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crosses molines

  1. plural of cross moline
    • 1818, Thomas Dunham Whitaker, An History of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Honor of Clitheroe: In the Counties of Lancaster and York, to which is Subjoined, an Account of the Parish of Cartmell, page 343:
      Blyton. Argent, on a bend Azure, three crosses molines Gules.
    • 1907, Thomas Browne, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, cont. Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus (1658) Certain miscellany tracts (1684) A letter to a friend (1690) Posthumous works (1712) Christian morals (1716) [] , page 416:
      And at their Feet, Escocheons, with the Arms of the Church; and also Escocheons with Crosses Molines. That these, or some of them, were the Statues of Bishop William Alnwyck, seems more than probable; for he built the three Gates, and the great Window at the West End of the Church; []