Note BS — AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES' (continued 4)
Reading edition
Aubrey gives a drawing of the monument. At the top are the arms of the Merchant Tailors' Company, viz. 'argent, a royal tent between two parliament robes gules lined ermine, on a chief azure a lion passant guardant or.' Underneath is 'his effigies.' On the right side, the legend Aut scribenda agere over the figure of his 'Annales of England'; on the left, the legend Aut legenda scribere over the figure of his 'Survey of London.'