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PREFACE. 



A few papers upon the subject of " Devices and Badges " have 
already been published by the Author in the Art Journal, and 
the favourable manner in which they were received, encourage3 
her to hope that the present volume may be of interest to the 
general reader, as well as of use to the archaeologist. 

She would not have ventured to publish a work so full of 
classic quotations, had she not been fortunate in the assistance 
of her kind friend, Mr. W. S. W. Vaux, Keeper of the Coins 
and Medals at the British Museum. 

Kensington, July 1870. 



A/e^v^ 



PltTNTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, 
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARINC CKOSS. 



HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, AND WAR-CRIES. 



Part I.— DEVICES. 



" Here's now mystery and hieroglyphic." 

Ben Jonson, The AldnjmiM, 

" Quaint devices, deftly blazoned." 

Kingsley. 

Devices and badges form a branch of heraldic study, the importance 
of which has not been sufficiently appreciated. It is of the greatest 
value to the archaeologist, in helping him to ascertain the origin and 
fix the date of an infinity of works of Art. The knight bore his device 
upon various parts of his dress ; it was embroidered upon his surcoat 
and on the caparisons of his horse ; it was engraved upon his armour 
and his arms, inscribed upon his objects of daily use, his books, his 
plate, his bed, and his household furniture. On Majolica ware we see 
painted the devices of the dukes of Urbino, and those of the Medici 
popes appear in the Loggie of the Vatican. 

The badge and the device, though often confounded, are essentially 
distinct in character. 

The badge or cognisance (from the Norman term cognoissance, a 
mark, or token, by which a thing is known) was a figure selected 
either from some part of the family coat, or chosen by the owner as 
alluding to his name, office, or estate, or to some family exploit ; and 
sometimes it was granted by the sovereign as a token of his favour. 
It was worn by the retainers of princes and powerful barons, to declare 
visibly the liege lord to whose service they were attached. It glittered 
on the standard ; was embroidered upon the sleeve, breast, back, or 

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many others too numerous to mention, may yet be seen as signboards 
to village inns contiguous to the former estates of families whose 
possessions have passed into other hands. 

Again, turn to the Salamander of Angouleme, the Porcupine of 
Orleans, the Ermine of Bretagne, hereditary badges of France's 
sovereigns ; the Plane and the Knotted Staff of Burgundy and Orleans, 
the Wallet of the Gueux, the " Biscia " of Milan, — to periods fraught 
with what stirring historic recollections do they not all carry us back ! 

The object of the badge was publicity ; not so the device or 
" impresa," which, with its accompanying legend or motto, was assumed 
for the purpose of mystification — was, in fact, an ingenious expression 
of some particular conceit of the wearer, containing a hidden meaning. 

Devices became general in the fourteenth century, but it was during 
the French wars in Italy that they attained their full development, and 
the ingenuity of the learned was called forth to invent devices express- 
ing the dominant feeling of the wearer, in love, war, arts, or politics. 

Giovio, 1 Buscelli, Paradin, and a host of literati were enlisted in this 
cause ; even sovereigns did not disdain to compose their own devices. 
Mary Stuart solaced the hours of her captivity by inventing devices 
which she executed in embroidery ; 2 and she appeals to her astute 
uncle, the Cardinal Lorraine, to compose a device for a mirror, 3 as to 
one well versed in the art. 

In England they were never very popular, but, on the Continent, 
to such an extent was the fashion carried, that devices departed from 
their original character, and degenerated into senseless and puerile 
subtleties. 

The device required certain conditions. It was composed of two 
parts, the picture and the motto — the '• eorpo " and "animo," as they 
were styled by the Italians. No device was perfect without the two. 
There was to be a just proportion between the corpo and animo. The 
corpo, or painted metaphor, was not to represent the human form, but 

1 Giovio, Paolo, Vescovo di Nocera, 2 There were no fewer than thirty 

' Delle Imprese Militari et Amorose,' 8vo. devices embroidered on a bed by Mary 

Lyon, 1555. Buscelli, Jer., Imprese and her ladies when at Tutbnry. 

Illustri, 4to. In Venetia, 1556. Paradin, 3 "I pray you to have made for me a 

Claude, ' Devises Heroiques,' 12mo. beautiful golden mirror to suspend from 

Paris, 1557. The later editions were my girdle, . . . with some appropriate 

' Augmentees par Messire Francois device, which the Cardinal, my uncle, 

dAmboise,' and the ' Discours ' of Adrian can compose." — Labanofp, Becueil de 

d'Amboise added. Letfres cle Marie Stuart. 

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other parts of the dress ; in later times was stamped or engraved on 
metal, and attached to the sleeve, just as is the hadge of the waterman 
or ferryman of the present day — one of the few remnants, now 
existing, of this once important mark of fealty and vassalage. 

Badges were greatly in favour in England from Edward I. to the 
time of Queen Elizabeth. In the reign of Edward III. 1 they were 
used in profusion, and the principal houses, in imitation of the Eoyal 
Family, bad a distinctive mark for their retainers, a secondary token 
of family distinction, no doubt, at the time, better known by their 
dependents than the personal arms or crest of the liege lord to whom 
they belonged. " Might I not know thee by thy household badge :" 
says Shakspeare. Badges were hereditary in families, and to deprive a 
nobleman of his badge 2 was a punishment of the deepest degradation 

How many of the most interesting associations of feudal history are 
connected with the badge ! The " Broom branch " of the Plantagenets, 
the " Roses " of the rival houses, " the Sun of York," the '' Bristled 
Boar" of King Richard, the "Rampant Bear chained to the raggel 
staff " of Warwick, are all familiar, and identified with history itself. 

There are few now of our nobility who retain this ancient ap- 
pendage. The Stafford Knot and the Pelham Buckle are among the 
rare exceptions ; but we still find the cognisance of many an illustrious 
family preserved as the sign of an inn. 

The White Hart of Richard II, the Antelope of Henry IV., the 
Beacon of Henry Y., the Feathers of Henry YL, the Star of the Lords 
of Oxford, whose brilliancy decided the fate of the battle of Bamet, the 
Lion of Norfolk, which shone conspicuous on Bosworth Field, and 

1 " Tbis age did exceedingly abound 3 Family decorations, called Liverv 

with impreses, mottoes, anil devices, and Collars, -were sometimes formed of the 

particularly King Edward III. -was so badges of a house, with one of the most 

excessively given up to them, that his important as a pendant, such as 

appirel, plate, bed, household furniture, The collar of Broom pods, with the 

shields, and even the harness of his 'White Hart pendent, in the portrait of 

horses, and the like, were not without Eichard II. at Wilton, 
them." — Ashmole, History of the Order The collar of SS. with the Swan of the 

of the Garttr. De Bohuns appendent. round the neck of 

- " For the thirde offence . . . you the poet G'ower, in St. Saviour's Church 

shall openly make recitall of all his Southwark ; and the constantly recurring 

oil'i-nces, and take away from him his collar of Suns and Koses, badges of the 

livery, or at least his badge." — Some House of York, with the pendant of the 

rules and orders for the government of "White Boar of Eichard III., the Black 

the Hniise of an Earle, ett doirn by It. Bull of the Duke of Clarence, and the 

Braithicaite. Temp. James I. White Lion of March. 



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this animal : r — " But among the greatest wonders of nature is that 
fish which of some is called nautilos, of others pompilos. This fish, 
for to come aloft above the water, turneth upon his backe, and raiseth 
or heaveth himselfe up by little and little ; and to the end he might 
swim with more ease as disburdened of a sinke, he dischargeth all the 
water within him at a pipe. After this, turning up his two foremost 
clawes or armes, hee displaieth and stretcheth out betweene them a 
membrane or skin of a wonderfull thinnesse; this serveth him instead 




Fig. '1. — Affidati Academy. 

of a saile in the aire above water. With the rest of his armes or clawes 
he roweth and laboureth under water, and with his taile in the mids, 
he directeth his course, and steereth as it were with an helme. Thus 
holdeth he on and maketh way in the sea, with a faire shew of a foist 
or galley under saile. Now if he be afraid of anything in the way, 
hee makes no more adoe but draweth in water to baillise his bodie, and 
so plungeth himselfe downe, and sinketh to the bottome." 

Among the celebrities who belonged to this academy were the 
Marquis Pescara, Vespasian Gonzaga, and Bottigella. 

Amorevole op Yerona. The hedgehog is said to pull the grapes 
from the stalks and gather them into a heap, into which it rolls itself, 
to carry the grapes on its prickles or spines to its young. 2 

beforehand of meat for winter; in this 
wise they wallow and roll themselves 
upon apples and such fruit lying under 
foot, and so catch them up with their 
prickles, and one more besides they take 
in their mouth, and so carry them into 
hollow trees." — Pliny, book viii., ch. 37. 



1 Pliny's Natural History, translated 
by Philemon Holland. London, 1601. 
Book ix., ch. 29. 

" Learn of the little nautilus to sail, 
Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale." 

Pope. 

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was to be pleasing in appearance ; the animo was to be short, and m 
a foreign language, the object of the two being that they should not 
be so plain as to be understood by all, nor so obscure as to require a 
sphinx to interpret. 1 

In the middle of the sixteenth century books of devices formed a 
distinct class of literature, and the number published would form a 
library of themselves. Art was inexhaustible in the variety of devices 
and symbolic images by which it sought to typify moral truths and 
doctrines. 

But it is of devices adopted by persons of eminence either in art, 
arms, literature, or station, that we propose to treat — devices, strictly 
historic, the study of which, alone, can lead to any useful result. 

Academies op Italy. — Among the numerous literary academies 
established throughout Italy we give the whimsical devices of some of 
the most celebrated. 

Accesi. A fir cone placed over a fire (Fig. 1). Motto, Einc odor 
et fnictus, " Hence fragrance and fruit." Fragrance and fruit com- 




Uvesi Academy. 



lined ; the heat causing the cone to send forth a sweet odour, and its 
scales opening, the fruit or kernels (pignoli) drop out. 2 

Affidati. A nautilus (Fig. '2). Motto, Tutus per supremo, 
per ima, " i?afe above and below." Pliny thus describes the habits of 

1 " Gravity and majesty must be in it. capacity of tlie vulgar."— Sir William 
It must be somewhat retired from the Dkummond. 

2 Bargagli, Scipion, Dpll' Imprese, 4to. In Ycnctia, 1594, ■ptiMiui. 



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whole heards in a long row, each one resting his head upon his fellow 
next before him ; and this they doe in course, so as the foremost 
retireth behind to the hindmost by turnes, one after another." 1 

Arcadi. This academy was instituted at Borne, in 1690, by 
Crescimbeni,' 2 with the view of restoring a better taste in literature. 
The members adopted the names of the shepherds of antiquity. Their 
device was a Pan's pipe, surrounded by a wreath half olive, half 
pine. 3 

Ardenti of Pisa. Incense burning over hot coals, with the 
motto, Nisi ardeat, " Unless it burns," — useless unless inflamed. 
Without an ardent desire after great and virtuous things, men can 
never arrive at distinction, or leave a name behind them. 

Ardenti of Naples. A sacrifice upon the altar, lighted by fire 
from heaven. OTPANO@EN, " From heaven," — every good gift 
comes from above. 

Ardenti op Vixerbo. A bar of gold in a crucible. Donee 
purum, " Until clean." 

Catenati op Macerata took for device the chain of gold of 
Jupiter, described by Homer ; the 

" golden everlasting chain, 
Whose strong embrace holds heaven and earth and main." 

Iliad, book viii. 

Motto, AMA OPErOMENOI, " Pulling together." 

Chiave op Pa via. On the death of his father, the Marquis 
Pescara left Milan and settled at Pavia, where he established an 
academy styled " Belle Chiave," composed entirely of noble and 
illustrious persons, who wore a golden key suspended round the neck, 
and also bore the same impresa, with the motto, Clauditur et aperitur 
liberis, " It is shut and opened to the free." " He that hath the key of 
David, that openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man 
openeth." 4 

Citi 7 oe Casal di Montserrat. The sun rising in the east, and 

1 Book viii., ch. 33. letters, I. M. C. P. ARC. C. (Joannes 

2 Crescimbeni died in 1729, and -was Marias Crescimbenius pastoram Arcadum 
buried at Rome, in the basilica of S. custos). * 

Maria, in a tomb which he had built in 3 See 'Storia del' Accademia degli 

his lifetime. On the stone were sculp- Arcadi in Roma,' da Gio. Mario Cres- 

tured the arms of his family, with the cimbeni. Lond., 1804. 

pastoral flute of the Arcadians, and these ' Rev. iii. 7. 



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" Quand les raisins commencent a meurir en este et en automate, 
l'herisson va aux vignes, et s'addresse aux grappes qui touchent terre, 
pour en faire tomber les grains avec ses pattes, puis se raettant tout en 
une boule se veautre dessus pour richer ses pointes dedans, et les porter 
ti sa taniere. Par mesme finesse il emporte a sa caverne les pommes 
sauvages abbatues du vent, ou tombees d'elles mesmes estans meures." 1 

This suggested the device of the Amorevole (Fig. 3), a hedgehog 
with its spines laden with grapes. Motto, Non solum nobis, " Not for 
ourselves alone." 




Fig. 3. — Aranrevole Acadfmy. 



Animosi of Milan. Stags passing a river resting on the heads of 
each other (Fig. 4). Motto, Bant animos vices, " Mutual help gives 



strength." 




Fig. 4. — Animosi Academy. 

Pliny says that stags " passe the seas swimming by flockes and 

1 Mutihiulu, ' (Joimnontuirc sur Dioscoride.' Lyon, 1572. 
2 For viijis, reail vrt'ES. 



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the motto, II piii helfior ne coglie, and assumed the title of Accademia 
della Grusca, the members taking the appropriate names of Infarinato, 
Bimenato, Gramolato, Insaccato, &e. Their sittings were held in 
the Palazzo Eioardi : the backs of their arm-chairs were in the form of 
winnowing shovels, the seats representing sacks. Unfortunately, the 
first undertaking of this academy was the disgraceful war it carried 
on against Tasso ; but it afterwards acquired some claim to the grati- 
tude of Italy by the compilation of a great dictionary of the Italian 
language, of which several enlarged editions have been made under its 
care. Fig. 5 is a representation of the device of the academy, taken 
from the frontispiece of the first edition of its ' Vocabulario.' The 
" Marzocco," or lion of Florence, the city's emblem and its war-cry, 
appears at the top of the shield. 

In 1783 Leopold I. united the academies of Florence, Delia Crusca, 
and the Apatisti into one, under the name of the Eoyal Florentine 
Academy. Alfieri wrote a bitter sonnet on the occasion : 

" L'idioma gentil, sonante e puro, 

Per cui d'oro l'arene Arno volgea, 

Or giace aflitto, mesto e nial seouro, 

Priva cli ohi ' il piii hel fior ne coglia.' 
Boreal sceltro, inesorabil, duro ; 

La Madre la spento e una Matrigua or orca, 

Che un di faiallo vilipeso, oscuro. 

Quanto caro un di 1'altro, e belJo il fea. 
L'Antica Madre e ver, d'inerzia ingombra, 

Avea gran tempo l'arte sue neglette ; 

Ma per lei stava del gran nome 1'ombra. 
Oh Italia a quai ti rnena infami strette 

L'esser da Gote ancor non ben disgoinbra 

Ti aono le nude voce anco interdette !" 

Elevati of Feeeaba. Device, Hercules and Antaeus. The motto 
from Horace, Superat tellus, siclera cloned, " Earth conquers us, yet 
gives us Heaven ;" in Scripture language, " Our light affliction worketh 
for us a far more exceeding weight of glory." 

Etbeea of Padua. A charioteer in his car in the air, drawn by 
a white and a black horse, the one endeavouring to touch the earth, 
the other striving to ascend to heaven. Motto, Victor se tollit ad 
auras, " The victor raises himself to the sky." 

Floeimontana. Established at Annecy in 1606. Device, an 



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the full moon setting in the west. Motto, Lux indeficiens, " Light 
never •wanting." 

Costamti. The sun shining upon a column ; the shadow moves 
with the sun, the column remains unmoved. Motto, Tantum volvitur 
umbra, " The shadow only revolves." 

Crtjsca (Accademia della). The Accademia Platonica, founded 
in Florence about the middle of the fifteenth century by Cosmo de' 
Medici, flourished greatly under the auspices of his grandson Lorenzo, 




Fi^'. 5. — Delia Cru^ca Academy. 

but was supplanted about a century after its birth by another society 
called the Sacra Accademia Fiorentina, instituted in 1542 by Cosmo I. 
The attention of the academy was wasted on the most fanciful com- 
mentaries upon the earlier Italian poets ; and, on the death of Cosmo, 
five of the academicians, joined by the famous Leonardo Salv:ati, 
seceded, and formed another society, which professed to cultivate the 
Italian language by winnowing the flour (il fiore) from the bran (hi 
i-i-usca). They chose for then- device a boulting-mill (frullone), and 



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flight over the sea Pontus, they will flie directly at the first to the 
narrow streights of the said sea, . . . and then presently they ballaise 
themselves with stones in, their feet, and sand in their throats, that 




Fig. 6.— Gesare Gamba, Member of the Insensati Academy. 

they flie more steadie and endure the wind. When they be halfe 
way over, down they fling those stones, but when they are come to 
the continent, the sand also they disgorge out of their craws." 
Again, Drayton writes : 

" The crane to labour, fearing some rough flaw, 
With sand and gravel burthening his craw ; 
Noted by man which by the same did find 
To ballast ships for steadiness of wind. 
And by the form and order of his flight, 
To march in war, and how to watch by night.'' 

Drayton, The Owl. 

And an old French writer says : 

" Pour n'elever son vol ny trop haut ny trop bas, 
La guue a des caillous qu'en ses pieds elle porte ; 
Kt par ce contrepoids elle se rend plus forte, 

Pour s'empescher do choir en bas." 

The Insensati had also another device, a swallow passing over the 
sea with a stick in its mouth, which, it is said, she lays upon the 



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orange-tree. Motto, Flores fruetusque perennes, " Flowers and fruit 
perennial." 

G-raxelleschi. In 1740, some of the most distinguished literary- 
men of the age formed themselves, at Venice, into a society to oppose 
themselves to the torrent of bad taste, and to the corruption of the 
Italian language. They called themselves the Society of the Granel- 
leschi, " granelli" meaning a fool or simpleton, and each member took 
for his device two " granelli." Their president, entitled Arci-gra- 
nellone, was installed in a chair, on the back of which was an owl 
holding in its right claw two " granelli." At each sitting, they began 
by the most ridiculous productions, either in prose or verse, and 
then passed on to the graver discussions on the literary principles 
they wished to develop. These joyous scavans continued for many 
years their noisy and puerile sottises, but contributed, at the same 
time, to reform the public taste by their useful and profound 
labours. 1 

Infiahiiiati of Padua. Hercules upon the funeral pile on Mount 
(Eta. Motto, Arso il mortal, al del n'andra Teterno, "The mortal 
burned, to heaven will go the eternal " 2 — " Then shall the dust 
return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God 
who gave it." 3 

Ineooati. A bar of hot iron upon an anvil, beaten by two 
hammers. Motto, In quascunque formas, " Into what shape he 
will " — " Hath not the potter power over the clay ?" — " There's a 
divinity that shapes one's ends, rough-hew them how we will." 

Inseksati of Perugia. A flock of cranes, arranged in order, 
flying across the sea, each with a stone in its foot, and sand in its 
mouth. Motto, Vel cum pondere, " Even with this weight," 
implying that its members, even under the weight of business, 
private or domestic, yet found time for literary pursuits. Cesare 
G-amba used the same device (Fig. 6), with the motto, Iter iutissimum, 
" The safest journey," 4 — Le voyage est plus sur. That the cranes 
used stones and sand for ballast is recounted by Pliny. In the 
23rd chapter of his tenth book he says, " When they mind to take a 

1 (ruinguene. 
" Virtue blooms 3 Eccles. xii. 7. 

Even in the wreck of life, 4 Contile, 31. Luca, Eagionamento 

And mounts the *kies." sopre le Imprese. fol. Pa via, 1574. 

H. K. WuiTE. (MfSillt. 



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Oooulti. A thrush. Tacitumus turdus, " A silent thrush." A 
steel striking fire. Exilit quod delituit, " Out leaps what was 
hidden " — Opportunity shows the man. 

Offtjscati. A bear l attacking a hive (Pig. 9), that the stings of 
the bees may stimulate and rouse him from the heaviness which 
oppresses him. Motto, Aciem acuunt aeulei, " Stings sharpen his 
appetite" — Opposition animates — Les oppositions font croitre. 




Yi%. 9. — Offusrati Academy. 

Ostinaxi. A pyramid blown from all quarters by the winds. 
Motto, Frustra, " In vain" — " It stands four-square to all the winds 
of heaven." 

Einovati. Three serpents coiled together issuing from the ground, 
and rearing their heads towards the sun to revive and invigorate them 
after the torpidity of winter (Fig. 10). Motto, Quos bruma tegebat, 
" Which winter hid." Thus Ariost o — 

Un gran drappel di bisce, 
Che dopo il verno al sol si goda e lisce." 

Orlando Fur.'oxn. 



1 " Subject they are many timea to with their stings make them bleed about 
dimnesse of sight, for which cause espe- the head, and by that meaues discharge 
cially they seeke after honey-combes, that them of that heavinesse which troubleth 
the bees might settle upon them, and their eyes." — Pliny, book viii., ch. 36. 
2 For AOUENT, read actvnt. 



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water to support her when she requires rest (Fig. 7). Motto, IHfessa 
non diffisa, "Weary not distrusting " — Faint but pursuing — "I bate 
no jot of heart or hope" — Toute lasse quest, elle est pleine de 
coeur. ' 




Fig. 7 — Insensati Academy. 



Intkonati or Siena. A gourd for containing salt, with two 
pestles over it. Motto, Meliora latent, "The better part is hidden." 

Lesina. An awl (Fig. 8). Motto, L' assottigliar la piu meglio 
anchefora, " The more it is sharpened the better it penetrates." 



Fig. 8. — Lesina Academy. 



Lixcei, Accademia de', founded in Eome in 1003, by Prince 
Frederic Cesi, with the object of encouraging a taste for natural 
history. It is the most ancient academy in Italy that had not poetry 
and literature for its end. The name they adopted was the Lynx 
Academy, because the academicians should have the eyes of a lynx, to 
penetrate into the secrets of nature. They adopted the lynx for their 
device, and wore a golden ring with an emerald, upon which was 
engraved a lynx, the name of the founder, and that of the academy. 
The number of its members was small; among them were Galileo, 
Fabio Colonna, and in the Neapolitan branch was Griambattista Porta, 
who used the device of tLe academy, 1 with the motto, Aspic-it et 
inspirit, " Looks at and looks into." To this celebrated philosopher 
and mathematician we are indebted for the invention of the camera 
obscura. 

