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Fig. 1014a. Sword
Probably French and of about 1340, the pommel bears the arms of the House of Dreux Collection: Mr. S. J. Whawell
- teen squares placed lozenge-wise upon the shield, an arrangement which appears again
in the great roll of 1461, where the coat is given as azure, a chessboard of 36 squares, argent and gules, placed lozenge-wise. Fig. 42 of this same roll gives another variant of the coat, erroneously placed under the name of "Scelt" (F. Piekosinski, Heraldyka Polska, 1899, pp. 373, 374) chequey of three rows of six argent and azure. Boniecki (Herbarz Polski, vol. vii, sub "Gurowscy") gives the arms of Wczele as chequey of