Heraldic Badges
BT THE SAME AUTHOR
THE BOOK OF PUBLIC ARMS
THE ART OF HERALDRY
ARMORIAL FAMILIES
THE LAW CONCERNING NAMES
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HERALDIC
BADGES
BY
ARTHUR CHARLES FOX-DAVIES
OF Lincoln's inn, barrister-at-law
WITH NUMEROUS
ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK : JOHN LANE COMPANY. MCMVII
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CONTENTS
HERALDIC BADGES . . . .11
A LIST OF BADGES .... 73
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FIG.
1. A Beefeater (Tower of London) in his full-dress uni-
form, showing the ancient method of wearing the
badge ....... Frontispiece
TO FACE PAGE
2. The Badge of England, from the Royal Warrant . 22
3. The Badge of Scotland, from the Royal Warrant , 22
4. The Badge of Ireland, from the Royal Warrant . . 22
5. The second Badge of Ireland, from the Royal War-
rant 22
6. The (floral) Badge of the United Kingdom, from the
Royal Warrant 22
7. The second Badge of the United Kingdom, from the
Royal Warrant 22
8. The Badge of Wales, from the Royal Warrant . . 22
9. The Badge of the Heir -Apparent to the British
Throne ........ 22
10. The Arms of William (Stafford-Howard), Earl of
Stafford, from the Patent of Exemplification . . 38
11. The Eighteen Stafford Badges, as exemplified in the
same document . . . . , .40 and 41
12. The Arms, Crest, and Badge of Thomas (de Mowbray),
Duke of Norfolk 46
13. The Seal of James II. for the Duchy of Lancaster,
showing the ostrich-feather badge .... 50
14. The " Shield for Peace " of the Black Prince . . 52
15. The famous Broom-cod {Planta genista) Badge, from
which the name of the dynasty was derived . . 52
16. The " Rose-en-soleil," the favourite badge of King
Edward IV 52
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List of Illustrations
FIG. TO FACE PAGE
17. A Badge of Henry VIII. and Queen Mary, being a
combination of the Tudor Rose and the Pome-
granate of Queen Katharine of Aragon, as depicted
on the Westminster Tournament Roll ... 52
18. The Star and Crescent Badge, used by King Richard I.
and King John 54
19. The favourite badges of Henry VII., viz. {a) the
" Sun-burst " of Windsor, and the " Portcullis " . 54
20. The " Ape's Clog," the badge of the Duke of Suffolk . 54
21. The "Salet," a badge of Thomas (Howard), Duke of
Norfolk ........ 54
22. The " Stafford Knot," a badge of the Lords Stafford . 56
23. The "Wake Knot," sometimes called the "Ormonde
Knot" 56
24. The " Bourchier Knot," the badge of that family . 56
25. The "Heneage Knot," the badge of that family . 56
26. The "Lacy Knot," the badge of that family . . 56
27. The " Harington Knot," the badge of that family . 56
28. The "Suffolk Knot," the badge of John (De la Pole),
Duke of Suffolk, from MS. Ashmole, 1121, f. 105 56
29. The " Bowen Knot " 56
30. The Standard of Henry (Percy), 6th Earl of Northum-
berland ......... 60
31. The Dacre Badge ....... 60
32. The Badge of Daubeney of Cote .... 60
33. The Badge of Dodsley . . . . . . 60
34. A design from "Prince Arthur's Book," showing
badges, viz. the "Sun-burst," Fleur-de-lis, and
Ostrich Feather . . . . * . .96
35. A design from "Prince Arthur's Book," showing the
following badges of King Edward IV., viz. the
" Rose-en-soleil," the Fleur-de-lis, the Sun in
Splendour, and the White Lion of March , .108
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List of Illustrations
FIG. TO FACE PAGE
36. A design from "Prince Arthur's Book," showing the
cross of St. George, the Bohun swan, and the
Fleur-de-lis 108
37. A design from "Prince Arthur's Book," showing badges
of King Henry VII., viz. the Cross of St. George,
the « Tudor Rose," the « Dragon," the " Sun-burst,"
the Fleur-de-lis, the "Greyhound," and "Portcullis" 112
38. The King's Cypher 132
39. Badge of Lord Hastings, being a combination of the
Hungerford " Sickle " and the Peverel " Garb " . 132
40. A badge of the Earls of Oxford 132
41. The "Garde-bras," the badge of Ratcliff . . .132
42. The "Drag," the Badge of the Lords Stourton . .132
43. A Cypher of Queen Victoria, from the Royal Warrant 132
44. A Cypher of Queen Victoria, from the Royal Warrant 132
45. A design from "Prince Arthur's Book," showing a
combination of two of the badges of Richard II.,
viz. the "White Hart " and the "Sun in Splendour" 136
46. A design from "Prince Arthur's Book," showing a
combination of badges, viz. the White Lion, the
Falcon, and the Fetterlock 160
IX
HERALDIC
Heraldic Badges
THE exact status of the badge in this
country, to which it is peculiar, has
been very much misunderstood.
This is probably due to the fact
that the evolution of the badge was gradual,
and that its importance increased unconsciously.
Badges formerly do not appear to have ever
been made the subjects of grants pure and
simple, though grants of standards were fre-
quent, and standards often had badges thereupon.
Apart from such grants of standards, however,
the instances which can be referred to as showing
the control, or even the attempted control, by the
Crown of the use of badges are very rare indeed
in times past. As a matter of fact, the Crown
seems almost to have purposely ignored them.
Badges are not, as we know them, found in
the earliest period of heraldry, unless we are to
presume their existence from early seals, many
of which show isolated charges taken from the
arms ; for if, in the cases where such single
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charges appear upon the seals, we are to accept
those seals as proofs of the contemporary exist-
ence of those devices as heraldic badges, we
should often be led into strange conclusions.
There is no doubt that these isolated devices,
which are met with constantly at an early period,
were not only parts of arms, but were in many
cases the origin of arms, which we find later in
the use of the descendants of the same families
as those which made use of the earlier form.
Devices possessing a more or less personal and
possessive character occur in many cases before
record can be traced of the arms into which
they subsequently developed. This will be
noticed in relation to the arms of Swinton, for
example. The earliest Swinton seal shows the
isolated charge of a boar's head, whilst the
developed coat of arms was a chevron between
three such heads. If, however, these simple
devices upon seals are badges, then badges go
back to an earlier date than arms. Devices of
this kind occur many centuries before such a
thing as a heraldic shield of arms existed.
The Heraldic Badge^ as we know ity however,
came into general use about the reign of
Edward III. ; that is, the heraldic badge as a
separate matter, having a distinct and separate
existence in addition to the concurrent arms of
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the same person, and having at the same time a
distinctly heraldic character. But long before
that date, badges are found with an allied refer-
ence to a particular person, which very possibly
are rightly included in any enumeration of
badges. Of such a character is the badge of
the broom plant, which is found upon the tomb
of Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, from which badge
the name of the Plantagenet dynasty originated.
(Plantagenet, by the way, was not a personal
surname, but was the name of the dynasty.)
It is doubtful, however, if at that early period
there existed the opportunity for the use of
heraldic badges. But, nevertheless, as far back
as the reign of Richard I. — and some writers
would take examples of a still more remote
period — these badges were depicted upon flags,
for Richard I. appears to have had a dragon
upon one of his standards.
These decorations of flags, which at a later
date have been often accepted as badges, can
hardly be quite properly so described, for there
are many cases where no other proof of usage
can be found, and there is no doubt that many
cases of this nature are instances of no more
than banners prepared for specific purposes ;
and the record of such and such a banner cannot
necessarily carry proof that the owner of the
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banner claimed or used the objects depicted
thereupon as personal badges. If they are to
be so included, some individuals must have
revelled in a multitude of badges.
But the difficulty in deciding the point very
greatly depends upon the definition of the term
" badge ; " and if we are to determine the
definition to accord with the manner of the
usage at the period when the use of badges was
greatest, then many of the earliest cannot be
considered as coming within the limits.
In later Plantagenet days, badges were of
considerable importance, and certain cha-
racteristics are plainly marked. Badges were
never worn by the owner — in the sense in
which he carried his shield, or bore his crest ;
they were his sign-mark indicative of owner-
ship ; they were stamped upon his belongings
in the same way in which Government property
is marked with the broad arrow ; and they were
worn by his servants. They were ordinarily
and regularly worn by his retainers, and very
probably also worn more or less temporarily by
adherents of his party, if he were big enough to
lead a party in the State. And at aU times
badges had very extensive decorative use.
There was never any fixed form for the
badge ; there was never any fixed manner of
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usage. I can find no fixed laws of inheritance,
no common method of assumption. In fact,
the use of a badge, in the days when everybody
who was anybody possessed arms, was quite
subsidiary to that of the arms, and very much
akin to the manner in which nowadays mono-
grams are made use of. At the same time, care
must be taken to distinguish the " badge " from
the "rebus," and also from the temporary devices
which we read about as having been so often
adopted for the purpose of the tournament
when the combatant desired his identity to be
concealed.
Modern novelists and poets give us plenty
of illustrations of the latter kind, but proof of
the fact even that they were ever adopted in
that form is by no means easy to find, though
their professedly temporary nature of course
militates against the likelihood of contemporary
record. The rebus had never any heraldic status,
and it had seldom more than a temporary exist-
ence. A fanciful device adopted (we hear of
many such instances) for the temporary purpose
of a tournament could generally be so classed,
but the rebus proper was some device, usually
a pictorial rendering of the name of the person
for whom it stood. In such a category would
also be included many if not most printers' and
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masons' marks ; but probably the definition of
Dr. Johnson of the word " rebus," as a word
represented by a picture, is as good a definition
and description as can be given. The rebus in
its nature is a different thing from a badge, and
may best be described as a pictorial signature,
the most frequent occasion for its use being in
architectural surroundings, where it was con-
stantly introduced as a pun upon some name
which it was desired to perpetuate. The best-
known and perhaps the most typical and cha-
racteristic rebus' is that of Islip, the builder of
part of Westminster Abbey. Here the pictured
punning representation of his name had nothing
to do with his armorial bearings or personal
badge ; but the great difficulty, in dealing with
both badge and rebus, is the difficulty of
knowing which is which, for very frequently
the same or a similar device was used for both
purposes. Parker, in his glossary of heraldic
terms, gives several typical examples of rebuses
which very aptly illustrate their status and
meaning.
At Lincoln College, Oxford, and on other
buildings connected with Thomas Beckynton,
Bishop of Bath and Wells, will be found carved
the rebus of a beacon issuing from a tun. This
is found in conjunction with the letter T for
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the Christian name, Thomas. Now, this design
was not his coat of arms, and was not his crest,
nor was it his badge. Another rebus which is
found at Canterbury shows an ox and the letters
N E as the rebus of John Oxney. A rebus
which indicates Thomas Conyston, Abbot of
Cirencester, which can be found in Gloucester
Cathedral, is a comb and a tun ; and the printer's
mark of Richard Grifton, which is a good ex-
ample of a rebus and its use, was a tree (a graft)
growing on a tun. In none of these cases do
the designs mentioned form any part of the
arms, crest, or badge of the person mentioned.
Rebuses of this character abound on all our
ancient buildings, and their use has lately come
very prominently into favour in connection with
the many allusive book-plates, the designs of
which originate in some play upon the name.
The words "device," "ensign/* and "cogni-
zance" have no definite heraldic meaning, and
are used impartially to apply to the crest, the
badge, and sometimes to the arms upon the
shield, so that they may be eliminated from
consideration. There remain, therefore, the
crest and the badge between which to draw a
definite line of distinction. The real difference
lay in the method of use, though there is a
difference of form, recognizable by an expert,
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but difficult to describe. The crest was the
ornament upon the helmet, seldom if ever
actually worn, and never used except by the
person to whom it belonged. The badge, on
the other hand, was never placed upon the
helmet, but was worn by the servants and
retainers, and was used right and left on the
belongings of the owner as a sign of his owner-
ship. So great and extensive at one period was
the use of these badges, that they were far more
generally employed than either arms or crest ;
and whilst the knowledge pf a man's badge or
badges would be everyday knowledge and com-
mon repute throughout the kingdom, few people
would know a man's crest, fewer still would ever
have seen it worn.
It is merely an exaggeration of the difficulty
that we are always in uncertainty whether any
given device was merely a piece of decoration
borrowed from the arms or crest, or whether
it had continued usage as a badge. In the same
way, many families who had never used a crest,
but who had used badges, took the opportunity
of the Visitations to record their badges as crests.
A notable example of the subsequent record of
a badge as a crest is met with in the Stourton
family. Their crest, originally a buck's head,
but after the marriage with the heiress of Le
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Moigne, a demi-monk, can be readily substan-
tiated, as can their badge of the "drag," or
sledge. At one of the Visitations, however, a
cadet of the Stourton family recorded the sledge
as a crest.
Uncertainty also arises from the lack of
precision in the diction employed at all periods,
the words "badge," "device," and "crest"
having so often been used interchangeably.
Another difficulty which is met with in regard
to badges is that, with the exception of the
extensive records of the Royal badges and some
other more or less informal lists of badges of the
principal personages at different periods, badges
were never a subject of official record. Whilst
it is difficult to determine the initial point as to
whether any particular device is a badge or not,
the difficulty of deducing rules concerning badges
becomes practically impossible, and after most
careful consideration I have come to the con-
clusion that there never were any hard-and-fast
rules relating to badges ; that they were originally,
and were allowed to remain, matters of personal
fancy ; and that although well-known cases can
be found where the same badge has been used
generation after generation, those cases may
perhaps be the exception rather than the rule.
Badges should be considered and accepted in the
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general run as not being matters of permanence,
and as of little importance except during the time
from about the reign of Edward III. to about the
reign of Henry VIII. Their principal use upon
the clothes of the retainers came to an end by
the creation of the standing army, the begin-
ning of which can be traced to the reign of
Henry VIIL, and as badges never had any
ceremonial use to perpetuate their status, their
importance almost ceased altogether at that
period, except as regards the Royal Family.
Speaking broadly, regularized and recorded
heraldic control as a matter of operative fact
dates little, if any, further back than the end of
the reign of Henry VIIL, consequently badges
originally do not appear to have been taken
much cognizance of by the heralds. Their
actual use from that period onwards rapidly
declined, and hence the absence of record.
Though the use of badges has become very
restricted, there are still one or two occasions
on which badges are used as badges in the
style formerly in vogue. Perhaps the case
which is most familiar is to be found in the use
of the broad arrow which marks Government
stores. It is a curious commentary upon heraldic
officialdom and its ways that, though this is the
only badge which has really any extensive use, it
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is not a Crown badge in any degree. Although
this origin has been disputed, it is said to have
originated in the fact that one of the Sydney
family, when Master of the Ordnance, to prevent
disputes as to the stores for which he was re-
sponsible, marked everything with his private
badge of the broad arrow, and this private badge
has since remained in constant use. One won-
ders at what date the officers of His Majesty
will observe that this has become one of His
Majesty's recognized badges, and will include
it with the other Royal badges in the warrants in
which they are recited. Already more than two
centuries have passed since it first came into
use, and either they should represent to the
Government that the pheon is not a Crown
mark, and that some recognized Royal badge
should be used in its place, or else they should
place its status upon a definite footing.
Another instance of a badge used at the
present day in the ancient manner is the con-
joined rose, thistle, and shamrock, which is
embroidered front and back upon the tunics of
the Beefeaters and the Yeomen of the Guard
(Fig. i). The crowned harps which are worn
by the Royal Irish Constabulary are another
instance of the kind, but though a certain
number of badges are recited in the warrant
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each time any alteration or declaration of the
Royal arms occurs, their use has now become
very limited. Present badges are the crowned
rose for England (Fig. 2), the crowned thistle
for Scotland (Fig. 3), and the crowned trefoil
(Fig. 4), and the crowned harp for Ireland
(Fig. 5) ; whilst for the Union there is the
conjoined rose, thistle, and shamrock under the
crown (Fig. 6), and the crowned shield which
carries the device of the Union Jack (Fig. 7).
The badge of Wales, which has existed for long
enough, is the uncrowned dragon upon a mount
vert (Fig. 8) ; and the crowned cyphers, one
within and one without the garter, are also
depicted upon the warrant. These badges,
which appear on the Sovereign's warrant, are
never assigned to any other member of the
Royal Family, of whom the Prince of Wales'
is the only one who rejoices in the possession
of officially assigned badges. The badge of
the eldest son of the Sovereign, as such, and
not as Prince of Wales, is the plume of three
ostrich feathers, enfiled with the circlet from
his coronet (Fig. 9). Recently an additional
badge (on a mount vert, a dragon passant gules,
charged on the shoulder with a label of three
points argent) has been assigned to His Royal
Highness. This action was taken with the
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England.
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Fig. 4.
Ireland.
Fig. 8.
Wales.
Fig. 3.
Scotland.
Fig. 5.
Ireland.
Fig. 6.
United Kingdom.
Fig. 7.
United Kingdom.
Fig. 9.
Heir-
Apparent.
Badges of the Sovereign, etc., from the Royal Warrants.
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desire in some way to gratify the forcibly-
expressed wishes of Wales, and it is probable
that, the precedent having been set, it will be
assigned to all those who may bear the title of
the Prince of Wales in future.
The only instances I am personally aware of,
in which a real badge of ancient origin is still
worn by the servants, are the cases of the State
liveries of the Earl of Yarborough, whose ser-
vants wear an embroidered buckle, and of Lord
Mowbray and Stourton, whose servants wear
an embroidered sledge (Fig. 42). The family
of Daubeney of Cote still bear the old Dau-
beney badge (Fig. 32) ; Lord Stafford still uses
his "Stafford knot" (Fig. 22). I believe the
servants of Lord Braye still wear the badge of
the hemp-brake, and those of the Earl of
Loudoun wear the Hastings maunch ; and
doubtless there are a few other instances.
When the old families were^ becoming greatly
reduced in number, and the nobility and the
upper classes were being recruited from families
of later origin, the wearing of badges, like so
much else connected with heraldry, became lax
in its practice.
The servants of all the great nobles in ancient
days appear to have worn the badges of their
masters in a manner similar to the use of the
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Royal badge by the Yeomen of the Guard,
although sometimes the badge was embroidered
upon the sleeve ; and the wearing of the badge
by the retainers was the chief and principal use
to which badges were anciently put. Nisbet
alludes on this point to a paragraph from the
Act for the Order of the Riding of Parliament
in 1 68 1, which says that "the noblemen's
lacqueys may have over their liveries velvet
coats with their badges, i.e, their crests and
mottoes done on plate, or embroidered on the
back and breast conform to ancient custom."
A curious survival of these plates is to be
found in the large silver plaques worn by so
many bank messengers.
Badges appear, however, to have been fre-
quently depicted seme upon the lambrequins of
armorial achievements, as will be seen from
many of the Old Garter plates ; but here,
again, it is not always easy to distinguish be-
tween definite badges and artistic decoration,
nor between actual badges in use and mere
appropriately selected charges from the shield.
The water-bougets of Lord Berners ; the knot
of Lord Stafford, popularly known as " the
Stafford knot;" the Harington fret; the ragged
staff or the bear and the ragged staff of Lord
Warwick (this being really a conjunction of
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two separate devices) ; the rose of England,
the thistle of Scotland, and the sledge of
Stourton ; the hemp-brake of Lord Braye,
wherever met with, are all readily recognized as
badges ; but there are many badges which it is
difficult to distinguish from crests, and even
some which in all respects would appear to be
more correctly regarded as arms.
It is a point worthy of consideration whether
or not a badge needs a background ; here, again,
it is a matter most difficult to determine, but it
is singular that in any matter of record the badge
is almost invariably depicted upon a background,
either of a standard or a mantling, or upon the
" field " of a roundel ; and it may well be that
their use in such circumstances as the two cases
first mentioned, may have only been considered
correct when the colour of the mantling or the
standard happened to be the right colour for
the background of the badge.
Badges are most usually met with in stained
glass upon roundels of some colour or colours,
and though one would hesitate to assert it as an
actual fact, there are many instances which would
lead one to suppose that the background of a
badge was usually the livery colour or colours
of its then owner, or of the family from which it
was originally inherited. Certain is it that there
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are very few contemporary instances of badges
which, when emblazoned, are not upon the
known livery colours ; and, if this fact be ac-
cepted, then one is perhaps justified in assuming
all to be livery colours, and we get at once a
ready explanation on several points which have
long puzzled antiquaries. The name of Edward
" the Black Prince '* has often been a matter
of discussion, and the children's history books
tell us that the nickname originated from the
colour of his armour. This may be true
enough, but as most armour would be black
when it was unpolished, and as all armour was
either polished or dull, the probabilities are not
very greatly in its favour. Though there can
be found instances, it was not a usual custom
for any one to paint his armour red or green.
Even if the armour of the Prince were enamelled
black, it would be so usually hidden by his
surcoat that he is hardly likely to have been
nicknamed from it. It seems to me far more
probable that black was the livery colour of the
Black Prince, and that his own retainers and
followers wore the livery of black. If that
were the case, one understands at once how he
would obtain the nickname. The nickname is
doubtless contemporary. A curious confirma-
tion of my supposition is met with in the fact
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that his shield for peace was : " Sable, three
ostrich feathers two and one, the quill of each
passing through a scroll argent." There we
get the undoubted badge of the ostrich feather,
which was originally borne singly, depicted
upon his livery colour — black.