1 !^eo also, ' Kini'Liu, (Jhark-K IV.' 



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As bees work with the one end, that of making honey, so the 
academy unite in the one aim that the whole world shall profit by their 
labours. 

Bees formed also the impresa of another literary society, that of the 
Mouche a miel, instituted in 1703, at Sceaux, by the Duchesse de 
Maine, for women as well as for men. The ensign of the order was a 
medal of gold, bearing on one side the portrait of the foundress and 
her title, 1 on the other a bee flying towards the hive, with the motto, 
Je mis petite, mats mes piqures sont profondes, " I am little, 2 but my 
stings are deep." 

The initiatory oath taken by the knights was framed in the fol- 
lowing word's : — " Je jure, par les abeilles du mont Hymette, fidelite et 
obeissance a la directrice perpetuelle de l'ordre, de porter toute ma vie 
la medaille de la Mouche, et d'accomplir, tant que je vivrai, les statuts 
de l'ordre, et, si je fausse mon serment, je consens que le miel se change 
pour moi en fiel, la cire en suif, les fleurs en orties, et que les guepes ■ 
et les frelons me percent de leurs aiguillons." 

Acoolti, Bernardo, of Arezzo, the favourite poet at the court of 
Urbino, celebrated for his exquisite skill in adapting his verses to the 
music with which he accompanied them. Hence he was called 
" L'unieo Aretino." Ariosto designates him as 

" II gran lurae Aretin, l'unieo Accolti." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xlvi., st. 10. 

Accolti was one of the apostolic secretaries of Leo X., and such 
effect had his talents produced upon the people of Borne, that when it 
was known that Accolti intended to recite his verses, the shops were 
shut as for a holiday, he was honoured by a solemn torchlight pro- 
cession, and attended by a body of Swiss guards. On one occasion, 
when Leo X. had sent to request he would favour him with a visit, 
as soon as he had made his appearance, the Pope cried out, " Open all 
the doors, and let in the crowd." His auditors were so delighted, that 
they exclaimed, " Long live the divine poet, the unparalleled Aretino." 
But, as Boscoe observes, one circumstance only is wanting to his glory, 
that his works should have perished with him. Those which have 

1 The legend ran thus — L. BAR. D. SC. Baronne de Sceaux, directrice perpetuelle 
D. P. D. L. 0. D. L. M. A. M. " Louise, de l'ordre de la Mouche a miel." 
2 " The bee is little among such as liy." — Eccles. xi. ?,. 



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' So when in clustering knots a snaky brood, 
Reviving joyful with the spring ronew'd, 
Bask in the sun." — Hooi.e's Translation. 




Fig. 10.— Rinovati Academy. 

Sonnachiosi op Bologna. A bear, which animal, according to 
Pliny ' and Aristotle, sleeps six continuous months of the year. Motto, 
Spero avanzar con la vigilia il sonno, " I hope by vigils to make up 
for sleep ;" implying that as the members had hitherto been lazy and 
indifferent to fame, henceforth they would strive by study to make up 
for lost time. 

Tkasformati of Milan. A plane tree, with the verse of Virgil, 
" Et steriles platani malos gessere valentes," " The barren plane hath 
borne a worthy fruit " — Cut out of a wild olive tree and grafted in. 
Tkavagliati. A sieve (yaglid) (Fig. 11), with the motto, Donee 
jmrum, " Until clean." 

Unanimi. Bees flying round a hive. 
Motto, Oinnilua idem ardor, " One spirit 
fires them all." J 

1 "After the fir.-t fourteen daies (after they have 
taken up their lodging) tiny tdeepe wj soundly that 
they cannot possibly be wakened, if a man should lay 
on and wound them. In thin 'lrow8ines.se of theirs they 
p:row wondrous fat." — Book viii., eh. '.W>. 

2 Other mottoes of similar signification : — ih:„s 
omnibus una (Viiioil), "One mind in all." I.nhor 

omnibus idem, " The same labour to all." Ownilw* una rjuirx, " One rest to all." 




< -.£>;'•; 



Fig. ]1. — Travagliati Academy 



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So Richard, Duke of Gloucester, addresses the young Prince 
Edward : 

" Nay, if thou be that princely eagle's bird, 
Show thy descent by gazing at the sun." 

King Henry VI., 3rd Part, Act ii., sc. 1. 

And Ariosto styles the eagle — 

" The bird 
That dares with steadfast eyes Apollo's light." 

Boole's Translation. 

Accolti makes it the subject of a sonnet : 

" Benche simili sieno e degli artigli 

E del capo, e del pello, e de le piume, 

Se manca lor la perfettion del lume, 

Kieonoscer non vuol l'aquila i figli. 
Perche una parte, che non le simigli, 

Pa che non esser sue 1' altre presume, 

Magnanima natura, alto costume, 

Degno onde es»empio un saggio amante pigli. 
Che la sua donna, sua creder che sia 

Non de, s' a pensier suoi, s' a desir suoi, 

S' a tutte voglie sue, non 1' ha conforme. 
Peib non siete in un da me dirforme, 

Benche mi si confaccia il piu di voi, 

O nulla, 6 si convien tutta esser mia." 

Agnes Soeel. See Sokel. 

Alba, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of (-)- 1582), the 
first general of his age ; better known in history as the Duke of Alva. 
He gained the battle of Miihlberg, was at the siege of Metz with 
Charles V., and in 1555 was appointed Vicar-General of the House 
of Austria in Italy. From 1566 to 1575 he was the scourge of the 
Netherlands, where he left the eternal memory of his cruelties. 

At a bull-fight, having to enter the lists after some of the Fonseca 
family, who bore the stars of their arms as their device, 1 the Duke of 
Alba took that of Aurora driving away the stars, with the motto, Al 
parecer de V Alba s' ascondan las estrellas, " At the appearance of 
dawn (alba) the stars hide themselves " (Fig. 13). 

"When, at the bare apprehension of his approach, the Turks fled 
from the Neapolitan territory, a basilisk 2 was represented driving out 
serpents, with the motto, Tu nomine tantum, " Thou by thy name 
only." 

1 Menestrier, ' Traite' des Touinois.' 
2 An imaginary animal resembling the cock, barbed tongue, and the tail ter- 
dragon, but with eagles' legs, head of a minating in the head of a dragon. 

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survived him are far inferior to the idea that must be formed of them, 
from the accounts given by his contemporaries of the astonishing 
effect they produced. 

Accolti's device was an eagle proving x its young (Fig. 12). Motto, 
Sic crede, " So believe," implying that our faith, like the gaze of the 
eagle, should be fixed on one object ; TJnum aspicit, " It beholds but 



one. 







Fig. 12. — Bernardo Accolti. 

Speaking of the eagle, Pliny tells us : 

" Before that her little ones bee feathered, she will beat and strike 
them with her wings, and thereby force them to looke full against the 
sunne beames. Now, if shee see any one of them to winke, or their 
eies to water at the raies of the sunne, shee turns it with the head 
forward out of the nest, as a bastard and not right, not none of hers ; 
but bringeth up and cherisheth that, whose eie will abide the light of 
the sunne, as she looketh directly upon him." 4 



1 L'aigle eprouve au soleil les petits de 
son ayre. 

2 Other mottoes have been used with 
this device: — Con certa fede, "With 
assured faith. Degeneris miimis lux, 
" Light to degenerate souls," by Catherine, 
Queen of Poland. Generi laudemque 
fidemque, " Alike glory and faith in my 
race," by Pope Paul V. Met non dege- 
nerant, " Mine do not degenerate," Gab. 

4 Book : 



Cesarini. Sustinuere diem (from Lucan), 
" They have maintained their day." See 
also, ' Montmajeur ' ' Savoy, Charles Em- 
manuel,' and ' England, William Eufus.' 
And again — 

" Mai non nutrisce il corvo i figii nati, 
Se negra piuma in lor nascer non vede 
Ne l'aquila, se al sol non son restati, 
I polli suoi, esser suoi figli crede." 

Accolti. 
3 For VNA3I. read vsrai. 

, eh. 3. 



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comu-copias, or horn of Amalthea, with the caduceus of Mercury, 
implying, that the study of law and literature might he combined. 

Alessandei, Alessandro d' ( -f- 1523), a lawyer of Naples, of 
extensive learning, and member of the Neapolitan Academy. He 
took for device a serpent stopping its ears. Motto, TJt prudentid 
vivam, " That I may live wisely." As the serpent refuses to hear the 
voice of the charmer, by laying one ear against the ground and closing 
the other with her tail, so the wise man imitates the prudence of 
the reptile, and refuses to listen to the words of malice and slander. 

" What, art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf? 
Be poisonous too." 

King Henry VI., 2nd Pari", Act ii., se. 2. 

" Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders 
To the voice of any true decision." 

Troilus and Cress/da, Act ii., sc. 2. 

" Da me s' asi'onde, come aspide suole, 
Che, per star empio, il canto udir non vuole," 

Orlando Furiosi), Canto xxxii. 19, 

' He flies me now — nor more attends my pain 
Than the deaf adder heeds the charmer's strain." 

Hoole's Translation. 

Altoviti, Antonio, Archbishop of Florence (-(- 1573). A dog 
' guarding a flock of sheep. Non dormit qui custodit, " He sleeps not 
who guards," a paraphrase of the Psalmist (Ps. exxi.) : " He that 
keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." 

Alviano, Bartolomeo d', of Orvieto, a brave but unfortunate 
general. When the League of Cambray was formed by Louis XII., 
Maximilian, Ferdinand the Catholic, and Pope Julius II , against 
Venice, 1508, Alviano commanded the army of the Eepublic. He 
was taken prisoner at the battle of Aignadel, 1 1509, but liberated 
when peace was made in 1513 between Venice and France. He was 
again defeated at Vicenza by Pescara and Prospero Colonna, but, by 
his timely succour, decided the victory in favour of Francis I. at 

1 Called also Ghiaradada. It was on this occasion Louis XII. 

" Vedete. dice poi, di gente morta called out, " En avant, que ceux qui 

Ctoperta in Ghiaradada la. campagna." t pe ur ' se ' mettcnt a l'abri derriere 

Orlando Furwso, Canto xxxm. . ; , u^-ncio 

"Behold, he cries, what ghastly piles of slain m01 - -ten thousand men lay dead on 

Are stretch'd on Ghiaradada's fatal plain." the field. 



Hoole's Translation. 



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The basilisk, so called from the crest or diadem on his head, was 
of old celebrated for its death-giving power. Pliny says : 

" We come now to the basiliske, whom all other serpents do flie 
from and are afraid of ; albeit he killeth them with his very breath 
and smell that passeth from him ; yea and (by report) if he do but set his 
eye on a man, it is enough to take away his life." 1 




Fi S . 13.— TV.k» of Alto. 



King Henry TL, when he hears of the death of bis uncle 
Humphrey, the good Duke of Gloucester, says to Suffolk— 

'• Come, basilisk, 
And kill tlie innocent gazer witli thy sight." 

King Henri/ VI., 2nd Part. Act iii.. sc. 2. 

Beaumont and Fletcher also speak of 

" The basilisk's death-doing eye." 

The Woman-hater. 

On the return of the Duke of Alba from the Netherlands, he took 
the device of a falcon hooded. Motto, Yincior ut vici, " I am bound 
as I have conquered." This must refer to his temporary disgraci 
and banishment to the castle of Uzeda. 

Alciato, Andrea (+ 1550). This Italian jurisconsult, renowned 
for his eloquence and knowledge of the law, was author of one of the 
earliest books of emblems, published in 1522, and which has been trans- 
lated into almost every European language. He took for his own the 

1 Book xxix., ch. 4. 



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other reptiles, and stirring up the water with his horn before he 
drinks (Fig. 14). Motto, Venena petto, "I expel poisons," alluding to 
the property of detecting poison at that period assigned to the horn 
of the unicorn. 1 This standard was lost on the fatal day of Vicenza. 
Marcantonio da Monte, who carried it, being mortally wounded, kept 
the tattered rent clasped in his arms, and never loosed it from his 
grasp until he fell dead on the field. 

Amboise, Adeibn, Bishop of Treguier (-)- 1616). His device was 
a hive of bees. Motto, Plus mellis quam fellis, " More of honey than 
of gall," — proper, says Paradin, to a doctor of the honeyed eloquence 
of St. Ambrose. 

Amboise, Geoeges, Cardinal d' (-(- 1510), Bishop of Bouen at the 
age of fourteen, minister and favourite of Louis XII., whom he led 
into many political errors to further his own designs of obtaining the 
Papacy. So great was his influence over the mind of his master, that 
when any difficult question arose, the king would say, " Laissez faire a 
Georges, il est homme d'age," implying he had experience to get out 
of the difficulty — experience being the fruit of age. This saying has 
passed into a proverb. The cardinal built the Chateau of Gaillon, 
which cost, at the present value of money, above £100,000 — a perfect 
specimen of the style of the Benaissance. One of its gateways now 
stands in the court of the Ecole des Beaux Arts, at Paris. 

" Trop aimable Gaillon, ta beaute' sans seconde, 
Te doit bien mettre au rang des merveilles du monde." 



1 The "essai" of unicorn's horn is convenable matiere ne pouvoit estie 

frequently mentioned in inventories. compose'e la main de justice, laquelle doit 

" 1391. Une manche d'or d'un essay de estre nette et sans venin." — Faochet, 

lincourne pour attoucher aux viandes Antiquitez Gaulgoises, 1579. 

de Monseigneur le Dauphin." — Comptes Hentzner, who visited England in 159S, 

Soyaux. writes : " We were shown here (Windsor) 

"1408. XJne piece de licorne a faire the horn of a unicorn of about eight spans 

essay, a ung bout d'argent."— Inv. des and a half in length valued at above 

Dues de Bourqogne. 1000Z." — Travels. 

" 1536. Une touche de licorne, garnie " 1607. Among some articles of jewel- 

d'or, pour faire essay." — Inv. de Charles lery mortgaged to Queen Elizabeth, and 

given by James I. to his queen, is ' one 



" 1539. Charles cinquieme, empereur, little cup of unicorn's horn, with a cover 

passant en France pour aller en Flandres, of gold, set with two pointed diamonds 

luy estant monstre' le thre'sor de Sainct and three pearls pendent, being in weight 

Denis avec la couronne et ornemens 7J ounces.' " — Pell Records. 
royaux que Ton y garde, quelqu'un luy " The unicorn, whose horn is worth a 

disant que ceste main estoit taillee d'une city." — Deokek, The Chile's Bomebooke, 

piece de licorne, respondit que de plus 1609. 



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HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Marignano, 1515, against the Swiss — the "Bataille des Grants," as it 
was termed. 

Alviano rushed in with a body of cavalry, shouting the 
Venetian war-cry of " Marco," and inspired the French with fresh 
courage. The recovery of the Milanese was the consequence of this 
victory. Alviano died shortly afterwards. 

" Vedete il re Francesco innanzi a tutli, 
Che cosi rompe a' Svizzeri le corna, 
Ohe poco resta a non gli aver distrutti ; 
Si che il titolo mai piii non gli adorna, 
Che usurpato s' avran quei villan brutti ; 
Che domator' de' principi e difesa 
Si nomeran della Christiana Chiesa." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xxxiii., st. 43. 

" King Francis see with generous ardour burn ; 
He breaks the Switzer's pride, whose barbarous host 
Had swell'd their titles with presuming boast : 
And styled themselves by Heaven's high will prepared, 
The scourge of princes and the church's guard." 

Hoole's Translation. 

Alviano was the great champion of the Orsini family, and he 
expelled the troops of Pope Alexander VI. and Caesar Borgia from 
Viterbo and other of their cities. 




Burt, d' Alviano. 



When he took Viterbo and dispersed the Gattesca faction, whom he 
termed the poison of the city, Alviano caused to be embroidered on his 
standard, a unicorn at a fountain, surrounded by snakes, toads, and 



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2.'i 



name being a corruption of Milan. The castle is covered with C's 
interlaced, and the burning mountain, with other armorial cognisances 
of the house of Amboise. 1 It was said at the time, " Milan a fait 
Meillant, et Chateaubriant a deffait et perdu Milan ; " that is, that the 
gains of Ohaumont, when governor, had enabled him to build Mont 
Meillant, and the faults of Lautrec 2 had lost Milan. 




Fig, 16. — Charles d'Amboide, Sieur de Cbaumonl. 

Anjou, Fkancois de Fbance, Duke of (-)-• 1584), fifth and youngest 
son of Henry II. He was first styled Duke of Alencjon, by which 
name he is best known as the suitor of Queen Elizabeth. After her 
rejection of him, the people of the Low Countries chose him their 
protector against the tyranny of Spain, and declared him Duke of 
Brabant. But the indiscretion and evil counsels of his advisers caused 
the people to rise against him, and he was compelled to retire to 
France, where he died soon afterwards. 

When he went to the Low Countries, he took the device of the 
rising sun dispersing the mists and clouds (Fig. 17), with the motto, 
Fovet tt discutit, "It nourishes and dissipates;" 3 implying that he, 



1 The Chateau of Ohaumont on the 
Loire is likewise decorated with the inter- 
laced C's and the burning mountain. 

2 Brother of Madame du Chateau- 
briant (Francoise <lc Foix). 



3 "Bronze Gilt Medal; Francois Due 
d' Anjou (1554-84). Obverse, bust to the 
right. Reverse, the sun rising from the 
sea, and dispersing clouds. Diam. l.J 

inch." — South Kensington. Muieinu. 



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HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Though called the Medicis of France, Amboise may be more fitly 
compared with Wolsey, his rival in architecture at Hampton Court ; and 
the dying exclamation of Cardinal Amboise will be remembered as long 
as that of Wolsey, '• OIj, frere Jean, que n'ai je ete toute ma vie, frere 
Jean ! " His motto was, Pontifices agite et vos regies dicite junta, 
" Pontiffs do, and ye kings speak what is right." 

A magnificent monument, erected, by his nephew, is in the cathedral 
of Eouen. Eight thousand priests attended his funeral. 

" Amlioise est a ses pies, ce ministre fidele, 
Qui seul airna la France et fut seul aime d'elle." 

Voltaiee, Henriade. 

Amboise, Charles d', Sieur de Chaumont (+ 1510), Marshal of 
France, Governor of Milan, nephew of the cardinal. 

As his first device, he bore the burning mountain, chaud-mont, in 
allusion to his name (Fig. 15). He afterwards changed it to a wild 




Fig. 15. — Charles d' Amboise, Sieur de Chaumont. 

man with a club in his band (Fig. 16), and the motto, Mitem animum 
agresti sub tegmine scdbro, " I preserve a gentle mind under a rough 
covering;" meaning that although war required him to assume a 
rough exterior, he yet retained his suavity of manners. This device 
he bore embroidered upon the pennon of his company. 

He built the princely Chateau of Meillant 1 (Nievre et Cher), the 

1 It lias been termed the Alhambra of Berry. 



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Imprisoned by his nephew, Rene resigned his duchy, and retired to 
Provence, where, by his paternal rule, the " good King Bene " is said 
to have restored the Golden Age : 

" On vit par-tout, aux bords de la Durance, 
De glands troupeaux de moutons efc de boeufs ; 
Poules alors pondoient de plus gros ceufs, 
Et 1'age d'or existoit en Provence." 

Les Vers a soie. 

The good King Ren6, hoping that better times would put him in 
possession of the kingdoms of which he bore the title, took for his 
device a bullock, bearing an escutcheon with his arms (Fig. 18). Motto, 
Pas a pas, " Step by step ;" meaning that though the bullock walks 




Fig. 18. — King Rene of Aajon. 

slowly, yet in time, it achieves the end of his journey ; and thus he 
hoped, little by little, to advance his cause and arrive by slow degrees 
at the object of his ambition. 

Having lost his wife, Isabella of Lorraine, to whom he was much 
attached, he took for device a Turkish bow with the string broken 
(Fig. 19). Motto, Arco per lentar piaga non sana, " Unstringing the 
bow does not heal the wound," wishing to mark that the death of his 
wife had not effaced the love he bore towards her. 

This motto, Delander Tare we guerit pas la playe, has passed into 
a proverb in France, and applies also to grief, injuries, and an infinity 
of evils which time does not efface from the memory. 

Another device of King Rene is a mailed arm issuing from a cloud 
and holding a sword. Motto, Toutes pour tine. This emblem was 



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like the sun, would dispel the clouds of the political horizon, and prove 
the light and protection of the Provinces. 




.Fig. 17. — Francois, Luke of Anjou. 

Anjou, Bene (-(- 1480), Duke of Anjou, and titular king of three 
kingdoms ; he was also Duke of Lorraine hy right of his wife, 1 and 
from him the houses of Lorraine and Guise descend. 

" Reyner, descended from the royal stem 
Of France, tlie Duke of Anjou, styled King 
Of Naples, Sicil, and Jerusalem ; 
Although in them he had not any thing 
But the poor title of a diadem." 

Dkayton, Miseries of Queen Margaret, 

In ' King Henry VI.' the Duke of York tauntingly observes to Eene's 
daughter, Queen Margaret — 

" Thy father bears the type of King of Naples, 
Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem ; 
Yet not 60 wealthy as an English yeoman." 

King Henry VI., 3rd Part, Act i., sc. 4. 



His titles are thus set forth in a poem Which is thus rendered : 



by Croissant Or, his king-at-arms : 

" De trois puissans royaumes soubs tymbres coronndes 

Porte en cbef en ses armes, le noble Roy Rene, 

Hongrie, et Sicile, Hierusalem aussi, 

Ainsl que voir pouvez en cet escrit icy 

D' Anjou et Bar en piedz, duchez de grand renom 

Kt nn roial escu sur le tout d'Aragon," 



Tbe three great realms under a crowned crest, 
Noble King Rene bears as chief and best, 
Hungary, Sicily, and Jerusalem ; 
And here you behold the royal stem, 
Anjou and Bar, duchies of great renown, 
And over all the shield of Aragon." 



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each side a burning brazier (pot enflamme), united by a scroll with 
the words Dardant Desir. This fine specimen of enamelled terracotta 
formed part of the external decoration of a villa ' near Florence. Fig. 20 
is taken from it. 

Aquino, Ltjigi d', Lord of Castiglione (Naples), because his father, 
in the War of the Barons, had died in the service of his king, and 
others of his predecessors had also proved their fidelity, Luigi took 
as his device the swan, which never varies in colour, with the motto, 
Unius eoloris, " Of one colour," to show the unchanging loyalty of his 
house. 

