Exempla literarum augustalium quibus comprobatur Ius Familiaritatis Augustalis ac Privilegium, quo cavetur, ne inscio Heroldo, quae scribat aut è tenebris eruat, à quoquam imprimatur

down and surrounding it on each side. From the cone of the same helmet, let two buffalo horns arise, so constituted that they have their openings facing outward, one of which, that is on the right, is golden above and blue below, distinguished equally by these colors: the left, however, is the opposite of the right. Between these horns, let a herald or messenger be seen up to the waist, in other respects in all things similar to the one described above, just as all these things are depicted more ingeniously by the hand of a painter in the middle of this our Imperial diploma. Willing and expressly establishing and decreeing, that you, HEROLDUS, and your children, heirs, and legitimate descendants of either sex for all posterity, may from this time forward in perpetuity have, bear, and carry these now-described insignia of nobility and arms, in all and singular honest and decent acts, exercises, and expeditions, both in seriousness and in jest, in tournaments or jousting matches, whether on foot or on horseback, in wars, duels, singular combats, and whatsoever fights, at a distance, at close quarters, on shields, banners, tents, tombs, seals, monuments, rings, buildings, and furniture, as much in spiritual as in temporal and mixed matters, in all places as it shall please you or your necessity shall require, and at the same time use, enjoy, and possess any privileges, immunities,