Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia is an official record of the colonial Virginia legislature, edited by H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy and published in Richmond by the Virginia State Library, covering proceedings from 1619. The pictures are seal and coat-of-arms engravings: two armoured figures flank a shield with a St George cross beneath the words Virginia and En dat Virginia quartam, and a circular royal seal shows a crowned queen, a lion, a unicorn, and a kneeling figure offering a wreath. A designer could take their heraldic symmetry, ribbon scrolls, and engraved circular borders as models for official seals and emblems.