When the fortunes of the family revived, his son and successor, 
Don Carlo, took the device of the diver (mergus), which, when im- 
mersed in the water, rises again. The motto, Mersa emerget, " Though 
sunk it shall rise." ' 

Aragon, Cardinal of. 3 Eepenting of having elected Leo X. as 
Pope, he took as his device a blank tablet, with a motto, Melior for- 
tuna notabit, alluding to the fashion among the Romans of casting 
every day into an urn, stones of different colours, as the person per- 
forming the ceremony was fortunate or unfortunate. When the day 
was lucky and fortune propitious, the stone was white ; when unlucky, 
black. 4 At the end of the year they computed the balance of the 
whole. 5 

"A custom was of old, and still remains, 
Which life or death by suffrages ordains ; 
White stones and black within an urn are cast ; 
The first absolve, but fate is in the last.'' 

Detden. 

Arbusani, Benedetto, Podesta of Padua at the time of the League 
of Cambray. On a medal 6 he bears the device of a bit (Fig. 21), with 
the motto, Sustine et ahstine, " Sustain and abstain," a maxim com- 

1 Villa Pantiatici-Ximenes. 

2 Merses profunda pulchrior evenit 4 Greta an carbone notandum, "Whe- 
(Hokaoe), " Sink it in the deep, the ther it be marked with chalk or char- 
lovelier it comes out." coal." 

3 " Ludovico, son of Don Henry, •• Let a white stone of pure unsullied ray 
natural brother of Alfonso II., King of Record, Macriaus, this thy natal day." 
Naples He distinguished himself in the , Pebsius, Sat. ii. 3. 
wars which devastated Naples, and is ^r.w. Dmmmma ; aw**,.) 
celebrated by Sanazzaro and all the 5 See, also, Sanazzaro. 
academicians of Naples, where he lived " Museum Mazzuchellianum, Venice 
to au advanced age."— Roscoe. 1761-3. 



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HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



continued by his descendants, and was borne on the banner ol his 
grandson, Duke Bene II., when he led the advanced guard at the 
battle of Nancy. 




Fig. 19. — Kiug Rene of Aiijou. 



One of his imprese d'amore was a flaming brazier (Fig. 20), with 
the motto, Dardant desir. 1 




Fig. 20. — King Rene of Arjuu. 

King Rene instituted the order of the Croissant d'or. The badge 
was, a golden crescent, inscribed with the motto, Los en croissant: 
meaning that we acquire fresh praise — los, louanges — as we increase in 
virtue and honour. 

In the South Kensington Museum is a circular piece of Delia Eobbia 
ware in relief of nearly eleven feet in diameter. Encircled by a 
massive border are the arms and crest of King Rene. At the base of the 
escutcheon is a crescent inscribed with the motto of the order, and on 

1 '• Ptmr devise oliauflcttcs portc d'ardant dteir.'' 



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which have furnished him with honey. He alludes to it in his 
' Orlando :' 

" Me che mi giova ? 
Se'l mio ben fare in util d'altri cede ? 
Cosi, ma non per se, 1' ape rinnova 
II mele ogni anno, e mai non lo possede." 

Canto xliv., st. 45. 

Such Shakspeare describes as the reward received by parents from 
their thankless children : 

" Like the bee, tolling from every flower 
The virtuous sweets ; 

Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey, 
We bring it to the hive ; and, like the bees, 
Are murder'd for our pains." 

Khiij Henry IV., 2nd Part, Act iv., se. 4. 

Ariosto was so partial to this emblem that Rinaldo had it em- 
broidered upon his knightly cloak. 1 It appears in a woodcut 2 in the 
first and some of the subsequent editions of his ' Orlando Furioso.' 

In the third edition, 1524, and in that of 1532, we find the 




Fi" 2'J. — Ariosto. 



device of two vipers with a hand over (Fig. 23), holding a pair of 

1 Cinque Canti. posed of the devices of a mallet and 

2 First edition, 1516 (Grenville Coll. hatchet entwined by a snake, the molto 
British Museum), with a border com- distributed in the four corners. 



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HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



prising, according to Epictetus, every essential to human happiness — 
support in misfortune and restraint in pleasure. 



'If he the bridle should let «laeke, 
Then every thing would run to wracke." 

T. Hkywood, Merarchie of Angeles, 1635. 




Fig. 21. — benedetLo Arbusaui. 



" Temperance," says Burton, in his ' Anatomy of Melancholy,' ' " is 
a bridle of gold." And the bridle is a favourite image of restraint in 
Scripture : " I will put my bridle in thy lips ;" — " I will keep my 
mouth with a bridle ;" — " Whose mouth must be held in with bit and 
bridle ;" and many others. 

Aeiosto, Ltjdovico (-f 1533). His favourite emblem was a hive 




22.— Ariosto. 



(Fig. 22), from which bees are flying to escape the fire. Motto, Pro 
bono malum, " Evil for good," a device assumed by Ariosto when, 
after so many years of service, he was abruptly dismissed by Cardinal 
Ippolito d'Este, like the ungrateful countryman who kills the bees 

1 Book viii., ch. 36. 



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31 



Aubigny, Bernard, or Eberard Stuart, 1 Sieur d' Aubigny, 2 
(-(-1508), Marshal of France, was one of the most experienced com- 
manders in the service of Charles VIII., and of Louis XII. He de- 
feated Gonsalvo of Cordova at Seminara, took Capua, and was himself 
repulsed at the second battle of Setninara by Antonio de Leyva. 

Asa relative of James IV., he bore the red lion of Scotland on a 
field argent, which he caused to be semee of buckles, 3 signifying that 
he was the means of holding united the Kings of Scotland and France 
against England. He had this device on his surcoat and his standard, 
with the motto, Distantiajungit, " It unites the distant." 

Augustus GassAB, Emperor of Rome (-|- 14). Augustus was born 
under the sign of Capricorn, 4 and he fought the battle of Actium the day 
of the calends of August, when the sun enters that sign ; he therefore 
held it in such estimation that he placed upon his medals the celestial 
goat, represented with the globe between its feet, tbe helm and 
cornucopise (Fig. 24). 




Fig. 24. — Emperor Augustus. 



This same device was used by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, 
Cosmo de' Medici (see) ; and it was likewise assumed by the Emperor of 



1 Styled by Italian writers, " Everardo 
Estuardo Scozzese, per sopra nome detto 
Monsignore di Obegni." — Summonte, 
Istoria di Napoli. 

2 " Aubigny is on the Cher, forty 
leagues south of Paris. Sir John Stuart 
was created Lord of Aubigny by (he Dau- 
phin Charles, for whom he had performed 
high service in expelling the English in- 
vaders from France. He was shiin at Or- 
leans in 1429, when supporting the banner 
of the Maid, raising his battle-cry of 
' Avant Darnley ! Jamais d'arriere Darn- 
ley ! ' and leading the forlorn hope at the 



head of a stout hand of Scots, exiles and 
retainers of the Stuart-Darnley. All 
France, the young and valiant king, and 
the enthusiastic Pucelle, in the midst 
of the triumphs of Orleans, mourned 
the early death of the valiant Scottish 
exile." — Miss Strickland, Queens of 
Scotland. 

3 Robert, sixth Earl of Lennox, 1578, 
bore three fleurs-de-lis, with a bordure 
charged with eight buckles for Aubigny. 
Motto, Avant Vamlie. 

* The Emperor Charles V. was born 
under the same sign. 



30 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

shears, with which the tongue of one is cut off, the hand being directed 
to perform the same office upon the other. The motto, Dilexisti 
malitiam super henignitatem, " Thou hast loved unrighteousness 
more than goodness," while alluding to the chastisement deserved by 
the enemies of the poet, refers us for the origin of the emblem to 
Psalm lii., in the fourth verse of which the motto occurs, followed by 
the words, " Thou hast loved to speak all words that may do hurt, 
thou false tongue. Therefore shall God destroy thee for ever : He 
shall take thee and pluck thee out of thy dwelling." 

These devices are also perpetuated upon two medals, 1 on the reverse 
of which is a portrait of the poet, but on the second medal one 
viper only is represented. 

Ariosto observed the most determined silence as to the meaning of 
a black pen, covered with gold, with which he at one time was in the 
habit of writing, and also of a similar device embroidered upon his 
dress. Bella mia nigra penna lifregio H'oro, " Of my black pen, the 
golden ornament." 

Over his house, which from his means was built but small, he had 
this Latin distich : 

" Parva, sed apta milii, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non 
Sordida, pavta meo sed tamen sere domus." 

" Small is my humble roof, but well design'd 
To suit the temper of the master's mind; 
Hurtful to none, it boasts a decent pride, 
That my poor purse the modest cost supplied." 

Hoole's Translation. 

" Maison petite, mais commode pour moi, mais incommode a per- 
sonne, mais assez propre, mais pourtant achetee de mes propres 
fonds." 

" I confess," says Cowley, " I love littleness almost in all things. 
A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, 
and a very little feast." 

When Socrates was asked why he had built for himself so small a 
house : " Small as it is," he replied, " I wish I could fill it with 
friends." 

1 A specimen of the medal with the figured in the Museum Mazzuchellianum 
beehive placed over the flames is in the with the hand and shears and one 
South Kensington Museum. There is one serpent. Motto, Pro bono malum. 



AND WAB-CRIES. 33 

Great, to show that his designs of dominion were not inferior to 
Alexander's. Subsequently, Augustus used his own effigy, which 
practice was continued by his successors. 




Fig. 26. — Emperor Augustus. 

Austria, Archdukes and Archduchesses of. 1 

Kodolph, Duke of Swabia (+ 1307), son of Kodolph of Hapsburg, an elephant. 
Motto, Vi parva non iuvertitur, "Is not npset by small force." 

Kodolph, King of Bohemia (+ 1307), son of Albert I., a cock standing upon a 
trumpet. Gura mgila, " Watch with care." 

Otho the Fate, Duke of Austria (+ 1339), son of Albert I. See Baglione. 

Agnes, daughter of Albert I., married Andrew III., King of Hungary (+ 1364), 
a sun and a moon. Me tills ornari, " That I should be adorned by yours." 

Catherine, daughter of Albert I., married to Charles, Duke of Calabria. See 
Maegaeet oe Navarre. 

Fredeeic, Archduke of Austria, son of Frederic the Fair, a hand issuing from a 
cloud, holding a flail. Telum virtus facit, " Valour frames the weapon." 

Anne, daughter of Frederic the Fair, Queen of Poland, a palm tree. Turn Usee 
omnia, " Thine all these." 

George, Archduke of Austria, son of Frederic HI., a serpent round a double 
anchor. Fata viam incement, '.' Fate will find the way." 

Mart, daughter of Ferdinand I. (+ 1581), widow of William, Duke of Juliers 
and Cleves, a leafless tree. Gaudium meum spoliat, " He (death) despoils my joy." 

Leonoka, daughter of Ferdinand I. (+ 1594). See Gonzaga, Guglielmo. 

Catherine, daughter of Ferdinand I, (+ 1572), Duchess of Mantua and Queen 
of Poland. See Accolti. 

Austria, Charles, Archduke of (-)- 1590), third son of Ferdi- 
nand I. He was the root of the Styrian branch of the Emperors of 
Austria, and father of Ferdinand II. The Archduke Charles was one 
of the suitors of Queen Elizabeth. 

He took for device Fortune standing either on a dolphin or on the 

1 The following devices are from et Csesarum Romanorum/ Frankfort, 
Oct. Strada, 'Do Yitis Imperatorum 1615, fol. 



32 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Germany, Eodolph IL, with the motto, Fulget Cxsaris asirum, " The 

Q-J-py* (XT (IflPQQT 1 Sill TIPS 

A butterfly over a crab (Fig. 25) was another of the emblems of 
the Emperor Augustus, which he caused to be struck on a gold medal, 
the motto, Festinalente, 1 "Hasten slowly;" meaning that the medium 




Fig. 25. — Emperor Augustus. 

between extremes of caution and rashness should be pursued by every 
good prince. Do not let impetuosity lead you into imprudence : avoid 
equally the extremes of tardiness and precipitation. "Le meilleur 
chemin est celui du milieu." 2 

This device, with the motto, Mature, is also assigned to the 
Emperor Yespasian. 

Augustus used the sphinx (Fig. 26), " maid's face, bird's wings, and 
lion's paws," as his seal, implying thereby that the secret intentions of 
a prince should not be divulged. 

When Augustus was in Asia, he authorised Agrippa and Mecaenas, 
who administered affairs during his absence, to open and read the 
letters he addressed to the Senate before any one else ; and for this 
purpose he gave them a seal upon which was engraved a sphinx, the 
emblem of secrecy. This device gave occasion to ridicule, and to the 
saying that it was not surprising if the Sphinx proposed riddles ; upon 
which Augustus discontinued it, and adopted one with Alexander the 

1 Frellon, the printer at Lyons, used Onslow. The last name, " On-Slow," 

the same device, with the motto, Mature. being evidently a pun on the motto. 
Festina lente is the motto of the Earl 2 Medio tutissimus ibis (Ovid), "You 

of Fingal and of Lords Dunsany, and will advance most safely in the middle." 



AND WAR-CRIES. 



Jason with the Golden Eleece, and the dragon at his feet. Motto, 
Assiclw'tate, " By assiduity ;" Jason typifying the archduke, who, by 
his marriage, had obtained the Golden Fleece, — i.e., the rich inheritance 
of the Netherlands. 

Isabella Claea Eugenia, his wife (-)- 1632), had a medal struck, 
with Fame in the air, between the four winds, each blowing a trumpet. 
Clara ubique, " Famous everywhere." 

Avalos, Francesco Fekdinando, Marquis of Pescara (-+- 1525), the 
celebrated general of the Emperor Charles V., bore for device a 
Spartan shield (Fig. 28), with, as motto, the injunction of the Spartan 
mother to her son before the battle of Mantinea, Aut cum hoc, aid in 
hoc, " Either with this or on this ;" either to return victorious with his 




Kig. 28. — Marquis of Pescara. 

shield, 1 or to die in a manner worthy of a true Spartan, and be brought 
home upon it. This device shone conspicuous on Pescara's banner 
and surcoat at the battle of Eavenna, where he was taken prisoner. 

Pescara also bore a sun, accompanied by Lucifer, the morning 
star. 2 Motto, Hac monstrante viam, " Under this guidance," mean- 
ing either that he followed the path of his sovereign, Charles V., 
typified by the sun ; or that he was ready to go to the wars in the 



1 Eparninondas.when mortally wounded 
and carried off the field by his soldiers, 
anxiously inquired if his shield was safe; 
being answered in the affirmative, he died 
showing signs of joy. 

2 Venus, when a morning star pre- 
ceding the sun, is called Lucifer or 
Phosphorus; when following, and an 
evening star, Hesperus or Vesper. Thus 



Philips speaks of — 

" The fair stur of early Phosphorus." 

Cid&r. 
Vesper is frequently mentioned by the 
poets : 

" Late Vesper lights his evening star." 

Geot-gic I. 
'• Ere twice in murk and occidental damp 
Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp." 
All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 1. 

D 2 



34 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

globe (Fig. 27). Motto, the words of Turnus (Xth .Eneid,) Audaces 
Fortuna juvat, 1 " Fortune assists the brave ;" that is, Providence 
never fails to help him who courageously endeavours to carry out 




i-'ig. 27.— Charles, Archduke of Austria. 

high and honourable undertakings. Intrepidity will often succeed, 
when timidity may produce a failure. " Fortune secort les hardis ;" 
or, as Hudibras has it — 

" Fortune tli' audacious doth juvare, 
But lets the timidous miscarry." 

Fortune is represented on a ball, as a sign of her instability, and 
with a sail to show that she guides where she will the ship of our 
life— 

" That goddess blind, 
That stands upon the rolling restless stone." 

King Henry V., Act iii., sc. 6. 

Austria, Albert, Archduke of (-(- 1621), Governor of the 
Netherlands, married Isabella, daughter of Philip II. 

An arm issuing from a cloud, holding a sword entwined with olive 
and palm. Motto, Pulchrum est clarescere utroque, " It is well to be 
famous in either ;" that is, in peace or war. 

Having taken Calais and other French towns, he caused them to 
be represented on a medal, with the motto, Veni, vidi, vieit Deus, " I 
came, I saw, Grod conquered." 

On his marriage with Isabella, a medal was struck, representing 

1 "Audaces Fortuna juvat, timidosque repellit." 



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37 



preetervehor omnes, " If I am. not borne upon wings, at least in 
running I outstrip all," which device he wore embroidered upon his 
saddle and surcoat. 

When Charles V. made him captain-general, after the death of 
Antonio de Leyva, he took for device a sheaf of ripe corn (Fig. 29), 
with the motto, Finiunt pariter renovantque labores, " They finish, 
and, in the like manner, renew their labours ;" meaning, that as after 




Fig. 29. — Marquis dtl Vaatu. 



the grain is harvested, we must again sow and harvest, so his labours 
in the cause of his master should never cease, and as soon as he had 
finished one great exploit he would begin another. This device was 
the more appropriate, inasmuch as a bundle of ears of corn was the 
impresa worn in battle by his great-grandfather, Don Eoderigo 
d'Avalos, Grand Constable of Castille. Avalos continued using the 
wheatsheaf till his death, but after his defeat at Cerisoles he assumed 
also the device of sea-rushes buffeted by the winds and waves : 
Flectimur non frangimur undis, " We are beaten, not broken, by 
the waves." 

The marquis assumed another before he was appointed to the chief 
command, because many of his exploits were attributed to Pescara, 
Prospero Colonna, or Antonio de Leyva, and therefore he hoped soon 
to be made generalissimo, that, freed from his colleagues, he might 
prove to the world the extent of his valour. This other device repre- 
sented the four elements in circles, with the motto, Biscretis sua 



36 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

East against the infidels. Pescara lies buried in the church of San 
Domenico Maggiore, at Naples. Above hangs his torn banner, and a 
short plain sword, said to be the same surrendered by Francis I. at 
Pavia. Punning in the spirit of the age, Ariosto wrote this distich 
upon him — 

" Piscator maximus llle, 
Nimquidethiepiscescepit? non : ergo quid? nrbes." 

" The greatest of fishers, he — 
Hath he here taken fishes ? 
No— -what then ? Cities." 

" II re gagliardo si difende a piede, 
E tutto dell' ostil sangue si bagna ; 
Ma virtu al fin' a troppa forza cede : 
Ecco il re preso, ed eccolo in Tspagna : 
Ed a quel di Pescara dar si vede, 
Ed a chi mai da lui non si scompagna 
A quel del Vasto, le prime corone 
Del campo rotto, e del gran re prigione." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xxxii. 53. 

" On foot he combats, bath'd in hostile blood ; 
But virtue, that superior force has stood, 
At length to numbers yields — behold him nude, 
A prisoner now, and now to Spain convey'd. 
Pescara then the honours shall divide 
With him that ever battles at his side ; 
"With Vasto's lord such wreaths Pescara gains, — 
A host defeated, and a king in chains." 

Hoole's Translation. 

Avalos, Alfonso d', Marquis del Vasto or del Guasto (-f- 1546), 
nephew of Pescara, whom he succeeded in the command of the army 
of Charles V. On the death of Antonio de Leyva he was made 
commander of the Milanese. He was brave, but false and vain. He 
was defeated at Cerisoles, 1544, by the Due d'Enghien, having 
boastingly brought cart-loads of handcuffs with him for his 
prisoners. 

Disappointed that Antonio de Leyva should be made, by the 
Emperor and Pope Clement YIL, General of the League, the 
marquis consoled himself by saying that, though not placed by them 
in the high position he coveted, yet they could not prevent his 
going before others in deeds of valour. Giovio gives him as device 
the ostrich, which uses its wings as sails in order to outstrip all 
others, with the motto, Si sursum non efferor alis, cursu saltern 



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39 



Avalos is constantly alluded to by Ariosto : 

" Peseara's marquis next my voice demands ; 
And lo, the third — a youth whose single praise 
With Gallia's sons th' Italian name shall raise. 
I see him now in glorious zeal prepare 
With, these to strive, from these the wreath to bear. 

Such is Alphonso, such his worth appears, 
So far above the promise of his years, 
The imperial monarch shall in him confide 
To lead his armies and his councils guide, 
Till by this chief, his warlike thunders hurl'd, 
Shall spread his banners o'er the subject world.'' 

Orlando Fur/oso, Canto xv. 28. Hoole's Translation. 

Vasto, Donna Maria d'Aragon, Marchese di, Avalos' wife. 

Being as watchful over the conduct of those about her as of her 
own, Giovio gave her as device two branches of ripe millet tied 
together, with the motto, Servari et servare meum est, " "lis mine to 
preserve and be preserved," because the millet is said to be not only 
itself incorruptible, but, like camphor, to preserve other substances 
placed near it from corruption. 

Baglione, Gian-Paolo (-)- 1520), Tyrant of Perugia. A con- 
dottiere captain, who usurped the sovereignty of Perugia and served 




ti^. 31. — (Jkin-l'iiulo 13agliune. 

the Venetians against the League of Cambray. Pretending he wished 
to consult him on affairs of importance, Leo X. transmitted to 
Baglione a safe conduct to Borne, but, when he arrived, he caused him 
to be tortured and beheaded, and afterwards took possession of his states. 
Baglione's device was a silver griffin on a field gules (Fig. 31) 
wi~ — — — TT ' " ^ =1 —-■'■■- 1 ~ — (lis armatus in hostem. 



38 HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

virtus adest, " Each, separate, has its power ;" i. e., that each element 
has its special office assigned to it. It was placed upon the flags of 
his trumpeters. 

Another of his emblems was the temple of Juno Lacinia, the fire 
of which was never extinguished, to show the lady of his affections 
that his love was equally unextinguishable. The motto, Junoni 
Latinise dieatum, "Dedicated to Juno Lacinia," was placed round 
the frieze of the building. 

Avalos likewise took a bunch of feathers, with an eagle's in 
the middle. Motto, Sic alias devorat una, "So one devours the 
rest ;" Pliny asserting that " the quills or feathers laid among those 
of other fowls, will devour and consume them." 1 

The same device is on a medal of Ferdinand Gonzaga, Duke of 
Guastalla, with the motto, Alias devorat una meas, " One devours 
all my others." 

Also, a goose plucking a plant with its beak (Fig. 30). Defieiam 
aut perfieiam, " I will perish or succeed," to show his perseverance in 
carrying out his undertakings even unto doath.- 




Fig. 30. — Marquis del Yiu>to. 

