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Title: The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition
Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science

Author: Anonymous

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| Transcriber's Note: The following changes have been made to |
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THE MANUAL OF HERALDRY:

Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and
Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science

Illustrated by Four Hundred Engravings on Wood

Fifth Edition

London:
Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co.
25, Paternoster Row.
London:
R. Clay, Printer, Bread Street Hill.

CHAPTER I.

ORIGIN OF COATS OF ARMS.

Heraldry is the science which teaches how to blazon or describe in
proper terms armorial bearings and their accessories.

Many volumes have been written on the origin of Heraldry and even on
the antiquity of separate charges contained in an escutcheon: it would
be filling the pages of an elementary work on Heraldry to little
purpose to enter upon an inquiry as to the exact period of the
introduction of an art that has existed in some degree in all
countries whose inhabitants have emerged from barbarism to
civilization. In all ages