The badges depicted in Prince Arthur's Book
in the College of Arms {vide Figs. 34, 35,
36, 37, 45, and 46), an important source of
our knowledge upon the subject, are all upon
backgrounds, and the curious divisions of the
colours on the backgrounds would seem to
show that each badge had its own background,
several badges being only met with upon the
same ground when that happens to be the true
background belonging to them. But in attempt-
ing to deduce rules, it should be remembered
that in all and every armorial matter there was
greater laxity of rule at the period of the actual
use of arms as a reality of life than it was
possible to permit when the multiplication of
arms as paper insignia made regulation necessary
and more restrictive ; so that an occasional
variation from any deduction need not neces-
sarily vitiate the conclusion, even in a matter
exclusively relating to the shield. How
much more, then, must we remain in doubt
when dealing with badges which appear to
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have been so largely a matter of personal
caprice.
It is a striking comment that, of all the
badges presently to be referred to of the Staf-
ford family, each single one is depicted upon a
background. It is a noticeable fact that of the
eighteen "badges" exemplified (Fig. ii) as
belonging to the family of Stafford, nine are upon
party-coloured fields. This is not an unreason-
able proportion if the fields are considered to
be the livery colours of the families from
whom the badges were originally derived, but
it is altogether out of proportion to the number
of shields in any roll of arms which would have
the field party per pale, or party in any other
form of division. With the exception of the
second badge, which is on a striped background
of green and white, all the party backgrounds
are party per pale, which was the most usual
way of depicting a livery in the few records
which have come down to us of the heraldic
use of livery colours ; and of the eighteen badges,
no less than eight are upon a party-coloured
field of which the dexter is sable and the sinister
gules.
Scarlet and black are known to have been
the livery colours of Edward Stafford, Duke of
Buckingham, who was beheaded in 1521. The
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arms of the town of Buckingham are on a field
per pale sable and gules.
With regard to the descent of badges and
the laws which govern their descent, still less
is known. The answer to the question, " How
did badges descend?" is simply, "Nobody-
knows." One can only hazard opinions more
or less pious, of more or less value. It is
distinctly a point upon which it is risky to be
dogmatic, and for which we must wait for the
development of the revival of the granting of
standards. As cases occur for decision, prece-
dents will be found and disclosed. Whilst the
secrecy of the records of the College of Arms
is so jealously preserved, it is impossible to
speak definitely at present, for an exact and
comprehensive knowledge of exact and autho-
ritative instances of fact is necessary before a
decision can be definitely put forward. Unless
some officer of arms will carefully collate the
information which can be gleaned from the
records in the College of Arms which are rele-
vant to the subject, it does not seem likely that
our knowledge will advance greatly.
In recently reading through the evidence of
the Stafford Peerage case, a certain document
which was then put in evidence excited my
curiosity, and I have been at pains to procure
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a copy of the grant or exemplification of the
Stafford badges to the Earl of Stafford, pater-
nally and by male descent Howard, but who
was known by the name of Stafford-Howard,
and who was the heir-general of the Stafford
family. To make the matter complete, perhaps
it will be well to first reprint a certain clause in
the Act of Restoration, i Edward VI., upon
which was based the necessity for action by the
Crown —
"And that the said Henry and theirs
Males of his Bodye shall and may by
Aucthoritie of the Acte be restored and
inhabled from hensfurthe to beare and
give and singuler suche the Armes of the
Barons of Stafforde as the same Barons
and Ancesto'^ to yo"" saide Subjecte have
doon and used to doo in the tyme of your
noble Progenif^ before theie or anny of
them were called or created Earles or
Dukes without chalenging bearing or
giving any other Armes that were of the
said late Dukes his Father."
The Stafford descent and attainders with
the restorations will be found detailed in the
pages of the Genealogical Magazine^ September
and October, 1900. Here it will be sufficient
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to point out that by restricting the Act to the
arms of the Barons Stafford, any claim to the
Royal arms inherited after they became Earls
of Stafford was prevented. It is curious that,
whilst the heir-general was held to be de-
barred from succession to the barony which
was restored to the heir male, the former
was not debarred from succession to the Royal
quarterings which were specifically withheld from
the heir male. The "opinion" referred to
subsequently might throw some light upon the
point were it available.
Suffice it to say that the following is a
verbatim extract from the Stafford Minutes of
Evidence : —
" Mr. Adam, the Counsel for the Peti-
tioner, stated, they would next produce
a Register in the College of Arms of a
Petitionary Letter dated the 26th April
1720 from William Stafford to Henry
Bowes Howard Earl of Berkshire, Deputy
Earl Marshall, desiring to have assigned
to him such Supporters as his Grandfather
William the last Viscount Stafford used
in his Life Time, and that the Arms of
Woodstock and Stafford might be quartered
with his Paternal Arms, and depicted in
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the margin of the Grant with the Badges
of the Family of Stafford.
"Also the Register in the College of
Arms of a Warrant dated the 3rd of May
1720 from the Earl of Berkshire to John
Antis Esquire Garter Principal King of
Arms, ordering him to grant Supporters
and Arms to the said Earl of Stafford ;
also the Register in the College of Arms
to the opinion of Nathaniel Pigot Esquire,
dated the 20th January 17 19, that their
Heirs general of the restored Henry Lord
Stafford were not affected by the Restric-
tion in the Act of the ist of Edward the
6th on the Heirs Male of the said restored
Henry Lord Stafford to the bearing of
Arms ; and the Register in the College
of Arms dated the ist of August 1720
of a grant of Supporters to William Stafford
Howard Earl of Stafford expressing that
the Arms of Thomas of Woodstock Duke
of Gloucester were depicted in the margin
and quartered as the same were borne by the
Staffords, Dukes of Buckingham, with 18
Badges belonging to the family of Stafford.
"Whereupon Francis Townsend Es-
quire was again called in, and producing
a Book, was examined as follows : —
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*' ' What is that you have before you ? *
"'It is a Book containing Entries of
Grants of Coats of Arms and Supporters ;
it is the Seventh Volume of a Series/
" ' From whence do you bring it ? '
" ' From the Heralds College/
" ' Is that an official copy of the grant ? '
" ' It is an official record of the whole
process relating to it/
"'Turn to April 26, 1720, and read
the entry/
"'Read the following entries in the
same'
" My Lord,
"Whereas his late Majesty King
James the Second was pleased by Letters
Patents under the Great Seal to create my
late Uncle Henry Earl of StaffiDrd with re-
mainder for want of Issue Male to him to
John and Francis his Brothers and the
Heirs Male of their Bodies respectively by
means whereof the said Title is now vested
in me the Son and heir of the said John :
And it being an indisputable right belong-
ing to the Peers to have Supporters to their
Arms and my said Uncle having omitted to
take any Grant thereof (as I am informed)
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Is usually practised on such Occasions I
desire y Lo^ would please to Issue proper
directions for the assigning to me such
Supporters as my Grandfather the late
Viscount Stafford used In his life time, to
be born by me and such on whom the said
Honor is settled.
"And whereas by my Descent from
my Grandmother, Mary late Countess of
Stafford, I am entitled (as I am advised
by Council) to the Arms and Quarterlngs
of her Family, I desire the Arms of Wood-
stock and Stafford may be quartered with
my Paternal Arms and depicted in the
Margin of the said Grant, together with
the Badges which have been born and
used by the Family of Stafford : This will
extremely oblige
" Yo" LordsP^
" most affectionate Kinsman
" and humble Servant,
" Stafford.
"Ap. 26, 1720."
" Whereas the Rt Hon^^^ William Staf-
ford Howard Earl of Stafford hath by
Letter represented unto me that his late
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Majesty King James the Second was
pleased by Letters Patent under the Great
Seal to create his late Uncle Henry Earl of
Stafford with remainder for want of Issue
Male to him to John and Francis his
Brothers, and the Heirs Male of their
Bodies respectively by means whereof the
said Title is now vested in him, the Son
and Heir of the said John ; and it being
an indisputable Right belonging to the
Peers of this Realm to have Supporters
added to their Arms, and his said Uncle
having omitted to take any Grant as (he is
informed) is usually practiced on such
occasions, has therefore desired my War-
rant for the assigning to him such Sup-
porters as his Grandfather the late Viscount
Stafford used in his life time to be born
and used by him and such on whom the
said Honour is settled : And whereas he
hath further represented to me that by his
Descent from his Grandmother Mary late
Countess of Stafford he is entituled (as he
is advised by Counsil) to the Arms and
Quarterings of her Family and has further
desired that the Arms of Woodstock and
Stafford may be quartered with his Paternal
Arms and depicted in the Margin of the
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said Grant together with the Badges which
have been born and used by ,^«f ^Family of
Stafford, I, Henry Bowes Howard Earl of
Berkshire Deputy (with the Royal Appro-
bation) to the Most Noble Thomas Duke
of Norfolk Earl Marshal and Hereditary
Marshal of England, considering the Re-
quest of the said Henry Stafford Howard
Earl of Stafford, and also the Opinion of
Counsel learned in the law hereunto an-
nexed, do hereby Order and Direct you to
grant and assign to him the same Supporters
as his Grandfather the late Viscount Staf-
ford used in his life time ; To be born
and used by him and such, on whom the
said Honour is settled ; and that you cause
to be depicted in the Margin of the said
Grant the Arms of Thomas of Woodstock
Duke of Gloucester, and Stafford Quartered
with his Lordships Arms together with the
Badges which have been born and used by
the said Family of Stafford ; Requiring you
to take care that the said Letter, these
Presents, the said Opinion of Counsil that
y° Grant be duely entered by the Register
in the College of Arms : For all which
Purposes this shall be your sufficient
Warrant.
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cc
Given under my Hand Seal this third
day ^ May Anno Dfii 1720.
" Berkshire.
" To John Anstis Esq'' Garter
" Principal King of Arms.
"Then the Witness being about to read
the Registry of the Opinion of Counsel, as
stated by M'^ Adam ;
" M'' Attorney General objected to the
same.
" M'' Adam, Counsel for the Petitioner,
waived the Production of it.
" Read from the same Book the following
Entry : —
"To all and singular to whom the
Presents shall come, John Anstis Esq'
Garter principal King of Arms, sends
greeting, Whereas his late Majesty King
James the Second by Letters Patents under
the Great Seal, did create Henry Stafford
Howard to be Earl of Stafford, to have and
hold the same to him and the heirs males
of his body ; and for default thereof to
John and Francis his Brothers and the heirs
male of their bodies respectively, whereby
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the said Earldom is now legally vested
in the right Hon^^^ William Stafford
Howard Son and Heir of the said John ;
and in regard that y^ said Henry late Earl
of Stafford omitted to take any Grant of
Supporters, which the Peers of this Realm
have an indisputable Right to use and bear,
the right Hon^^^ Henry Bowes Howard
Earl of Berkshire Deputy (with the Royal
Approbation) of his Grace Thomas Howard
Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshall and Here-
ditary Marshall of England hath been
pleased to direct me to grant to the said
right Hon^^^ William Stafford Howard Earl
of Stafford the Supporters formerly granted
to y^ late Viscount Stafford, Grandfather to
the said Earl ; as also to order me to cause
to be depicted in the Margin of my said
Grant y^ Arms of Thomas of Woodstock
Duke of Gloucester quartered with the
Arms of the said Earl of Stafford, together
with the Badges of the said Noble Family
of Stafford : Now these presents Witness
that according to the consent of the said
Earl of Berkshire signified under his Lord-
ship's hand and seal I do by the Authority
and power annexed to my Office hereby
grant and assign to y^ Right Honourable
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Fig. 10.
The arms of William (Stafford-Howard), Earl of Stafford, from the
Patent of Exemplification.
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William Stafford Howard Earl of Stafford,
the following Supporters which were here-
tofore borne by the late Lord Viscount
Stafford, that is to say, on the Dexter side
a Lion Argent, and on the Sinister Side a
Swan surgiant Argent Gorged with a Ducal
Coronet per Pale Gules and Sable beaked
and membered of the Second ; to be used
and borne at all times and upon all occa-
sions by the said Earl of Stafford of the
heirs males of his body, and such persons
to whom the said Earldom shall descend
according to the Law and Practice of Arms
without the let or interruption of any Per-
son or Persons whatsoever. And in pur-
suance of the Warrant of the said Earl of
Berkshire, The Arms of Thomas of Wood-
stock Duke of Gloucester, as the same are
on a Plate remaining in the Chapel of
St. George within y^ Castle of Windsor,
set up there for his Descendant the Duke
of Buckingham are depicted in the Margin
(Fig. 1 1 ), and quartered in such place and
manner as the same were formerly borne
by the Staffords Dukes of Buckingham,
together with Eighteen badges belonging
to the said most ancient and illustrious
Family of Stafford, as the same are
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represented in a Manuscript remaining in
the College of Arms. In witness whereof
I the said Garter have hereto subscribed
my Name and affixed the Seal of my
Office this First day of August Anno
Domini 1720.
"John Anstis Garter
Principal King of Arms.
C(
" The Witness was directed to withdraw.
>>
It may be of interest to call attention to the
fact that the Royal arms were displayed before
those of StaffiDrd.
On the face of it, the document, as far as
it relates to the badges, is no more than a
certificate or exemplification, in which case it
is undoubted evidence that badges descend to
the heir-general, as do quarterings ; but there
is the possibility that the document is a re-
grant in the nature of an exemplification follow-
ing a Royal licence, or a re-grant to remove
uncertainty as to the attainder. And if the
document, as far as its relation to the badges
goes, has any of the character of a grant, it can
have but little value as evidence of the descent
of badges. It is remarkable that it is abso-
lutely silent as to the future destination of the
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Fig. II.
The Stafford "badges" as exemplified. {Vide also one on page 4.1.)
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badges. The real fact is that the whole subject
of the descent and devolution of badges is
shrouded in mystery. Each of the badges is
depicted within a circle adorned with the suc-
cession of Stafford knots, as is shown in the
first instance in the text.
Five of these badges appear upon a well-
known portrait of Edward, Duke of Bucking-
ham. The fact that some of these badges are
really crests depicted
upon wreaths, goes far
as an authority for the
use of a crest upon
livery buttons for the
purposes of a badge.
In ancient days, all
records seemed to point
to the fact that badges
were personal, and that though they were worn
by the retainers, they were the property of the
head of the family, rather than (as the arms) of
the whole family ; and though the information
available is meagre to the last degree, it would
appear probable that in cases where their use by
other members of the family than the head of
the house can be proved, the likelihood is that
the cadets would render feudal service and would
wear the badge as retainers of the man whose
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Fig. II.
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standard they followed into battle, so that we
should expect to find the badge following the
same descent as the peerage, together with the
lands and liabilities which accompanied it. This
undoubtedly makes for the inheritance of a badge
upon the same line of descent as a barony by
writ, and such a method of inheritance accounts
for the known descent of most of the badges
heraldically familiar to us. Probably we shall be
right in so accepting it. But on the other hand
a careful examination of the Book of Standards
now preserved in the College of Arms provides
several examples charged with marks of cadency.
But here again one is in ignorance whether this
is an admission of inheritance by cadets, or
whether the cases should be considered as grants
of differenced versions to cadets.
This, then, gives us the badges, the property
in and of which, I assume, would descend to
the heir-general (and perhaps also to cadets),
whilst it would be used (if there were no in-
herited right) in token of allegiance or service,
actual, quasi-actual, or sentimental, by the cadets
of the house and their servants ; for whilst the
use of the cockade is a survival of the right to
be waited on and served by a soldier servant,
the use of a badge by a cadet may be a survival
and reminder of the day when, until they
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married heiresses and continued or founded
other families, the cadets of a house owed and
gave military services to the head of their own
family, and in return were supported by him.
The use of badges having been so limited,
the absence of rule and regulation leaves it very
much a matter of personal taste how badges,
where they exist, shall be heraldically depicted,
and perhaps it is better to leave their manner
of display to artistic requirements. The most
usual place, when depicted in conjunction with
an achievement, is on either side of the crest,
and they may well be depicted in that position.
Where they exist, however, they ought un-
doubtedly to be continued in use upon the
liveries of the servants, and the present practice
is for them to be placed on the livery buttons,
and embroidered upon the epaulettes or on
the sleeves of State liveries. Undoubtedly the
former practice of placing the badge upon the
servants' livery is the precursor of the present
vogue of placing crests upon livery buttons,
and many heraldic writers complain of the im-
propriety of placing the crest in such a position.
I am not sure that I myself may not have
been guilty in this way, but when one bears in
mind the number of cases in which the badge and
the crest are identical, and when, as in the above
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instance, devices which are undoubtedly crests
are exemplified as and termed " badges," even as
such being represented upon wreaths, and even
in that form granted upon standards, whilst in
other cases the action has been the reverse, it
leaves one under the necessity of being careful
in making definite assertions.
Having dealt with the laws (if there ever
were any) and the practice concerning the use
and display of badges in former days, it will be
of interest to notice some of those which were
anciently in use. I have already referred to the
badge of the ostrich feathers, now borne ex-
clusively by the heir apparent to the throne.
The old legend that the Black Prince won the
badge at the battle of Crecy by the capture of
John, King of Bohemia, together with the
motto " Ich dien," has been long since exploded.
Sir Harris Nicolas brought to notice the fact
that among certain pieces of plate belonging to
Queen Philippa of Hainault was a large silver-
gilt dish enamelled with a black escutcheon
with ostrich feathers, "vno scuch' nigro cum
pennis de ostrich," and upon the strength of
that, suggested that the ostrich feather was
probably originally a badge of the Counts of
Hainault derived from the county of Ostrevans,
a title which was held by their eldest sons.
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The suggestion in itself seems probable enough,
and may be correct, but it would not account for
the use of the ostrich feathers by the Mowbray
family, who did not descend from the marriage
of Edward III. and Philippa of Hainault.
Contemporary proof of the use of badges is
often difficult to find. The Mowbrays had
many badges, and certainly do not appear to
have made any very extensive use of the ostrich
feathers. But there seems to be very definite
authority for the existence of the badge. There
is in one of the records of the College of Arms
(R. 22, 67), which is itself a copy of another
record, the following statement : —
"The discent of Mowbray written at
length in lattin from the Abby booke of
newborough wherein Rich 2 gaue to
Thomas Duke of norff. and Erie Marshall
the armes of Saint Edward Confessor in
theis words : — ^ Et dedit eidem Thome
ad pertandum in sigillo et vexillo quo
arma Sti Edwardi Idcirco arma bipartata
portavit sciF 't. Sci Edwardi et domini
marcialis angliae cum duabus pennis stru-
tionis erectis et super crestam leonem et
duo parva scuta cum leonibus et utraq'
parto predictorum armorum."
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Accompanying this is a rough-tricked sketch
of the arms upon which the illustration (Fig.
12) has been based. Below this extract in
the College Records is written in another hand :
*-' I find this then in ye chancell window of
Effingham by Bungay in the top of the cot
window with Mowbraye & Segrave on the
side in glass there."
Who the writer was I am unaware. He
appends a further sketch to his note, which
slightly differs. No helmet or crest is shown,
and the central shield has only the arms of
Thomas of Brotherton. The feathers which
flank it are both enfiled below the shield by
one coronet. Of the smaller shields at the
side, the dexter bears the arms of Mowbray,
and the sinister those of Segrave. Possibly
the Mowbrays as recognized members of the
Royal Family bore the badge by subsequent
grant and authorization, and not on the simple
basis of inheritance.
An ostrich feather piercing a scroll was cer-
tainly the favourite badge of the Black Prince,
and so appears on several of his seals, and
triplicated it appears on his " shield for peace "
(Fig. 14), which set up under the instructions
in his will, still remains on his monument in
Canterbury Cathedral,
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Fig. 12.
The arms, crest, and badge of Thomas (de Mowbray), first Duke
of Norfolk.
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The arms of Sir Roger de Clarendon, the
illegitimate son of the Black Prince were
derived from this " shield for peace," which
I take it was not really a coat of arms at
all but merely the badge of the- Prince de-
picted upon his livery colour, and which
might equally have been displayed upon
a roundel. In the form of a shield bearing
three feathers the badge occurs on the obverse
of the second seal of Henry IV. in 141 1. A
single ostrich feather with the motto " Ich
dien " upon the scroll is to be seen on the seal
of Edward, Duke of York, who was killed at
the battle of Agincourt in 141 5. Henry IV.
as Duke of Lancaster placed on either side of
his escutcheon an ostrich feather with a garter
or belt carrying the motto " Sovereygne
twined round the feather. John of Gaunt used
the badge with a chain laid along the quill, and
Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, used it with a
garter and buckle instead of the chain ; whilst
ohn Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, placed an
trich feather on each side of his shield, the
Us in his case being compony argent and
re, like the bordure round his arms.
There is a note in Harl. MS. 304, folio 12,
;.ich, if it be strictly accurate, is of some
nportance. It is to the effect that the
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"feather silver with the pen gold is .e
King's, the ostrich feather pen and all silver
is the Prince's {i.e. the Prince of Wales), and
the ostrich feather gold the pen ermine is the
Duke of Lancaster's." That statement evi-
dently relates to a time when the three were
in existence contemporaneously, i.e. before the
accession of Henry IV. In the reign of
Richard II. there was no Prince of Wales.
During the reign of Edward III., from 1376
onwards, Richard, afterwards Richard II., was
Prince of Wales, and John of Gaunt was Duke
of Lancaster (so circa 1362). But John of Gaunt
used the feather in the form above stated, and
to find a Duke of Lancaster before John of
Gaunt we must go back to before 1360, when
we have Edward III. as King, the Black Prince
as Prince, and Henry of Lancaster (father-in-
law of John of Gaunt) as Duke of Lancaster.
