Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of sarcelly.
A shield of arms : a cross cercelée, WILLOUGHBY.
1894, British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, page 6924 more examples
A Cross Moline; many of our Countrymen are out about this Cross, which they Confound with the Cross cercelée, whereas it shou'd be always square pierced, it being a Milrind dispos'd in Cross. The Book of St. Albans hath Crucem[…]
1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 22“De Bares,” gules, a cross, cercelée, or; 3. “De Bar,” azure, two barbels addorsed, or. Below these are drawn the standards of the Hospitallers and Templars reversed, viz., “Vexillum Hospitalis,” gules, a cross[…]
1866, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores: Or, Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages, page 433[…] azure, a lion rampant gules, impaling or a cross cercelée sable, both dimidiated.
1882, Matthew Paris, Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica majora, page 470In pavement of porch an abbot's stone bearing 2 shields (1) a cross cercelée; (2) a lion rampant.
1914, Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Transactions and Journal of Proceedings, page 70
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