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1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 264:
THE PELICAN is represented in both British and Foreign Armory with a bowed neck vulning (ie . wounding) her breast; [...] Argent, three pelicans in piety or, their nests vert, was borne by the Scottish family of PATTERSON.
1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy: Being the Arms Borne by Or Attributed to the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales with an Ordinary of the Coats Described and of Other Episcopal Arms, page 189:
Argent, a pelican in piety vert. SHERBURN, St. David's 1505; Chichester 1508. Azure, a pelican in piety or. WAKERING, Norwich 1416. Fox, Exeter 1487; Bath and Wells 1492; Durham 1495; Winchester 1501.
1904, William Rae Macdonald, Scottish Armorial Seals, page 276:
Sinister: Three pelicans in their piety, on a chief three stars. Motto, on an escroll above the mitre : PRO REGE ET GREGE.
Usage notes
Also found with pronouns (a pelican in her piety, in its piety, even in his piety).
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