He derived from Henry III., and, like the
Mowbrays, had no blood descent from Philippa
of Hainault. This, then, would appear to be
another reason why the origin suggested by Sir
Harris Nicolas is incorrect.
A curious confirmation of my suggestion
that black was the livery colour of the Black
Prince is found in the fact that there was in
a window in St. Dunstan's Church, London,
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withv a wreath of roses, on a roundel per pale
sanguine and azure (these being unquestionably
livery colours), a plume of ostrich feathers
argent, quilled or enfiled by a scroll bearing the
words *' Ich dien." Above was the Prince's
coronet and the letters E. and P., one on each
side of the plume. This was intended for
Edward VI., doubtless being erected in the
reign of Henry VIII . The badge in the form
in which we know it, i,e, enfiled by the princely
coronet (Fig. 9), dates from about the be-
ginning of the Stuart dynasty, since when
it appears to have been exclusively reserved
for the eldest son and heir-apparent to the
throne. At the same time, the right to the
display of the badge would appear to have
been reserved by the sovereign, and Woodward
remarks —
" On the Privy Seals of our Sovereigns
the ostrich feather is still employed as a
badge. The shield of arms is usually
placed between two lions sejant guardant
addorsed, each holding the feather. On
the Privy Seal of Henry VIII. the feathers
are used without the lions, and this was
the case on the majority of the seals of the
Duchy of Lancaster. On the reverse of
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the present seal of the Duchy the feathers
appear to be ermine.''
Fig. 13 shows the seal of James II. for the
Duchy of Lancaster. The seal of the Lan-
cashire County Council shows a shield sup-
ported by two talbots sejant addorsed, each
supporting in the exterior paw an ostrich
feather seme-de-lis. It is possible that the
talbots may be intended for lions and the
fleurs-de-lis for ermine spots. The silver swan
was one of the badges of King Henry V. It is
derived from the De Bohuns, Mary de Bohun
being the wife of Henry IV. From the De
Bohuns it has been traced to the Mandevilles,
Earls of Essex, who may have adopted it to
typify their descent from Adam Fitz-Swanne,
temp. Conquest. The badge of the white hart
used by Richard II. has been traced by some
writers from the white hind used as a bi dge by
"Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent," the mother
of Richard II., but it is probably a devir ^ pun-
ning upon his name, " Rich-hart." Richard II.
was not the heir of his mother. - Her heir
was his half-brother Thomas Holand, Earl of
Kent, who did use the badge of the hind, and
perhaps the real truth is that the Earl of Kent
having the better claim to the hind, Richard
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5 :/^
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m^
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■y .-,
Fk;. 13.
The SL-at^^t James II. for the Duch)- of Lancaster, showing the ostiich-
j^ teather badjje.
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was under the necessity of making an alteration
which the obvious pun upon his name sug-
gested. There is no doubt that the crest of
Ireland (a stag leaping from the gate of a
castle) originated therefrom.
The stag in this case was undoubtedly
"lodged" in the earliest versions, as was the
badge, and I have been much interested in
tracing the steps by which the springing attitude
has developed itself owing to the copying of
badly drawn examples. Amongst the many
Royal and other badges in the country there are
some of considerable interest. Fig. 15 repre-
sents the famous badge of the "broom-cod"
or "planta genista," from which the name of
the dynasty was derived. It appears to have been
first used by King Henry II., though it figures
in the decoration of the tomb of Geoffrey,
Count of Anjou. " Peascod " Street in Windsor,
of course, derives its name therefrom. The
well-known badges of the white and red roses
of York and Lancaster may perhaps be briefly
referred to. Edward I. is said (Harl. MS. 304)
to have used as a badge a rose or, stalked
proper, and roses of gold and of white and of
red subsequently figured largely amongst Royal
badges. White and red were the livery colours
of the Plantagenet kings, but it is not very
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apparent how or why the one colour became
identified with the Yorkist and the other with
the Lancastrian faction ; unless the assertion of
Camden be correct, that John of Gaunt took a
red rose to his device by right of his wife the
heir of Lancaster ''as {i.e. I take it because)
Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, took the
white rose." The white rose of York was a
sign of the tenure of that honour by the castle
or tower of Clifford. Fig. 1 6, the well-known
device of the " rose-en-soleil," used by King
Edward IV., was really a combination of two
distinct badges, viz. "the blazing sun of
York," and " the white rose of York." The
rose again appears in Fig. 17, here dimidiated
with the pomegranate of Catherine of Aragon.
This is taken from the famous Tournament
Roll (now in the College of Arms), which
relates to the Tournament, 13 th and 14th of
February, 15 10, to celebrate the birth of Prince
Henry.
Richard I., John, and Henry III. are all
said to have used the device of the crescent and
star (Fig. 18). Henry VII. is best known
by his two badges of the crowned portcullis
and the " sun-burst " (Fig. 19). The suggested
origin of the former, that it was a pun on the
name Tudor {i.e. two-door), is confirmed by
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Fig. 14.
The '■ shield for peace
Black Prince.
Fig.
15-
of the
The famous " broom-cod "
badge of the Plantagenet
dynasty.
Fig. 16.
The "rose-en- solell," a
favourite badge of King
Edward IV.
Fig.
17-
A conjunction of the Tudor
rose of Henry VIII. and
the pomegranate of Queen
Katharine of Aragon.
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the motto "Altera securitas/* which was used
with it, but at the same time is rather vitiated
by the fact that is was also used by the
Beauforts, who had no Tudor descent. Save
a very tentative remark hazarded by Woodward,
no explanation has as yet been suggested for
the badge of the " sun-burst." My own strong
conviction, based on the fact that this particular
badge was principally used by Henry VII., who
was always known as Henry of Windsor, is
that it is nothing more than an attempt to
pictorially represent the name " Windsor " by
depicting " winds " of " or." The badge is
also attributed to Edward III., and he, like
Henry VII., made his principal residence at
Windsor. Edward IV. also used the white
lion of March (whence is derived the shield
of Ludlow : " Azure, a lion couchant guardant
between three roses argent," Ludlow being one
of the fortified towns in the Welsh Marches),
and the black bull, which, though often termed
"of Clarence," is generally associated with the
Duchy of Cornwall. Richard III., as Duke of
Gloucester, used a white boar.
The Earl of Northumberland used a silver
crescent ; the Earl of Douglas, a red heart ; the
Earl of Pembroke, a golden pack-horse with
collar and traces ; Lord Hastings bore as a
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badge a black bull's head erased, gorged with
a coronet ; Lord Stanley, a golden griffen's leg,
erased ; Lord Howard, a white lion charged
on the shoulder with a blue crescent ; Sir
Richard Dunstable adopted a white cock as
a badge ; Sir John Savage, a silver unicorn
head erased ; Sir Simon Montford, a golden
lily ; Sir "William Gresham, a green grass-
hopper.
Two curious badges are to be seen in
Figs. 20 and 21. The former is an ape's
clog argent, chained or, and was used by
William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk (d. 1450).
Fig. 21, "a salet silver" (MS. Coll. of Arms,
2nd M. 16), is the badge of Thomas Howard,
Duke of Norfolk (d. 1524).
Various families used knots of different de-
sign, of which the best known is the Stafford
knot (Fig. 22). The wholesale and improper
appropriation of this badge, with a territorial
application, has unfortunately caused it to be
very generally referred to as a " Staffordshire "
knot ; and that it was the personal badge of the
Lords Stafford is too often overlooked. Other
badge knots are the Wake or Ormonde knot
(Fig. 23), the Bourchier knot (Fig. 24), the
Heneage knot (Fig. 25), the Lacy knot (Fig.
26), the Harington knot (Fig. 27), the Suffolk
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Fig. i8.
The star and crescent at-
tributed to Richard I.
and John.
Fig. 19.
The "sun-burst" and the '-crowned
portcullis," favourite badges of
Henry VII.
Fig.
20.
The "ape's clog," a badge
of William (De La Pole)
Duke of Suffolk.
Fig. 21.
The "salet," a badge of
Thomas (Howard), Duke
of Norfolk.
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knot (Fig, 28)5 and the Bowen knot (Fig.
29).
The personal badges of the members of the
Royal Family continued in use until the reign
of Queen Anne ; but from that time forward
the Royal badges obtained a territorial character.
To the floral badges of the rose of England, the
thistle of Scotland, and the shamrock of Ireland,
popular consent had added the lotus-flower for
India, the maple for Canada, and, in a lesser
degree, the wattle or mimosa for Australia ; but
at present these lack any official confirmation.
The two first-named, nevertheless, figured on
King Edward's Coronation invitation cards.
As 1 have already said, the College of Arms
in the old days do not appear to have ever
granted badges in the form of a direct grant of
a badge as a badge. At any rate, I can learn of
no instance. But there is the exemplification
of Lord Stafford already referred to, and I am
told there is another — a similar, but later one
' — of the Ogle badges.
I am doubtful if one is justified in consider-
ing these documents as grants. I think their
real status is merely that of a record of existing
facts, existing by virtue of other creative power
than the instrument in question.
But what the officers of Arms did do in
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former times was to grant standards. There
are still in existence such documents, and there
are the records of these and many other
standards.
So that it now becomes necessary to consider
the question of standards, and in so doing one
must at once explode the curious misnomer
which has applied the term "standard" to a
flag bearing a representation of a coat of arms.
That is a banner. Banners, at the period when
badges were in vogue, were not taken into
action, and had little if any other than ceremonial
use. The flag that flies over Windsor Castle
when his Majesty is residing there, and which
shows the quartered arms of England, Scotland,
and Ireland, is the King's banner, and not, as it
is popularly called, the Royal Standard.
Standards were what were used in battle. It
may perhaps be just as well to make clear what
were the purposes to which the difi^erent parts
of a man's armorial insignia were put.
The "coat of arms" was depicted on the
shield. It was also embroidered on the sur-
coat (a garment like a tabard), which was worn
over the armour of the man himself to whom
the arms belonged. Nobody else wore it on
surcoat or shield, except (if they were present)
the members of his own family, who wore the
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Fig. 22.
Stafford.
Fig. 23.
Wake, or Ormonde.
Bourchier.
Fig. 24.
Fig. 27.
Fig. 28.
Fig. 29,.
Harington.
Suffolk.
Badge Knots.
Bowen.
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arms (duly difFerenced) in their own right as
their own inheritance.
The " crest " was the ornament from the
tilting helm, and outside British heraldry a
crest is never represented, except in its proper
position surmounting a helmet. Personally I
do not think that a crest was ever actually
borne in battle. I believe strongly that their
usage was confined to the tournament. I have
dealt with this subject at length in my larger
work, "The Art of Heraldry,'' to which I
would refer those who may care to pursue the
matter farther.
The " badge " was the really important
matter, because by his badge a man was as
well known as by his arms. A man did not
wear his own badge on shield, helmet, or
surcoat. It was worn by his servants and re-
tainers, and his property was marked with it.
Whilst the science of heraldry was an intricate
science, a badge was a simple figure easily
recognized — a water-bouget, a ragged staiF, a
wine-bottle — and easily recognized by the un-
educated classes who formed the retainers of
a landholder.
The feudal system, of course, required the
landholder to provide the specified number of
armed men for military purposes. So that
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when an army was mustered it was really an
aglomeration of small armies, each little band
led by its immediate lord. They wore his
livery — his colours — and embroidered on breast
and back or on the sleeve, or in the cap, was the
lord's badge. The badge, therefore, being the
sign by which a band was mustered, it naturally
followed that it was the badge which appeared
on the standard, the rallying-point in action,
the resting-point in camp. Some lords had
several, some many badges, due of course to the
accumulation of estates in a single ownership
by reason of descent through heiresses. Big
men had several standards, others placed several
badges on one standard — in either case the
accustomed badge, with which the retainers on a
particular lordship were familiar, was kept in use.
Each standard {vide Fig. 30) had next the staff
the cross of St. George — the patron saint of
England ; but next to that came the personal
badges. On the bulk of the standards will also
be found mottoes. I confess the constant ap-
pearance of the motto on such standards as we
have record of puzzles me. Many people have
inferred from this that the origin of the motto
was the " Cri de Guerre." In a few rare cases
this may be so, but in the great bulk the
mottoes are so senseless and purposeless — so
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impossible in many cases if considered as a cri
de guerre — that I am tempted to doubt the
appearance of the motto on the Standard of
Battle, and to treat it as a later innovation when
standards, like the rest of things heraldic, had
passed into the paper age and the books of the
heralds.
In early days the intervention of officers of
arms was hardly needful with regard to standards.
They were hardly within the limits of heraldry.
But to this statement I should, perhaps, add a
certain reservation.
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, before
the heraldic hadge^ as we know ity came into
existence, I think it is not only possible, but
p rob able y that what was carried into action was
a banner of the arms, and that the retainers
mustered by this. When all arms were simple,
the process remained easy. We hear of Simon
de Montfort — father and son — bearing "Le
Banner party endentee d'argent & de goules "
(Roll temp, Henry III.). Again, Henry de Lacy,
Earl of Lincoln, bore " Baniere de un cendall
saffi-in, O un lion rampant porprin " (La Siege
de Carlaverock), his arms being, ^'Or, a lion
rampant purpure."
I choose these two cases, and especially refer
to the latter, because a contemporary record
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specifically refers to his Banner as such, a banner
which we know displayed his arms and not his
badge.
But at the end of the thirteenth and the be-
ginning of the fourteenth century, the number
of those using arms was by the process of
subinfeudation rapidly increasing — a process
stopped by the celebrated writ, " Quo warranto,"
but a result increased by the division of the
great estates. The necessity of " differencing "
arms derived from a common ancestor, no less
than the greater necessity of different arms
where there was no relationship, not only vastly
multiplied coats of arms numerically, but created
the intricacies of the science which have seemed
often to bid fair to strangle its very existence.
With these growing intricacies, coat armour, to
a large extent, was losing its original beauty of
distinction and advertisement. How could an
uneducated serf appreciate the niceties of differ-
ence, e.g, between artistic diaper and geratting
for difference ? , The growth of heraldry into
a science, the pride of race which had evolved
that science, with its confusion of quarterings
and differences, had killed its original purpose,
or, at any rate, diminished its use therefor.
The science was retained with regard to coat
armour, and conformity with its rules was
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Fig. 30.
The standard of Henry (Percy), 6th Earl of Northumberland.
a:lj\
Fig. 33.
Badge of Dodsley.
Fig. 31.
Badge of Dacre.
Fig. 32.
Badge of Daubeney.
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enforced by the King's heralds long before there
was a College of Arms. Something simpler was
needed, something within the ready comprehen-
sion of the uneducated, something suitable to
the original purpose {i.e. an advertisement of
personality) which had called coat armour into
being. In fact, it was nothing more than a
pure reversion to the elementary rudiments
from which the science of armory had been
evolved. So that we find in the fourteenth
century the landholders invented the standard
and the " cognizance." The latter by its very
name tells us what it was. Taking some charge
from his shield, or some other simple figure —
for the essence of the badge was its simplicity
— which his retainers could readily recognize,
the leader placed it on their jerkins so that he
could recognize them in battle ; he placed it on
his standard so that they might know where to
be in action or in camp. His standard itself
was of the colour or colours of his liveries,
which his followers all knew and all wore.
Such was the evolution of the standard and
the badge. After the introduction of the
standard, it should be noticed that it was of
the colours of the livery^ and usually differed
from the colours of the arms, and it bore the
badge and not the coat of arms, and not (until
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nearly the close of the period in which standards
were in use) the crest.
As to what regulations existed concerning
standards we are now largely in the dark, for
certain rules which are quoted below plainly
belong to the later and decadent period, after
crests had appeared on the standard.
It will be found in a MS. in the British
Museum {temp, Henry VIII., Harl. MS. 2358)
that the following is stated : —
" The Great Standard to be sette before
the King's Pavilion or tent not to be
borne in battel to be of the length of two
yards
^*The Kinges Standard to be borne, to
be of the length of eight or nine yardes
"The Duke's Standard to be borne, to
be slitte at the end and seven yardes long
" The Erles Standard six yards longe
" The Barones Standard five yards long
"The Banneretes Standard four yards
and a half longe
"The Knightes Standarde four yardes
longe
"And every Standard & Guydhome to
have in the chiefe the Crosse of St. George,
to be slitte at the ende, and to conteyne
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the crest or supporter with the poesy,
worde and devise of the owner
" Place under the Standard an hundred
men."
MS. Lansdowne 255, f. 431, sets out the
same facts, but is not quite identical : —
"The Standard to be sett before the
King's pavilion or tente and not to be
borne in battayle to be in length eleven
yards
" The Kinges Standarde to be borne, in
length eight or nine yards
"A Duke's Standard to be borne and
to be in lengthe seven yards di'
"A Marquesse Standard to be in length
six yards di'
" An Earles Standard to be in lengthe
six yards
" A Viscounts Standard to be in length
five yards di
" A Barones Standard to be in lengthe
five yards
" A Banneretts Standard to be in lengthe
four yards di
" A Knightes Standard to be in lengthe
four yards
" Everie Standard and Guydon to have
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in the chiefe the Crosse of St. George, the
beast or crest with his devyse and word,
and to be slitt at the end."
And now let us follow the development of
matters a little further. I hesitate to lay it
down as a definite, uninfringeable rule which
has ever existed in England, but there is no
question that the actual rule did exist on the
Continent, and I am convinced there was also
a broad general acceptance of it in this country.
Whilst landholders — gentlemen — had arms
which they bore upon their shields, crests only
existed in the cases of those families which were
of " tournament rank," i.e, who were eligible
to take part in tournaments. What were the
essentials needed to make proof of that rank,
I do not know that it is now possible to say,
but the essentials were international, and there
is no doubt that it was recognized as something
in excess of ordinary gentility. However that
may be, the unquestioned fact remains, that
whilst scores upon scores of families were en-
titled to arms, but a very small proportion had
crests. Arms were a necessity, a matter of
course, in the status of life of the gentleman ;
a crest then was a thing coveted and desired.
The badge was a mere matter of convenience,
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derived originally from no particular authority,
carrying with it no rank or status, no particular
attribute. Now comes the beginning of the
confusion between the crest and the cognizance.
It should be remembered that a knight, when
tilting at a tournament, did not carry his shield
— at any rate, not when the tournament was at its
zenith in early Tudor days. He was " known "
and identified by his crest, and consequently
the term "cognizance" not unnaturally began
to be applied to the crest ; and the device upon
the crest was duplicated on his standards at the
tournament. These standards, however, were
not the same standards as those under which
he mustered his retainers in battle.
But whilst this confusion was beginning
from what may be termed the natural conse-
quences of events, there was another force at
work. Gradually, following in exactly the same
avenue of happening as two centuries or so
earlier had coat armour itself proceeded, the
badge proper had become fixed and hereditary,
and as a natural consequence the standard of
battle followed suit.
And with that acquired hereditary character
came the control of the King's officers of arms,
their authority in all such matters increasing
imperceptibly but concurrently with the gradual
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change in military matters, by which the army
came to be considered less and less a collection
of the bands of retainers of the King's barons,
and more and more a levy of the King for the
King's army collected through those who owed
him such liability. With that control came the
granting of standards by the King's officers of
arms, and at this point (the end of the fifteenth
century) came a change in the character of the
standard. What was the reason of the change
one can only speculate. It may have been
partly the desire to assert authority by granting
crests ; it may have been a desire to discourage
the haphazard selection of badges, and an attempt
to depreciate their popularity ; it may even be
that what the officers of arms granted were
tournament standards. My own idea rather
leans to the belief, however, that the reason of
grants of standards by the officers of arms was
neither of the two former reasons, and that such
grants were not made with the primary object
even of creating a standard for use. I believe
the standard itself was quite an ulterior matter,
and that the standard was introduced merely as
a vehicle for the primary and actual purpose of
the grant of a crest for the actual or theoretical
necessity of the tournament.
But however that may be, the officers of
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arms began granting standards upon which the
principal device (after St. George's Cross) was
a crest set upon a wreath. When the crest figured
on the standard the importance of the badge
was less apparent, its necessity less insistent.
In the regulations quoted, mention is made
that the standard should show "the crest or
supporter," or, as the other MS. has it, " the
beast or crest with his devyse."
This needs some little explanation. The
origin of the supporter has often been dis-
cussed, but it is very simple indeed. Sup-
porters originated in the custom of filling up
the interstices of a seal with the badges. This
can be seen by examination of seals of the
fourteenth century, which show not only ani-
mate beasts, but also inanimate objects. In the
fourteenth century such an overwhelming pro-
portion of the supporters are provable badges,
that it would be by no means a far-fetched
suggestion to treat all supporters at that period
as being badges. The difficulty lies in know-
ing at what date to draw the line between the
fixed heraldic supporter not being the badge,
and the badge singly or in duplicate, pressed
for mere artistic purposes into doing the duty
and filling the position occupied at a later date
by the supporter proper.
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But by the beginning of the sixteenth cen-
tury heraldry of all kinds was passing into the
" paper " stage. The tournament, even, was
dying. The Richmond tournament, the last
one of any importance in this country, took
place in 1510, and the development of military
science and the formation of a standing army
eliminated the great bulk of actuality from
heraldry.
