cadency

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The Label, borne as a Mark of Cadency, was sometimes, 179 particularly in the cases of junior members of the Royal Family, charged with other figures and devices, as differences of a secondary rank.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

I must be content to illustrate these various forms of Cadency with a few examples only.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

Thomas le Scrope, on the other hand, for Cadency marks the golden bend upon his azure Shield, No. 111, with an annulet sable, as in No. 353.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

Various methods for thus marking Cadency were adopted, and accepted as satisfactory, in the early days of Heraldry.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

Or, when it is thus charged, the charges upon a Label may be considered to be elements of the Label itself, in its capacity of a Mark of Cadency.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.