[5] Edited by le Bibliophile Jacob, with appendix, frontispiece, 84 wood-engravings, and a Map of Paris in the Fifteenth Century. Paris: E. Dentu, 1884.
[6] Paris and Rouen, 1852, 8vo, 131 pp.
[7] India proofs have also been struck off, and may be obtained separately, price 1s., from Messrs. Edm. Durrant & Co., Chelmsford.
[8] For an explanation of this, and all other heraldic terms hereafter, see the Glossary of such terms, given as an Appendix, at the end.
[9] “Supporters,” as explained in the Glossary at the end, are the animals represented as holding up or supporting the shields of arms of royal and other distinguished personages. They are referred to in an amusing manner by the inimitably comic Dickens, who, in Little Dorrit, puts into the mouth of his by no means pleasant character, Flora Finch, the description of them quoted at the head of the following chapter.
[10] Historic Devices, Badges, and War Cries, p. 2.
[11] Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century, &c. By William Boyne, F.S.A. London, 1858.
[12] Quarterly: first and fourth, gules; three lions passant guardant in pale, or, for England, &c.
[13] These are commonly blazoned as follows, but they belong equally to Middlesex, and in reality no county possesses arms:—Gules, three seaxes proper, hilts and pomels or, points to sinister.
[14] Gules; two staves raguly and couped, one in pale surmounted by another in fess, both argent, between two ducal coronets in chief or, and the bottom of the staff enfiled with another of the last.