There survived, however, those strong attri-
butes of romance and tradition, of caste and
aristocracy, integral parts of and inseparably
connected with armory, the very parts which
had exalted it to the high estimation with which
it was regarded, rather than its actual workday
use. The very natural result was that the
unimportant workaday part of heraldry- — the
badge and the standard — suffered by the exalta-
tion of the crest and coat of arms, which meant
a very great deal which the badge did not.
The statutory limitation of the number of
retainers, added to the personal idiosyncracies
of King Henry VIII., was another factor tend-
ing to the disuse of the badge, but the most
potent influence was undoubtedly the occur-
rence of the Visitations. The result un-
doubtedly was that a large number of families
not then possessing crests translated their
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badges into crests. There are numbers of
cases in which one can definitely prove that the
erstwhile badge thenceforward becomes the
crest, and the probability is, that were records
available, this will be found to have been the
case in scores of other instances. As far as I
am aware, no badge as a badge is recorded in
the Visitation Books, and since that period the
use of the badge has survived in but a very
limited number of families. The standard,
however, survived in a perfunctory manner as
an adjunct of the ceremonial of a funeral, and
as badges had fallen into disuse it was but
natural that crests should take their place.
And, as crests were granted and used upon
standards, it is little to be wondered at that the
original purposes of the badge, as the sign of
ownership and as the cognizance to be worn by
servants, came to be fulfilled by crests.
But such a usage is diametrically opposed
and radically repugnant to the ancient ideas
of the period when the use of both was simul-
taneous, clearly defined and readily distinguish-
able. That any man should permit his servants
to wear his crest was then unthinkable, and the
revival of interest and the greater knowledge of
things heraldic has brought us nearer to a true
appreciation of the different merits of each.
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There still remain to us many of the old
opportunities for the usage of a badge, and it
is anachronistic to use a crest for purposes for
which the crest is not fitted.
All decorative artists will recognize the great
artistic opportunities for decorative purposes
which lie in the repetition of a simple figure.
It is in such decorative use that our principal
knowledge lies of the great prominence which
badges enjoyed in the Plantagenet and Tudor
periods. Heraldry at the present day has
largely become a matter of decoration. It still,
of course, retains its technical status and its
old-time meaning ; it is still a mark of caste,
and that its importance thereas is waning is
due simply to the inevitable change by which
caste is ceasing to be determined by birth.
Nowadays, other factors with which heraldry,
which is hereditary, has no connection, are
becoming the controlling essentials. So that if
heraldry had had no other reason for its exist-
ence it would long since have become a pur-
poseless and obsolete anachronism. There can
be little reason to doubt that to its practical use
and advantage as a matter of art and as a form
of decoration we owe the rapidly extending
revival of interest in its fascinating claims, a
revival which is widening in its scope by a
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greater knowledge of the science, and with that
greater knowledge, by a more extended respect
for its laws and a greater conformity with its
original requirements. But in that revival the
use of the badge has been overlooked, for
whatever be the decorative purpose for which
the aid of heraldry has been invoked, it must
be admitted that the badge is usually the most
apt heraldic form to be adopted.
But the real point of necessity where the
absence of the badge has been most felt is in
the designing of liveries, and particularly of
State liveries. To any one who knows any-
thing of armory it appears ridiculous to see,
as one sometimes does, a whole achievement
embroidered on the sleeve, and scarcely less
so to see a crest or a shield separately. That
the practice of putting a crest on livery buttons
is almost universal makes it none the less open
to criticism. What a servant should wear is
the livery of his master and his master's
'* household badge." These are the occasions
and the purposes on and for which those few
families who have inherited a real badge from
ancient times make use of them.
Whatever may have been the excuse hitherto
for newer families to use their crest for the
purposes of a badge because it was not possible
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to obtain the grant of a badge, such excuse
cannot any longer be urged, as it has recently
been decided by His Majesty's officers of arms
that in cases in which it is desired and applied
for the ancient practice of granting standards
shall be revived. The grant will take the form
of the grant of a standard upon which will be
represented a badge, and the terms of the grant
will permit this badge to be used alone as a
single figure for those decorative and other
purposes, for which its use will be more suit-
able and correct than the use of a crest. Some
number of such grants has already been made.
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A List of Badges
IN compiling the following list of badges,
I would point out the difficulty which
must attend any such attempt. There
does not appear ever to have been any
official grant of a badge as a badge. Badges,
however, have been officially exemplified with
arms, and standards have been granted with
badges figuring thereupon. The result is that
there is no one source from which such a list
can be compiled ; nor can any test be applied
beyond that of usage in the period when
badges were in vogue. What records of
badges exist in the College of Arms it is
impossible to say in the absence of access to
their records. There is, however, a short list
of the principal badges in a MS. (2nd M. 16)
and a Book of Standards (I. 2) now in the
custody of that corporation. Many of the
Royal badges, moreover, are depicted in
" Prince Arthur's Book." None of these, how-
ever, is an official record, and I am ignorant
what weight they will carry. I should imagine,
however, that the Book of Standards would be
accepted as fully authoritative. The badges
from MS. 2nd M. 16 and from the Standards
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are included in my list, but I have excluded
the devices on the latter which from their form
are plainly crests. In every case I quote, in
square brackets, the authority for the badge,
but where any authority has been quoted by
the book from which a badge has been trans-
ferred to my list, I have thought it sufficient
to give the authority quoted without adding
the actual work I myself have derived it from.
My list is merely a compilation, and not the
result of original research ; so perhaps this
explanation is needed, lest it should be thought
I am laying claim to greater labour than I have
undertaken. The list is merely an adjunct to
my short essay on badges and their use. But
I shall welcome any additions properly authen-
ticated by proof of usage up to the and of
the Tudor period, either by mention in con-
temporary works or by their appearance in
architectural or other guise.
Abergavenny [My Lord of Bourgayne (Geo.
Nevill)]. Colours — vert and argent. Badges
— (i) a bull passant argent, pied sable,
armed, unguled, collared and chained or, the
chain fixed by two staples interlaced argent
and or ; (2) a double staple interlaced,
one argent, the other or. Motto — Tenir
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promesse vient de noblesse [Standard — MS.
I. 2j Coll. Arms].
Abergavenny, Marquess of (Sir Wm. Nevill,
K.G.). Badges — (i) a rose gules, seeded or,
barbed vert ; (2) a portcullis or [Burke's
*' Peerage," 1906].
Admiral, Lord High. Badge — anchor [Wood-
ward].
Admiralty, The. Badges — (i) a cresset with
burning fire [Harl. MS. 144], (2) an anchor
and cable [present Admiralty flag].
Aldercar, Sir RaufFe. Colour — or. Badge — a
cock sable, beaked and combed gules
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Appellyerd (" Mayster "). Colours — white.
Badge — an apple purpure slipped vert
[MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Arundel, Sir John. Badge — an acorn [MS.
Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Arundel, Earl of (Richard FitzAlan). Badge —
a white horse [Annales Ric. II., 206].
Arundel, Earl of (Thomas FitzAlan). Colours
— blue and red. Badges — (i) in front of
an oak tree eradicated vert, fructed or, a
horse courant argent, in his mouth a branch
of oak as the first ; (2) a branch of oak
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vert, fructed or ; (3) a branch of oak vert,
fructed or, surmounted by a fret. Motto —
Cause me oblige [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Arundel, Earl of (Philip Howard). Colours —
" Six trumpeters in red and yellow satin,
with red, white, and yellow plumes " [Letter
in MSS. Dupuy, Von Ranmer, i6th and
17th centuries, II. 432].
Arundell ("Mayster Arrondyll"). Colours —
black. Badges — ( i ) a wolf statant argent ;
(2) a swallow argent. Motto — Faictes le
ligerement [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Askew (" Mayster Assecu "). Colours — gules.
Badges — (i) an ass*s head erased argent,
maned or ; (2) a lion's gamb erased or
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Astley. Badge — a cinquefoil [Woodward, Cus-
sans].
Athole, Earl of (Walter Stewart). Badge^ a
stag couchant [Woodward].
Audley (" Sir John Awdeley, Kt."). Colours —
Or and gules. Badges — (i) a moor's head
in profile proper, filleted round the temples,
charged with a crescent for difference ;
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(2) a butterfly charged with a crescent for
difference. MoUo — Je le tiens [Standard —
MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Audley. Badge — a fret [Planche].
Australia. Badge — the wattle [no official
authority].
Babyngton, Sir Antony. Colours — argent.
Badge — a man tyger purpure, collared and
chain reflected over the back or with feet
human, crined gray. (The animal is really
intended for a baboon.) Motto — Foy est
tout [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Baldwin (" Syr John Baudwyn, ChyfFe Justys of
the Common Place for the Kyng*s May's te").
Badge — a wolf argent, vulned in the back
by five arrows or, plumed argent, regardant,
and grasping the same in his mouth
[Standard— MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Basset. Colours — gules. Badge — a boar's head,
couped argent, armed or [Standard — MS.
I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Beauchamp. Vide Warwick.
Beaufort (Dukes of), a portcullis [Cussans].
Beaufort. Vide Somerset and Exeter.
Beaumont, Viscount (Wm. Beaumont, 1438-
1507). Badges — (i) an elephant with a
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castle full of soldiers on his back argent,
armed and garnished or ; (2) a broom-cod.
Motto — Dessus eulx eureusement [Doyle],
Bedford, Duke of (John of Lancaster, s. of
King Henry IV.), the root of a tree couped
and eradicated or [Doyle],
"The rote is dead."
[Political Poem, 144.9 — "Excerpta Historica."]
Bedford, Earl of (John Russell), Colours —
red, white and black [H, Machyn, " Diary,"
P- 31]-
Beltnap, Sir Edward, Kt. Colours — or and
gules. Badge — on a stand, a fire-beacon or,
flames gules, and in front of the beacon,
and also on the stand, a lizard, tail nowed
vert, ducally gorged and chained or [Standard
— MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms],
Beltnap, Edward. Colours — white. Badge — a
lizard, tail nowed vert, ducally gorged and
lined or [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms],
Berkeley. Vide Nottingham.
Berkeley, Lord (Thomas Berkeley, d. 1347, and
Thos. Berkeley, d. 141 6). Badge — a mer-
maid [Seal, 1327, and brass at Wotton-
under-edge],
Berners, Lord (Bourchier). Colours — or and
vert. Badges — (i) on the branch of a
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tree placed in fesse and sprouting to the
dexter an eagle rising argent, armed or,
the under feathers of the wings gules ; (2)
the Bourchier knot (Fig. 24) [Standard —
MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Blount. Colours — argent. Badges — (i) a wolf,
passant sable, langued and armed gules ;
(2) an eye encircled with rays argent.
Mom — Pour par venir [Standard — MS. I.
2, Coll. Arms].
Bluemantle Pursuivant. Badge — a blue mantle,
lined argent, tied with gold cords. (In use.)
Bohun. Vide Hereford and Northampton.
Boleyn. Badge — a bulFs head couped sable,
armed gules [Harl. MS. 303, p. ij. {Vide
Bullayne).
Booth. Badge — a boar's head erect and erased
sable [Cussans].
Borough, Sir Thomas. Badge — the arming of
an arm and the gauntlet [MS. Coll. Arms,
2nd M. 16].
Borough. Badge — an arm vambraced, embowed
and gauntleted proper, suspended by a golden
cord, in the manner of a bugle-horn [MS.
No. 1 121, Ash. Coll. — vide Cussans].
Bottrell. Badge — a bundle of arrows argent
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within a sheaf sable, garnished or, the straps
gules [Harl. MS. No. 4632].
Bourchier. Vide Berners and Essex.
Bourchier. Badges — (i) the Bourchier knot
(Fig. 24) ; (2) water-bouget [Woodward].
Bourght, Thomas, of Gainsborough, Lines.
Colours — azure. Badge — an arm armed em-
bowed and furnished with gauntlet and
gerbralle argent, garnished or and suspended
by six ribbons knotted of the last [Standard
— MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Bowen. Badge — the Bowen knot (Fig. 29).
[Planche, Cussans],
Brandon. Vide Lisle and Suffolk.
Brandon, Sir Richard. Badge — lion's head
erased gold [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Bray. Badge — a coney sable [Cussans].
Bray ("Mayster Edmond Bray de Stoke Dabor-
nun "). Colours — four stripes argent and
vert. Badges — ( i ) a pair of wings endorsed
vair ; (2) a hemp-brake or, charged on the
side with a lion passant vert. Motto — Seray
come a Dieu plaira [Standard — MS. L 2,
Coll. Arms].
Braye, 5th Baron (A. T. T. Verney-Cave).
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Badge — a hemp-braye (or hemp-brake).
[Burke's " Peerage," 1906].
Bridgewater, Earl of (Henry Daubeney).
Bai^ge — two bats' wings displayed sable,
conjoined by a cord fretted or [Harl. MS.
4632] (Fig. 32).
Brooke. Vide Cobham.
Brown, Sir Westyn, Kt. Colours — red. Badge
— a lion's gamb erect and erased argent,
winged sable [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Bruges. Fide Winchester.
Bryan. Vide Northumberland.
Bryan, Sir Francis, Kt. Colours — gules. Badges
— (i) a beast called a "caretyne" having
the body and horns of a bull and the head
of a heraldic leger sable, sem6 of bezants,
armed maned crined and tufted or ; (2)
a beacon. Motio — Ja tens Grace [Standard
— MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms.]
Buchanan {Clan), Badge — birch [Seton].
Buckingham. Badge — a maiden's head [Wood-
ward].
Buckingham, Duke of (Humphrey de Stafford,
cr. 1444). Badges — (i) a cart-nathe in
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flames ; (2) the Stafford knot or [Doyle]
(Fig. 22).
Buckingham, Duke of (Humphrey Stafford, d.
1460). Badge — a cartwheel with flames
issuant [Doyle].
" The Carte nathe is spokeless
For the counseill that he gaf."
[Political Poem, 1449 — "Excerpta Historica."]
Buckingham, Duke of (Henry Stafford, d. 1483).
Badge — the Stafford knot [MS. Ashmole,
1121].
Buckingham, Duke of (Edward Stafford, d.
1 521). Colours — scarlet and black. Badges
— (i) a Stafford knot; (2) a heraldic ante-
lope sejant (on a wreath) ducally gorged and
lined ; (3) a mantle ; (4) a cross potent
crossed within a string of Stafford knots ;
(5) on a wreath, a swan with wings displayed
and inverted, ducally gorged and lined.
[Vide Genealogical Magazine^ vol. 4, p.
428 ; vol. 5, p. 109 ; and see post^ sub
Stafford.]
Bullayn, Sir Thomas, Kt. Badge — a bull's
• head couped sable, armed or [Standard —
MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Burdett, Sir John, of Bromcott, Warwick.
Colours — or. Badge — a pansy slipped the
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dexter leaf blue, the sinister vert. MoUo —
Cleve fast [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Burgh. Badge — a black dragon [Woodward].
Burghley, Lord. Badge — a wheat-sheaf [Wood-
ward, Cussans]. (A garb supported by two
lions became the Cecil crest. That family-
derived it from the family of Winston.)
Cambridge. Badge — an eagle [Woodward].
Cambridge, Earl of (Richard of Conisburgh).
Badge — an ostrich feather with quill compony
[Doyle].
Cameron {Clan). Badge — oak [Seton].
Campbell (Clan), Badge — bog-myrtle [Seton].
Canada. Badge — the maple [no official
authority].
Capell, Sir Gyles, of Stebbing Co. Essex.
Colours — or. Badges — (i) an anchor erect
gules, bezanty, the ring or ; (2) a jessamine
slip proper. MoUo — Pour entre tenir
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Care, Sir John, Kt. Colours — or. Badge —
issuant from clouds argent, a dexter arm
habited gules, cuffed ermine the hand argent
holding a bunch of columbines azure, leaved
and slipped vert [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Heraldic Badges
Care. Colours — four stripes tawny and or.
Badges — (i) a buck*s head couped argent,
gorged with a collar gemel gules, the antlers
also argent, the three upper tines or and
connected by a ring argent ; (2) a columbine
slipped and leaved or, flowered azure and
argent. Motto — Por Dys server [Standard —
MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Carew, Sir Wm., Kt, of Devon. Colours — four
stripes sable and or. Badge — a falcon
collared and jessed gules, bells on the neck
and legs or. Motto — Felix quy poterit
[Standard — MS. 1. 2, Coll. Arms].
Carew, Sir John, Kt. Colours — or and sable.
Badge — a spear bendways headed azure
[Standard — MS. I. 2 Coll. Arms],
Catesby (Katissby). Badge — a leopard passant
guardant or [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms],
Cecil. Vide Burghley.
Chamberlain, The Lord. In MS. I. 2, Coll.
of Arms, various standards are given under
the above name, one, however, being
described as "The Lord Chamberlayn
Harbarts." This book of Standards was
compiled between 15 10 and 1525. Wm.
Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, was Chamberlain
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of South Wales 1461 to July 1469, and of
North Wales April to July, 1469. But
with the standard described as " The Lord
Chamberlayn Harbarts," the arms depicted
are those of Charles Somerset, Earl of
Worcester, with the arms of Herbert in
pretence, he having married the daughter
and heir of William, Earl of Pembroke.
Charles Somerset was Vice Chamberlain
from 1 501, and Lord Chamberlain of the
Household 1 509-1 526. His principal
standard was of the colours "blew, whyt
and red*' in three stripes, but he had
various other standards, respectively white,
green, red, and blue. The various badges
are — (i) a panther argent incensed proper,
collared and chained or [Harl. MS. 6170
gives this on a chapeau as his crest, and it
is now used by his descendant the Duke
of Beaufort as a supporter] ; (2) a portcullis
debruised by a bendlet ; (3) a portcullis
'this is of a very peculiar form, and may
DC intended for the stocks] ; (4) a goat
statant sable, collared and chained or,
bearded armed and unguled or [this may
be the "yale" or heraldic antelope, collared
and chained, which figures as one of his
supporters on his seal] ; (5) a wyvern vert,
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holding in the mouth a sinister hand couped
gules [vide the " grene dragon '* of Herbert,
Earl of Pembroke] ; (6) a cubit arm habited
bendy sinister wavy of five pieces argent
and azure and issuant out of a rose gules,
the hand proper grasping an arrow ; (7) a
Moorish female's head, three-quarter face,
couped at the shoulders, hair dishevelled
and ringed through the ear all proper.
(This is really the crest of Herbert.) Motto
— " Faire le doy " [Standard— MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms].
Chamberlain, "RaufF, of Kyngston in Cam-
bridgesh." Colours — gold and purple.
Badge — an ass's head erased argent, ducally
gorged or. Motto — En acraois sant vostre
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll Arms].
Chamberleyn, Sir Robert. Badge — a friar's
girdle azure [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Chatham, Earl of (John Pitt, d. 1835).
Liveries — white and blue [Doyle].
Cheney. Badge — [a pair of bull's] horns silver
[Woodward, Cussans].
Chichester. Vide Pelham.
Chisholm (Clan), Badge — Alder [Cussans].
Cholmondeley, Sir Richard. Colours — gules.
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Badges — ( i ) a helmet per pale or and argent
charged with five torteaux ; (2) a bird rising
or, the inside of the wings sable. Motto —
De cueur entier [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms],
Clarence, Duke of (Thomas of Lancaster, s. of
Henry IV.). Badges — (i) a greyhound,
gorged with a plain collar ; (2) an ostrich
feather charged with thirteen ermine spots
and having a small scroll in front of the
lower part of the quill [Doyle].
Clarence, Duke of (George Plantagenet, s. of
Richard Duke of York). Badges — (i) a
bull passant sable, armed unguled and
inembered or, gorged with a label of three
points argent, each charged with a canton
gules ; (2) a gorget of chain extended
argent, edges and three clasps or, lined
gules [Doyle].
Clifford. Fide Cumberland.
CliifFord, Sir Henry, Kt. Colours — argent.
Badge — a wyvern wings endorsed gules
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Clifford. Badge — annulet or [Cussans].
Clifford. Badge — a black dragon [Woodward].
Clinton. Fide Lincoln.
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Clinton. Badge — a golden mullet [Boutell].
Clinton. Badge — a greyhound [Woodward].
Cobham, Lord. Badge — a man's head in
profile, wreathed round the temples argent
and sable [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms] ;
"a black Saracen's head" [MS. Coll. Arms,
2nd M. 16].
Cokayne (M. Cokyn). Colours — argent. Badges
— (i) a cock gules ; (2) a " cokyll " flower
gules, slipped vert [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms].
Colquhoun {Clan), Badge — hazel [Cussans],
Compton. Badge — fire-beacon or, fired proper
[Cussans, Woodward].
Compton (" Mayster"). Colours — gold and blue.
Badge — a dragon's head erased forepaws and
wings erect gules, encircled by a ducal
coronet or [Standard — MS. I, 2, Coll.
Arms].
Constable, Sir Marmaduke, of Everingham,
Yorks. Colours — gules. Badges — (i) an
ancient three-masted ship headed with a
dragon's head and sails furled or, charged
with a crescent sable ; (2) an anchor erect
or, ringed at the crown and charged with a
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crescent sable. MoUo — Soies ferme [Stan-
dard— MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
" As to the ship is anchor and Cable,
So be thou to thy friend Constable."
[Old Rhyme.]
Conyers, The Lord. Colours — argent. Badges —
(i) a lion passant azure ; (2) a cross crosslet
gules ; (3) a pair of wings gules addorsed
and connected by a knot azure. Motto —
Ung Dieu ung Roy [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms].
