Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia is a legislative record kept by 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. Its pictures are heraldic devices: a coat of arms flanked by armoured figures with pikes, a seal with lion and unicorn supporters, and a fragment of ornamental scrollwork. A designer might take the formal symmetry, the scroll banners, and the crest-and-supporter layout as models for official seals.
