Swan marks of Lincolnshire mb-width 1761 mans her country's defences

mans her country's defences

or the London Almanack for 1922

Mother and Children (La Promenade)

a wheel came off the car when travelling at over 600 mph

Swan marks of Lincolnshire mb-width 1761 mans her country's defencesNine swan marks issued by the Crown to landowners in the county of Lincolnshire, England, including to 'Sir John Hossye Knyght' [eg Sir John Hussey]. The marks illustrated here were incised in the beaks of the birds by a swan herd. The names of those with grants of swans are noted in the margin by each painted mark. Page 4 from Royal Society manuscript MS 106, a register of swan marks, kept by the Queen's swan herd, possibly a member of the Towneley