Cornewall, Sir Thomas, Kt. Colours — argent.
Badges — (i) a lion passant gules, ducally
crowned and seme of bezants ; (2) a Cornish
chough proper ducally gorged or [Standard
—MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Cossyn, Robert, of London. Colours — argent.
Badge — a mount vert, on each a columbine
azure and leaping therefrom a coney sable.
Motto — Ne trop ne moins [Standard MS. L
2, Coll. Arms].
Courtenay. Fide Devon.
Courtenay. Badge — faggot [Woodward].
Courtenay. Badges — (i) a dolphin ; (2) a
tau-cross ; (3) a tau-cross and suspended
therefrom a bell ; (4) a sickle [all on
chimney-piece of Episcopal Palace at Exeter,
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erected by Peter de Courtenay, Bishop of
Exeter].
Courtenay of Powderham, Sir William. Colours
— red. Badges — ( i ) a boar passant argent,
armed and hoofed or, charged on the
shoulder with a crescent sable ; (2) a
dolphin embowed argent each charged with
a crescent. Motto — Passes bien devant
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Courteney, Mr. Perse. Badge — St. Anthony's
Cross azure [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Cromwell. Badge — pelican [Woodward].
Cumberland, Earl of. Badge — raven argent
[Cussans].
Cumberland, Earl of (Henry Clifford, d. 1542).
Banner — party per fesse argent ( ? azure) and
or, seme of annulets counterchanged, a dragon
with wings elevated gules [MS. Harl. 4632].
Cumming {Clan), Badge — common sallow
[Cussans].
Curzon, Lord (Robert). Colours — or and gules.
Badge — a wolf's head erased gules [Stan-
dard— MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Curzon (John Cursson of Croxsall, Derbyshire).
Colours — or. Badge — a cockatrice wings
elevated tail nowed and ending in a
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dragon's head gules. MoUo — Bon eure me
comforte [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Dacre ("The Lord Dacre Fynnys of the Sowth").
Colours — white. Badges — (i) a bull saliant
gules ducally gorged and chained or, armed
and unguled of the last ; (2) the cypher
T. and D. connected by the Dacre knot
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Dacre, The Lord Dacre Fynnys of the South.
Colours — red. Badges — (i) a wolf-dog
statant argent, the collar spiked, the chain
with a log at the end or ; (2) a wyvern
azure issuant from a ducal coronet or.
Motto — De moy nul mot sy ray son neve velt
[Standard — MS. L 2, Coll. Arms].
Dacre of Gilsland, Lord, K.G. Colours — four
stripes or and azure. Badges — (i) a bull
passant gules, ducally gorged armed and
unguled or ; (2) an escallop argent and a
staff raguly also argent connected by the
Dacre knot gules (Fig. 31). Motto — Fort en
loyaulte [Standard — MS. L 2, Coll. Arms].
Dacre of the North, Lord. Badges — a silver
escallop (Dacre) united by the Dacre knot
gules to a ragged staff argent (Fig. 31)
[Woodward, who says the ragged staff is
"said to commemorate the hereditary
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forestership of Inglewood," but Lord Dacre
of Gillsland, K.G., who bore this badge on
his standard, married Elizabeth, daughter
and heiress of Lord Greystock, K.G.,
and this may be the allusion], (Planche
describes it as the union of the Dacre shell
and the Nevill ragged staff, the knot being
an indication of descent from Bourchier.)
Daniel, Thomas, Esquire of the Body to
Henry VL Badge — a lily.
" The lily is both fair and grene.'"
[Political Poem, 1449 — " Excerpta Historlca."]
Darcy, Thomas, Lord. Colours — green. Badges
— (i) an heraldic tyger argent ; (2) three
parts of a broken spear or, the point erect
and two parts of the staff in saltire ; (3) a
buck's head couped at the neck ermine.
Motto — "Hit shal nat be bi mi . . ."
[Standard — MS. L 2, Coll. Arms].
Darcy, Essex. Colours — four stripes argent and
gules. Badge — a cinquefoil gules. Motto —
Damitte desirant [Standard — MS. L 2, Coll.
Arms].
Darell, of Littlecote, Sir Edward. Colours —
azure. Badge — a lion's head erased or,
ducally crowned argent. Motto — Si je puys
je le feray [Standard — MS. L 2, Coll. Arms].
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Daubeney. Fide Bridgewater.
Daubeney of Cote. Badge — a pair of bat's
wings sable tied by a golden cord [H. Coll],
{Vide Fig. 32.)
DeBohun. Badges — (i) a swan argent, collared
and chained or (derived, with the Earldom
of Essex, from the family of Mandeville, who
represented Adam Fitz-Swanne) ; [Planch6] ;
(2) an antelope [Planche].
De la Pole. Vide Suffolk.
De la Warr, Baron (Thomas West, d. 1554).
Colours — red and blue [MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
De la Warr. Badge — a crampet [Woodward].
De Lacy. Vide Lacy.
Denny. Vide Norwich.
Denny. Badge — two arches, supported on
columns argent, capitals and bases or
[Cussans].
Derby, Earl of (Thomas Stanley, d. 1504).
Badge — 1475 "Gryppe lege, rasyd gold,"
i,e, a griffin's claw erased or [MS. 2nd M.
1 6, Coll. Arms].
Derby, Earl of (Edward Stanley, d. 1572).
Colours — tawny and vert. Badges — (i) in
a cradle or, a child swaddled gules, fretty
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or, thereon an eagle preying of the last ;
(2) an eagle's leg erased at the thigh and
erect or [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Despencer. Badge — an annulet per pale or
and argent [Ash Coll., MS. No. 1121].
De Vere. Vide Oxford.
Devereux. Vide Essex.
Devon, Earl of (Baldwin de Revers, d. 11 55).
Device — an eagle or griffin with wings
elevated perched upon a crouching sheep
[his seal about 1 146].
Devon, Earl of (William de Vernon). Device
— a griffin with wings elevated holding in
his beak a serpent by the neck and perched
upon a crouching sheep [his seal before
1 1 84].
Devon (Courtenay), Earl of. Baage — white
boar [Woodward].
Devon, Earl of (Thomas Courtenay, d. 1458).
Badge — boar —
" The boore Is farr into the West."
[Political Poem, 1449 — "Excerpta Historica."]
Devon, Earl of (Henry Courtenay, d. 1553).
2nd Crest ( ? Badge) — a falcon rising from
a billet of wood raguly or [Doyle].
Devon, Earl of (Edward Courtenay, d. 1556).
Colours — or and gules [MS. Harl. 2076].
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DIgby (" Mayster Dygby "). Colour — azure.
Badges — ( I ) an ostrich argent, beaked mem-
bered and vorant a horse-shoe or ; (2) a
cypher of J. D. connected by a knot gules.
Mom— As God be plesid [Standard — MS.
I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Dodsley, Mr. ("Dean of the King s Chapell").
Badge — grate silver [MS., Coll. Arms, 2nd
M. 16]. (Vide Fig. 33.)
Dorset, Marquess of (Thomas Grey, d. 1501).
Colours — white and pink. Badge — a unicorn
ermine, armed, unguled, maned and tufted
or. Motto — Virtute duce [Doyle].
Dorset, " The Lord Marquys " (Thomas
Grey, d. 1 530). Colours — argent and gules.
Badges — (i) a unicorn ermine, armed un-
guled and surrounded by rays of the sun
or ; (2) a sprig of pinks. Motto — A ma
puissance [Standard],
Douglas. Badge — a red heart [Boutell].
Draycott. Badge — a serpent^s head erased
gules [Cussans].
Drummond {Clan). Badge — holly [Cussans],
Dudley. Vide Leicester, Northumberland,
Warwick,
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Dundas of that Ilk. Badge — salamander
[Nisbet].
Dunstable, Sir Richard. Badge — a white cock
[MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. i6].
Dymoke (" Myster Dymmocke "). Colours —
white. Badge — a sword sheathed sable point
downwards garnished or, pommel and hilt
of the last [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Edgecumbe (" Syr Perys Eggecombe "). Colours
— blue. Badge — a boar's head couped and
erect argent armed or, issuing from a laurel
wreath vert. Motto — Au plesir fort de Dieu
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Edward I. Badges — ( i ) a rose slipped, the stalk
vert, the petals or [Harl. MS. 304. Planch^
suggests that this badge is derived from
his mother, Eleanor of Provence] ; (2) the
broom plant [Cussans].
Edward II. Badge — a golden tower or castle
(of Castile) [Great Seal].
Edward III. Colours — azure and gules. Badges
— (i) the sunburst [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms] {vide Fig. 19) ; (2) a trunk or
stump of a tree eradicated and couped or
[Harl. MS.] ; (3) a fleur-de-lys [Boutell] ;
(4) a sword [Boutell] ; (5) a falcon [Boutell] ;
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Fig. 34.
A design from *• Prince Arthur's Book," showing the following
badges : (a) " sun-burst " ,• (b) fleur-de-lis 5 (c) crowned ostrich
feather.
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(6) a gryphon [Privy Seal] ; (7) a sword
erect on a chapeau, the blade enfiled with
three crowns [Harl. MS. 147 1] ; (8) a boar
[Cott. MS.— Titus A. XX. fol. 78] ostrich
feather [Harl. MS., see text, page 48].
Edward IV. Colours — azure and gules [Stan-
dard— MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms]. Livery —
"murrey & blue." Badges — (i) a white
rose-en-soleil [Great Seal] (Fig. 16) ; (2) a
white rose [Standard, which also shows the
red rose] ; (3) a red rose-en-soleil [Standard
— MS. I. 2j Coll. Arms] ; (4) a red and
white rose-en-soleil [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms] ; (5) a sun in splendour [Great
Seal] ; (6) a falcon argent, within a closed
fetterlock or (as Duke of York) [Burke,
Boutell] ; (7) a dragon sejant sable, crowned
or (as Earl of Ulster) [Burke, Boutell] ;
(8) a bull sable, armed and hoofed or
(Honour of Clare or Clarence) [Burke,
Boutell] ; (9) a white hart, on a mount
vert, gorged with a coronet, chained and
attired or [Burke] ; ( 10) a white lion (March)
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms] ; (11) a
white wolf [Lansdowne MS.]. Motto —
Dieu et mon Droyt [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms],
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Edward V. Badges — (i) the white rose of
York [Burke] ; (2) a falcon within a fetter-
lock [Burke],
Edward VI. Badges — (i) the Tudor rose
[Boutell] ; (2) the sun in splendour
[Boutell]. (3) Within a wreath of roses a
roundel per pale sanguine and azure charged
with the letters E. P., and between them a
plume of three ostrich feathers argent, their
pens or, passing through an escroll inscribed
with the motto " Ich dien/* and ensigned
with the Prince's coronet. (This is his
badge, of course, before succeeding to the
throne, and so appears in St. Dunstan's
Church, London.)
Edward VII. As Queen Victoria, the cyphers
being changed. {Vide Fig. 38.)
Egerton, " M. RaufFe, of Rydley, Cheshire."
Colours — argent. Badge — a pheon azure
charged with a crescent. Motto — Fin faict
tout [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Elizabeth, Queen. Badges — (i) a silver falcon
[Burke] ; (2) a sieve [Burke, Woodward] ;
(3) a harp or, stringed argent, crowned —
for Ireland — [Burke, Woodward] (Fig. 5) ;
(4) a crowned rose [Woodward], with the
motto, " Rosa sine spina " [Cussans] ; (5) a
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phoenix [Woodward] ; (6) a falcon with
crown and sceptre [Woodward] ; (7) a
fleur-de-lis gold [Woodward].
England. Badge — the Tudor rose crowned
and slipped [Royal Warrant], [Fide Fig. 2).
Errol, Earls of (Hay). Badge — an ox yoke.
Essex, Earl of (Henry Bourchier, d. 1483).
Badges — (i) a falcon volant with one wing
broken argent ; (2) the Bourchier knot
(vide Fig. 24) ; (3) a fetterlock or [Doyle] ;
(3) a water-bouget ; (4) (?) a wine-bottle.
" The wat bowge and the wyne bottell."
[Political Poem, 144.9 — " Excerpta Historica."]
Essex, Earl of (William Henry Bourchier, d.
1540). Badges — (i) the Bourchier knot
(vide Fig. 24) ; (2) a fetterlock with a rose
within it. MoUo — Owr promesse made
[Doyle].
Essex, Earl of (Robert Devereux, d. 1646).
Colours — a deep yellow [Whitelocke, " Me-
morials," p. 62].
Evers, William, of Walton, Yorks. Badge —
a cat-a-mountain statant quarterly or and
azure [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Exeter, Marquess of (Cecil). Fide Burghley.
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Heraldic Badges
Exeter, Duke of (Thomas Beaufort, d. 1427).
Badge — a portcullis or [Doyle].
Exeter, Duke of (John de Holand, d, 1447).
Badges — (i) an ear of wheat ; (2) a
blazing cresset or fire-pot [Doyle ; but
Planche suggests that this was only the
badge of the Admiralty].
" The firy cresset hath lost its lyght."
[Political Poem, 1449 — "Excerpta Historica.""]
" The whete yer well them susteyn."
[Ibid.]
Eyre, of Hope, Co. Derby, Esq. Colours — vert.
Badge — an armed leg erect couped at the
thigh per pale argent and gules, the spur or
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms],
Farquharson {Clan), Badge — purple foxglove
[Cussans].
Fauconberg, Lord. Vide Kent.
Fenys, Sir John. Badge — a martin sable [MS.
Coll. Arms, 2nd M. i6].
Ferguson (Clan), Bade — poplar [Cussans].
Ferrers, Lord, K.G. Colours — argent and gules.
Badges — (i) a greyhound courant argent,
ducally gorged or ; (2) a French wife's
hood ; (3) a horseshoe or [Standard — MS.
L 2, Coll. Arms].
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Ferrers, The Lord. " A French wife's hood
bounden" [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. i6].
Ferrers (" Sir Edward Ferrys, Knyght ").
Co/ours — vert. Badges — ( i ) a unicorn
courant ermine, charged on the shoulder
with a crescent sable ; (2) a mascle or
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Fiennes, Fide Dacre.
Fiennes, Lord Dacre. Badge — a griffin's head
[Woodward].
FitzAlan. Fide Arundel.
FitzAlan. Badge — White horse [Woodward].
Fitzpayne. Fide Northumberland.
Fitzroy. Fide Richmond.
FitzUryan, " Sir Rees ap Thomas." Colours —
white. Badge — a raven sable standing on
a turf vert [Standard — MS. L 2, Coll.
Arms].
FitzUryan, "Sir Griffith ap Res." Colours —
gules and azure. Badge — a quatrefoil
slipped argent leaved vert charged with a
raven sable. Motto — Et pullis corvoru in-
vocat ibiscum [Standard — MS. L 2, Coll.
Arms].
Fitzwalter. Fide Ratcliffe.
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Fitzwalter, Lord. Colours — azure. Badges-
(i) a man-tiger purpure with feet as well
as the head human, on the latter a chapeau
or, turned up ermine ; (2) an estoile or ;
(3) a "garbralle " argent. Motto — Je gar-
deray [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Fitzwarren, Lord. Badge — a Bourchier's knot
[MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16]. (Fig. 24).
Fitzwilliam, Wm. Colours — azure and or.
Badges — (i) an ibex sable, maned and
tufted argent ducally gorged and chained
or, on the shoulder a mullet for difference ;
(2) a trefoil slipped argent. Motto — Loyall
et s'aprouvara [Standard — MS. L 2, Coll.
Arms].
Foljambe, Sir Godfrey of Walton, Derby.
Colours — four stripes red and white.
Badges — (i) a chatloup (or catwolfe) pas-
sant quarterly or and sable armed or; (2)
a human leg couped at the thigh vested
per pale gold and sable, spurred or. Motto
— Demoures ferme [Standard — MS. L 2,
Coll. Arms].
Forbes {Clan). Badge — broom [Cussans].
Fortescue, " Mayster John." Colours — vert.
Badges — ( i ) a heraldic tyger passant argent
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maned and tufted or ; (2) an antique shield
argent charged with the word " Fort ; "
(3) a mullet pierced sable. Motto — Je
pense loyalement [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms].
Fortescue, Sir Adryan. Colours — vert. Badges
— (i) a heraldic tiger passant argent, maned
and tufted or, charged on the shoulders
with a crescent sable ; (2) an antique shield
argent charged with the word " Fort ; " (3)
a mullet argent charged with a crescent
sable. Motto — Loyalte pensee [Standard —
MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Fraser (Clan). Badge — yew [Cussans],
Fynch, Sir William of Ikylsham, Sussex.
Colours — red. Badge — a finch vert, wings
elevated and expanded or, standing on a
thistle slipped proper. Motto — ^Je respon-
deray [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Garnon, Sir Richard " of Canndyshe." Colours
— four stripes gules and argent. Badges —
(i) a pellet ; (2) the blade of a scythe
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
George III. Badges — (i) a rose crowned
(England) (Fig. 2) ; (2) a thistle crowned
(Scotland) (Fig. 3) ; (3) a harp crowned
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Heraldic Badges
(Ireland) (Fig. 5) ; (4) a trefoil slipped
(shamrock) crowned (Ireland) (Fig. 4) ;
(5) a Tudor rose, on the dexter side a
thistle, on the sinister a shamrock, all issuant
from the same stalk and surmounted by the
Imperial crown (United Kingdom) (Fig. 6) ;
(6) on a mount vert a dragon passant gules
(Wales — N.B. : there is no crown used
with this badge) (Fig. 8) ; (7) the crowned
cypher.
Gifford. Vide Gy fFord.
Gloucester, Duke of (Thomas of Woodstock,
s. of King Edward III.). Badges — (i) a
swan argent ; (2) an ostrich feather erect,
with a garter laid along the quiU, buckle
downwards, below which a small scroll ;
(3) " the fox tayle " (J. Harding, " Chron.,''
p. 341) [Doyle] ; (4) the stock or root of
a tree [Seal].
Gloucester, Duke of (Humphrey of Lancaster,
s. of King Henry IV.). Badges — (i) an
ostrich feather the quill studded with
fleurs-de-Iys. Motto — Loyalle et belle
[Doyle] ; (2) a swan.
"The Swanne is goon."
[Political Verses, 1449 — " Excerpta Historica."]
Gloucester, Duke of (King Richard III.).
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Badges — (i) "ye whyt boore ; " (2) "the
redd bull ; " (3) " the embrydylled horse "
[MS. Ashm. 840, f. 221]. Colours — blue
and murrey [Doyle],
Gonthorpe, Mr. John. Baage — a saltire, on
the sal tire a lion's head erased silver [MS.
Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Gordon (Clan). Badge — ivy [Seton],
Graham [Clan). Badge — laurel [Seton].
Grant (Clan), Badge — cranberry heath [Cus-
sans].
Gray. Vide Kent.
Gray, Sir Thomas. Badge — a scaling-ladder
silver [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Grey. Vide Dorset, Kent, Lisle, SuiFolk.
Grey. Badge — a lion crowned and guardant
[Woodward].
Grey, Lord, of Codnor. Badge — a tress passant
through a crown of gold, and within the
compass of the tress a grey (or badger)
silver [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Grey de Ruthyn, Lord. Badge — a ragged staff
black [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Gulford ("Mayster"). Colours — four stripes
wavy azure and argent. Badge — a ragged
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stafF inflamed at top and sides all proper.
Motto — Loialmant je sers [Standard — MS.
1. 2, Coll. Arms].
Gulfordj Sir Henry, Kt. Colours — argent and
sable. Badge — a ragged staflF inflamed
charged with a mullet sable. Motto — Loyal-
mant je sers [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Gunn {Clan), Badge — rose -wort [Cussans].
GyfFord (" Mayster John GyiFord de Chelyng-
ton in StafFs."). Colours — blue. Badge — a
stirrup gold. Motto — Preignes alaine
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Harington. Vide Haryngton.
Harington. Badge — a fret or *' Harington
knot " [Planche].
Harleston. Colours — argent. Badge — a cypher
like a quatrefoil voided. Motto — Regard et
sovien [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Harvy, George, of Therley, Beds. Colours —
gbld and red, four stripes. Badge — an ounce
passant sable, spotted, collared, chained and
holding in the forepaw a trefoil slipped or.
Motto — Ne oblira James [Standard — MS. I.
2, Coll. Arms].
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Haryngton, Sir James. Badge — a lion's head
[MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. i6].
Hastings. Vide Huntingdon.
Hastings. Badge — a maunch [Woodward].
(This badge, the charge upon the shield
of Hastings, is still made use of in a
curious method. The liveries of the present
Earl of Loudoun, who is the heir of the
Hastings family, are white, but on full-
dress occasions his servants wear over their
white liveries a black maunch upon one
arm, this being fastened at the shoulder.)
Hastings, Sir Ralph. Badge — a chafron silver,
with three ostrich feathers or [MS. Coll.
Arms, 2nd M. i6].
Hastings, Lord (William de Hastings, d. 1483).
Badge — "Blake bouU hed rasid, horns &
bout the neke a croune gold" [MS. Coll.
Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Hastings, and Hungerford, Lord (Edward de
Hastings, d. 1506). Badge — (Hungerford)
a sickle and garb entwined and linked by
a knot. Colours — "A lit blew & a sad"
[MS. Harl. 4632]. {Vide Fig. 39.)
Hastings, Lord. Colours — purple and blue.
