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Calendar of Treasury books
… Disposition Book XXIII, p. 285. Same for 200 l. to Thomas Beak, gent., to be by him distributed among the under clerks …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… carved crests, a heron's head erased holding a fish in its beak within a wreath, and smaller roundels in the arms, c. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… the N. jamb having, on the W. side, an edge roll with beak-head ornament, and the S. jamb a roll-and-hollow zig-zag … the outer order of the arch has an edge-roll with beak-head ornament, the faces on the heads being apparently a …
Old and New London
… and anciently consisted of circles or amulets on the beak; but the cutting of these being considered to, inflict … argent; for the true chevron could scarcely be cut on the beak of the bird without each lateral branch crossing its … him. He should be a bird of prey, too, by his bloody beak" ( i.e.., poor Cromwell's red nose, the result of ague). …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… from the deluge, with the dove and the olive branch in its beak, and the motto, Hoc est signum fderis. The Carmelite …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… The Pasha's galleon struck the ship violently with its beak, so that the beak penetrated the side, and the English made it fast so … As the fight proceeded the other galleys cut away the beak and the tackle, and then three galleys towed it away …