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, covering proceedings from 1619. The pictures are four repeated engraved versions of the colony's coat of arms, showing two armoured figures with spears flanking a shield with a St George cross and four smaller shields, under a crown and the motto Virginia, Pro Patria Quarta; a designer could take heraldic symmetry and the flanking-figure composition from them.