Badges — (i) a bull's head erased sable
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ducally gorged and armed ; (2) a sickle
erect argent, handle or, and a garb of the
last, the two being connected by a knot ;
(3) three sickles interlaced. Motto — Lame
tiondray [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Heneage, Sir Thomas. Badge — a heart-shaped
knot. Motto — " Fast tho' untied " [Wood-
ward, Planche]. {Vide Fig. 25.)
Henry II. Badges — (i) a gold escarbuncle
[Burke (who states it to be an ancient mark
of the house of Anjou), Boutell] ; (2) a
sprig of broom plant (JPlanta genista) [Burke,
Boutell] (Cussans suggests ^^ Planta Ange-
venista^'^ i.e. the plant of Anjou) {vide
Fig. 15) ; (3) a genet between two sprigs of
broom [Burke] ; (4) a sword and olive-
branch [Cotton, Boutell] ; (5) an eagle
[Planch6].
Henry III. Badges — (i) a sprig of broom
[Burke] (vide Fig. 15) ; (2) a crescent sur-
mounted bjya star [Great Seal]. ( Vide Fig. 18.)
Henry III. Mandate issued to Edward Fitz
Odo ^'to cause a dragon to be made in
fashion of a standard of red silk sparkling
all over with gold, the tongue of which
should be made to resemble burning fire
and appear to be continually moving, the
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Flc;.
j:)-
A design troiii '• Prince Arthur's L'dok," showing the tollowing
hailges : (rt) the '• rosc-en-solcil " ; (/>) the flcur-ilc-Hs ; (c) the
sun in splendour ; (</) the wliitc lion of March.
Fk;. 36.
A design troni "Prince Arthur's Book," showing (^a) the Cross
of St. George 5 (A) tlie Bohun swan ; (c) the Heur-de-lis,
A List of Badges
eyes of sapphires or other suitable stones
and to place it in the Church of St. Peter
at Westminster" [17 June, 1244 — "Ex-
cerpta Historica "].
Henry IV. Colours (of Lancaster) — white and
blue. Badges — (i) a silver swan (Bohun)
[Burke, Boutell, Cussans (who adds "du-
cally gorged ")] ; (2) a white antelope
[Burke] ; (3) a fox-tail proper [Camden] ;
(4) the letters S. S. [Burke, Boutell,
Cussans] ; (5) sun in splendour (2nd Gt.
Seal), rose-en-soleil (2nd Gt. Seal) (Fig. 16) ;
(6) an ostrich feather erect [Seal] ; (7) a
crowned eagle [Harl. MS.] ; (8) an eagle
displayed [Boutell] ; (9) a red rose [Bou-
tell] ; (10) a columbine flower [Boutell]
(11) a crowned panther [Harl. MS.]
(12) the stock of a tree [Harl. MS. 4^32]
(13) a crescent [HoUingshed ; but? if a
cresset is not meant]; (14) a gennet
passant between two sprigs of broom
[Tomb] ; (15) an eagle displayed [Tomb].
Fide Lancaster, Duke of. (Queen Joan of
Navarre used as a badge an ermine collared
and chained.) MoUo — " A temperance."
Henry V. Colours — ^white and blue. Badges —
(i) a swan, wings elevated argent, beaked
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and legged gules, ducally gorged and a
chain reflexed over the back or ("by the
howse of Herforth," i,e. Hereford) ; (2)
the trunk of a tree eradiated or (" by the
howse of Herforth *') ; (3) a red rose barbed
and seeded proper ("for the howse of Lan-
caster ") ; (4) an heraldic antelope statant
argent, ducally gorged and chained or, armed
tufted and unguled of the last. Motto —
"Dieu et mon Droyt" [all the foregoing
from Standards — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms] ;
(5) a fire-beacon [Sir Wm. Segar ; also
frieze in chantry] ; (6) an heraldic ante-
lope lodged [Standard]. (The swan, the
antelope lodged, both chained to the fire-
beacon and conjoined into one device, are
on his tomb in Westminster Abbey) ; (7)
a fox tail [Planche] ; (8) ostrich feather
argent [Planche].
Henry VI. Badges — (i) a spotted panther
passant guardant [Harl. MS.] ; (2) two
ostrich feathers in saltire, one silver, the
other gold [Burke, Boutell, Cussans, and
Woodward] ; (3) a chained antelope [Bou-
tell] ; (4) (J) an eagle.
"The Cornysshe chawghe (Trevillan) ofFt w* his trayne
Hath made our egull blynde."
[Political Poem, 144.9 — "Excerpta Historica."]
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A List of Badges
Queen Margaret of Anjou, Badge — a daisy
with the motto, " Humble et loiall."
Henry VII. Colours — argent and vert [Stan-
dard— MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms]. Badges — (i)
The red dragon of Cadwalladar [Burke and
Woodward.] (N.B. — This badge was not
originally, as now, shown passant upon a
green mount. The mount, no doubt, ori-
ginated from the fact that the red dragon
was used upon a standard of the livery
colours (Tudor), white and green. Wood-
ward refers to another standard, in which
the red dragon is inflamed and the field
seme of flames. The dragon, according
to early Welsh tradition, was of "ruddy
gold," and is to be found both red and gold.)
(2) A gold portcullis [Standard — MS.
I. 2, Coll. Arms], with the motto "Altera
securitas." (Woodward suggests the trans-
lation of the motto, " Two-door," or a second
door, as a pun on the name Tudor.) {Vide
Fig. 19.)
(3) The Tudor rose. (This was vari-
ously represented. Burke and Woodward
both mention the forms {a) quarterly argent
and gules, and (J?) a white rose superimposed
upon a red rose ; whilst Woodward also
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Heraldic Badges
mentions {c) per pale argent and gules. On
one of this king*s standards (MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms) both red roses barbed and
seeded proper, and white roses barbed and
seeded proper, are found, as also " a red
rose surmounted of a white rose with two
buds slipped vert," and "a red rose sur-
mounted of a white rose encircled by rays
of the sun gold.")
(4) The Royal Crown, in or above a
bush of hawthorn, combined with the Royal
Cypher. (Woodward, who recites the story
that after the battle of Bosworth the golden
circlet of King Richard's helm was found
in a hawthorn bush, and with this Lord
Stanley crowned King Henry on the battle-
field.)
(5) Flames of fire [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms].
(6) A white greyhound, collared gules
[Standard— MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
(7) A fleur-de-lis or [Standard— MS. I.
2, Coll. Arms].
(8) A dun cow [a yellow standard charged
with a dun cow is mentioned in HalFs
« Chronicle "].
(9) A falcon standing on a fetterlock
[Cussans].
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Fig. 37.
A design from "Prince Arthur's Book," showing (a) the Cross of
St. George 5 {b) the crowned Tudor rose j (<:) the dragon }
{d) the "sun-burst"; {e) the crowned portcullis,- (/) the
fleur-de-lis; {g) the greyhound.
A List of Badges
(lo) The ''sun-burst" (vide Fig. 19).
Henry VIII. Colons — argent and vert. Badges
— (i) a red rose [Burke] ; (2) the Tudor
roses [Standard] (a rose gules, surmounted
of another argent, on a stalk with two buds
proper. Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms) ;
(3) a fleur-de-lis or [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms] ; (4) a portcullis or [Burke,
Woodward] ; (5) a red dragon [Standard —
MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms] ; (6) a silver cock
with red comb and wattles [Burke] ; (7) a
rose and pomegranate dimidiated [Tourna-
ment Roll] [vide Fig. 1 7) ; (8) flames of fire
[Standard— MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms]. Motto —
Dieu et mon droyt.
Katharine of Arragon, Badges — (i) a
pomegranate ; (2) a sheaf of arrows silver ;
(3) the two foregoing dimidiated into one
device.
Anne Boleyne. Badge^ — a silver falcon
[Burke], a falcon with crown and sceptre
[Woodward and Boutell] ; a falcon argent,
on the stump of a tree erased or, holding
a sceptre of the last and before him, issuing
from the stump, a bunch of flowers argent
and gules, stalked vert [Cussans].
Jane Seymour, Badge — a phoenix [Burke],
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a phoenix rising from a castle between two
Tudor roses [Boutell].
Anne of Cleves. Badge — a black lion
charged on the shoulder with a gold escar-
buncle [Burke].
Katharine Parr, Badge — a maiden's head
issuing from a Tudor rose [Burke] ; the
head crowned [Cussans].
Herbert. Vide Pembroke and Chamberlain
(Lord).
Hereford, Earl of (Humphrey de Bohun, d.
1322). Badge — a swan [Doyle].
Hereford, Viscount (Walter Devereux, d. 1558).
Badges — ( i ) a " French wife's " hood argent ;
(2) a horseshoe or [Doyle].
Heron, John, " Chevalyer, Tresorier de la Cham-
bre du Roy." Colours — red. Badges (i) a
falcon argent, charged with three bars sable,
on the first one, on the second two, and on
the third three bezants, preying on a par-
tridge or ; (2) a heron's head erased argent,
beaked and ducally gorged or. Motto — Verite
le demonstre [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Holand. Vide Exeter.
Hopton, " Mayster." Colours — gules. Badge
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— a griffin passant argent, wings erect or,
beaked and tufted of the last, grasping in
the dexter claw a pellet. MoUo — " Leyalte
sansein " [Standard — MS. L 2, Coll. Arms].
Howard. Fide Arundel, Nottingham, Norfolk,
and Stafford.
Howard. Badge — white lion [Woodward].
Howgan, " Mayster." Colours — or and sable.
Badges — (i) a cockatrice gules ; (2) a mart-
let [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Howth, Lord (The Lord Hawth of Irland).
Colours — four stripes argent and gules.
Badge — a wolf statant of a " dark tawny,"
with fins along the back belly and upon the
hind legs of a " water colour " [Standard
MS. L 2, Coll. Arms].
Hungerford. Fide Hastings.
Hungerford, Lord. Badge — a sickle [tomb in
Salisbury Cathedral].
Hungerford, Sir John. Colours — red and green.
Badges — (i) a sickle erect argent, handle
gules, banded or, charged on the blade with
a mullet ; (2) three sickles as foregoing,
interlaced round a mullet [Standard — MS.
L 2, Coll. Arms].
Hunsdon. Badge — swan [Woodward].
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Huntingdon, Earl of (George Hastings, d.
1545). Colours — purple and blue. Badges
— (i) three sickles entwined argent, the
handles outward gules ; (2) a sickle as
above ; (3) a sickle as above and a garb
argent, conjoined by a cord in fret or.
[MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms]. Motto — La me
tiendra. (Vide Fig. 39.)
Huntingdon, Earl of (Francis Hastings, d.
1560). Livery — blue [H. Machin, "Diary,"
P- 13]-
Huntingdon, Earl of (George Hastings, d.
1604). Livery — 1601, "A blew coat with
a Cognizance, being a Bull's head set
upon the sleeve of the same " [Hey wood
Townshend, "Hist. Collections," p. 286].
Huntingdon, Earl of (Henry Hastings, d.
1595). Colours — russet and blue [Doyle].
Hussey, Lord. Colours — gold and green.
Badge — a hind lodged and regardant argent,
collared and chained or [Standard — MS. L
2, Coll. Arms].
Ichyngham, "Mayster." Colours — gold. Badge
— a hawk's lure per fesse azure and argent,
the azure fretty argent, the string of the
last [Standard — MS. L 2, Coll. Arms].
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India. Badges — the Star of India (as the Star
of that Order of Knighthood) ; the lotus
flower [there is no official authority for
either as a badge],
Inglefield (Sir Thomas Ingelfeld). Badge — an
eagle displayed with two heads per pale
gules and azure [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms],
Ireland. Badges — (i) the shamrock (trefoil
slipped) vert, crowned [Royal Warrant]
(Fig. 4) ; (2) the harp crowned [Royal
Warrant] (Fig. 5).
James I. Badges — (i) the Tudor rose [Burke] ;
(2) the fleur-de-lis [Burke] ; (3) the harp
(Ireland) [Burke] ; (4) the thistle (Scotland)
[Burke] ; (5) a Tudor rose dimidiated
with a thistle and surmounted by a Royal
crown [Burke], with the motto " Beati paci-
fici " [Cussans].
James II. (of Scotland). Badge — annulet [Great
Seal].
James III. (of Scotland). The first Scottish
King to use the badge of the thistle.
James III. (of Scotland). Badge — fleur-de-lis
[Great Seal],
James IV. (of Scotland). Badges — trefoil [Great
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Heraldic Badges
Seal] ; mullet [Privy Seal] ; crescent [Privy
Seal].
John (King). Badges — (i) a crescent sur-
mounted by a star [Silver penny] {vide
Fig. i8); (2) the broom plant [Cussans].
(Vide Fig. 15.)
Kent, Countess of (Joan the Fair Maid of
Kent). Badge — a white hind lodged ['^ the
Whyte Hynd by the fayre mayden of
Kent'' [Harl. MS. 304, fol. 12].
Kent, Earl of (William Neville, Lord Faucon-
berg, d. 1463). Colours — white and blue.
Badge — "an hangulhooke " "ye fyshoke "
[Doyle].
" The Fissher hath lost his Hangulhook."
[Political Poem, 1449 — " Excerpta Historica."]
Kent, Earl of (The Lord Gray). Colours — ^gules.
Badge — a wyvern with wings endorsed or
[Standard — MS. L 2, Coll. Arms],
Kent, Earl of (George Grey). Badge — 1475,
" blak ragyd staffe " [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd
M. 16] ; "a ragged staff in bend sinister
sable." Motto — " De bon vouloir." Colour
— scarlet [Doyle].
Kent, Earl of. Badge — a bear argent [Cus-
sans].
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A List of Badges
Kirkham ("Syr John Kerkh'm of Blakedon,
Devon"). Colours — gules. Badge — a lion's
head erased argent. MoUo — Ever to be
trew [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Knowles. Badge — an elephant [Cussans].
Kyngeston, Sir William. Colours — azure and
or. Badge — a goat argent rearing against
and browsing on a tree eradicated vert
[Standard MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Lacy. Badge — the Lacy knot [Planche]. (Fide
Fig. 26.)
Lamont (Clan). Badge — crab-apple tree [Cus-
sans].
Lancaster, Earl of (Edmund Crouchback).
Badge — the red rose [Tomb, according to
Camden],
Lancaster, Duke of (Henry, d. 1361). Badges —
(i) the rose [Seal] ; (2) a red rose crowned
[Harl. MS. 4632] ; (3) a fox- tail proper
[Harl. MS. 4632] ; (4) the ostrich feather
the pen ermine [Harl. MS. 4632]. Colours —
white and blue.
Lancaster, Duke of (John of Ghent). Colours
— white and blue [Doyle]. Badges — (i)
an ostrich feather ermine [Doyle] ; (2)
an ostrich feather argent [Doyle] ; (3) a
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Heraldic Badges
padlock [Planche] ; (4) an eagle standing
on a fetterlock [Doyle] ; (5) a red rose
[Camden. The will of the Duke mentions
his bed powdered with roses] ; (6) a white
falcon holding a padlock in its beak [Wood-
ward]. (A roundle sable, charged with three
ostrich feathers ermine appeared in a window
of Old St. Paul's opposite the tomb of John
of Gaunt.)
Lancaster, Duke of (Henry IV.). Badges — (i)
an ostrich feather erect wound about four
times by a scroll inscribed " So-ve-rey-gne,'*
beginning at the lower end ; (2) the letter
^ > (3) ^ swan argent, ducally collared and
chained or (for Bohun) ; (4) an antelope or ;
(5) a rose gules ; (6) a blazing cresset or
fire-pot [Doyle]. Vide Henry IV.
Lancaster, Duke of (Henry V.) Badges — 1401
(i) a swan [R. Pari., p. 478] ; (2) an ostrich
feather erect argent with a small scroll across
the lower part of the quill inscribed " Ich
dien " [Doyle]. (These two were some-
times conjoined, the feather being held in
the beak, and two in this form are some-
times quoted as his supporters.)
Lancaster Herald. Badge — a rose gules,
crowned. (In use.)
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A List of Badges
Langford, Sir Nicholas. Badge — two wings
silver [MS. Coll. Arms. 2nd M. 16].
Latimer, Lord. Badge — a human heart. Motto
— A Dieu et a ma fiancee [Woodward].
Laware, Alphyn, The Lord. Colours — gules
and azure. Badges — (i) a male griffin ;
(2) a crampet or (Lord de la Warr)
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
La Zouche. Badge — falcon [Woodward],
Leicester, Earl of (Robert Fitzpernell). Badge
— a cinquefoil ermine (probably a pimpernel
flower alusive to his mother's name) [Seal].
Leicester, Earl of (Simon de Montfort). Banner
— per pale indented argent and gules (some-
times stated to pertain to the Honour of
Hinckley) [Roll, temp. Henry III.].
Leicester, Earl of (Robert Dudley). Badge — a
ragged staff argent. Colours — or and blue
[MS. Harl. 2076].
Lincoln, Earl of (Edward Clinton, d. 1585).
Badge— ^n anchor erect argent, the stock
flukes and two ropes extended in curves out-
wards and down each side or [MS. Harl.
2076] (? if this is not merely his official
badge as Lord High Admiral. Compare
with present Admiralty flag). Livery —
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Heraldic Badges
1552, "Cottes blake & brodered with
whyt" [Hen. Machyn, "Diary," p. 20].
Lisle. Colours — blue. Badges — (i) a hart
lodged argent, attired ducally gorged and
chained or, within a circular wreath white
and gold set round with lilies, some full
blown, others in bud ; (2) a lily slipped.
Motto — En bon heure puisse [Standard —
MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Lisle, Viscount (Edward Grey, d. 14,92).
Badge — 1475, "Lyon sylv. showyng hole-
face, crouned gold, enarmed azur" [MS.
Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Lisle, Viscount (Sir Charles Brandon). Colours
— four stripes gules and argent. Badges —
(i) on a rock azure, an eagle or, wings
elevated azure, outer feathers or, beaked
and legged purpure, holding in the dexter
claw a bird or ; (2) a lion's head erased or,
gutte de larmes [Standard — MS. L 2, Coll.
Arms].
Lisle, Viscount (Arthur Plantagenet, d. 1542).
Colours — blue and purple (four stripes).
[MS. L 2, Coll. Arms].
Loveday. Colours — or and argent. Badge —
a wolf courant [Standard — MS. L 2, Coll.
Arms],
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A List of Badges
Lovel, Viscount (Francis Lovel, d. 1487).
Badge — a square-cornered padlock [MS.
Ashmole, 1121].
Lucy ("Mayster Lusey"). Colours — azure.
Badge — a lucy erect argent. Motto — By
trwt be delegence [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms].
MacAUister (Clan), Badge — five-leaved heath
[Cussans].
Macdonald (Clan). Badge — bell-heath [Seton].
Macfarlane (Clan), Badge — cloudberry bush.
MacDonnell (Clan), Badge — mountain heath
[Cussans].
MacDougal(C/^«). Badge — cypress [Cussans].
MacGregor (Clan), Badge — pine [Seton].
Macintosh (Clan), Badge — box (Cussans).
MacKay (Clan). Badge — bull-rush [Cussans].
MacKenzie (Clan). Badge — deer grass [Cus-
sans].
MacKinnon (Clan), Badge — St. John's wort
[Cussans].
MacLachlan (Clan), " Badge — mountain ash
[Cussans].
MacLean(C/(^«). Badge — blackberry [Cussans].
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Heraldic Badges
MacLeod [Clan), Badge — red whortleberries
[Cussans].
MacNab (Clan). Badge — rose buckberries
[Cussans].
MacNeil (Clan), Badge — sea ware [Cussans].
MacPherson (Clan). Badge — variegated box
[Cussans].
MacQuarrie {Clan). Badge — black thorn
[Cussans].
MacRae (Clan). Badge — fir club moss [Cus-
sans].
Malnwaring. Badge — an ass's head sable
[Cussans].
Mainwaring, John " de Pevyr in com Chester
Armiger." Colours — gules and or. Badge
— a scythe argent. Motto — A la confucion
des Ennemis [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms],
Manners. Vide Roos and Rutland.
March, Earl of (Roger Mortimer, d. 1360.
Badge — a rose argent. [MS. Ashm. 1121,
P- ^ZS\
March, Earl of (Roger Mortimer, d. 1398).
Colours — red and white [Doyle].
Markham (" Mayster Marcam "). Colours —
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A List of Badges
azure. Badge — a lion of St. Mark, tail
twisted round the leg and reflected over
the back or, supporting in his fore paws
a lyre (.? horse hames) unstringed of the
last [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Marmion. Badge— 3.n ape passant argent,
** ringed and chained gold [Harl. MS., No.
1453, fol. 158^.]
Mary I., Queen. Badges — (i) "The Tudor
rose and the Pomegranate knit together "
[Burke] (vide Fig. 17) ; (2) winged Time
drawing Truth from a Pit, with the motto,
" Veritas temporis filia " [First Great Seal] ;
(3) a sheaf of arrows dimidiated with the
Tudor rose on a ground of green and blue
[Burke] ; (4) a crowned rose [Burke] ; (5)
a red rose within a white one, impaled by
dimidiation with a sheaf of arrows or, tied
with a golden knot upon a semi-circular
field argent and vert, the whole surrounded
with rays and ensigned with an open crown
or [Woodward] ; (6) an altar, thereon a
sword erect with the motto, " Arae et regni
custodia" ["Antiquarian Discourses," by
Sir Richard Cotton, vol. i. p. 112.]
