Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia is an official record of the colonial legislature's proceedings, edited by H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy and published in Richmond by the Virginia State Library, beginning with the 1619 assembly. The pictures are reproduced heraldic and seal devices: a Virginia coat of arms with two armoured knights and the motto 'Endat Virginia Quartam', a royal seal of George III, and a provincial seal showing a kneeling figure offering something to a crowned authority, which a designer might study for symmetrical emblem layout and engraved crest detail.