Pliny says of this bird : — " Their own greedie feeding is their 
bane ; for one while they will eat untill they burst againe, another 
while kill themselves with straining their owne selves; for if they 
chaunce to catch hold of a root with their bill, they will bite and pull 
so hard for to have it, that many times they breake their own necks 
withall, before they leave their hold." J 

1 Book x., cli. 3. 
2 Capaocio, Giulio Gesare, ' Delle Im- Yolatilibus Aquatilibus et Insectus de 
prese,' 4to. Napoli, 1592, passim. Also, sumtorum,' 4 books. Frankfort 1654 
Cnmerarrus, Joach., ' Symbolorum et Ern- 4to., passim. 
blematiun ex Ke Herbaria, Animalibus 3 Book x., eh. 59. 



AND WAE-CKLES. 



41 



Bembo, both by precept and example, revived a pure taste in 
Tuscan literature. Koscoe says that "be opened a new Augustan 




Fig. 32. — Cardinal Bembo. 

age, that he emulated Cicero and Virgil with equal success, and 
recalled in his writings the elegance aud purity of Petrarch and 
Boccaccio." Ariosto pays him a tribute in the following lines — 

" Bumbo, die '1 puro e dolce idioma nostra 
Levato fuor del vulgare uso tetro 
Quale esser dee ci lia col suo esempio raostro." 
Orlando Furioso. 

" Pielro Bembo, whose example taught. 
And to its purity our idiom brought." 

Hoole's Translation. 

Bentitoglio oi" Bologna. The arms used by this family are 
called in Bologna (where, until 1512, they held the 
sovereignty) the Sega rossa di setti dente, the red 
saw with seven teeth, on a field or 1 (Fig 33), and 
this sega or serra was the family badge. When 
Julius II., after having expelled the Bentivogli, made 
his entry into Bologna, the people, mindful of their 
exiled masters, received him in sullen silence, except 
when the sound of "Serra, Serra!" resounded in 
his ears, as he passed in procession through the streets.^ Pope 




Fig. 33. 
Bentivoslio Arms. 



Party per bend indented, or and gules. 



Koscoe, ' Life of Leo X.' 



40 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

" Armed against the enemy with talons and beak and wings," ' which 
means of defence proved of no avail when he was seized by Pope Leo, 
hence his rival, dentil BagUone, observed, " This ugly bird has not 
used his wings, as at other times, to flee from the snare which has 
been laid for him." 

Barberine of Florence. This family originally bore as their 
arms, three gadflies, Tafani, which were subsequently changed to bees. 2 

Barberini, Antonio, Cardinal. Bees collecting honey in a 
garden, Exereet sub sole laborem, " He does his daily work under the 
sun." An eagle in the midst of thunder and lightning, Aec metuenda 
timet, " Xor fears things to be feared." The eagle being proof against 
lightning, according to Pliny : " Men say, that of all flying fowles 
the segle onely is not smitten nor killed with lightening ; whereupon 
folke are wont to say, that she serveth Jupiter in place of his squire 
as armour-bearer." 3 

Barberini, Maffeo (Pope Urban Till.), (-f- 1644), had for 
device the bee. Motto, Sponte fares., eegre spicula, " Willingly honey- 
comb, unwillingly stings," — the character of a merciful ruler. Abo 
a hare running up a hill, \Ascensu levior, " Lighter in ascent." 4 

Bassoitpierre, Francois de (-f- 1646), Marshal of France. Refer- 
ring to his ten years' imprisonment in the Bastille, he took for device, a 
bird in a cage. Mens ssqua in arduis, " A mind serene in difficulties." 

Behbo, Piet'ro, Cardinal (+ 1547), secretary to Pope Leo X., 
poet and historian. His device was Pegasus 5 and a hand issuing from 
a cloud, holding a branch of laurel and palm (Fig. 32). Motto, Si 
te fata vacant, " If the fates call thee," 6 — in vain one seeks for honour 
if not granted by heaven. 7 

1 The same device and motto were s Pegasus denotes fame, eloquence, 

also taken by Otho, Duke of Austria, poetic study, contemplation. A bronze 

sou of Albert I. Gryphius, tbe printer medallion of Bembo, with this device, is 

of Lyon.?, had likewise for imprtsa a in the South Kensington Collection, 

gryphon attached to a cube and a 6 Dolce. Ludovico, Imprese, folio, 

globe; the cube denoting firmness, the Yenetia, 1578. y.«.«/m. 

globe promptitude. His epitaph was : ' Sic ubi fata vacant. "So where the 

" La grande griffe fates call.'' — Dido to *£iicat. 

(jui tout griffe, ^ A p e?!lsll3 is a iso the device of the 

rp» e rypie. Toco family, with the motto. Si qua fata 

- The Barberini aims are azure, three tinaut, " If the Fates permit." Mausolee 

bees volant en arriire, or, two and one. de la Toison d' or, Amsterdam, 1689. 

3 Book x., ch. 3. Q uo f ata rocant, " Whither the fates 

* '• Xou levi., asceusus. si quis petit call," is the motto of tbe Thurlow, De 

ardua ; sudor ITsle, and Shelley families. 
Plutimus hunc tollit." 

f'-visius V.\v=r~z- -_— 



AND WAR-CRIES 43 

and wishing his wife, whom he called Oursine, to partake in his expec- 
tations, he took a bear for his device, with the motto, Oursine, le 
temps vendra. His tomb is now in the crypt of the cathedral at 
Bourges, his feet rest upon a she bear. 1 The motto is mentioned in 
his inventory. 2 

" 1416. Un grant tableau de cypres, ouquel est l'eschiquier ; sur les 
bours duquel est escript, le temps vendra, etest dedans un grant escrin 
de bois." — Inventaire du Duo de Berry. 

" Un annel d'or, auquel a un heaume et un escu de mesmes fais 
d'un saphir aux armes de monseigneur, un ours d'esmeraude et un 
cygne de cassidoine blanc, soustenans le dit heaume." — Idem, 

The epitaph on his monument ran thus : 

" J'ay ete grand de race et d'apparence, 
Fils, frere, et oncle de roys de France ; 
Aux princes cher, des peuples honore', 
De mon Berry, peu s'en faut adore : 
Mais je vois bien qu' aii sang n'est la grandeur ; 
Le sang royal, ni les provinces larges, 
N'exemptent point les princes de grandes charges ; 
La vertu seule allege un fardeau fort, 
Et la foy peut exempter de la rnort." 3 

Bieago, Benato, of Milan, better known as Bene de Birague, 
Cardinal and Chancellor of France (-(-1572). He took as his device, a 
column surmounted by a burning globe, with the motto, Non cedunt 
ignibus ignes, " Fires yield not to fires," as emblematic of his affec- 
tion for his wife Yalentine Balbiana, to whom he was married before 
he embraced the ecclesiastical profession. When made cardinal, he 
chose another device, as more suitable to his office, a paschal lamb, 4 
under its right foot a book, in its left a cross, to which is attached a 

1 This tomb was formerly in the Sainte with pearls." — Haze, Monuments de 

Chapelle built by Jean, after the model Berry. Bourges, 1834. 

of that of St. Louis at Paris, and enriched 2 His son-in-law, Louis de Bourbon, 

with jewels, vessels of gold, and magni- also is described by Favine as coming 

ficent ornaments. Over the door was the out to Charles VI. well appointed, in a 

above-mentioned motto. The Saiute Cha- robe of crimson velvet all covered with 

pelle was pillaged, in 1562, by the bears, "according to the device of the 

Calvinists, who made a capture of Duke de Berry which he had given to 

precious stones of immense value. The him." 

quantity of pearls especially was enor- 3 Romelot, ' Deser. de la Cuthe'drale 

mous, and so little valued that they de Bourges.' 

were worn by the countrywomen or 4 The holy lamb with a flag or, between 

given as playthings to the children. A two stars and a crescent, was the badge 

bear, which formed one of the ornaments of the Knights Templars — " The Lamb 

of the tomb, wore a muzzle ornamented and Flag" of the village inn. 



^ HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Julius had been assisted in his enterprise by Francis I., as Ariosto 
says: 

"Poi mostra il re cbe di Bologna fuore 
Leva la Sega e vi fa entrar le Ghiande." 

Orlando Furioiso, Canto xxxii. 37. 

" He tells the king who from Bologna fair, 
Removes the saw, and plants the acorns there." 

Hoole's Translation. 

There is some tradition about the name having originated in Heinsius, 
the German, who when prisoner at Bologna, 1249, gave his daughter 
in marriage to, or received some assistance from a youth to whom, in 
proof of his affection, be repeated " Ben ti voglio, 1 " I wish thee well." 

Bentivoglio, Gtjido, Cardinal (-j- 1614). Atlas bearing the world 
upon his shoulders, with the motto, Mains opus, " A greater work." 
An impresa d 1 amove, signifying that his task in gaining the affections 
of his lady was greater than the labour of Atlas. 

Bekne. The arms of the canton are gules, on a bend or, a bear 
sable. Those of the canton of Appenzell are argent, a bear standing, 
sable. Hence, when Charles the Bash invited the Emperor to join 
the confederacy against the Swiss cantons, he was referred, as answer, 
to iEsop's fable, not to bargain for the skin of the bear before it was 
taken ; while Hagenbach, his bailiff on the Swiss frontier, observed, 
" We must skin the bears of Berne to make ourselves coats." 

" The man, that onee did sell the lion's skin 
While the beast liv'd, was kill'd with hunting him.'' 

King Uunry V., Act iv., sc. 3. 

In 1213, the Emperor Frederic II. instituted, at the abbey of 
St. Gall, the order of the Bear, St. Ursus 2 being the patron. 

Berry, Province of. The emblem is a sheep. 

Berry, Jean de France, Due de (+1416), third son of John, 
King of France. When only nine years old, he fought by the side of 
his father at Poitiers, and was nine years in England as one of the 
hostages of the Treaty of Bretigny. He built the celebrated Hotel 
de Nesle, at Paris, where he died. He had a passion for jewels and 
works of art, as his voluminous inventory testifies. 

Indulging, probably, in the hope of being one day King of France, 

1 Litta, ' Famiglie celebri Italiane.' is buried under the high altar of the 

2 St. Ursus, one of the Theban Legion, church built by lierthe aux grands 
suffered martyrdom at Solcure, where he pieds. mother of Charlemagne. 



AND WAE-CEIES. 45 

The Boegia of Eome bore an ox on their standards. Three 
members of this family have darkened the page of history — Pope 
Alexander VI. (Boderigo Borgia), his son, Caesar, and the beautiful 
Lucrezia. 

Borgia Francesco, Duke of Gandia (-)- 1497), the elder son, 
whose body was found in the Tiber, his brother Caesar being accused 
by posterity of his death, bore for his device a mountain struck by 
lightning, with the motto, Feriunt suminos fidmina monies, " The 
thunderbolts strike the highest mountains." 

Borgia, Cesar, Duke of Bomagna, Cardinal, Count, Condottiero, 
and Usurper. He was made Bishop of Valence in his youth, and 
created Duke of Valentinois by Louis XII., when sent to that monarch 
with the Papal dispensation to repudiate Jeanne de France and con- 
tract a new marriage. It was on this occasion that Caesar's mules 
were said to have worn shoes of gold attached by a single nail, so that 
they might easily fall off. 

" Such was the entry, challenging renown, 
Of this grandee into Chinon." 

In the year 1500, when the solemnities of the jubilee year were 
interrupted by the extravagant demonstrations of joy at Caesar Borgia's 
success, among other honours decreed to him was a triumph after the 
manner of the ancient Bomans, on which occasion Caesar Borgia 
inscribed upon his banner, Aut Geesar, aid nihil, " Or Caesar or 
nothing,"— an insolent motto, which was thus parodied at his death : 

" Borgia Cffisar eram factis et nomine Caesar ; 
Aut nihil aut Ca;sar, dixit, utrumque fuit." 

" Caesar in deeds as name would Borgia be, 
A Ciesar or a cypher — both was he I" 

And again— 

" Aut nihil ant CaBsar, vexillo pingis inani 
Pro magno fles Caesare, stulte, nihil." 

" ' Or nothing or Caesar,' thou painted on thy empty standard. 
Fool ! instead of great Caesar, thou wilt become nothing." 

The idea was also repeated by Sanazzaro — 

" Aut nihil aut Cajsar vult dici Borgia : quid ni 
Cum simul et Caesar possit, et esse nihil." 

" Caesar or nothing, Borgia fain would be ; 
Caesar and nothing, both in him we see." 



44 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

scroll inscribed with the motto, Rubet agnus arts, " The lamb bleeds 
on altars," alluding to the purple of the cardinals, and signifying that 
every priest should approach the altar with purity. The same motto 
served as an anagram on his name, " Eenatus Biragus." 

Birague, with the Queen, due de Guise and Gondi, formed the 
secret council who determined on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 
and he received the dignity of chancellor for his acquiescence in the 
crime. Of Italian birth, he was openly accused of getting rid of his 
enemies by poison ; and is reported to have said that, " le roi ne vien- 
drait jamais a bout des Huguenots par les armes, et qu'il ne lui restait 
que le moyen des cuisiniers." On the occasion of the baptism of the 
son of one of his nephews, he gave a magnificent fete, at which 
Henry III. and all the court attended. Like his master, he was of 
the fraternity of Flagellants, and accompanied him in his ridiculous 
processions when he gave up the seals, retaining the titles and honours 
of chancellor. This caused him to say that he was " cardinal sans 
titres, pretre sans benefices, et chancellier sans sceaux." This was 
not the case, as the king had endowed him liberally. Henry 
attended his funeral hi the habit of a penitent. 1 

Boisy, Claude Gotjffier, Marquis de. See Gouffieb. 

Bona of Savoy. See Milan. 

Boncoiipagxo of Bologn a, Uao (Pope Gregory XIII.) (-(-1585), 
had endless devices 2 taken from the family arms, among others, a 
dragon 3 with a castle on a height. Motto, JDelubra ad sumrna, " To the 
highest temples." Another, guarding the garden of the Hesperides, 
rPEFOPET, "Watch." 

Boeghese, Camlllo, Paul V. (+ 1621) See Accolti, note. 

Bokghese, Scipioxe, Cardinal. See Xekli. 

Boeghese, Antonio. See Giovio, note. 

1 Le Labomeur, ' Tombeaux des Per- device of the Pope, to whom this severe 
sonnies illustres.' Paris, 1679. satire is dedicated. 

2 Which gave occasion to the satire of 3 Bronze gilt medallion. Pope Gre- 
Fabricii Principio da Teramo, entitled, gory XIII. Diam. H in. The work of 
' Allusioni, Imprese et Emblemi, sopra la Frederieo Parmense. Obverse bust of 
Vita, Opere et Attioni di Gregorio XIII.' the Pope, inscribed, " G-reyorius XIII. 
Pontefice Massimo. Xei quali sotto 1' Pont. opt. masimus." Reverse, a drao-on 
allegoria del Drago, arme del d' ■tin with its tail in its mouth encircling the 
Pontefice, si de.seritte anco la vera forma field of the medal, within which is a 
d' un Principe Cristiano, 4to., Roma, 1588, ram's head with a pendent wreath in- 
containing upwards of 100 extremely scribed, "Anno restituo mdlxxxh,"_ 
sarcastic engravings, alluding to the South Kensington Museum. 



AND WAB-CPJES. 47 

The stag is fleet and can never be taken unless weary. It is fond 
of retirement, and delights in the neighbourhood of water, especially 
of fountains as the coolest. And when a herd want to pass the sea, 
they rest their heads on each other's backs, and help each other. 
[See Academies, Animosi.) These rare qualities render the stag a fit 
emblem of the spiritual man. 1 He is always apart from the busy herd. 
•He fights the serpent, sin, and is swift in running the race that is set 
before him. The Christians bear one another's burden, and fly to 
the fountain of living water to give them grace and refreshment. 

By the device, therefore, of the stag and the serpent with the 
motto, Una salus, St. Charles Borromeo implied that in this life and 
the next, he looked only to Christ as the one salvation and one remedy, 
to all who seek that fountain. 

St. Charles Borromeo was member of the AfMati Academy when he 
took for device the milky way, as being the path of the gods. Motto, 
Monstrat iter? " It points out the way," to show that the path of 
righteousness is alone to be followed in our transit to another world. 

Bokeomeo, Vitaliano (-(-1671), son of Giovanni Vitaliano and 
Marie Borromeo, having been invited to Milan by his uncle Giorgio 
Borromeo, who was in favour with Duke Francesco Maria, he at- 
tached himself to belles lettres, and took for impresa a sitting camel, 
to imply that his uncle had raised him up. The word " humilitas " 
of his arms, with the crown, and recumbent camel, and unicorn looking 
towards a sun, and the ostrich feathers, are so many symbols of his 
motto, Qui se humiliat exaltabitur, " Whoso abaseth himself shall be 
exalted." To humilitas was joined the crown, and as the camel was 
lying down, the unicorn was raised in allusion to the words, Exaltabitur 
sicut unicornis, " He shall be exalted as (the horn of) an unicorn." On 
the other hand, the feathers are bent upwards and the crown at 
bottom, implying, Qui se exaltat humiliatabitur, " Whoso exalteth 
himself shall be abased." On a medal 3 of Vitaliano, we find the 
device of the camel sitting on a basket of rushes, carrying upon its 
back books and arms, and the ostrich feathers. Motto, Nee labor iste 
gravat, 4, " Nor does this labour oppress," — Labour is not felt if we set 
to work with spirit. 

1 In Scripture it is a favourite emblem : 3 Museum Muzz., T. 114. 

" Like as the hart," &c. " Nephali is a ' " Nee me labor iste gravabit." 

himl," &c. Virgil. 

2 See Brunswick, Eeic, Duke of. 



46 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Having lost all the possessions he had committed so many crimes 
to acquire, Caesar fell before the small fortress of Viane, in Navarre, 
1507. 

Ariosto thus alludes to him : 

" Poi mostra Caisar Borgia col favore 
Di questo re farsi in Italia grande, 
Ch' ogni baron di Roma, ogni signore 
Soggetto a lei par ch' in esiglio mande." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xxxii., st. 37. 

" Tn Italy he Csesar Borgia sliows, 
"Who greater by his monarch's favour grows, 
Each lord of Rome, each baron of renown, 
Rais'd by his smile, or exil'd by his frown." 

Hoole's Translation. 

Borgia, Giovanni, Chamberlain to the Empress of Germany 
(_(-1592). The sun eclipsed. Nisi cum defecerit speetatorem non 
habet, "Except when eclipsed it has no spectator," — meaning that 
those in authority should act with the greatest circumspection, as 
their shining qualities often pass unnoticed, but their faults, and 
even their personal defects, are inevitably made amenable to the 
criticism of the vulgar. Thus, says Capaccio, the Athenians insulted 
Simonides on account of his screaming voice ; the Lacedemonians, 
Lycurgus, because he hung down his head. The Eomans ridiculed 
Scipio on account of his snoring, and Cato of Utica because he filled 
his cheeks when he ate. Pompey scratched himself with one finger, 
and the Carthaginians observed that Hannibal did not wear lacings to 
his cuirass. 1 

Borroheo, Carlo, Saint, Cardinal, and Archbishop of Milan 
(_f-l.j84). A stag attacked and pursued by serpents fleeing to a foun- 
tain for refnge. Motto, Una salus, 2 " The only safeguard." The stag 
has a natural enmity to the serpent. " This kind of deere," says Pliny, 
" maintain fight with serpents, and are their mortal enemies ; they will 
follow them to their verie holes, and then (by the strength of drawing 
and snuffing up their wind of their nostrils) force them out whether 
they will or no. . . . The serpent sometimes climbs upon its back 
and bites it cruelly, when the stag rushes to some river or fountain and 
throws itself into the water to rid itself of its enemy." 3 

1 Caj.nccio. fraudes, "To serve God is the only 

2 Sola salus seriire ])eo, sunt ctztera safety — all the rest are deceits." 

3 Book viii., ch. 33. 



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4U 



Bourbon, House of. — The Sires de Bourbon were among the 
great vassals of the crown of France. 1 

Bourbon, Peter, second Duke of (+ 1356), bore for device a 
flying stag, surrounded by flames of fire, and round his neck a collar, 
inscribed with the word Esj>era?ice 2 (Fig. 34). 




Fig. 34 — Peter, Duke of Bourbon. 



Bourbon, Louis II., le Bon et le Grand (-{- 1410), third Duke 
of. He remained for eight years in England, as one of the hostages 
of the treaty of Bretigny. On his return to Moulins, his chateau 
not being ready for his reception, he lodged at the house of Huguenin 
Chauveau, grand procureur of the Bourbonnais, who, in the midst of 
the rejoicings, presented him with a large book, containing a register 
of all the crimes committed by his nobles during his eight years' 
absence. The duke replied, with a severe tone, " You say that it 
contains the register of their crimes, but it appears to me you have 
not recorded the services of my brave barons who have released me 
from prison." He then snatched the book from the hands of the 
grand procureur, and without opening it, threw it into the fire. 3 



1 The Bourbon arms were or, a lion 
gules, eight escallops in orle, azure — 
derived from Archambaud VI., who 
followed Louis VII. to the second Cru- 
sade, and placed the scallops round his 
shield as memorials of his pilgrimage. 

2 " C'estait une grande nuee d'azur de 
laquelle sortaient des langues de fyu d'or 



et de gueulles, et au milieu e'tait un 
cerf-volant d'or, et autour du cou s'espan- 
dant sur les e'paules entre ses ailes etait 
une ceinture d'azur, oil e'tait e'crite en 
lettres d'or l'ancienne devise de la maisou 
de Bourbon Espe~rance." — Ste. Marthe, 
Traite des armes tie France. 
3 Jean D'Oronrille. 

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48 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Bottigella. The customary device of this family was a dog- 
collar unfastened. Motto, Sans Name, " Unfettered." 

Giovanni Battista Bottigella of Padua, who fought in the Italian 
wars, under Ferrante Gonzaga, took for device a ship in full sail, with 
the remora, or sucking-fish, attached to it. Motto, Sic frusira, " Thus 
vainly," to express how little it availed his attachment to the lady of 
his affections, as she only fled from him the faster. 1 

The remora fixes itself so firmly to a ship that it cannot be 
severed by wind or waves : 

" The sucking fish, with secret chains, 
Clung to the keel, the swiftest ship detains." 

Pliny says : — " There is a little fish, keeping ordinarily about 
rockes, named Echeneis. It is thought that if it settle and sticke to 
the keele of a ship under water, it goeth the slower by that meanes, 
whereupon it was so-called (the stay-ship)." 2 

And Ben Jonson alludes to it — 

" I say a remora, 
For it will stay a ship that's under sail." 

Tiw Mai/netic Linhj. 

And, again, Spenser — 

" Looting far forth into the ocean wide, 

A goodly ship, with hanners hravely dight, 
And flag in her top-gallant, I espied, 

Through the main sea making her merry flight; 
Fair blew the wind into her bosom right, 

And th' heavens looked lovely all the while, 
That she did seem to dance, as in delight, 

And at her own felicity did smile ; 
All suddenly there clove unto her keel 

A little fish, that men call Kemora, 
Which stopt her course, and held her by the heel, 

That wind nor tide could move her thence away. 
Strange thing me seemeth that so small a thing 
Should able be so great an one to wring." 

