Note 26 — Chapter III

Guillim intimates the reason for representing the bear muzzled in heraldry: ‘The beare by nature is a cruell beast, but this here demonstrated unto you, is (to prevent the mischief it might otherwise do, as you may observe) as it were, bound to the good behaviour with a muzle.’—‘Heraldry,’ sec. iii., chap. xv., p. 199. 1660.