Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

Queen's Messengers

By J.R. PLANCHÉ.

In answer to the query of your correspondent "J.U.G.G.," in No. 12., p. 186., I beg to call his attention to the authority quoted in the passage respecting the "Knightes caligate of Armes," to which he alludes, in Mr. C. Knight's *London*. He will find that he is referred to Legh's *Accedens of Armory*, and Upton, *De Studio Militari*. The latter wrote in the early part of the fifteenth century. We are at present, I believe, without earlier information on such subjects. Whilst I am writing to you, may I ask you to correct a printer's error in my query in the same number, where "trepon" appears…

Topics: Heraldry, Historical Texts

Locations: London