Svensek, Visions of the World's Vanity. 

As a member of the Affidati Academy of Tavia, Bottigella had for 
device bees flying from flower to flower sucking the honey. Motto, 
Ut prosim, " That I may be useful,"— meaning that he would devote 
all his talents and industry to promote the happiness and enjoyment 
of others. 

1 Another motto for the remora, Sic jjarris mar/na cednnt, "Thus great things 
yield to small." = Book ix., eh. 25. 



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51 



my-parti en quar tiers de noir et de bleu; soulez lequel tableau 
estoient escriptz les vers qui s'ensuivent." 

" Charles de Bourbon suys, qui grant renom avoye 
En gracieusete, en temps que je regnoye ; 
Entre tous me trouvay juyeulx et esbattant, 
Comble' de plusieurs blens que 1'homme est de'sirant ; 
Courtosie, beaulte', bonte', tresors, largesse, 
Sens et honnestete', bon advis, grand prouesse ; 
Des dames assailly plus que mon pere assez, 
Dont par ardeur d'amours, je prins eomme scavez, 
Pour mon mot, feu grc'geoys ; mais neanmoins mon feu, 
D'aller a l'hospital en la fin contraint feus ; 
Hommage au dieu d'amours, comme les autres fis, 
Et sur mon portal ai le nyen blason assis." 




Fig. 35. — Cbarles, Duke of Bourbon. 



Bourbon, Jean II. (-f- 1488), his son, styled, " Le Fleau des 
Anglais," sixth Duke of. 

In a MS. 1 in the Imperial Library at Paris, 2 his arms are sup- 
ported, in one place, by two sirenes, or mermaids ; in another, by a 
Sagittarius. Motto, Je deusse mourir. 

Bourbon, Charles II., Cardinal de (-f- 1488), brother of John II., 
and of Pierre de Beaujeu, and of Margaret the mother of Louise de 
Savoie. Archbishop of Lyons, at the age of nine ; Sextus IV. made 

1 No. 6767. wild man and a mermaid ; also, in some, 

2 In other MSS. in the same Library by a Sagittarius, with the motto, Esptf- 
the Bourbon shield is supported by a ranee. 

E 2 



50 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

On his return from England he instituted the order of the Ecu 
d'Or. It consisted of a golden shield, upon which was a hend charged 
-with the word Allen, " All,"— a motto he brought from England, the 
meaning of which he thus explained to his knight : " Mes amis, an 
travers de mon ecu d'or est une bande ou il y a ecrit, ' Allen.' Allen 
(signifying tout) c'est a dire, allons tous ensemble au service de Dieu, 
et soyons tous une en difenfe de notre pays et la ou nous pourrons 
trouver a conquester honneur par fait de chevalerie." On the belts 
of the knights was wrought the "joyeux mot" Esperanee. 1 The 
motto " Allen " was placed upon their caps, and they wore a mantle 
of sky-blue, lined with red satin. 

On the occasion of his marriage with Anne, Dauphiue of Forez 
and Auvergne, Louis converted the order of the Ecu d'Or into that of 
Notre Dame du Chardon, a rebus by which he expressed to Beraud, 
Count of Clermont and Dauphin of Auvergne, his gratitude for the 
cher-dori 2 he had made him by giving him the hand of his daughter. 
The collar of gold consisted of lozenges. In each lozenge was a letter 
of the word Esperance. The jewel represented the Virgin crowned 
with twelve stars, a crescent under her feet, and beneath a thistle. 
The girdle was fastened with a buckle, enamelled green, in form like 
the head of a thistle. 

Boubbon, Charles I., fifth Duke of (4- 1457). He took the device 
of a flaming pot overturned (Fig. 35) ; motto, Zara a chi tocca (" Gare 
a qui le louche "), " Beware who touches it." His friend and contem- 
porary, King Bene, gives us both in prose and verse the description 
and explanation of this device 3 in a MS. 4 called " Le livre du cuer 
d'Amours epris," written about 1457 : " TJng aultre escu ensuivant 
estoit d'azur a trois fleurs de lys d'or, a une bande de gueules ; autour 
auquel escu estoient paincts pots d'or casses, dont yssoit grans flammes 
et feu gregeoys ; et le champ sur quoi les dits pots estoient, estoit 



1 (( 



" 1393. A Herman Ruiisel, pour dear to them, they took the thistle 

avoir fait et forgie liiij. lettres d' or qui (Chardon) of his great-grandfather Louis 

dient, Espfrance, pour mettre et asseoir as his device, and bore it, with their cypher 

sur deux eemtures d'or de broderie."- interlaced and true lover's Imots, as was 

Comptes royaux. to be seen in the Bourbon Chapel "- 

Menestrier asserts that when Pierre Traite des Tournois, 1669. 

de Bcaujeu married Anne de France, 3 In the chapel of the Bourbons at 

daughter of Louis XI., regarding their Souvigny, the "pots enflammes " form 

alliance as the gift of Heaven, which was part of its modem decoration. 

1 In the Imperial Library at Paris. 



AND WAR- OKIES. 53 

which revealed at once his pride and his high pretensions. Charles 
also preserved the flying stag of Duke Peter, which was embroidered 
upon the surcoats of his followers as well as upon his own, and was 
conspicuous at the battle of Aignadel, 1 where the charge of the Duke 
decided the fortune of the day. When the news of the Battle of Pavia 
reached Eome, a French gentleman observed to Clement VII., alluding 
to the defection of the Constable, " Although he may appear a traitor 
to his king and country, yet his conduct deserved some excuse, having 
declared so long beforehand his intentions ; since his wearing the 
flying stag, embroidered upon his surcoat, showed that he meditated 
fleeing into Burgundy ; and as his legs would not be swift enough, 
he required also wings ; therefore the motto was added, Cursum 
intendimus alis, ' We bend our course with wings.' " 

Brantome visited Gaeta, where the Imperialists took the body of 
the Constable, 2 and says that near his tomb was his great standard of 
yellow silk embroidered with flying stags and naked flaming swords, 
with the word, Espierance, esperance, in several places ; the castellan 
explaining it as signifying, by the flying stags, that he had been 
obliged to use the greater diligence, and to arm himself with the 
flaming sword, with which he had hope (esperance) to revenge himself 
by fire and sword upon his enemies. The word Penetrabit makes the 
meaning still more significant. 3 

At the entry of Francis I. into Paris, on the occasion of his corona- 
tion, the Duke of Bourbon was attired in cloth of silver, embroidered 
with tongues of fire. There was a rich border of gold to his robe, 
upon which was blazoned his motto, A toujours jamais. 11 

1 See ALVIANO. " Or, as brave Bourbou, thou hadst made old Rome 

2 Bourbon was the idol of the Spanish Q ueen or tbe wor,d ' th y trium Pt>. <™& ">y tomb." 
, , i i ii i i ■ t Sir W. Dbusimond, of Eaixthorndm. 

adventurers, who composed ballads which 

they sang in his honour. One began— 3 The Imperialists placed this epitapli 



' Calla, calla, Julio Cesar, Hannibal, Scipion ; 
Viva la fama de Borbon." 



upon his tomb at Gaeta : 
' Aucto imperio 



Gallo victo 

"Let Caesar, Hannibal, and Scipio be Superata Italia 

silent; long live the fame of Bourbon." Pontifiee obsesso 

° . Roma capta 

They also made his epitaph— Borbonus hie jacet." 

" La Francia mi dia la leche, " After having aggrandised the empire, 

La Espafia la gloria e la aventura, conquered the French, subdued Italy, 

Y la Italia la sepultura." besieged the Pope, taken Eome, Bourbon 

" France gave me milk (life), Spain rests here." 

glory and adventure, and Italy a tomb." 4 Godefroy, ' Grand Ceremonial do 

Bkantome, Vie des Sommes Ittustres. France.' 



52 



HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



him Cardinal. On the death of his brother Jean II., he took the title 
of Duke de Bourbon, under the name of Charle? II. His device was 
a flaming sword (Fig. 36), representing the sword of the Church and 
" the sword of the Spirit, which is the sword of God." His motto 
(from the 'iEneid'). Auctor ego andendi, "I, the author of daring." 




Fig 36. — Cardinal de Bourbon. 

He also had the same emblem with the motto, N'espoir ny peur. 1 
Likewise, Folium ejus non defluit', 1 " His leaf does not wither." 

Boubbox, Chaeles III., seventh Duke de (-)- lo27). The celebrated 
Constable Bourbon, " le plus magnifique seigneur de son siecle, apres 
le roi de France, et le plus malheureux des proscrits apres Themistocle 
et Coriolan." 

Wben, in execution of an ordinance in 1527, an officer was sent into 
the Bourbonnais to efface the Constable's arms and devices, 3 one of 
these last consisted of the Constable's sword, interlaced with a scroll 
upon which was inscribed, Penetrabit, " It will penetrate," — a motto 

1 Le Laboureur, ' Tomheaux des Per- the Hutel de Bourbon ("now the Garde 



sonnes ilhistres.' 

2 In his chapel at the Cathedral of 
Lyons, two arms carrying naming swords 
support his banner. 

3 "When the constable was declared 
guiltv of high treason, salt was sown in 



Jleuble de la Couronne", at Paris, his 
anus were broken, and the executioner 
smeared the windows and doors with yel- 
low, " C'e jaune infame dont on barbouille 
les maisons des traitres." — Braxtume, 
Homines iUustres. 



AND WAB-CBIES. 



55 



Orleans, took the knotted stick as his device (Fig. 37), with the motto, 
Je I'envy, a term used in playing dice, implying, in the language of the 
time, " I defy you," — Je porte le defi. John, on the other hand, assumed 
as a counter-device a carpenter's plane (Fig. 38), with the motto in 
Flemish, Hie houd, " I hold it," also borrowed from the same game. 





Fig. 3t. — Louis, Duke of Orleans. 



Fig. 38. — John, Duke of Burgundy. 



The plane to plane the knots of the stick of Orleans, the motto signi- 
fying possession — that is, of the person of the king and the govern- 
ment of the country, which he held in his own keeping. These 
devices were both trumpets of sedition and anarchy, which proved 
fatal to the Duke of Orleans at the Porte Barbette, and to the Duke 
of Burgundy at Montereau. After the assassination of the Duke of 
Orleans the Parisians said, " Le baton epineux avait ete racle par le 
rabot." The device of Jean sans Peur is to be seen on his tomb at Dijon, 
and his ducal robe is seme with rabots, 1 that of his wife, Margaret 
of Bavaria, with marguerites. Her motto was, Lacessitus, " Provoked." 



1 " 1413. Pour une grande quantite de 
raboteures rondes d argent blanc pour 
mettre et assoir sur la broderie d'une 
jaquette de drap noir."— (Inv. des Diws 
de Bourgogne, 270.) 

" 1416. Pour iiijo iiii" rabos, iiij™ 
iiiio lij rabotures, et xix™ iiij e bezans 
d'argent blanc pour asseoir sur la brodure 
de iiij" robes."— {Ibid. 373.) 



" 1416. Pour vi° liij rabos d'or sauldis 
que Ton a mis et assis surles manches." 
—{Ibid. 373.) 

" 1467. Une sainture d'argent dore 
pour mectre sur barnois de joustes, a 
xxiiij barroyers pendans et a dix rabos 
ferme's et y fault ung rabot, pesant viii 
mares, iij onces.'' — (Ibid. 3184.) 



54 HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Beembata (Isotta) (+1586). Of a noble family of Bergamo, this 
lady poet was an eminent linguist, and so versed was she in Latin, 
that she spoke in that language before the senate of Milan, whom she 
had occasion to address upon matters concerning her own interests. 

She took for device the garden of_the Hesperides, with its golden 
apples, and the dragon lying dead before the gate, with this Spanish 
motto, Yo mejor las guardare, " I will guard them better." 

" Th' Hesperian golden apples said to keepe, 
So wakeful, it was never knowne to sleepe ; 
But after slain by Hercules." 

T. Heywood. 

Bruges, Louis de, Seigneur de la Gruthuyse (-f 1492), Chevalier d' 
honneur of Mary, daughter of Charles the Bash. On his MSS. in the 
Imperial Library is his device, a bombard throwing a projectile. 
Motto, Plus est en vous. 

Bkunoee. See Count Pietea il vecchio. 

Beunswick, Heney, the Young Duke of (-)- 1568). The moon. 
Motto, Lux in tenebris, " Light in darkness," — the character of faith. 

Beunswick, Eeik, Duke of (+ 1584). Gloria ex duris, " Glory 
from hardships." 

Another, two hands shooting from a bow, an arrow in the air. 
Motto, Sic itur ad astra, 1 " Thus men ascend to the stars." That is, 
such is the way to immortality. 

Buegundy, Philip le Haedi (Bold), Duke of (-j- 1404). It is 
related that in the preparations for his expedition against England 
nothing surpassed his magnificence. His ship was painted outside in 
blue and gold. There were 3000 standards with his motto, assumed, 
no doubt, for the occasion, but which he afterwards always retained, 2 
Moult me tarde. It was also embroidered upon the sails of his ship 
encircled by a wreath of daisies, in comphment to his wife. 3 

Buegundy, Jean sans Peue (Feaeless), Duke of (-(- 1419), so 
called from the air of assurance with which he appeared before Bajazet 
after the loss of the battle of Nicopolis. 

During the malady of Charles VI., when the factions of the 
Orleans and Burgundian parties were at their height, Louis, Duke of 

1 Virgil. 3 " 1395. Ung bon messel a 1' usaige de 

2 Barante, ' Histoire des Duos de Paris, convert d* une chemise de °drap 
Bourgogne.' For a further account of de Damas blano seme' de maro-uerites 
this motto, see War-Cries, Burgundy. P. et M."— (_Inv. du Due de Bourgogne.) ' 



AND WAE-CEIES. 



57 



Philip meant that as iron and flint, when in collision, kindle a fire not 
easily extinguished, so the collision of two inflammable princes often 
gives birth to war, ending in the ruin of both. Also, that as fire and 
steel are quiet unless called forth, a good prince should never incite 
the flames of war except from necessity. Again, that as stone and 
steel are useless in themselves, unless brought into action, when they 
produce a brilliant flame, so the noble qualities of the mind should be 
brought into action, so as to produce honour and glory to the profession. 

Perhaps Philip foresaw the inflammable temperament of his son 
when he adopted this device, which was the more attractive as the form 
of the ancient steel resembled a B, the initial letter of Burgundy, and 
also the sparks of fire might be likened to the thunderbolts of Jupiter. 
Philip made the device popular by causing his goldsmiths, painters, 
and embroiderers to introduce it upon all their works. 1 

On the occasion of his marriage with his third wife, Isabella of 
Portugal, in 1429, Philip instituted the celebrated order 2 of the 



1 The device occurs constantly in his 
inventories : — 

" 1421. Quatre grans estendars — sur 
chascun desquels avoit vm grant fusil et 
la pierre qui y appartient, avec plusieurs 
flanibes et estincelles selon le devise de 
Monseigneur." — (Inventaire des Dues de 
Bourgogne.) 

" — Un char paint de vert — et par 
dessus seme et emplie de fusilz et flambez 
de fin or, et la pierre et les esclas d'argent, 
a la devise des estandars de Monseigneur." 
—(Ibid.-) 

" 1426. Item dix pennons de bacture, 
armoyez a ses amies — et au bout desdites 
armes ung grant fusil d'or et le caillou 
d'argent. ' — (Ibid.) 

" 1467. Une couppe d'or oil il y a a l'en- 
tour — du fritelet trois fusilz et des flambes 
esmaille'es de rouge, clere et dessous les 
armes de Monseigneur." — (Ibid.) 

" — Une autre couppe d'or ; tout 
pleine, oil il y a sur le couvescle des fusilz 
et des flambes esmaille'es de noir." — 
(Ibid.) 

" — Une couppe d'or, oil il y a dedens 
les armes de M. S., et dedens le couvercle 
et au fritelet trois fusilz, les cailloutz 
esmaille'es et une petite nue'e dont il part 



des flambles esmaille'es de rouge cler et 
au dessus les armes de M. S.'' — (Ibid.) 

" 1467. Huit fusilz d'or, servans au 
manteau de M. S. de l'ordre de la Toison, 
chascun gamy d'un dyamant pointu, 
d un rubis et de xij perles, les unes plus 
grandes que les auties, tout pesant 1 
marc, v onces." — [Ibid.) 

" — Pauldron or gorget plate : a 
portion of a most beautiful suit of en- 
graved and gilded steel armour, enriched 
with the devices of the House of Bur- 
gundy — the crossed staves, briquet, flames 
of fire, &c." — Catalogue of the Collection of 
Mr. Robert Napier, of West Shandon, 
Dumbartonshire, by J. C. Mobinson ; 
privately printed, London, 1865. 

2 Charles V. said he could at his own 
pleasure create dukes and marquises, but 
he could not make one knight of the 
Golden Fleece, it requiring the assent 
and votes of all the knights of the order. 
The order has a king-at-arms called 
" Toison d'Or." Philip gave each of his 
knights a scarlet robe of wool; his son 
changed the material to silk. The 
mantle was embroidered with a border, 
seme of fusils, pierres, ftincelles, and 
toisons, in gold. 



56 HISTOBIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

It is to Duke John that Menestrier ascribes the fusils or steel, the 
well known device of Burgundy. 

It is stated that on his marriage with Margaret of Bavaria, this 
princess and all her relatives, and those of the house of Brederode, 
placed upon their escutcheons two batons in saltier, with a quantity of 
sparks round the shield. Motto, Flammescit uterque, "It flames 
forth on both sides," to express probably the mutual affection of 
husband and wife. 1 He took two pigs as supporters, in memory of 
St. Antony, honoured in Hainault. Menestrier states this device 
is to be seen on the great organ at Haarlem. 

Btjrguxdy, Philip the Good, Duke of (-(-1467), son of Jean 
sans Peur. One of the most powerful princes of the fifteenth century. 
None equalled him in magnificence or surpassed him in valour. His 
ambassadors walked first after those of kings ; the princes of Asia 
saluted him as " the Great Duke of the West," and as " the Good 
Duke " he was respected throughout Europe. 

He adopted the device of the steel (fusil) striking sparks out of a 
flint (Fig. 39), with the motto, Ante ferit, quam flam/ma mieet, "It 
strikes before the flame sparkles." 




F ig. 39.— Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. 

Various explanations are given of this device. Some think that 

1 A kind of society was formed of the horses of the pages were caparisoned 
device of the duke, and when his son with the device of the " fusil and etin- 
Philip brought his sister from Paris, the celles." 



AND WAR-CEIES. 59 

Je lay empris Bien en avienque, is inscribed on his magnificent 
tomb at Bruges. 

In his fatal expedition against the Swiss, Charles bore the cus- 
tomary device of his family, the fusil, with logs of wood crossed, 
denoting he had the intention and the means of stirring up the 
flames of war. The motto was that of Jean sans Peur, Flammescit 
uterque. 

When Duke Bene of Lorraine was presented with one of the 
banners of Charles bearing this device, he said, " Truly, that unfor- 
tunate prince when he had most need to warm himself had not time 
to strike fire," wh ; ch speech, observes Segar, 1 " was pithie ; and the 
more because the earth was then covered with snow, and, by reason 
of the conflict, full of blood. At that time was the greatest frost and 
cold that any man living could remember." 

Duke Charles also bore for device, a branch of holly, with the 
words, Qui sy frotte s'y pique. The same motto, with a porcupine, 
being that of his city of Nancy. 

Burgundy, Margaret of York, Duchess of, sister of Edward IV., 
and wife of Charles (-)- 1503). Her motto was, Bien en avienne. 

Over her widow's lozenge, she wore C and M tied with true 
lovers' knots. 2 

We find in the inventory of her grandson, Charles V., 1536 : — 
" Une couppe d'argent couverte doree par dehors et par dedens, garnie 
de trente deux pourchelains a maniere de camahieux, taillez de 
plusieurs personnaiges et d' oiseaulx et de rolletz ou il y a escript : 
Bien en advienque, et sur le fretelet les armes de feu MS. Charles et 
de Madame sa compaigne en une rosette en facon de marguerite, 
pesant vi. marcs, vii. onces." 

Burgundy, Antoine de, styled "le Grand Batard de Bourgogne" 
(+1504), Comte de la Roche en Ardennes, natural son of Philip the 
Good. He commanded the ad vance guard at Granson ; was made 
prisoner at Nancy, when he was purchased by Louis XI. for 10,000 
crowns, and he attached himself to the French service. 

This knight is well-known in English annals for his celebrated 
tournament at Smithfield with Antony Wydville, Lord Scales, in the 
reign of King Edward IV., his brother-in-law. 

1 ' Honor, Military and Civill,' by W. 2 Sandford, ' Genealogical History.' 

Segar, Norroy. London, 1602. London, 1707. 



58 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Golden Fleece, enjoining his nobles to emulate the virtues of Gideon. 
The fleece was to be of gold, in imitation of that of Jason. 1 

" The rich fleece, whose every hair was gold." 

T. Heywood. 

Doubtless, Pbilip selected this badge from wool being the staple 
commodity of the country (as our judges sit upon the woolsack), and 
the great source of the wealth of the Netherlands. 

Philip always said that it was Gideon, not Jason, he had in his 
mind when he instituted the order, as the former was an example of 
fidelity and incorruptible justice, while Jason broke his faith. - The 
history of Gideon served always to celebrate the order. In 1474, on 
the entry of Charles the Bold into Dijon, Gideon was at the head of 
his men-at-arms, and before him was borne a banner with this motto, 
Gladius Domini et Gedeonis. While the Midianites were flying, an 
angel held a scroll, on which was inscribed Dotninus tecum, virorum 
fortissime," " The Lord is with thee, bravest of men." 2 

The collar of the Golden Fleece is composed of flint stones alter- 
nately with double fusils placed two and two together, fo rmin g double 
B's. From this suspends a Golden Fleece. The motto of the order 
is, Pretium non vile laborum, " No mean reward of labours." 3 

After his marriage with Isabella of Portugal, Philip took for his 
motto, Autre N'aray. In some places we find the device amplified. 4 
Autre N'aray Dame Isabeau, tant que vivray, meaning that after 
Isabella he would not take another wife, having already been married 
twice before. 5 

Bubghntdy, Charles le Temeraibe (+1475). His motto was, 
Je Fay empris (entrepris) ; his tournament motto, Ainsi je frajipe. 

