Mottoes

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Sources:

Banners, standards, and badges from a Tudor manuscript with an index of mottoes in the back. Available on Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?id=T-cLAQAAMAAJ

Fairbairn's Crests (ISBN: 0-517-61048-5) has a large section about mottoes; "3800 mottoes translated and explained", according to the dust jacket...

A Guide to British Medieval Seals by P.D.A. Harvey and Andrew McGuinness - includes earlier period mottos.

"Heraldic Latin Mottoes: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Welsh Evidence" - http://www.yarntheory.net/ursulageorges/motto/welshmottoes.html

Gayre's Heraldic Standards and Other Ensigns - examples of mottoes and a discussion of regional variations

Historic Devices, Badges and War Cries by Pallister, gale Research Co., Detroit,Mi. 1972 (reprint of 1870). Available on Google Books. - http://books.google.com/books?id=MstsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA137#v=onepage&q&f=false

"Mottoes" at Modar University - http://www.modaruniversity.org/motto.htm

"Symbols and Mottoes: The Renaissance Impresa" - http://www.doomchicken.net/~ursula/sca/imprese/imprese.html

"War-Cries" - http://www.heraldica.org/topics/warcry.htm

Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
Morsulus Heralds Website -[http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)

From September 1981 Cover Letter: If you wish to use supporters, crests, or mottoes, you are free to do so, but the College of Arms will not register them, although an individual kingdom could. I would prefer to see supporters reserved for holders of Patents of Arms. WVS [51] [CL 20 Sep 81], p. 2 http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/1981/09/cl.htm

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