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Trickings is in Legal Terms.

Trickings. Tricking is a method for indicating the tinctures (colours) used in an armorial by means of text abbreviations written directly on the illustration.

Baron's Letter to the Pope

Vesta Monumenta. 1729. Copy of the Baron's Letter of 1301, including trickings of the Barons' seals. The letter, addressed to Pope Boniface VIII, asserted Edward I's right to rule over Scotland. Engravings by George Vertue (age 45) after John Bradshaw's [Possibly John Bradshaw] 1629 copy of the herald Augustine Vincent's 1624 copy.