At his marriage with Margaret of York, at Bruges, in 1468, the 
device, Je Tai empris, was placed over his hotel/ 

1 Jason's fleece was emblematic of 1he covered in his presence. There are now 

fertility of the soil ; and his name con- two branches of the order ; of one the 

tains the initials of the five months of Emperor of Austria is sovereign, of the 

the year in which fruit is gathered — other, the King of Spain. 

July, August, September, October, Xo- 4 ' Mansole'e de la Toison d'or.' 

member. s <: Coutean d'e'cuyer trenchant. La 

Baiante. manche en cuivTe, porte sur chaque cote 

3 Charles the Bold, Maximilian, and les armes de la maison de Bourgogne 

Philip II. gave the knights of the Golden grave's and e'raaille'es, ainsi qne les mots. 

Fleece precedence over every one but Autre narai, devise bien connue de 

princes of the blood and crowned beads ; Philippe-le-Bon. '— Labokde, Muse~e du 

and Philip IV. allowed them to remain Louvre. 

6 Barante. 



AND WAE-CEIES. 61 

and " Fuzill " was one of his pursuivant-at-arms, in reference to the 
hadge of the house of Burgundy. 

Buteea, Feancesco, Peince of, Knight of the Golden Fleece- 
See Ceequy.' 

Caldoka Family, to show their unanimous zeal to serve their king, 
the young by their arms, the old by their counsel, took for device 
burnmg logs of wood, with the motto from Scripture, Si in viridi 
quid in arido ? " For if they do these things in a green tree, what 
shall be done in the dry ?" 1 

Camp ana, Feancesco. HaviDg the direction of printing the rare 
books in the Laurentian Library, made as a device to place in the 
title-page, KAMATOS ETKAMATOS, Fatica senza fatica, 
" Work without fatigue." 

Camfo Basso, Cola Conte di. 2 The faithless condottiere captain 
who betrayed Charles the Bash at Nancy. After his treachery, he 
directed his troops towards Fiance, and bore on his banner the device 




Fig. 42. — Conte di Carapo Basso. 

of a block of marble split through the centre by the force of the wild 
fig (Fig. 42), which, fixing its roots into the fissure of the marble, in time 

1 Luke xxiii. 31. 
2 The Monforti, Signori di Campo of Naples. — Descritione del Regno di 
Basso, were of a noble family, of the city Napali. Napoli, 1671. 



60 



HISTOEIO DEVICES, BADGES, 



He took for device a barbican, with the motto, Nul ne s'y frote, 
which he bore upon his standard, placed upon his manuscripts, and 
also on his medals (Fig. 40). 

This barbican does not appear to have been, as is the usual accep- 
tation of the word, an outwork or watch-tower, 1 but a kind of wooden 
penthouse (Fig. 41) to protect an opening in the castle wall. 2 It is so 





Fig. 40. — Medal of Antoine de Bouvgugne. 



Fig. 41. — Barbicans, from a MS. Froissart. 



depicted in his manuscripts 3 and his medals; 4 and Mr. Planche, 5 who 
visited the ruins of his castle at Tournehem, in Artois, found the 
badge so represented in various parts of the building. 

Olivier de la Marche describes him at the siege of Oudenarde, 
1452, as wearing a great rich standard, embroidered with a barbican. 
And again, in 1480 — " Saillit le chevalier a l'arbre d'or, son cheval 
couvert de velours tanne, a grans barbacannes de fil d'or en bordure 
et lettres de meme a sa devise {Nul ne s'y frotte) et d'icelles barba- 
cannes issoyent flammes de feu." 

At the Smithfield tournament, Anthony had embroidered on his 
pavilion, his "word," Null' ne cy frete. On his coming in, the 
green velvet trappings over his horses were powdered with barbicans, 



1 '' Within the barbican a porter sate, 

Day and night keeping watch and 

ward." „ 

Spenser. 

2 Barbican : " A scout house or hole " 
(Handle Cotgrave, Dictionary, 1611). 
" An outwork standing out of a house " 
(Florio, ' Worlds of Words,' 1598). 

3 One in the possession of M. Firmin 
Didot. 



4 "Bronze medallion, Antoine B., of 
Burgundy— circa 1490-1500. Oh., bust 
portrait, inscribed, ' Anthonius B. de Bur- 
gundia.' Rev., a barbican, with the 
inscription, ' Nul ne si frote.'" — South 
Kensington Museum. 

5 See his interesting paper in the 
Journal of the Archaeological Association, 
vol. vi. 



AND WAR-CELES. 63 

nest, but hatches its egg in a cavity in its back formed for that pur- 
pose. 1 It has no feet, and therefore never rests on earth ; but when 
it reposes, attaches itself to the branches of trees, by means of two 




Fig. 43. — Matteo di Capoa. 

sinews like the strings of a lute, with which it is furnished instead of 
feet: 

" But thou art still that Bird of Paradise, 
■Which, hath no feet, and ever nobly flies." 

J. Berkenhead to Fletcher. 

Capoa, Andrea di, Duke of Termole (Naples). Made Captain- 
General by Julius II., he died, not without suspicion of having 
been poisoned by some one envious of his military reputation. 
His device was a sheaf of javelins. Motto, Fortibus non deerunt, 
" They shall not be wanting to brave men," implying that he 
would not be wanting in missiles to keep off the approach of the 
enemy. 

Cakacciolo op Naples. The ancient device of this house is an 
elephant. 

Cakacciolo, Pkince op Torella. See Castriota, Irene. 

1 Hence the device for' a pious parent carry mine,"— that is, " I lift my young 
of a Bird of Paradise flying with its to the stars." 
young. Motto, Meos ad sidera tollo, " I 



62 HISTOETC DEVICES, BADGES, 

forces it asunder, and bursts even the most solid walls. His motto 
was from Martial (Epigr. x. 2), Marmora Messalee findit eaprificus, 
" The wild fig cleaves Messala's marble." 

Pliny mentions this property of the fig ; Juvenal also alludes to it : 

" Lo, the wild fig-tree issues from its core ! 
The stones grow loose ! the sepulohre's no more." 

Juvenal, Sat. X., Badham's Translation. 

Ben Jonson speaks of, 

" The fig-tree wild, that grows on tombs." 

Masque of Queens. 

This device is said to have been assumed by Campo Basso, in 
consequence of the affront he received from Duke Charles, who, in a 
council of war, being enraged at Campo Basso, gave him a bos on the 
ear, an insult which Campo Basso never forgave. As Pere Mathieu 
observes, " Le soufflet que Campo Basso avait recu, soufflait, dans son 
cceur le feu de la vengeance." This device implied that he would sap 
and ruin until he had destroyed the House of Burgundy. The 
device was more appropriate than even its author imagined, for the 
fig-tree is the emblem of ingratitude as well as of slow revenge. 
Campo Basso had his revenge by his desertion at Nancy, but 
Bene and the brave Swiss indignantly rejected his offer of joining 
them, saying, " they would have no treacherous Italian on their side, 
as their fathers had not been used to owe victory to such base 
means. 1 

Capoa, Matteo di, Prince of Conca, and High Admiral of Naples, 
a patron of learning and merit. He took for his device the Bird of 
Paradise (Fig. 43), with the motto, Negligit ima, " She scorns low 
things." 2 

The Bird of Paradise, a native of the Moluccas, according to the 
belief in the middle ages, feeds upon the dew from heaven ; builds no ' 

1 ' Histoire dea Comtes de Flandre.' Haye, 1698. 

2 Many other mottoes are given to the Nostra conversatio in coelis est, " Our 

Bird of Paradise : conversation is in heaven." 

Elevor dum segregor, " I am exalted, Sdegna la terra, " It disdains earth." 

not removed." Semper sublimis, " Always on high." 

Nil mihi terra, " Earth is nought to me." Superata tellus sidera donat, " Earth 

Nan sum terra tuus, " I am not your o'ercome grants the stars (gives heaven)." 
earth." Terram indignata fugit, " Spurning it, 

Non quse super terram, " Not what is it flies the earth." 
above the earth." See also Savoy, Victob Amadeus. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 



65 



other a steelyard (statera) (Fig. 44), with the motto, Hoc faa et 
vives, "Do this and live," 1 — the two branches styling themselves 
Carafa di Spina and Carafa di Statera. 2 




Fig. 4J.— Carafa Family. 

Carafa, Peter Louis, Bishop of. The steelyards of the family:' 
Motto, Omnibus eadem, " The same to all," — implying the impartial 
administration of justice. Two buckets in a well, 4 Alternant 
pondera eundo, " The weights alternate as they go." A pair of 
scales, 5 Consistam in asquo, e " I will be firm in that which is just." 

"In adverse hours an equal mind maintain, 
Nor let your spirit rise too high, 
Though fortune kindly change the scene." 

Hoeacb. Francis' Translation. 

" Non avvien quasi par commun difetto 
Di noi, e de l'instabil nostra mente ; 
Che sostener 1'u'na fortuna, e l'altra 
Mai non sappiam con la bilancia pari." 

Gioegio BoccAtJANO 8eozze<e, (G. Buchanan), Jefta Tragerlia. 



1 " That which is altogether just shalt 
thou follow, that thou mayest live." — 
Deut. xvi. 20. 

2 'Histoire des Comtes de Flaudre.' 
H'aye, 1698. 

3 Petra Sancta, Silvester, A., ' De 
Symbola Heroicis,' 4to. Amsterdam, 
1681, passim. 

4 The same device was given by the 
Romans, with the motto, Va et Vienne, 
to Francis, Cardinal Joyeuse, who was 
continually going from Paris to Pome on 



long weary journeys in the service of his 
Icing, and for the good of the Church." — 
Renouaed, Devises royales, 1626. Bib. 
Imp. MSS 

5 The balance is a favourite Scripture 
metaphor: "Let'iiie be weighed in an 
even balance." — Job xxxi. 6. " A just 
weight and balance are the Lord's." — 
Proverbs xvi. 11. 

6 Borne also by Louis of Tarento, with 
the motto, JEqua durant semper, " Just 
things endure always." 



61 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Caracciolo, Col. Antonio, Marquis of Vico. A diamond 
(diamante in punta) in the midst of a fire, and under the blows of 
two hammers. 1 Motto, Semper adamas, " Always adamant." 

" Hard hearted adamant." 

Midsummer-Night's Dream, Act ii., sc. 2. 

The diamond, resisting both fire and iron, was an image of his 
strength of purpose, 2 both in love and war. This device he wore 
during his campaigns in the service of Charles V. and Ferdinand the 
Catholic. 

" The triall of these Diamants is upon a smith's Anvill ; for strike 
as hard as you will with an hammer upon the point of a Diamant, you 
shall see how it scorneth all blowes, and rather then it will seem to 
relent, first flieth the hammer that smiteth in peeces, and the very 
anvil itself underneath cleaveth in twaine. Wonderful inemarrable is 
the hardness of a Diamant : besides, it has a Nature to conquer the 
furie of fire — nay, you shall never make it hote, doe what you can : for 
this untamable vertue that it hath, the Greeks have given it the name 
Adamas." 3 See Catjla. 

Caracciolo, Giovanni. See Melfi. 

Carafa. This illustrious Neapolitan family is descended from the 
Sismondis of Pisa ; both bear the same arms — gules, three bars argent, 
which were first taken, with the name, by a gentleman of Pisa who 
saved the life of the Emperor Henry VI., by throwing himself between 
him and a man who was about to wound him. He received the wound 
intended for his sovereign, and his blood flowing over his shield, Henry 
wiped it with his hand, which left three white bars upon the red, 
saying at the same time, Carafe m' e la vostra, " Dear to me is your 
fidelity." Such is the traditional origin of the arms and war-cry of 
the Sismondi and Carafa families, the last taking for their name the 
two first words of their motto, Carafe. 4, 

When the Carafa family divided into two branches, the one 
placed a green thorn (Spina) on the side of the family shield ; the 

1 Also used by Mathias Hunniades, 4 The same origin is assigned to the 
with the motto, Durat et lucet, " It en- Austrian arms and to many others ; but 
dures and shines." as Menestrier quaintly observes, " Quelle 

2 " Hearts as an adamant stone." — caresse pour un homme blesse a mort de 
Zechariah vii. 12. tremper sa main dans son sang pour lui 

3 Pliny, book xxxvii., 4. faire des armoiries I" " 



AND WAK-OKIES. 67 

Carafa followed in the path of his master under whose favour he 
lived. 

Pliny says : " It is said, moreover, as touching the Egyptian 
lotus, that in Euphrates the very head of the stalke together with 
the flower, used in the evening to he plunged and drowned under 
the water until midnight and so deep to settle toward the bottom, 
that a man with his hand cannot reach thereto, nor find any part of 
it ; but after that time, it beginneth to rise by little and little, and by 
the sun-rising appeareth above the water, and openeth the flower, and 
still mounteth higher and higher a good height from the water." l 

Ferdinand Carafa composed the following sonnet on the lotus : 

" Nascendo il Sol dal mar, s' erge su 1' onde 

D'Eufrate un' erba, eke quel mira ogn' hora, 

E quando e al mezzo Ciel, tutta s' infiora 

Dal raggio, oncl' han vigor flor, frutti, e lYonde. 
Pui che nel' Oceano il carro asconde, 

Tosto quel bel, eh' ella mostrava fuora, 

Nel seno umido attuffa, e discolora 

I fiori, e le sue foglie alte, e feconde. 
Cosi al vostro apparir, mio vivo Sole, 

Fiorisce quest' ingegno ; e 1' alma gode 

Sovra il gran mar de la sua certa speme ; 
A lo sparir, nel pianto, e ne le pene 

Proprie s' immerge, e '1 cor s' inbruna, e rode 

Nel fosoo, che altro ben 1' alma non vuole." 

This property of the lotus flower is noted by Dante : 

" Qual' i fioretti dal notturno gielo 
Chinati e chiusi, poi che '1 sol gl' imbianca, 
Si di'izzan tutti aperti in loro stelo." 

Inferno. 

" Like flow'rs, -which shrinking from the chilly night, 
Droop and shut up ; but with fair morning's tomb 
Rise on their stems, all open and upright." 

Gary's Translation. 

And also by Moore : 

" Those virgin lilies all the night 

Bathing their beauties in the lake, 
That they may rise more fresh and bright 
When their beloved sun's awake." 

Lalla Rookh. 



1 Book xiii., ch. 18. 

F 2 



66 HISTOEIG DEVICES, BADGES, 

Caeafa, Tommaso, Conte di Mataleone, General of Ferdinand, 
bore the family device and motto, which was ridicuLed by the French 
commander, who, when he had forced the Aragonese camp, and gained 
the standard of the general, observed, "Par ma foy, mon ennemi 
n'ha pas fait ce qu'il ha escrit alentour de son Peson, pourcequ'il n'ha 
pas bien pese ses forces avec les miennes." 

The obscure motto, Fine in tanto, is on one of the Carafa tombs, 
in the church of San Domenic Maggiore at Naples. 1 

Carafa, Fabeizio. See Mandeuccio, Cardinal. 

Carafa, Don Feedinand, Count of Soriano, son of Don Alfonso Ca- 
rafa, Duke of Nocera. He was in the service of the Emperor Charles V., 
and fell at Pavia by the hand of Francis I. His device was the wild 
goat, which, when pierced by the arrow-shaped leaves of the palm-tree, 
seeks, to heal its wounds, for the herb dittany, which grows under the 
shade of the same tree. Motto, Hinc vulnus, salus, et umbra, " Hence 
the wound, healing, and shade," — an impresa d'amore. The palm, 
symbol of victory (Vittoria), alluding, perhaps, to the name of the 
lady of his affections. 

Of the herb dittany, Pliny says : " The Harts first showed us the 
vertue of the hearbe Dictamnus, or Dittanie, to draw out arrowes forth 
of the bodie. Perceiving themselves shot with a shaft, they have 
recourse presently to that hearbe, and with eating thereof it is driven 
out again." 2 

And so Yirgil — 

" A branch of healing dittany she (Venus) brought ; 
Which in the Cretan fields with care she sought ; 
Kough is the stem, which woolly leaves surround, 
The leaves with flow'rs, the flow'rs ■with purple crown'd." 

Dbyden's translation, book xii. 

Caeafa, Ferdinand, Marquis of Santo Lucito. The lotus flower 
in a river with the sun shining upon it. Motto, Sic diva lux mihi, 
" Such is the divine light to me." 

The Marquis of Santo Lucito was brought up in the court of 
Charles V., and as the lotus, according to Pliny and Theophrastus, 
rises with the sun, and when that luminary attains the meridian, 
the lotus, which has been gradually rising in its stem, is quite 
upright, and again gradually droops as the sun sets, so in like manner 

1 Valciy, ' Voyages en Italic' 2 Book viii., ch. 27. 



AND WAR-CEIES. 69 

Pope Leo X. He wrote a book on the rules of civility and good 
breeding, styled ' Libro del Cortigiano.' 
As Ariosto says : 

" C e clii, qual lui 
Vediamo, ha tali i Cortigiun formati." 

Orlando Furioso, Cant, xxxvii. st. 8. 

" And he whose pen prescribes the courtier's laws, 
And is himself th' accomplish'd prince he draws." 

Hoole's Translation. 

Attracted by the refinements of the court of Guidobaldo. the "ele- 
gante Castiglione" 1 entered his service and came to England, in 1506, 
to be installed as a Knight of the Garter as proxy for the Duke of 
Urbino. A MS., in which the Castiglione arms are surrounded by a 
collar of SS, ending with two portcullis and a united rose, would lead 
to the inference that King Henry VII. had decorated Castiglione 
with such a badge. He was intimate with Kaffaelle and all the 
eminent artists of the day, and no person was more resorted to on 
account of his judgment in architecture, painting, and sculpture. 

On the obverse of a medal struck in his honour is represented the 
ocean, as emblematic of the vastness of his knowledge. Eaffaelle 
painted him, Giulio Eomano designed his tomb, and Bembo composed 
the inscription. 

Castriota, Irene, Princess of Bisignano. An eagle with its eyes 
fixed on the sun. 2 Motto, Che mi pub far di vera gloria lieta, 
" That which can make me joyful with true glory." After the lines 
of Petrarch : 

" Tien pur gli occhi qual' Aquila in quel sole, 
Che ti puo far d' eterna gloria degno." 

Showing that she kept her thoughts fixed upon heaven, who illumines 
the darkness of the soul and heart. 

Castbdcani, Castruccio (-f- 1328). The celebrated Ghibeline 
chief of Pisa, Lucca, and much of the Eastern riviera of Genoa. 
Master of 300 walled towns, Italy had not beheld such a captain for 
centuries ; he was either courted or dreaded by every Italian prince, 
from the emperor downwards. 3 

i Ariosto. °f Torella, with Hoc vivo ; nee ultra vota 

2 The same device was used with the volant, " In this I live, nor do my wishes 

motto, E di cib vivo e d' altro mi eal poco, fly beyond." " In Him we live and move 

'' And in this I live, and care little for and have our being." 

aught besides;" and by Caracciolo, Prince 3 Napier's ' History of Florence.' 



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HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Other mottoes for the lotus, Bum respieis erigor (Luca Lucarini), 
" While you look back I am raised up." Per te merge et immergor, 
" By thee I sink and am sunk." 

See also Mandrttccio, Cardinal. 

Caro, Annibal (+1566). The wheel of an arquebuse, the key 
broken and lying by the side (Fig. 45), motto, Vim Vi, 1 " Force by 
force," meaning that every one has the right to repel violence by 
violence. He also took the bee, which, wben far from its hive and 



VIM 




Fig. 45. — Annibal ' 



assailed by the wind, not to be buffeted by its violence, steadies itself 
with a pebble, which it carries in its claws. Motto, IIONO IIONON 
<E>EPU, "I bear toil by toil," meaning, as Annibal Caro himself 
explains it, that by labour itself one learns to bear patiently and 
overcome labour and trouble. This instinct of the bee is mentioned 
by Pliny: — "Bees," he says, "that are emploied in carrying of 
honie, druse alwaise to have the wind with them, if they can. If 
haply there do arise a tempest or a storm whiles they bee abroad, 
they catch up some little stonie greet to ballaise and poise themselves 
against the wind. Some say, that they take it, and lay it upon their 
shoulders. And withall, they flie low' by the ground under the wind 
when it is against them, and keepe along the bushes, to break the 
force thereof." 2 

Virgil also employs the simile : 

'■ And oft with pebbles, like a balanced boat, 
Poised, through the air on even pinions float." 

Georgics, iv. Dkyden's Translation. 

Gastiglione, Baldassar, Count of Milan (-f 1529). This accom- 
plished nobleman and elegant scholar was held in high estimation by 

1 " Vim vi repillere omnia jura clamant.''— Jus. Ant. 
2 Bnolc xi., oil. 10. 



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71 



religious reverence (with a kind of devotion) not only the starres and 
planets, but the sunne and moone they also worship. And in very 
truth, writers there be who report thus much of them — that when 
the new moon beginneth to appeare fresh and bright, they come 
down by whole heards to a certaine river named Amelus, in the 
deserts and forest of Mauritania, where, after that they are washed 
and solemnly purified by sprinkling and dashing themselves all over 
with the water, and have saluted and adored after their manner that 
planet, they returne againe into the woods and chases, carrying before 
them their young calves that be wearied and tired." x 

Cesarini, Gtabrielle, of Eome. A broken column. Frangor non 
fledar, " I am broken, but will not be bent." See also Accolti. 

Chabot, Philippe de, Admiral of France (-f 1543). The 
rival of the Constable Montmorency. After 
the unjust proceedings against him, the 
admiral took for device, a ball in the air, 
with the motto, Coneussus surgo, " Struck, 
I rise" (Fig. 47), to show that notwith- 
standing the attacks of his enemies, his 
innocence was proved, and he was restored 
to the favour of his sovereign; the more 
he was buffeted by fortune, the higher he 
would rise. 

When permitted to reappear at court, 
Francis I. asked him if he still persisted in 
maintaining his innocence. Chabot replied, 
" Sire, j'ai trop appris que nul n'est innocent 
devant son Dieu et devant son roi, mais j'ai 

du moins cette consolation que toute la malice de mes enemies n'a 
pu me trouver coupable d'aucune infidelite envers votre majesteV 
Chabot was one of the deputies sent to negotiate the liberation of 
Francis I. 

Carlo Orsini bore the same device, with the motto, Pereussus 
elevor, " Struck, I am raised." 

Chabot also used the dolphin and anchor of the Emperor Titus 
(see Titus). Three millers' thumbs (Chabots), argent and azure, 
are the arms of this family. 




Fig. it.— Admiral Chabot. 



1 Book viii, ch. 1. 



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HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



On the coronation of Louis of Bavaria, when Castruccio had 
conferred upon him the dignity of a Roman senator, he appeared with 
a crimson mantle. Embroidered upon his breast was the motto, Egli e 
come Bio vuole, " He is as God wills," and behind, Sara quel che 
Bio vorra, " Will be what God wills." 

