Note 158 — Chapter XXII · THE ECCLESIASTICAL ORDINANCES. (September 1541.)
William L. R. (William Leist Readwin) Cates translation
Roset, Chron. MS. de Genève, book iv. chap. 61. In the middle ages the name of Jesus took an h (Jhesus or Jehesus). It was represented by the letters J H S, with a mark of abbreviation above them. These three letters were subsequently considered to be the initials of the formula Jesus Hominum Salvator.—Blavignac, Armorial Genevois. Mémoires d’Archéologie, vol. vi. p. 176.