Mary, Queen (of Scotland). Badge — crowned
thistle.
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Heraldic Badges
Massyngberd, Sir Thomas, of Gunby, Co. Lines.
Colours — four stripes, red and gold. Badge
— two arrows in saltire argent [Standard —
MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Mauleverer. Badge — a greyhound [Wood-
ward].
Menzies (Clan), Badge — ash [Cussans],
Montacute. Badge — talbot [Woodward].
Montacute,Lord. Badge — a buck [Woodward] ;
a roebuck [Cussans].
Montagu, Baron (Henry Pole, d. 1539). Colours
— blue and red, four stripes [Doyle].
Montford, Sir Simon. Badge — fleur-de-lys
gold [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Montgomery, Sir Thomas. Badge — a fleur-de-
lis [Seton].
Mordaunt, " Mayster " John. Badge — an eagle's
head erased argent, ducally gorged gules,
charged with three estoiles sable, holding in
the beak a cinquefoil argent slipped vert.
Motto — Lucem tuam da Nobis [Standard —
MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Morley, Lord. Badge — bear's head muzzled
[Woodward].
Mortimer. Vide March.
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A List of Badges
Mortimer. Badge — a wolf argent.
Mowbray. Fide Norfolk.
Mowbray. Badge — mulberry (leaf and fruit)
[Woodward].
Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton, Lord. Fide
Stourton.
Munford. Badge — a fleur-de-lis gules [Cus-
sans.]
Murray (Clan), Badge — Juniper [Seton],
Mylton ("Mayster"). Colour — gules. Badges —
(i) a snake coiled proper ; (2) a trefoil
slipped argent, the leaves inscribed with the
letters A. B. C. [Standard— MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Nevill. Fide Abergavenny, Kent, Warwick.
Nevill. Badge — a galley sable [Woodward].
Neville. Badge — dun bull [Woodward, Cus-
sans].
Neville. Badge — annulet [Woodward].
Neville. Badge — a fret or [Cussans].
Neville. Badges — (i) ship [Woodward] ; (2)
ship's buoy [Woodward] ; (3) staples
[Woodward].
Newport, Sir Thomas, Bailiff of Egle. Colours
— red. Badges — (i) a stag trippant or,
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Heraldic Badges
ducally gorged of the last ; (2) a vine
branch argent. Motto — Esperance me
grandement comforte [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms].
Norfolk, Duke of (Mowbray). Badge — mul-
berry tree [Seton].
Norfolk, Duke of (Thomas Mowbray, Duke and
Earl of Norfolk, d. 1 400). Badge — ( 1387)
" Pennis coronata
>»
J. Gower, " Chronica
tripartita : " Political Poems, I. p. 419].
Norfolk, Duke of (John Mowbray, d. 146 1).
Badges — (i) " the white lyoun — "
" The white lyon Is leyde to slepe."
[Political Poems, II. p. 222.]
(2) an ostrich feather erect, a chain laid
along the quill [Seal, 1442.]
Norfolk, Duke of (John Mowbray, d. 1476).
Badge— {i^^S) ^ " whytt lyon " [MS. Coll.
of Arms, 2nd M. 16]. Livery — "Blewe
and tawny, and blew on the leiFte syde and
bothe darke colors " [" Paston Letters,'* II.
P- 355]-
Norfolk, Duke of (John Howard). Badge —
1475, "Whytt lyon, on his sheulde, cres-
sant azur " [MS. Coll. of Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Norfolk, Duke of (Thomas Howard, d. 1524).
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A List of Badges
Badge— i^^Sy " Salet silv." [MS. Coll. of
Arms, 2nd M. i6]. Colours — argent and
gules [Doyle]. {Vide Fig. 21.)
Norreys, John, Esquire of the Body to Henry
VI. Badge — a conduit.
" The Coundite rennyth not as I wene."
[Political Poems, 1449 — "Excerpta Histoiica."]
Northampton, Earl of (William de Bohun, d.
1360). Colours — Black and red [Lansd.
MS. 856].
Northampton, Marquess of (William Parre, d.
1 571). Liveries — 1571, yellow and black
[H. Machyn, p. 13].
Northumberland, Earl of (Henry Percy, d.
1407). Badge — ** Cressans, as braas"
["Acts of the Privy Council," I. p. 210].
Northumberland, Earl of (Henry Percy, d.
1489). Badges — (1) a crescent argent ; (2)
a shacklebolt or, within a crescent argent
[Doyle].
Northumberland, Earl of (Henry Algernon
Percy, d. 1527). Colours — russet, yellow,
and tawny. Badges — (i) the blue lion pas-
sant (Percy) ; (2) a silver key crowned
(Poynings) ; (3) a blue bugle horn sans
strings, garnished gold (Bryan) ; (4) a
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Heraldic Badges
falchion hiked or and sheathed sable (Fitz-
payne) ; (5) the silver crescent (Percy) ;
(6) the gold "locket" (or manacles)
(Percy) ; (7) a unicorn passant argent,
ducally gorged and lined or [Poynyngs] ;
(8) a boar statant argent, ducally gorged
and lined or ; (9) a leopard statant argent,
sem6 of torteaux and hurts, crowned or
(Percy). Motto — Esperance en Dieu
[Standards]. {Vide Fig. 30.)
Northumberland, Duke of ' (Dudley, K.G.).
Colours — gules. Badges — ( i ) a lion passant
guardant argent, ducally crowned or ; (2) a
staff raguly erect or. Motto — Ung Dieu,
ung Roy, servir Je doy [Standard — MS. I.
2, Coll. Arms].
Northumberland, Duke of (John Dudley, d.
1553). Standard— IS S'^y " ^^^ damaske, a
whyt lyon silver, and with ragyd stayifes "
[H. Machyn, "Diary," p. 19]. Liveries—
"Cotes alle blake wellevet in-brodery the
alff, & th'odur blake in-brodery whyt &
red" [Ibid]. Badges— {i) a bear argent,
muzzled gules, collar and chain or, sup-
porting a ragged staff of the first ; (2) a
ragged staff erect argent ; (3) a cinquefoil
pierced ermine [Doyle].
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A List of Badges
Norton, Sir John, Kt. Colours — red. Badge —
a greyhound's head erased in front of two
wings erect all or [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms].
Norwich, Earl of (Edward Denny, d. 1630).
Liveries — 1603, "Blew livery coates and
white dublets, hattes and feathers" [E.
Howes, " Annales," p. 822].
Norys, Sir Walter. Badge — black raven's head
erased [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Nottingham, Earl of (William Berkeley, cr.
1483). Badge — a unicorn statant gules,
armed unguled maned and tufted or
[Doyle].
Nottingham, Earl of (Charles Howard, d.
1624). Liveries — 1605. 'Trumpeters —
orange colour damask, with clokes of cloth
of the same colour. Footmen — orange-
tawny velvet. Pages — velvet of the same
colour, with their clokes suitable. Teomen
— clokes of orange-tawny cloth, garded
with silver and blue silk lace [Robert Tres-
well, Somerset Herald, " Somers Tracts,"
II., p. 72].
Ogilvie (Clan), Badge — Hawthorn [Cussans].
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Heraldic Badges
Ogle. Badge — a red bull's head [Woodward] ;
a bulFs head erased argent [Cussans].
Oliphant {Clan), Badge — maple [Cussans],
Ormonde. Badge — the Ormonde knot [Plan-
che, Woodward, Cussans]. [Vide Fig. 23.)
Ormonde, Earl of. Badge — "a pair of key-
thongs" {sky but drawn as an animal)
[MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Oxford, Earl of (Hugh de Vere, d. 1263).
Badge — a boar's head [Sig. Secretum].
Oxford, Earl of (John de Vere, d. 1513).
Badge — a mullet argent, charged with
another azure [Doyle].
Oxford, Earl of (John de Vere, d. 1540).
Badge — a mullet [Doyle].
Oxford, Earl of (John de Vere, d. 1562).
Badges — (i) a mullet argent; (2) a stag
statant argent, attired unguled and tufted
o^ 5 (3) ^ long-necked round-bottle bar-
wise argent, suspended by a cord azure ;
(4) "a chayer of Estate, with cooshins all
gold in it" [MS. Vincent, 172, Coll.
Arms].
Oxford, Earl of (Sir John Vere). Badges — ( i )
a boar statant azure, armed unguled and
bristled or, charged with a crescent argent ;
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Fig. 40.
The bottle of
de Vere, Earls
of Oxford.
Fig. 38.
The King's cypher.
Fig. 39.
The badge of the Lords
Hastings.
Fig. 41.
The *' Garde-bras"
of Ratcliff.
Fig. 43.
Queen Victoria's
cypher.
Fig. 42.
The " drag " of the Lords
Stourton.
Fig. 44.
Queen Victoria's
cypher.
A List of Badges
(2) a mullet argent, charged with a crescent
azure [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Oxford, Earls of (De Vere). Badges — (i) a
boar azure [Stowe's " Survey of London "] ;
(2) " The Earls of Oxford also used a bottle
argent, suspended by a cord azure, in right
of their hereditary office of Lord High
Chamberlain ; or possibly this badge was
only a Rebus,'and was intended to represent
verre a glass bottle. Over the west window
of the church at Castle Hedingham, Essex,
this badge appears as in the margin '*
(Fig. 40) [Cussans].
Parre. Fide Northampton.
(i^) Parre (" Sir Thomas ap Per, Kt "). Colours
— or and sable. Badge — a woman's head
affrontee couped at the shoulders argent,
crined or, vested gules, fimbriated or
[Standard — MS. L 2, Coll. Arms].
Paston, Sir Wm., of Paston, Norfolk. Colours
— red. Badge — a circular chain or. Motto
— Si je pense [Standard — MS. L 2, Coll.
Arms].
Paulet. Vide Winchester.
Peche, Sir John, Kt. Colours — blue. Badge —
a peach slipped argent charged with the
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Heraldic Badges
letter «E" [Standard— MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms],
Pelham. Badge — a buckle argent (or sometimes
gold). (This badge is now used by the
Duke of Newcastle who is heir general,
by the Earl of Chichester who is heir male,
and by the Earl of Yarborough who is heir
general of a cadet line.)
It commemorates the part performed by
Sir John Pelham in the capture of the King
of France at the Battle of Poictiers, and is
no doubt taken from the augmentation to
his arms which was granted to him. These
arms of Pelham are borne of right by all the
above mentioned.
Pembroke. Badge — spear-head [Woodward].
Pembroke, The Earl of. Badge — " a draught
horse gold " (distinguished by having collar
and braces) [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. i6].
Pembroke, Earl of (William Herbert, d. 1570).
Badge — "the dragon grene" [MS. Ash-
mole, 840]. Livery — 1554, "Bluw cotes
gardyd with velvet and badge a gren dragon "
[H. Machyn, " Diary," p. 74].
Per. Vide Parre.
Percy. Vide Northumberland, Worcester.
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A List of Badges
Perth, Earl of. Badge — caltrap [Nisbet].
Peverell. Badge — pepper- sheaf [Woodward].
Peverel. Badge — a garb [Boutell].
Phyllypp ap Blederyke, Wales (Thomas F.).
Colours — gold. Badges ( i ) a lion statant
sable, collared and chained or ; (2) a mag-
pie proper [Standard — MS. 1. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Pierpoint, Sir William. Colours — four stripes
purple and white. Badge — a lion passant
sable grasping in the dexter paw a cinque-
foil or [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Pitt. Fide Chatham.
Plantagenet. Fide Lisle, Richmondand Somerset.
Plantagenet, Sir Arthur, Kt. Co/ours — four
stripes blue and purple. Badges — (i) a
lyon passant guardant cowarded argent, on
the breast a bendlet sinister gules ; (2) a
falcon within an open fetterlock all gold,
surmounted by a bendlet sinister. MoUo —
Dieu la volu [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Pole. Fide De la Pole and Montagu.
Ponyngs, Sir Edward. Colours — gules. Badges —
(i) a unicorn courant argent, armed and
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Heraldic Badges
unguled or ; (2) a key wards downwards
argent, ensigned with a ducal coronet or
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Poole, William, " in Wherhall, Chestershyre, of
Poole." Colours — argent. Badges — (i) a
stag's head caboshed gules, armed barry or
and azure ; (2) a griffin's head erased azure,
ducally gorged, beaked and eared or. Motto
— A vostre peril [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Portcullis Pursuivant. — Badge — a portcullis (In
Use).
Poynings. Vide Northumberland and Ponyngs.
RatclifFe. Vide Fitzwalter and Sussex.
Ratcliffe (" Mayster Ratleefe "). Colours — light
azure. Badges — (i) a man tiger purpure
with feet as well as head human, on the
latter a chapeau or, turned up ermine, and
suspended round the neck by a chain of gold,
a sun of the last and beneath a padlock or ;
(2) a bull's head erased sable armed, ducally
gorged and chained or ; (3) an estoile or
[Standard— MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
RatclifF (Fitzwalter), Sir John. Badge — a garde-
bras silver [MS, Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Raynsforth, Sir John. Colours — four stripes
136
(?c &J ¥l^3curf Qc -^
Fig. 45.
A design from " Prince Arthur's Book," showing a combination
of two of the badges of King Richard II.
A List of Badges
gold and red. Badges — (i) a greyhound
courant of a russet colour, plain collared or ;
(2) a buck's head caboshed azure. MoUo —
Passes avant [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Revers. Fide Devon.
Rich. Badge — a greyhound courant [Cussans,
Woodward].
Richard I. Badges — (i) a sprig of broom, the
pods open [First Great Seal] {vide Fig. 15) ;
(2) a crescent surmounted by a star [Great
Seal] (vide Fig. 18) ; (3) a mailed arm
grasping a broken lance. MoUo — " Christo
duce " [Cotton, Boutell] ; (4) a sun over
two anchors [Guillim].
Richard II. Badges — (i) a white hart lodged,
gorged with a gold coronet and chained
under a tree [Westminster Hall ; offigy,
Westminster Abbey] ; (2) a sprig of broom,
the cods open and empty [effigy, West-
minster Abbey] (vide Fig. 15) ; (3) the sun
in splendour [Standard MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms] ; (4) the eradicated stump of a tree
couped or [Burke, Boutell] ; (5) a white
falcon [Hollingshed] ; (6) the sun-burst
[effigy, Westminster Abbey] (vide Fig.
19) > (7) ^ white hart lodged, ducally
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Heraldic Badges
gorged and chained and armed and un-
guled or [MS. Chronicle, "Wardrode
Accounts," 1399. Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms], His wife. Queen Anne.
Badges — (i) an ostrich ducally gorged and
chained holding a passion nail in its beak ;
(2) a knot [both on her Q^gy^ Westminster
Abbey].
Richard III. Badges — (i) a silver boar, tusked
and bristled gold [Harl. MS. 4632] ; (2)
sun in splendour [Harl. MS. 4632] ; (3)
rose [Great Seal] ; (4) falcon with maid's
head [sculpture].
Richmond, Earl of (Edmund Tudor). Colours —
white and green [Doyle].
Richmond, Margaret, Countess of (Mother of
Henry VII.). Badge — ostrich feather
argent [Planche].
Richmond, Earl of (Henry VII.). Banners —
(i) " The ymage of Saint George " ; (2)
" A red firie dragon beaten upon whyte and
grene sarcenet " ; (3) " Of yelowe tarterne,
in the whyche was paynted a dunne cowe "
[Grafton, « Chron.," II. p. 158].
Richmond and Somerset, Duke of (Henry
Fitzroy, natural son of Henry VIII., d.
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1536). Colours — three stripes argent, azure
and or. Badges — (i) a lion passant guard-
ant, ducally gorged and chained ; (2) a rose
per fesse gules and argent, stalked and
leaved vert and issuant from the midst
thereof a demi-lion rampant argent, ducally
gored and chained or. MoUo — Debvoir me
oblige [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Richmond Herald. Badge — a red rose dimidiated
with a white rose-en-soleil, crowned. [In use.]
Rivers, Earl (Richard de Wydeville, d. 1469).
Badge — " Ye pychard & y^ pye " (i.e. a
pitcher and a magpie) [Wroxton MS.].
Rivers, Earl (Anthony Wydeville, d. 1483).
Badge — 1475, " Scaleipp silv '' [MS. Coll.
Arms, 2nd M. 16] ; *'The scalop schelles "
[Wroxton MS.].
Robertson (Clan). Badge — bracken [Seton].
Rodeneye. Badge — a boar's head couped sable
armed or, charged with a label of three
points azure [Standard MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Roos. Badge — silver water-bouget [Wood-
ward].
Roos, Lord (George Manners). Colours — azure
and or. Badge — a bull's head erased gules,
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armed ducally gorged and chained or. Motto
— Pour y parvenir [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms].
Rose [Clan), Badge — briar rose [Cussans].
Ross {Clan), Badge — bear-berries [Cussans].
Rouge Dragon Pursuivant. Badge — a red dragon.
Russell. Vide Bedford.
Russell. Badge — a goat courant the horns
wreathed or and azure [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms.]
Rutland, Earl of. Badge — a peacock [Cus-
sans].
Rutland, Earl of (Henry Manners, d. 1563).
Colours — yellow and blue [H. Machyn,
"Diary," p. 13]. Livery — 1552, "Cottes
bluw in-brodery [Ibid., p. 19].
Sacheverell (Richard, of Sadyngton, Co. Leics.).
Colours — red and gold. Badge — a hawk's
lure stringed or, per fesse purpure and
azure, the purpure fretty or, the azure
charged with a water-bouget, and thereon a
hawk argent, bells on his feet and one on
his tail or. Motto — Trowthe byndith me
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
St. John. Vide Tregoze. Badge — horse-collar
[Woodward].
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St. John. Badge — falcon [Woodward].
St. Leger ("Sant Legyre"). Colours — blue.
Badges — ( i ) a griffin passant wings elevated
or, head neck and wings fretty azure, fore-
legs and beak gules ; (2) a pair of barnacles
or [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
SandeSj or Sandys. Badge — elephant [Cussans,
Woodward].
Savage, Sir John. Badge — unicorn's head
erased silver [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Scales. Badge — escallop [Woodward].
Scotland. Badge — the thistle crowned [Royal
Warrant] (Fig. 3).
Scrope (The Lord Skroup). Co /ours — argent.
Badge — a Cornish chough [Standard — MS.
I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Seymour. Fide Somerset.
Seymour (Sir John Semer, Kt.). Colours —
gules. Badge — a leopard's head or [Standard
—MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Sheffield, Sir Thomas, Treasurer of St. John's.
Colours — blue. Badge — a garb or. Mouo —
Save the le otheos [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms].
Shrewsbury, Earl of (John Talbot, d. 1453).
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Badge — a talbot dog argent. Livery — scarlet
and black [Doyle],
" And he is bownden that our dor shuld kepe
That is Talbott our good dogge."
[Political Poem, 1449 — "Excerpta Historica."]
Shrewsbury, The Earl of. Colours — gules and
sable. Badges — ( i ) a talbot passant argent ;
(2) a chafFron adorned with three feathers
or [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Shrewsbury, Earl of (George Talbot, d. 1541).
Colours — scarlet and black [Doyle]. Stan-
dard— 1 5 13, "GouUes & sabuU & talbot
sylv. passant & shafFrons gold " [MS. Cott.
C. V.]. Badges — (i) a talbot dog argent;
(2) a chamfron (or horse's head armour),
with three feathers above and buckle straps
extended on each side or [MS. I. 2, Coll. of
Arms].
Shrewsbury, Earl of (George Talbot, d. 1590).
Badge — "The Talbot in the Garland"
[MS. Harl. 11 56].
Sinclair {Clan), Badge — clover [Cussans].
Skeffington. Colours — gules. Badges — (i) a
mermaid proper, crined or, comb, mirror
and fins of the last charged with a label of
three points gules ; (2) a crescent gules ;
(3) a tun or, transfixed in pale by five
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arrows points downwards argent. Motto —
Loialte mantient amor [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms].
Smyrte (Mr. Garter). Badge — a broad arrow-
head black armynes [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd
M. 16].
Smythe, William of Elford, Cheshire. Colours —
white. Badge — a griffin's head sable, erased
gules beaked or collared argent [Standard —
MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Somerset* Vide Worcester ; and see Chamberlain,
Lord.
Somerset, Duke of (John Beaufort, d. 1444).
Colours — bendy red green and white. Badge
— an ostrich feather erect argent, the quill
componee silver and azure [Garter Plate].
Somerset, Duke of (Edmund Beaufort, d. 1455).
Badge — 1449, "The Portecolys '' —
" The Portecolys is leyd a down."
[Political Poems, II. p. 221.]
Badges — " The bonet of stele, and the
cresset w' a difference and the beane stalk "
[MS. Ashmole, 763, iv.].
Somerset, Duke of (Edward Seymour, d. 1552).
Colours — or and gules [MS. Harl. 2076].
Badge—'' The fenix " [MS. Ashmole, 840].
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StaiFord. Vide Buckingham, Wiltshire.
Stafford, Earl of (William Stafford Ho war .).
Grant of supporters, 1720, whereon are
" depicted " the " eighteen badges be-
longing to the said most ancient and illus-
trious family of Stafford." Vide text, p. 41,
(Ai) Colours — argent. Badge — a cross
potent the palar limbs crossed, (i) Colours
— barry of ten argent and vert. Badge — a
lion rampant gules, ducally crowned or.
(2) Colours — per pale sable and gules.