Caula, Camillo, a Captain of Modena. The elephant looking at 
the moon in adoration (Fig. 46). Motto, Pietas Beo nos conciliat, 
'" Piety re-unites us to God." 




Fig. 46. — Camillo Caula. 



The same device was adopted by Giustiniani Salimbene, with- the 
motto, Sic ardua peto, "So seek I arduous things." Also, by 
Caracciolo, Marquis of Vico, with the motto, Numen regemque 
salutant, " They salute God and the king." 

The reverence of the elephant for the moon is celebrated 
by ancient writers. .ZElian states that at the increase of the 
moon they gather branches of trees in the woods, and turning 
their eyes up towards that luminary, raise their branches in 
adoration. 1 

Pliny, speaking of the elephant, says that they " withall have in 

' " Dimmi qual feva e si di mente umana, 
Che s'mginocchia al raggio de la lima, 
E per purgal'si seende a la fontana." 

San.nazako. 



AND WAE-CRIES. 73 

bocoa chiiosa noil entran mosche, " In a closed mouth flies can't 
enter," l — Prudent silence avoids many inconveniences. 

In his Chateau of Boisy (Loire et Saone- et-Loire) is no longer 
to be seen the arrogant inscription said to have been placed over its 
gate, " Jacques Cceur fait ce qu'il vent, et le Eoi ce qu'il peut." 

Coiotieks, Jacques. Physician to Louis XL, who had ordered 
Tristan l'Hermite to get rid of him. When the Prevot went to his 
house in the Kue St Andre des Arts to tell him the commands of the 
king, Coictiers received the order with the greatest submission, telling 
him that his greatest regret was that he knew the king would not 
survive him four days. Tristan fell into the snare, and Louis pardoned 
his physician on condition he never saw him again. He therefore 
retired from court, and placed over his house the apricot (abricotier), 
with the motto, A VAbri-cotier, meaning to convey that he had 
placed himself, by his subterfuge, at shelter from the calamities which 
threatened him. 2 

Colbert, Jean Baptiste (-{-1683.) The great minister of Louis 
XIV. took for device the dragon guardiDg the gardens of the Hesperides. 
Motto, Servat et dbstinet, " He guards and abstains." See Fouquet. 

Colonna or Bome. The ensign of the Colonna family is a 
silver column, with base and capital of gold, surmounted by a golden 
crown, the grant of the Emperor Louis of Bavaria, in acknowledgment 
of the service rendered to him by Stefano Colonna, who, when chief 
senator of Bome, crowned Louis in the Capitol, contrary to the wishes 
of the Pope. 

When Pope Alexander VI. banished from Bome Cardinal Giovanni 
and the other Colonnese lords, the twelve figli d'iniquita (" sons of 
iniquity"), they took refuge in Naples and Sicily, and assumed as 
device a tuft of reeds shaken by the winds (Fig. 48), with the motto, 



to his name. In tlie ' Compte de la ferment. As another proverb runs, " A 
vente des biens de Jacques Cceur,' 1453, goupil endormi rien ne tumbe en la 
we find, " six tasses d' argent, faictes a gueule." But as the other figure in the 
Coeurs, pesant xiiij. marcs." window of the Hotel de Ville, at Bourges, 
1 Mr. H. Bonn, in his ' Handbook of has a scroll, with the word, " Taire," 
Proverbs,' gives a different rendering of issuing from its mouth, it is evident that 
the proverb. " A close mouth oatoheth Jacques Cceur meant to imply the pru- 
ne flies " means, he says, that people must dence of silence. 

speak for themselves, must urge their own 2 ' Les Curiositez de Paris,' par M. L. It. 

cause, or they are not likely to obtain pre- Paris, 1716. 



72 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Cleves, House of. Badge, a white swan, from the well known 
pretty legend of the knight who miraculously arrived by the Ehine 
in a little boat drawn by a swan, and married the heiress of Cleves. 
Motto, Plus qu' onque mes. 

Cleves, Anne or, daughter of Philip the Good of Burgundy, and 
second wife of Adolphus, Duke of Cleves. Motto, Byens mieux. 

Cceue, Jacqces (-f- 1461), the celebrated argentier of Charles VII. 
He made by his commerce a colossal fortune, and established factories 
in every part of the world. The seas were covered with his ships, 
and his well-filled coffers enabled him to assist King Charles VII., 
of whom he became the argentier, an office, strictly speaking, con- 
fined to the household, but as held by Jacques Cceur, it extended 
to the financial administration of the kingdom. He succeeded in 
restoring order to the finances, and placed all his personal fortune 
at the disposal of the king; but the favour he enjoyed, and the 
pecuniary services he had rendered to several powerful persons, 
made them his enemies, and they ruined him in the good opinion 
of Charles. To free themselves of their debts, they succeeded in 
getting him condemned, and his wealth confiscated ; but Jacques 
escaped from the execution of his sentence, and Calixtus III. placed 
him at the head of the Papal expedition against the Mahometans. 1 
His magnificent residence at Bourges is now the Hotel de 
Ville. In various parts of the edifice, is sculptured his favourite 
motto : 



A vaillans V / \ / riens impossible." 2 





In the Hotel de Ville was also a painted glass window with the 
arms of Jacques Cceur. Azure, on a fess or, three cockle shells sable, 
between three hearts, gules. Bound the escutcheon, oranges in 
flower and fruit, encircled by a border of hearts and feathers of 
various colours. Above, two figures, one with the ears of a donkey, 
the other with his mouth closed by a padlock, and on a scroll, En 
houohe close nentre mousche, equivalent to the Italian proverb, In 

1 ' La Loire Historique Pittoresque.' 2 ' Rendered also — 

et ' Topographegm,' par G. Touchard- 

Lafosse. Tours, 1851. Costello's ' Life •' A cumr vatitat et nmnumt 

, Ran difficile nc pesant." 

or Jacques (jcBur. Borel, Jr. ' Autici mtez 

(iauloises,' Paris, 1555. He had his cups made in a form allusive 



AND WAK-CRIES. 75 

great schism of the We3t, and the Popes finally re-established in the 
Vatican. 1 

Colonna, Peospeeo (-f-1523), Lord of Paliano, was one of the most 
renowned captains of Italy. His hereditary hatred of the Orsini 
induced him to join the French party, because Yirginio Orsini had 
attached himself to the Aragonese. By his help Charles VIII. entered 
Home, but Prospero afterwards became reunited to King Frederic, 
who made him Grand Constable of Naples, and charged him with 
the care of taking Caesar Borgia to Spain. Prospero had the gene- 
rosity not to look even upon his prisoner, that he might not be 
supposed to exult in his fall. Confident in the constancy of the lady 
of his affections, Prospero took for his companion a gentleman of low 
degree, to whom she unfortunately transferred the love he thought 
was his own. Feeling that he had been the author of his own ruin, 
Prospero took for device the bull of Perillus, which had proved the 
death of its inventor, with the motto, Ingenio experwr funera digna 
meo, " I suffer a death befitting my invention." 

" Nee lex est justior ulla 
Quam neeis artifices arte perire sua." 

" By their own arts, 'tis righteously decreed, 
The dire artificers of death shall bleed." 

Prospero subsequently commanded the imperial troops in the war 
of the Milanese, and at the age of eighty defended Milan against 
Lautrec and Bonnivet, his extreme caution being successfully opposed 
to the impetuosity of the French. 

Colonna, Fabrizio (-)- 1520) . "La Gran Colonna del nome Bomano " 
of Ariosto, cousin of Prospero. Like him, he first served the French, 
but afterwards joined their opponents, and fought under the great 
Gonsalvo. He was made prisoner at the battle of Bavenna by Alfonso 
of Este, who released him without a ransom. Ferdinand the Catholic 
elevated him to the dignity of Grand Constable of Naples. Braith- 
wart, in his " Bules for the House of our Earle " (temp. James I.), 
alludes to " The Viceroy of Naples, Fabricio Colonna, at that time 
accounted a Father of Soldiers." 

When bribed to desert the French side, and to join the Italian 

1 When he arrived at Florence for the purpose of presiding in the council, the 
children of Florence used to sing— 

" Papa Mavtino, 
Non vale un quaUriiio." 
" Tope Martin is not worth a farthing." 



74 



HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Flectimur non frangimur undis, 1 " We are bent, not broken, by the 
waves ;" implying that they bent their heads to the storm, hoping to 
raise them, and to be restored to their honours and position when it 
had passed over. This device was invented by Sanazzaro, the court 
poet and favourite of Frederic of Naples. This king received the 




Fig. 48. — Colonna Family. 

refugees, and took them into his pay. Thus, after devastating their 
native country by their private wars, the Colonna family found them- 
selves reduced to live by the sword, and, as common condottieri or 
hired mercenaries, to serve any party who would employ them. 

Always in rivalry, and often in open arms with the Orsini, Pope 
Julius II. succeeded in effecting a peace between the two families, on 
which occasion a medal was struck, representing a bear embracing 
a column, with the motto, Patrise Scduti, " To the country's safety." 

The sun, with the motto, Si tardior splendidior, "The slower the 
more brilliant," was taken for impresa by Prospero Colonna (-(-1463), 
who was elevated to the dignity of Cardinal by his uncle, Martin Y. 
(Oddo Colonna), the Pope, by whose election an end was put to the 



1 "Mieux vant ployer que rompre;" 
" Qui ne voudra rompre qu'il ploye." 
The motto of Lord Palmerston was Flecti, 
non frangi, " To be bent, not broken ;" 
that of the Duke of Sutherland and Lord 
Granville conveys the opposite sentiment 
— Frangas non flectes, " You may brent, 
you shall not bend mc." Melius framji 



quam flecti, "Better be broken than bent." 
(Latin proverb). 

On a monument in RingsBeld Church, 
Suffolk, to the memory of Nicholas 
Gurneys, of tiedisham Hall, died 1599, 
is the crest of a mermaid, with the motto, 
Flectar non frangar." — Suckling, History 
of Suffolk. 



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77 



When in the service of Pope Julius II., Cardinal Pavia, who was of 
an imperious disposition, was sent to advise and direct him. The 
haughty Colonna, to show that he would not he dictated to, but that 
he should keep aloof, took the device of the heron, which, in tem- 
pestuous weather, soars above the clouds, where the rain cannot fall 
upon its back (Fig. 50). Motto, Natura dictante feror, " Nature 
impelling, I am borne along." 




Fig. 50. — Marc Antonio Colonna. 

The same device was placed in the Palais Eoyal under the portrait 
of the Duke de Guise, with the motto, Altior procellis, " Higher than 
storms.''' 

This instinct of the heron is noticed by Virgil in the ' Georgics' : 

'' And the lone her'n his wonted moor forsakes, 
And o'er the clouds his flight aerial takes." 

Dryden's Translation. 

And Drayton observes — 

" The her'n by soaring shuns tempestuous showers." 

The Owl. 

This bird, therefore, is a fit emblem of the elevated mind which rises 
superior to adversity, and looks down with serenity on the tumults 

1 For natuke, read natuka. 



76 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

League, Fabrizio placed upon his surcoat, as his device, a vase filled 
with gold, accompanied by the motto, Samnitico non eapitur auro, 
" Not taken by Samnite gold ;" meaning that he was no more to be 
corrupted by the temptations held out to him, than his nimesake by 
the gold of the Samnites. 

At the battle of Eavenna, Fabrizio bore as device the touchstone, 
motto, Fides hoc uno. virtusque probantur, " By this alone faith and 
virtue are to be proved/' showing that his virtue and loyalty would be 
apparent when put to the test. 

Colonna, Muzio ( -)- circ. 1516), his nephew, caused to be em- 
broidered upon his banner a hand thrust upon a burning altar, 
referring to Mutius Scsevola. Motto, Fortia facere et pati Romanum 
est, " Brave action and endurance befit a Roman," — a device worthy of 
this valiant knight. 1 

Colonna, Marc Antonio ( -f- 1522), nephew of Prospero, the 
brave defender of Ravenna against Gaston de Foix, took for device on 




Fig. 49. — Marc Antonio Culonmi. 

that occasion two branches crossed, the one of laurel, the other of 
cypress^ (Fig. 49). Motto, Erit altera merces, " One shall be the 
reward," — prepared for death or victory. 

1 He fought the battle of Soriano a company of lanees given to him by 

against the Orsini, in which Cawar Julius II., and afterwards by Leo. X.; 

Borgia was defeated ; was one of the was at the battle or Marignauo, and' died 

twelve in the proscription of 1501 ; had at Fcnno of a wound. 



AND "WAE-CEIES. 79 

silver, decorated with beaks of ships. Such was the reception Home 
gave to her victorious general. 

Colonna, Stefano, Lord of Palestrina ( -f- 1548), one of the eon- 
dottieri generals of his family. He served with his kinsman, Prospero, in 
the Imperial army, and, after joining the French, ended his career in the 
pay of Cosmo, Grand Duke of Florence. He took for his impresa a 
mermaid (Fig. 51), the ancient device of his family, with the motto, 
Contemnit tuta procellas, " Safe, she despises storms." 



Fig. 51, — Stefano Colonna. 

Colonna, Vespasiano (-)- 1535), son of the Grand Constable 
Prospero, took for his devices thunderbolts, with the words from 
Horace, Feriunt summos, " They strike the highest ;" and also a 
porcupine, with the motto, Beeus et tutamen in armis, " Honour and 
safety in arms." 

Colonna, Yixtoria (-f- 1547), daughter of the Grand Constable 
Fabrizio, the beautiful and accomplished wife of the Marquis of Pescara. 
Their mutual attachment was unsurpassed. Betrothed when only four 
years of age, Vittoria was a widow at thirty-three. Inconsolable for 
the loss of her husband, she retired to the Island of Ischia, where she 
solaced herself with poetry, and corresponded with Cardinals Pole and 
Bembo. Michael Angelo wrote a sonnet in her praise. On her medal 
is the device of a phoenix. She also took, when assailed by the envious 

1 For prooella, read pbooellas. 



78 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

and tempests below, secure in its own height, and in the favour of 
heaven. 1 

When Verona bravely defended itself against the armies of France 
and Venice, Marc Antonio, to show his unyielding spirit, took for 
imprese a shirt of asbestos in the midst of flames ; motto, Semper per- 
vicax, " Always unyielding ;" this substance, from its resistance to 
fire, being considered as the emblem of immovable constancy, and of 
virtue that comes out purified from the furnace. 

" La pierre Amiantus est ainsi nominee de ce que gettee dans le 
feu elle se brule, et ne perd rien de son lustre, ains si elle est sale, elle 
en sort nette et avec beau lustre." 2 

" TJn sasso e si tenace 
Del foco, che qual hora a lui s'apprende 
D'eterna fiamma spende." 

Camillo Camilli. 

" A stone there is, so resisting of fire, that when it is applied to it, it hums with 
an eternal flame.'' 

"When approaching Milan, defended by his uncle Prospero, Marc 
Antonio was struck dead by a shot from a culverin. 

Colonna, Mako Antonio (-(-1584), grandson of Fabrizio, General 
of the Papal troops at the battle of Lepanto, in 1571, the " Colonna " 
of the Spanish Armada, took a column between the two points of a 
crescent, which it prevents from meeting. Motto, JVe totum impleat 
orbem, " Lest it should fill the whole world," to express that by the 
victory of Lepanto he (the column) prevented the Turks from extend- 
ing their conquests. 

On his return, Colonna was received in triumph, and after having 
passed through the three triumphal arches of Constantine, Titus, and 
Severus, which were decorated with inscriptions in his honour, after 
having been received in the Capitol to the sound of the trumpet, 
and having passed the bridge of St. Angelo, in the midst of artillery 
from the castle of St. Angelo, he entered St. Peter's, where the 
patriarch of Jerusalem received him at the door, the Te Deum was 
sung, and Marc Antonio went to kiss the Pope's foot. Next day 
he proceeded to the church of Ara Caeli ; mass was solemnised, and 
the victor presented with an offering of 1200 crowns and a column of 

1 Other mottoes for one superior to adverse fortune : — Nunc pluat, " Now let it 
rain." In sublime feror, " I am borne on high." Tutus in altis, " Safe in the heights." 

2 Matthiole, ' Comrnentaire sur Dioscoride.' Lyon, 1572. 



AND. WAK-CKIES. 81 

" If stern Achilles once could envy raise 
In Macedonia's king for Homer's lays ; 
What would the monarch, living, feel to honr 
Thy name, Pescara, sound in every ear. 
For whom thy chaste, thy much-lov'd consort sings 
Eternal honours on the tuneful strings ? 
If all her great deserts the muse would tell, 
The muse for ever on the theme might dwell." 
Hoole's Translation. 

Colonna, Donna Geeonima. This lady, who was an example of 
every excellence both in her words and works, had for device the 
myrrh or balsam tree, with the motto, JJt nihil desit, " That nothing 
may be wanting," — an impresa worthy of the lady ; but the difficulty 
was, how to represent the plant. Theophrastus likens it to the pome- 
granate ; Dioscorides to the white violet ; Pausanias to the myrtle ; 
Strabo to the terebinth, and Justin to the pine. 1 It is frequently 
alluded to by the poets : 

" The weeping myrrh with balmy sorrow flows." 

VV. Thompson, The Magi. 

" Her trees with precious tears." 

Ovid. Dkyden's Translation. 

And Othello, in his last speech, speaks of himself as — 

" . . . . One, whose subdu'd eyes, 
Albeit unused to the melting mood, 
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees 
Their medicinal gum." — Act v., sc. 2. 

The emblem also occurs in Scripture. In Solomon's Song, he says : 
" My hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet-smelling 
myrrh." And " His lips like lilies dropping sweet-smelling 
myrrh." 2 

Comines, Philippe de(-|- 1505). The celebrated historian took for 
device a wheatsheaf. Motto, Qui non labored non inandueat, "Whoso 
does not labour, will not eat;" a paraphrase of the words of the 
apostle, " If any would not work, neither should he eat." 3 This device 
and motto may be seen on the monument of Comines and his wife, in 
the Eenaissance Court of the Louvre, at Paris. 

Comminges Family. Their arms are gules, four "otelles" or 

1 Capacoio. '-' Cant. v. 5, 15. 3 2 Thes. iii. 10. 



80 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

and malicious, the device of rocks resisting the fury of the waves 
(Fig. 52), with the motto, Gonantia frangere frangunt, "They break 




Fig. 52. — Vittoria Colonna. 

those striving to break them ;" or, as the dramatic poet expresses it :' 

" TJiy brave, thy manly mind, 
That like a rock stands all the storms of fortune, 
And beats 'em roaring back, they cannot reach thee." 

Beaumont and Fletcheb, The Double Marriage. 

In the 'Orlando Furioso,' Ariosto devotes three stanzas to her 
praise, beginning — 

" Victoria is she call'd — and well the name 
Befits her, born to triumph and to fame ; 
With every trophy deckd of laurell'd pride, 
And victory attendant at her side, 
Like Artemisia she, the queen who prais'd 
For nuptial duty, to Mausorus rais'd 
The stately pile ; but more to her is due, 
Who from the sepulchre her consort drew, 
And bade his buried honours rise anew. 

" If Laodamia, Arria, Bruto's wife, 
Evadne and Argia, fled from life, 
And numbers more, in stored annals bloom'd, 
Who sought their breathless husbands in the tomb ; 
Still fair Victoria yields another theme, 
Who could from Lethe and the turbid stream 
That nine times round the bloodless spectres flows, 
Her husband free, though death and fate oppose. 



" Immobil son di vera fede scoglio, 
Che d'ogn' intorno il vento, e'l mar percote." — Ariosto. 




AND WAK-CRIES. 83 

treated with kindness Romulus and Eemus, the offspring of man — his 
mortal foe — so he would also pardon and be merciful to his adversaries. 

CrIJQtjy Family. The arms of this family are the Crequier, or 
wild plum (Fig. 54), gules, on a field or; 
often designated by the old foreign heralds 
as the " seven-branched candlestick of the 
Temple." See War-Cries, Cr£quy. 

Their ancient device is a hedgehog or 
porcupine, with the motto, Que nul ne s'y 
frotte. 

The hedgehog was also borne by Prince 
Butera. Motto, Non tangor inultus, " I am 
not touched unavenged." 

At the funeral of Marshal Turenne the same 
device was used, with the motto, Omnis mihi Fig. 54.— cre<iuy Family. 
vita sub armis, " All my life under arms." 

Undique tutus, " On all sides safe," is another motto for the 
hedgehog. 

Ckoy, Guillaume de, Due de Soria ( -J- 1521). l His motto was 

" Oil que je soye 

Je n' oublieray Croy." 

Croy, Charles Philippe de ( + 1612). Due d' Arschot, Prince 
de Chimay. Motto, Je me maintiendray Croy. 

Cybo op Genoa, Princes of Massa and Carrara. Their arms are 
gules, a bend chequey, azure and argent. Cylos is the Greek for a 
cube, or anything square. 

Cybo, Alano, of Genoa (-f- 1457), Viceroy of Naples, under Bene 
of Anjou and his successor. When Alano was sent by the Eepublic 
of Genoa to assist Rene against Alfonso of Aragon, who had besieged 
Naples, Rene' gave him the motto he used himself, Leaulte passe tout, 
which, with the peacock in its pride, the ancient badge of the house 
of Cybo, were adopted by Alano, and by his son, 

Cybo, Giov. Battista, Pope Innocent VIII. (-J-14S4). He also 
bad for device, a mountain, from the top of which issue a palm and 
an olive-branch. Motto, Ardua virtutem, 2 '■' Lofty deeds [promote] 
virtue." 

1 Mans, de la Toison d'or. 
2 " Ardua virtutem profert via, as-cendite primi," &c— Silius Itai.tcds. 

fi 2 



82 HISTOEIO DEVICES, BADGES, 

"amandons" (shelled almonds) in saltire (Fig. 53). Motto, En 
croissans nous amandons. 



Fig. 53. — Comminges. 

Cobnaeo, Fbedeeick, Bishop of Padua. A rose. Motto, Una dies 
aperit, eonficit una dies, " One day opens, one day ends it." Pope 
Leo XI. (+1605), had the same device. Motto, Sic florui, "Thus 
I flourished." So Tasso — 

" Cosi trapassa al trapassar d'un giorno 
De la vita mortal il fior, e '1 verde." — Gerusalemme Liberata. 

And also the oft quoted lines of Malherbe — 

" Et rose elle n'a vecu que ce vivent les roses, 
L'espace dun matin." 

Coenaeo, Piscopia Elena. See PlSCOPIA. 

