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XXVI.—Contemporary Authority adduced for the popular idea that the Ostrich Feathers of the Prince of Wales were derived from the Crest of the King of Bohemia. In a Letter from Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G. to Sir Henry Ellis, Secretary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

Nicholas Harris Nicolas
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In the paper which I had the honour of communicating to the Society of Antiquaries last year on the Origin and History of the Badge of Edward Prince of Wales, I stated that there was no contemporary authority for the popular idea that the Ostrich Feathers were derived from the Crest of the King of Bohemia who was slain at Crecy, and that it could not be traced to any earlier writer than Camden.

An accident, which in historical and antiquarian investigations often supplies information, when all the obvious and direct sources of knowledge have been exhausted, has just shewn me that I was mistaken, and I lose no time in submitting to the Society what I have discovered on the subject.

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Archaeologia , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , 1846 , pp. 332 - 334
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 0000

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page 332 note a Archaeologia, vol. xxxi. p. 350–384.

page 332 note b “Walteri Hemingford Canonici de Gisseburne Historia de rebus gestis Edwardi I. Edwardi II. et Edwardi III. Accedunt inter alia Edwardi III. Historia per anonymum,” –6. Note. The note relating to the Feather is not referred to in the Index to that work.

page 334 note c Engraved for the new edition of the Fœdera, vol. III. p. 667.