Badge — on a wreath argent and vert, a
swan with wings displayed and inverted
argent ducally gorged and lined or. (3)
Colours — per pale sable and gules. Badge —
on a wreath argent and vert, a lion statant
guardant and crowned or, collared argent.
(4) Colours — vert. Badge — an escutcheon
per pale sable and gules, charged with a
Stafford knot or. (5) Colours — per pale sable
and gules, on a wreath argent and vert, an
heraldic antelope sejant argent, attired,
ducally gorged and lined or. (6) Colours —
per pale sable and gules. Badge — the hub
of a cart-wheel inflamed or. (7) Colours —
gules. Badge — a grif?in segreant or. (8)
Colours — per pale sable and gules. Badge —
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Fide illustration. (9) Colours — argent.
Badge — a lion rampant gules, crowned or.
^10) Colours-^per pale sable and gules.
Badge — a mantle azure, lined ermine, cords
and tassels or. (11) Colours — or. Badge —
a lion rampant gules, crowned or within an
orle of eight estoiles gules. (12) Colours —
per pale sable and gules. Badge — an eagle
rising azure, the wings displayed and in-
verted or. (13) Colours — gules. Badge —
a sun in splendour argent. (14) Colours —
argent. Badge — a fret. (15) Colours —
azure. Badge — two fleurs-de-lys in pale
between as many fish paleways and addorsed
heads upwards all or. (16) Colours — or.
Badge — a mulberry branch. (17) Colours —
gules. Badge — a lion rampant argent,
ducally crowned or.
Stanley. Vide Derby.
Stanley. Badge — " bird and bantling '* [Wood-
ward].
Stanley, Sir William. Badge — a hart's head
silver [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Stapleton. Badge — staples [Woodward].
Stapylton, Sir Bryan. Colours — gules and or.
Badge — a talbot passant, the ear slit and
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bleeding. Motto — Mieulx je sera [Standard
—MS. I. 2. Coll. Arms].
Stephen, King. Badges — (i) a Sagittarius ;
(2) a plume of three ostrich feathers.
Motto — Vi nulla invertitur ordo [Cussans].
(Whilst that writer refers to GuilHm, who
quotes no authority, his assertion is almost
incredible.)
Stewart (Clan). Badge — thistle [Cussans].
Stourton, Lord. Badge — a gold " drag," or
sledge. [The sledge is to be found on the
wall of the church of Little Langford,
Wilts, and Sir Richard Colt Hoare wrote
that in his time the badge was to be seen
painted on glass in the parish church of
Stourton, Co. Wilts., with the motto,
" Espoir en Dieu." Vide " History of the
Noble House of Stourton," p. 105.] Livery
— white and black.
(Roger Stourton, of Ruston, Co. Dorset,
younger son of Edward, 6th Lord Stourton,
in his will, dated January 28, 1550, men-
tions six of his servants, who are " to have
their liveries according to my lord's livery,
which is white and black." This livery
has continued in use to the present day.)
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Strangways (" Myster Gilys Strangweys of
Stynynfordj" Dorsetshire). Colours — four
stripes argent and purpure. Badge — a boards
head issuing from a ducal coronet. Motto —
Espoir me comfort [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms].
Sudeley, 4th Baron (C. D. R. Hanbury-Tracy).
Badge — a fire-beacon and in front thereof
and chained thereto, a panther ducally
gorged, the tail nowed [Burke's " Peerage,''
1906].
Suffolk. Badge — fetterlock [Woodward].
Suffolk, Duke of (William de la Pole, d. 1450).
Badge — an ape's clog argent, with chain or
[MS. Ashmole, 1 1 2 1, f. 142]. (Vide Fig. 20.)
"The whyte Lion (D. of Norfolk) is leyd to slepe
Throuz the qhyj of the Ape clogge."
[Political Poem, 144.9 — "Excei-pta Historica."]
Suffolk, Duke of (John de la Pole, d. 1491).
Badge — 1475, ''Lyon of gold the Kewe
forched" [MS. 2nd M. 16, Coll. Arms].
Badge — the Suffolk knot [MS. Ashmole,
1 121, f 105]. {Vide Fig. 28.)
Suffolk, Duke of (Charles Brandon, d. 1545).
Colours — white and scarlet (four horizontal
stripes on standard).
Suffolk, Duke of (Henry Grey, d. 1554).
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Heraldic Badges
Colours — 1552, "whyt and morrey" [H.
Machyn, *' Diary," p. 19].
Suffolk, Earl of (Thomas Howard, d. 1626).
Liveries — 1597, "Blew coates faced with
sad sea colour greene taffety, with feathers
of the same colours, and many chaines of
gold " [Doyle].
Surrey, Earl of (John de Warenne, d. 1347).
Badges (or ? Crests) — (i) an escarbuncle ;
(2) a wyvern argent ; (3) a wyvern argent,
wings expanded, chequy or and azure
[Doyle].
Sussex, Earl of (Robert Ratcliffe, d. 1542).
Badges — (i) "A babyon wyth a hatte apon
hys hed ; " (2) " A bulls hed sabull rassed,
the homes sylv. with a crowne & a cheyn
at hyt abowt his nek silv. ; '' (3) " An
elbow gard, & the souns gold" [MS.
Cott. C. v.] Vide Fitz Walter and Ratcliffe.
Sussex, Earl of (Thomas Ratcliffe, d. 1583).
Badge — golden serpent, his tail about a star
[MS. Harl. 11 56].
Sussex, Earl of (Henry Ratcliffe). Badges —
(i) "The star" [MS. Ashm. 763, iv.] ; (2)
"The Serpent" (Egremont) [MS. Ashm.
840].
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Sutherland (Clan). Badge — Cat's-tail grass
[Cussans.]
Swynarton, Thomas of Swynarton, Co. Staff.
Colours — four stripes gold and blue. Badges
— (i) on a mount vert, covered with daisies
a boar argent, collar azure, charged with
five bezants holding in his mouth a pomeis,
snout, ears and hoofs gules, tusks and
bristles or ; (2) a tuft of daisies argent.
Motto — Avanturey et marche savant.
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Swynnerton (Thomas Swynarton de Stafford).
Colours — gules. Badges — (i) on a mount
vert covered with daisies, a boar argent,
collar azure, charged with six bezants ; (2)
a tuft of daisies argent. Motto — Spes mea
in Deo [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Sydney. Badge — a hedgehog [Woodward].
Talbot. Vide Shrewsbury.
Talbot, Sir Robert of Kymes. Badge — a white
bull [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Talbot, Sir Humphrey. Badge — a running
hound silver charged on the shoulder with
a mullet [MS. Coll. Arms, 2nd M. 16].
Throckmorton (" Mayster Frogmorton ").
Colours — four stripes red and white. Badge
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— a crescent gold [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms].
Tregoze, "a horse's breast-armour per pale
argent and gules, rimmed gold." (This is
a charge as "the badge of Tregoze " upon
the sinister supporter of Viscount Boling-
broke. Elsewhere termed "hames," and
described as resembling an antique shield
rimmed gold the field per pale argent and
gules and charged with a crescent sable,
thereon a label of three points or.)
Trevilian, John, Esquire. Badge — a Cornish
chough.
"The Cornysshe chawghe ofFt w* his trayne."
[Political Poem, 1449 — "Excerpta Historica."]
Trusbutt. Badge — silver water-bouget [Wood-
ward].
Trussell, Sir William. Badge — black ass head
and bout the neck a crown gold [MS. Coll.
Arms, 2nd M. i6].
Tudor. Vide Richmond.
Tyler, Sir William. Colours — four stripes white
and blue. Badge — a crescent and issuant
therefrom a cross patee fitche gules. Motto —
Nowe it is thus [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
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Tyrellj Thomas of Gypping, SufF. Badge — an
interlacing of a trefoil shape. Motto — Tout
pour le mieulx [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Vaughan, Sir Hugh of Lytylton. Colours —
four stripes gold and green. Badges — (i) a
griffin passant double queued gules, fretty
gold, charged between the frets on the neck
breast and wings with plates and holding
in the dexter foreclaw a sword erect argent,
pomel and hilt or ; (2) a fish-head erased
and erect or " inguUant " of a spear's head
argent. Motto — Couraige avance I'home
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Verdon. Badge — a fret [Cussans].
Vere. Vide Oxford.
Verney (" M. RauiF, of Pendeley, Herts.'')
Colours — white. Badges — (i) a demi-phoenix
in flames proper looking to rays of the
sun issuing from clouds ; (2) a mullet or
fimbriated gules. Motto — Ung tout seul
[Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Vernon. Vide Devon.
Vernon, Sir Henry. Colours — argent and or.
Badge — a fret sable [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arm].
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Victoria, Queen. Badges — (i-6) as George
III. ; (y) the cypher V.R. within the garter
and crowned (vide Fig. 43) ; (8) the cypher
V.R. crowned {vide Fig. 44) ; (9) the con-
joined crosses of St. George (England), St.
Andrew (Scotland), and St. Patrick (Ireland)
disposed upon a shield and crowned (vide
Fig. 7).
Villers, John, of Brokesby, Leics. Badge — a
cock gules [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Wake. Badge — the Wake knot [Woodward,
Cussans]. [Vide Fig. 23.)
Wales. Badges — (i) on a mount vert, a dragon
passant gules [Royal Warrant] (Fig. 8) ;
(2) a leek [general acceptance only, there
being no official authority].
Wales, Edward "of Woodstock," Prince of
(The Black Prince). Shield for Peace —
"sable, three ostrich feathers with scrolls
argent." Motto — " Ich diene." {Vide text,
page 46) Fig. 14. Badges — (i) an ostrich
feather piercing a scroll [Woodward] ; (2)
a swan with a lady's head [Planche].
Wales, Prince of (Henry of Monmouth, s. of
Henry IV.). Supporter (? Badge) — a swan
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ducally gorged and chained holding in his
beak an ostrich feather erect enfiled with a
scroll.
Wales, Prince of (Edward of Westminster, s.
of Henry VI.). Livery — " A bende of
crymesyn & blacke, with esteryge is fe-
therys '' [Gregory, "Chronicle," p. 212].
Wales, Prince of (Arthur, s. of Henry VII.)
Badges — (i) a rose ; (2) a fleur-de-lys ; (3)
a fetter-lock ; (4) five arrows tied in the
middle, starwise ; (5) a portcullis ; (6) a
rose in rays ; (7) a pomegranate [Doyle] ;
(8) an ostrich feather [Tomb] ; (9) a plume
of ostrich feathers [Tomb],
Wales, Prince of (Henry VIII. ). Colours —
white and green or "Blew and tawny"
[Doyle].
Wales, Prince of, 161 8 (s. of James I.). Badge
— three ostrich feathers enfiled by a coronet
of crosses pat6e and fleurs-de-lis, with
motto, " Ich dien," the whole badge dis-
played upon rays of a sun in splendour or,
all on a ground gules within the Garter
[window in Staple Inn].
Wales, Prince of, 1906 (George, Duke of
Cornwall and York). Badges — (i) a plume
of three ostrich feathers argent, enfiled by a
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coronet composed of crosses patee and
fleurs-de-lis or, and upon a scroll the motto
^'Ich dien" (Fig. 9) (N.B.— This badge
appertains to the heir-apparent to the Crown^
and has no connection with the title of
Prince of Wales, it having been exemplified
to the Duke of Cornwall and York before
his creation as Prince of Wales and imme-
diately upon his father's succession to the
throne) ; (2) on a mount vert, a dragon
passant gules (the badge of Wales) differ-
enced by a label of three points argent.
Refer to Fig. 8 [Royal Warrants].
Walsingham. Badges — (i) a tiger's head [Harl.
MS. No, 5910, Part II., fol. 167] ; (2) a
boar's head couped sable, holding in the
mouth a walnut vert [Harl. MS. No. 4031,
fol. 162.]
Warburton (^' Mayster Warburton de Warburton
in Chesshy "). Colours — argent. Badges —
(i) a Saracen's head affrontee proper couped
at the neck, wreathed about the temples
argent and gules and issuing from the
wreath a plume of three ostrich feathers
or ; (2) a cormorant's head erased sable.
Motto — Je vouldroie avoir [Standard — MS.
I. 2, Coll. Arms].
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Warenne. Fide Surrey.
Warwick, Earl of (Thomas de Warwick, d.
1242). Badge — a swan argent, bill, wings
and coronet round the neck gules, mem-
bered sable [MS. Vincent, 152, Coll. Arms].
Warwick, Earl of (Thomas de Beauchamp, d.
1401). Badges — (i) " Ursus " [J. Gower,
Political Poems, I. 419] ; (2) a ragged staff
[border of his helmet in effigy at Warwick].
Warwick, Earl of (Richard de Beauchamp, d.
1439). Badges — (i) a bear argent, muzzled
gules, leaning on a ragged staff of the first ;
(2) a ragged staff in bend dexter argent
[Doyle].
Warwick, Duke of (Henry de Beauchamp,
d. 1446). Badge — A bear argent, collared
gules, studded of the first, with chain attached
and reflexed over the back or [Rous Roll].
Warwick, Earl of Salisbury and (Richard
Nevill). Badges — (i) "The Bere, and (2)
" Ragged staffe " [Polit. Poems, II. p. 222) ;
(3) " Ung baston noir '' [P. de Commynes,
" Mem.,'' I. p. 253] ; (4) also the bear and
ragged staff conjoined ; (5) a bulFs head
argent, spotted sable and armed or. (This
on a wreath argent and gules is to be found
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also as a Nevill crest.) Liveries — 1458,
"Rede jakettys with whyte raggyd staves
upon them" [Fabian, "Chronicle," p. 633].
"The Ber is bound that was so wild,
For he hath lost his Ragged staff."
[Political Poem, 1449 — "Excerpta Historica."]
Warwick, Earl of (John Dudley, d. 1554).
Guidon — 1552, " A red damask, whyt lyon,
crowned gold, powdered with ragged stayffes
of silver " [H. Machyn, " Diary," p. 20].
Warwick, Earl of (Ambrose Dudley, d. 1590).
Badge — ragged staff of silver [MS. Harl.
1 156].
Welles, Lord (" Lyonel de Welles," d. 146 1).
Badge — " Y® buckett hangyng w* a payre of
cheanes *' [Wroxton MS.].
Welles, Viscount (John de Welles, d. 1499).
Badge or Badges — " Buckit hanging by the
chane & ij flower de luys " [Doyle].
Wentworth, Lord. Badge — a griffin [Wood-
ward].
Wentworth, Sir Richard, of Netylslede, Suff.
Colours — red. Badges — (i) a griffin statant
argent, forelegs or, collared per pale or and
argent ; (2) a covered cup with ribbons
attached to the handles argent ; (3) an
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annulet per pale or and argent. MoUo —
Penses a bien [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
West. Fit^e De la Warn
Wharton. Badge — a white bull's head [Wood-
ward] ; erased [Cussans].
Williams (Sir John, Lord Williams of Thame).
Colours — argent. Badges — (i) a greyhound
courant gules collared sable ; (2) an eel-
basket in fess proper ; (3) a dragon statant
gules [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Willoughby. Badge — buckle [Woodward].
Willoughby. Badge — a mill-sail [Woodward] ;
a mill-sail or wind-mill [Cussans].
Willoughby, Robert, Lord. Badge — a mill-sail.
** Our myllesaylle will not abowte."
[Political Poem, 1449 — " Excerpta Historica."]
Willoughby, Lord. Colours — argent and gules.
Badge — a Moor's head (without neck) full-
faced, the tongue hanging out. Motto —
Verite est sens pere [Standard — MS. L 2,
Coll. Arms].
Willoughby, Sir Henry. Colours — azure.
Badges — (i) a griffin passant argent; (2) a
water-bouget argent. Motto — Sance chan-
gere [Standard — MS. L 2, Coll. Arms].
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Willoughby de Broke (" Willoughby Lord
Broke"). Colours — azure and gules.
Badges — (i) a man's head without the neck
proper, ducally crowned and charged with
a crescent for difference (? crest) ; (2) a
ship's rudder gold [Standard — MS. 1. 2,
Coll. Arms].
Wiltshire, Earl of (John Stafford, d. 1473).
Badge — the Stafford knot (formed of a strap
with a buckle and ornament at the ends)
or, lined argent [Doyle].
Wiltshire, Earl of (Henry, " Th' Erl of Wylte-
shyre)." Colours — sable and gules. Badges
— (i) a swan with wings elevated and ex-
panded argent, beaked gules, membered
sable, ducally collared and chained or,
charged with a crescent for difference ;
(2) a Stafford knot, charged with a crescent
gules for difference. Motto — " Humble et
loyal " [Standard— MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Winchester, Earl of (Louis de Bruges, d. 1492).
Badge — a bombard, with flame and ball
issuant proper [Doyle].
Winchester, Marquess of (William Paulet,
d. 1572). Badge — "The facon of gold."
Banner — " white with falcon of gold." Men-
at'Arms — " broidered coats red & white " ;
158
A List of Badges
1552, "cotes whyt & red" [Diary of
H. Machyn, pp. 12, 19]. Compare Paulet
crest.
Windsor. Fide Wyndesore.
Windsor, Lord. Badge — white boar [Wood-
ward].
Windsor. Badge — unicorn argent [Cussans,
Woodward].
Windsor Herald. Badge — the sun-burst. (In
use.)
Wingfield (" Mayster Anthony," of Leathering-
ham, Suffolk). Colours — gules. Badge — a
bull statant quarterly sable and or [Standard
—MS. L 2, Coll. Arms].
Wodehouse (Sir Thomas). Colours — azure.
Badge — a club gold. Motto — Frappes fort
[Standard — MS. L 2, Coll. Arms].
Worcester, Earl of. Badge — a camel [Cus-
sans.]
Worcester, Earl of (Thomas de Percy, d. 1403).
Badge — a crescent argent [Doyle].
Worcester, Earl of (Charles Somerset, d. 1526).
Colours — 1 5 13, '^blew, whyt & rede"
[Doyle]. Vide Chamberlain, Lord.
Worcester, Earl of (Henry Somerset, d. 1548).
159
Heraldic Badges
Badge— '^thQ port cullyce " [MS. Harl.
1156, f. 51].
Wyatt ("Mayster Whyat"). Colours — or and
gules. Badge — a barnacle barry argent and
or closed and banded azure. Motto —
Oublier ne puis [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll.
Arms].
Wydeville. Vide Rivers.
Wyndesore, Sir Andrew. Colours — red. Badges
— (i) a unicorn statant argent ; (2) a stag's
head couped argent [Standard — MS. I. 2,
Coll. Arms].
Yarborough, Earl of. Vide Pelham.
York, Duke of (Edmund of Langley, d. 1402).
Badges — (i) an ostrich feather argent;
(2) " The ifaulkon silver " [MS. Ashmole,
1 1 1 2, f. 10 /^ ; (3) " The faucon argent and
the feterloke or" [MS. Harl. 304, 12];
(4) (often termed supporters) a falcon hold-
ing in its claw a long scroll, which extends
backwards above his body, and is inscribed
with the motto, "Bon espoir" [Seal, 139 1].
York, Duke of (Edward, d. 141 5). Badges —
(i) an ostrich feather erect argent, the quill
covered by a chain, with small transverse
scroll inscribed "Ich dien" [Seal]; (2) a
160
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Fig. 46.
A design tioiu '-Prince Arthur's Book," showing the "white
lion ot March" snpporting a banner of the livery colours,
thereon the '• falcon and fetterlock."
A List of Badges
moon excrescent, in the centre of which a
lion sejant [Leland].
York, Duke of (Richard Plantagenet, d. 1460).
Badges — (i) a falcon argent ; (2) a fetter-
lock or ; (3) a rose argent ; (4) a lion
argent; (5) a dragon sable; (6) a black
boUe, rough, his horns and his legs and his
members of gold ; (7) an ostrich feather
erect, having a chain, with a small rose-like
ornament at the lower end, laid along the
quill, which has a small scroll across it near
the lower end. Livery — 1459, " Whyte
and brewe . . . & i brawderyd above with
fetyrlockys " [Gregory, " Chron.," p. 208].
" The Fawkon fleyth and hath no rest
Tille he witte wher to bigge his nest."
[Political Poem, 1449 — " Excerpta Historica."]
York, Duke of (King Edward IV.). Livery —
Blue and murrey.
York and Norfolk, Duke of (Richard, s. of
Edward IV.). Badge — a falcon volant
argent, membered or, within a fetterlock, a
little open gold [Grant, 23rd April, 1477].
Tork Herald, Badge — a white rose-en-soleil.
(In use.) {Vide Fig. i6.)
Zouche ("John Zowche, son & heyre of the
Lord Zowche "). Colours — sable and
161 L
Heraldic Badges
purpure. Badges — (i) on the branch of a
tree or, sprouting vert, an eagle rising argent
gorged with a label of three points ; (2) an
ass's head erased argent, haltered or, charged
with a label of three points. Motto — Virtute
non vi [Standard — MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
Zouche, John, of Codnor. Colours — Red and
green. Badges — (i) on the stump of a tree
or, branching vert, a falcon wings elevated
argent charged on the breast with a crescent
gules ; (2) an ass's head erased and haltered
proper, charged with a crescent argent ;
(3) a badger argent encircled by a cordon
of which the ends are passed through a ducal
coronet all gold. Vide Lord Grey of
Codnor. Motto — " Grace serra le bien
vienv" [Standard MS. I. 2, Coll. Arms].
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