia, fell Into disuse. The Motto is a word, saying or sentence, which gentlemen carried in a scroll under the Arms, and sometimes over the Crest. It was considered the watchword of the Camp, and its use can be traced to a remote period. It is asserted... | |
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