Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
A legislative journal of the Virginia House of Burgesses, edited by H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy and published in Richmond by the Virginia State Library, covering the colony's assembly from 1619. The pictures repeat one engraved coat of arms: two armoured knights with spears flank a shield quartered with a cross, with a crown above and a scroll reading VIRGINIA and ENDAT and QUARTA beneath. A designer could take the symmetrical heraldic layout, the crowned cross shield, and the flanking armoured figures as a model for emblematic seals.
