Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia is a legislative record kept by the colony's General Assembly, edited in the twentieth century by H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy and published in Richmond by the Virginia State Library for scholars of colonial government. Its pictures are repeated versions of a heraldic colonial coat of arms: two armoured figures flank a shield quartered with a cross and smaller shields, topped by scrolling mantling and a crown, with the motto Quarta ribbon beneath. A designer might take from them the symmetrical armorial layout and the tradition of civic seals.
