[Northkeep] News on the Order of the Lion's Pawof Kenmareandother submis

[Marc Carlson]

>From: <ravenrux at cox.net>
>Why?  The apostrophe needs to be there:  it is the paw belonging to the 
>lion, not a tenuous >relationship between several lions and a paw.  If they 
>wanted to make it clear, it should have been >Lions' Paws (not the plural) 
>or Lion's Paw.  Unless, of course, we have the one heraldic instance of 
> >three lions sharing one paw.
>Masamune (who has, of course, read "Eat, shoots, and leaves")

Ignoring proper modern English grammatical practice  for the moment, what is 
period Heraldic practice?

M/D