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The following is a direct translation from the classical genealogical and heraldic reference "Herbarz Polski" by Kasper Niesiecki, S. J., Lipsk edition, 1839-1846.

Neither Paprocki nor Okolski wrote of these arms. A stag of its own color on a red field, its head facing the right, as if lying down, but its foreleg a little raised and the other legs still folded, and on the helm and crown are five white ostrich feathers. These arms were brought from England to Poland, and there is proof of this; for our Ks. Petrasancta cap. 54 fol. 365 affirms that the Hartulliuses in the Kingdom of Great Britain use such a stag as is here described, only on a silver shield. Here in Poland the Destrahans use this emblem, of which you will read in the proper place.


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Copyright © 1991 William F. Hoffman. Used by permission. This article originally appeared in Polish Genealogical 
Society Newsletter  (Vol. XIV, No. 1, Spring 1991), the bulletin of the Polish Genealogical Society.