Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia is an official legislative record of the colonial Virginia assembly, edited by H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy and published in Richmond by the Virginia State Library. Its pictures are heraldic: the Virginia coat of arms with two armoured figures, the royal seal of George III, and a provincial seal showing a kneeling figure receiving a crown. A designer might take the ornate scrollwork, shield and seal framing, and motto banners as models for period emblems.