Coeeeggio, Isabella da, of Parma. Being left a widow when 
young, she took for her device, two anchors, with the motto, Mis 
suffulta, " By these supported ;" that is, she had the double support 
of piety to heaven and love towards her deceased husband ; as Petrarch 

" Ben poiia ancor pieta con amor mista 
Per sostegno di me doppia colonna." 

Coeti, Gieolamo. A crab looking at the moon, with the motto, 
Forma tengo dal variato aspetto, " My form I take from its varied 
aspect," i.e., the changes of the moon, 1 taken from Petrarch, who, when 
speaking of the eyes of Laura, says : 

" Onde di e notte si rinversa 
II gran desio per ti sfogare il petto, 
Che forma tien del vaviato aspetto.'' 

Coevinus, Mathxas, King of Hungary (-(-1458), bore a crow, the 
canting arms of his family, and also a wolf, those of his father, to 
which he added the motto, Sua alienaque fignora nutrit, "He 
nourishes his own and other pledges [of love] ;" meaning that as the wolf 

i " With her growth, all shell fish wiixe moon is at the full ; because that planet 

and encrease " (Pliny, book ii., ch. 99). is comfortable in the night time, and 

" In autumn and spring, they battle with her waime light mitigateth the cold 

and waxe fat ; and especially when the of the night." — llirl.. hook ix., eh. 31. 



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on a ball. Motto, Omnia fortuna committo, " I commit all to 
Fortune." 

Diane de Poitiers, Duchesse de Valentinois * (-(-1566). In 
memory of her deceased husband, she bore an arrow entwined with 
green branches, and issuing from a tomb, upon which lay a cross. 
Motto, Sola vivit in illo, " She lives only in him," expressive of the 
constancy of her love ; but Paradin gives the motto a higher signifi- 
cation, rendering it, " Alone, on that she lives," — i.e., in the hope of a 
glorious resurrection. 

On tbe walls of the Chateau of Anet was the device of an arrow, 
with the motto, Consequiiur quodcunque petit 2 " She attains what- 
ever she seeks." 

There is a medal of Diane, having on the obverse her bust, and 
on the reverse, she is represented trampling Cupid under her feet, with 
the motto, Omnium vkiorem vici, " I have conquered the conqueror of 
all." 3 

Domenichi, Ludovico. 4 The coulter of a plough. Motto, Longo 
sjplendescit in usu, " It shines brilliantly in long ufe." 

The same device and motto were used by Cardinal Garnbara. 

Doria., Andrea. (-)- 1560). The ablest sea captain of his age. By 
his assistance the French, under Lautrec, made themselves masters of 
Genoa. Displeased with his allie3, Doria went over to the Emperor 
Charles V., who loaded him with favours. He delivered Genoa from 
the French yoke, and though it was in his power to have rendered 
himself sovereign of his country, he sacrificed all thoughts of personal 
aggrandisement to the satisfaction of establishing liberty. As Ariosto 

" Nou tieu per so., ma fa alia patria darlo ; 
Con preghi ottien oh' in libertii la mott.i, 
Dovo alti'i a se l'avria torso soggcttn." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xv., st. ">2. 

" His country's freedom patriot Doria gains, 
When others for themselves had forg'd her chains." 

Hoole's Translation. 

When Doria, then Admiral of the Empire, conducted Charles V. 

1 Henry II. gave her the Comte of are in the South Kensington Museum.' 
Yalentinois in Dauphiue' for life. and also in the Louvre (Collection 

2 This is the motto of the Marquis of Sauvagcot). 

lleadfort. ' Authovofabookonemblems/Ragio- 

■ 1 Specimens of this medallion, in lead, naincntodcM.Lodovico Domenichi,' 1574. 



84 IIIMTOIMO WCVJOI'IS, JMIKJIX, 

Oyiio, F i ia.no u-:eo, Count, dl' Anguilla.ru (-1-151!)), Hon of Inno- 
cent VIIT.,and of his wife, Mariannii Maddalena, who was daii^lif.fr of 
Lorenzo do' Medici, and sister of Loo X. (whom Innocent VIN. made 
Cardinal). IliH device was a barrel wiiliont a head, from which flames 
are issuing, such as is used, in liirios of public rejoicing. Motlo, 
Fom. (Jueiten in Hewer, " From good fo bolter." /)/', Imi.e in 
mw/Ho. 

Francesco was Governor of the Church during his father's ponti- 
ficate, and this device meant to indicate the joy and gladness that 
prevailed, and to foretell a continuance of prosperity to the house* of 
( lybo and Medici. 

Cvijo, Innocent, son of Francesco. Made Cardinal hy Leo X., 
who said, in giving him the hat, " Jnnocentio Cybo gave it to me, to 
Innocentio Cybo I return it." 

The Cardinal used the device of an anvil, with the motto, Duraho, 
" I will endure." 

Cybo, Lojiknzo (-)- 1548). His brother. A pyramid on a cube, 
with two hands united ; the sun ahovo. Motto, Sine fine, " Without 
end." The pyramid upon the cube denoted firmness, the sun was 
emblematic of the Almighty, and the united hands denoted faith and 
loyalty, the whole meaning that Lorenzo would remain firm in the 
loyalty of his ancestors, and trusted these virtues rni^ht he perpetuated 
in his posterity. 

Cybo, A/.iiWtioo Maj.ahj'Ina, Marchese di Manna (-f- ]f>2'.'>). A 
stork with the square stone in its claws, looking at the three spring 
celestial signs. Motto, K X KTPH2 KTXAJ'JSTJA, "In the Lord 
is thanksgiving." The stork denoting his gratitude, and the cube his 
firmness and fidelity towards his sovereign (I'hilip IL). 

A running stag was another of his devices. Motto, Vdocim ad 
cidum, "Swifter to Heaven." Also, three stags swimming aero*) 
a stream. Motto, Traruw-trndum, aut moriendvm, " Or crosa— 
or die." 

JjKNMAiiK ("Christian 1 1. j, King of (-f!55!)j, the "Nero of the 
North." His motto was, Sin end in Julia, "So it was [decreed] Iff 
Fate." He also took for device an eagle fighting and overthrowing a 
serpent, with the motto, JJirnieand/UM, " We must fight." 

Christian's wife, Isabella of Austria, 1 took for her device, Fortune 

1 Sinter i if (lie K;<i|.iior ChlirSir, V. 



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Henry II., the Holt. 1002. Nihil impense ames, itafiet, ut in nulla contristeris 
" Love nothing too intently, and you will never be made sad." Also, Ne quid nimis, 
" Never in extremes." 

Conrad II., the Salic. 1024. Omnium mores, tuos imprimis dbservato. "Observe 
all men's manners, thine own first." 

Henry III. 1039. Qui litem aufert, execrationem in benedictionem mutat, " Whoso 
stops a quarrel, charges a curse into a blessing." 

Henry IV. 1056. Multi multa sciunt, se autem nemo, " Many know many 
things, no one himself." 

Henry V. 1106. Married to Matilda, daughter of Henry I. of England. 
Miser qui mortem appetit, miserior qui timet, " Miserable is he who wishes death, 
more miserable who fears it." 

Lothaire. 1125. Audi alteram partem, " Hear the other side." 

Conrad III. of Francoma. 1138. Pauca cum, aliis, multa tecum hquere, 
" Converse little with others, much with thyself." 

Frederic I., Barearossa. 1152. Praestat uni probo, quam mille improbis placere, 
" Better please one good man than a hundred wicked." 

Henry VI. 1190. Qui tacendi non hdbet artem, nee loquendi novit opportunitatem, 
" Whoso knows not when to be silent knows not when to speak." 

Philip. 1198. Quod male coeptum est, ne pudeat mutasse, "Be not afraid to 
change that which was badly begun." 

Otho IV., the Superb. 1208. Strepit anser inter olores, "Among swans the 
goose maketh a loud noise." 

Frederic II. 1212. Gumplurium thriorum ego strepitum audivi, "I heard the 
rustling of some fig leaves." 

Bodolph I. of Hapsburg. 1273. Melius bene imperare, quam imperium ampliare, 
'' It is better to rule well than to enlarge one's kingdom." Bodolph took for device 
an armed hand with a mace and an olive-branch. Motto, Vtrum lubet, " Whichever 
you please, '' — war or peace. 

Adolphus op Nassau. 1292. Killedat the battle of the Spurs. Praestat vir sine 
pecunia, quam pecunia sine viro, " Better the man without money than money without 
the man." For device he took the dolphin twisted round an anchor. Motto, Festina 
lente, "Hasten slowly." 

Albert I. 1298. Duke of Austria, son of Bodolph. Fugam victoria nescit, 
" Victory ignores flight." With this motto, Albert had the device of two hands 
defending the imperial standard against a shower of lances. 1 

Henry VII. of Luxemburg. 1308. Calicem vitae dedisti mild in mortem, " In 
death thou gavest me the cup of life." His device was two hands issuing out of 
clouds holding a caduceus surmounted by a crown. Motto, Fid,e et amsilio, " By 
faith and counsel." 

Frederic the Fair. 2 1314. Benta morte nihil beatius, "Nought more blessed 
than a blessed death." For device he took the legs of a Colossus on a pedestal 



i T 



Typotii, Jae., ' Symbola divina emperor by four electors, while six voted 

et humana,' 12mo. Araheminae, 1666, for Louis of Bavaria. The one was 

passim. crowned at Cologne, 1315, the other at 

2 Frederic the Fair ought not to be Aix-la-Chapelle. The battle of Miihl- 

reckoned among the Emperors of Ger- dorf, 1322, decided the fate of Frederic, 

many. He was son of Albert I. On the who was taken prisoner, and resigned 

death of Henry VII., he was named his claims to his rival. 



86 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

to G-oleta, on the fourth galley, which was the general's, was Doria's 
device of a star with rays, surrounded by arrows, with the motto, 
Vias tuas Domine demonstra mihi, " Show me thy ways, Lord," — 
invoking the divine direction and support. 

Guillim 1 states that Doria also had the device of a ship, with the 
motto, Omnia fortunse committo, " I trust all to Fortune," — words, as 
he says, more befitting the month of a heathen. A galley is on the 
reverse of a bronze gilt medallion with his portrait. 2 Motto, Non 
dormit qui custodit, " He that is keeper is no sleeper." Vigil in mari, 
" Watchful on the sea," was also one of his mottoes. 

Empire, Germany and Austria. In the Bomer, or senate-house, 
at Frankfort, hang portraits of all the emperors, and underneath each 
portrait is the " Wahlspruche," or motto, assumed by each emperor at 
his coronation. The first motto given under each emperor in the 
following list, is his Wahlspruche : — 

Chaklehagne. 800. 3 Chrislus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus triumphat, 
' Christ conquers, Christ reigns, Christ triumphs." On his coins, instead of " trium- 
phat," it is "imperit." Charlemagne also used the motto, Gratia Dei, sum quod sum, 
" By the Grace of God, I am what I am." 

Louis the Pious. 814. Omnium rerum vicissitudo, " The vicissitude of all things." 

Chakles the Tat. 880. Os garrulum intricat omnia, "A garrulous tongue 
entangleth all things." 

Abnulf. 887. Facilis descensus Averni, " The descent to Avernus is easy." 

Louis the Infant. 899. Mvltorum manus, paucorum consilium, " Many hands, 
little counsel." 

Conk ad of Fkanconia. 911. Fortuna quum blanditur fallit, "Fortune deceives 
whom it flatters." 

Henky I., the Fowlek. 918. Ad vindictam tardus, ad beneficentiam velox, " Slow 
to avenge, swift to benefit." 

Otho I., the Gkeat. 936. Statius est ratione aequitatis mortem oppetere, quam 
fugere et inhoneste vivere, " It is better to die for righteousness' sake, than to flee and 
lead a dishonourable life." Also, Aut mors, aut vita decora, "Or death or a 
decorous life." 

Otho II. 973. Cum omnibus pacem, adversus vitia helium, " Peace with all men ; 
against vices, war." 

Otho III., the Red. 9S3. Facile singula rumpuntur jacula, conjuncta non item, 
" A single dart may easily be broken, but not so when joined to others." Also, Unita 
virtus valet, " United valour prevails." 



1 ' Display of Heraldry.' London, 1724. 
2 Bronze gilt medallion, Andrea Doria. 3 The dates here given are those of 

Obverse, bust portrait, inscribed " An- the accession. 
ilreus Doria." Eeverso, a galley. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 89 

with a sword upon an open book. Hie regit, ilia tuetur, " This rules, that defends." 
Also, a tower with thunder above, and the motto, Feriunt summos, " They strike the 
highest tops." On being asked by the courtiers its meaning, he replied, " Do you not 
know that a prince is placed as a mark for the arrow, as lightning strikes the high 
towers and does not touch the humble roof?" 

Maximilian I. 1493. Tene mensuram et respice finem, " Hold the measure, and 
look to the end." Maximilian also used the initials of Frederic, which he rendered, 
Aquila Electa Jovis Omnia Vineit, " The chosen eagle of Jove conquers all things." 

Charles V. 1519. Plus ultra (see Spain). Another device was an eagle with a 
thunderbolt on one side and a branch of laurel on the other. Motto, Cuique suum, 
" To each his own," meaning that he held the world in peace or war at his will. 

The ancients believed that thunder put a stop to councils, because, when Jove 
thunders, it is not lawful for people to discourse. To conquer this superstition, 
Charles, when it thundered at a diet he was holding at Frankfort, upon religious 
matters, observed, Tonat ut cum timore agamus, " It thunders that we may act with 
fear," which was made a device of thunderbolts, with the motto, Gum Timore, 1 " With 
fear." 

Feedinand I. 1558. Fiat justitia, pereat mundus, " Let justice be done, though 
the world perish." 

Ferdinand had a symbol of eight letters, A. I. P. Q. 1ST. S. I. A., initials for Accidit 
in puneto, quod non speratur in anno, " That happens in a moment which is not 
hoped for in a year." 

Maximilian II. 1564. His " wahlspriiche " was, Deus providebit, "God will 
foresee." He had several devices. The imperial eagle, with an olive, on one side ; 
on the other, a thunderbolt. Motto, EN KAIPX1 EKATEPON. In opportunitate 
utrumque, " On occasion, the one or the other." — that is, peace or war, punishment 
or reward, as required. 

The imperial eagle upon a crescent. Comminuam vel extinguam, " I will diminish 
or extinguish." 

A knight transfixing his prostrate enemy with his lance, Sie aliena, " So other 
things" [happen]. 

Rodolph II. 1576. Fulget Caesaris antrum, '• The star of Cajsar shines." This 
motto he used with the device of Capricorn (see Augustus). Also, Omnia ex voluntate 
Vet, " All things by the will of God." He had likewise the device of six balloting 
balls upon a table. Motto, Conscientious volis, " With you conscious." 

An eagle in full flight holding a dart. Motto; A. D. S. I. T„ which initials have 
been variously rendered : 

Adjutorium Domini Sit Inimicis Terror, 

" The aid of the Lord is a terror to the unjust. ' 

Austria; Domus Seeura Jovis Telorum, 
" The house of Austria is secure of the arrows of Jove." 
Adjuvante Domino Superabo Imperatorem Turcarum, 
" God helping, I will subdue the Emperor of the Turks." 

Matthias. 1612. Concordi lumine major, " By united light greater." Also, 
Amat victoria curam, " Victory loves care." 

This last motto Matthias had on a medal struck when he wa3 governor of the 

1 Capaccio. 



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HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



(Fig. 55). Adhue stat, " It still stands." Pacem cum hominibus, earn viiiis beUum, 
'• Peace witli men— war with vices," was another of Frederic's mottoes. 




Fig. 55. — Frederic the Fair. 

Louis the Bavarian. 1314. Hujusmodi comparandae sunt opes, quae simul cum 
naufrago enatent, " Such riches are to he got together which even in shipwreck swim." 
Also, Sola bona, quae honesta, " Only good what is honest." His device was an eagle 
placing its claws upon a cleft globe. Motto, Divisumjungam, " I will join the divided." 
Charles IV. of Luxemburg. 1347. Optimum est aliena insania frui, •' It is best to 
profit by other's follies." His device was a lynx. Motto, Nullius pavet occurmm, 
" He fears not meeting with any one." 

Wenceslaus. 1378. Morosophi moriones pessimi, " Lovers of fools are the worst 
buffoons." Device, a ship in a storm. Motto, Tempestati parendum, " We must 
obey seasons." 

Rupert. 1400. Misericordia non causam led forturtam spectat, " Mercy looks not 
to the cause, but the lot." 

Sigismund, Emperor and King op Hungary. 1410. Mala ultra adsunt, " Evils 
are -willingly present," — " Ill-luck comes unbidden." 

Albert II., the Great. 1438. Amicus optima vitae possessio, " A friend is the 
greatest possession in life." His device was an armed arm holding a spear. Motto, 
Tolle moras, 1 " Away with all delays." When you are in readiness, it is ever injurious 
to postpone, — you should allow your enemy no time for preparation. 

Frederic III., the Pacific. 1440. A. E. I. 0. U. These five letters were placed by 
Frederic upon the covers of his books and upon his furniture, and exercised in vain 
the ingenuity of every one to decypher their meaning. After his death the explanation 
was found in his own hand-writing. 2 Austriae est imperare orbi universo, " The whole 
world is subject to Austria." Or, Austria erit in orbe ultima, "Austria will be the 
last in the world." 

Berum irrecuperabilium felix oblivio, " Forgetfulness of things irrecoverable is 
happy," was another of Frederic's mottoes. He also took for device an armed hand 



1 " Tolle moras, semper nocuit differre 

paratis." 

Lucan. 

2 Lambecius, in his ' Diarium sacri 
itirieris Cellensis,' gives forty interpre- 
tations of this device (Biog. Viriver). 



Among others were : —A ustria extenditur 
in orbem universum ; Aquila electa juste 
omnia vincit ; Aquilae est imperium orbis 
universi; Aquila excellit inter omnes 
volueres ; Aquis granum excellit inter 
omnes urbes. 



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A sun-dial, with Nulla hora sine linea, " No hour without a line," 
was borne by Luigi Priuli, Doge of Venice. 

' Este of Fekkaba. 1 The house of Este is said to derive its name 
from the custom of the emperors, when they bestowed any lordship or 
territory upon subjects for their merits, to make use of this expression 
in Latin, " Este hie domini," as Ariosto says : 

" E perohfe dirk Carlo in latino ; Este 
Voi Signor qui, quando faragli il dono, 
Nel secolo fntur nominate Este 
Sara il bel luogo con augorio buono." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xli., st. 65. 

" As Charles, when he the land bestows, 
Would say in Latin — Este, here repose ; 
Succeeding times such omen should embrace, 
And give the name of Este to the place." 

Hoole's Translation. 

Ariosto thus designates Ferrara : 

" La bella terra che siede sul flume, 
Dove chiamo con lagrimoso plettro 
Febo il figliuol, ch' avea mal retto il lume ; 
Quando fu pianto il fabuloso elettro, 
E Cigno si vesti di bianche piume." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto iii., st. 34. 

" While he shall o'er the happy land preside, 
Where Phoebus, on the fatal river's side, 
Invok'd his breathless son with tuneful lyre,— 
His son, who sought to guide his father's fire ; 
Where the sad sisters tears of amber shed, 
And Cygnus, chang'd, his snowy plumage spread." 

Hoole's Translation. 

" The silver eagle in an azure field " of the house of Este is often 
alluded to by Ariosto. 2 

Este, Alfonso d', Duke of Ferrara (-J- 1534). He was a great 
proficient in the mechanical arts, and turned his attention to the 

1 " La gran' donna del Po." 

Tassoni, Secchia Bapita, v. 37. 

2 "Nel oampo azur l'aquila bianca avea." 

" He bore the white eagle in the azure shield." 

" L'aquila bianca in color celeste." 

Canto xliv. 

" Lo riconosce all' aquila d'argento, 
C'ha nello scudo azzuvro, il Giovinetto." 

Canto xxxvi. 



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HISTOEIO DEVICES, BADGES, 



Netherlands, representing Perseus (himself) coming to the relief of Andromeda (the 
Netherlands), on the other side was the crane with its foot raised upon a trophy. 
Ferdinand II. 1619. Legitime certantibus, " To men fighting in a just cause.'' 
Ferdinand III. 1637. Pietate etjustitia, " By piety and justice." 
Leopold I. 1658. Consilio et industria, " By counsel and industry." 
Joseph I. 1705. Amove et timore, " By love and fear." 

Charles VI. 1711. Constantia et fortitudine, " By constancy and fortitude." 
Francis. 1745. Pro Deo et imperiu, "For God and the empire." 
Joseph II. 1765. Virtute et exemplo, " By valour and example." 
Leopold II. 1 790. Opes regum cordia subditorum, " The hearts of their subjects 
are the wealth of tings." 

Francis II. 1792. Lege etfide, " By law and faith." 



.'.v.- >ijX 



English, oe Anglois, Esther. This lady was French by origin, 
but she passed part of her life in England and Scotland, in the reign 
of Elizabeth and James I. She was distinguished for the elegance of 
her calligraphy, and several of her manuscripts are in the Bodleian 
Library, with her portrait drawn with a pen, and her favourite motto, 
De Dieu le lien, De moy le rien. 

Erasmus (-)- 1536). When Tarquin the Proud desired to build a 
temple to Jupiter upon the Tarpeian rock, he 
begged all the inferior divinities to give up the 
altars they had Upon the rock in favour of the 
master of them all. 

All the gods cheerfully consented, except 
Terminus. This Terminus (Fig. 56), there- 
fore, who refused to yield to Jupiter, was 
chosen by Erasmus for his haughty device, 
with the motto, Cedo nulli, " I yield to none ;" 
or, Vel Jovi cedere nescit, " He yields not even 
to Jove." This device is upon a contemporary 
bronze medallion of Erasmus. 

"When Erasmus asked Sir Thomas More to 
give him a sentence to place over the door of 
his study, More said that the figure of Apelles 
painting would be appropriate. Erasmus, 
wondering at his meaning, More replied, " Apelles said, Nulla dies 
sine linea, ' No day without a line ;' a precept well observed by you, 
since you astonish the world with the number of your works." 




Fi£. 56. — Erasmus. 



"No day without a deed to crown it." 

King Henry Vlll., Act V , sc. -1. 



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Alfonso married the celebrated Lucrezia Borgia, whom Ariosto thus 
eulogises : 

" Luoretia Borgia — who in beauty's power, 
In virtue, fortune, and in fame shall soar 
Above her sex, — who spreads her fostering shade, 
Like the green sapling in a fruitful glade ; 
As dross to gold, as lead to silver shows, 
The field-bred poppy to the garden rose, 
The willow pale to ever verdant bays, 
Or painted crystal to the diamond's blaze : 
Ev'n so to her, of whom unborn I tell, 
Shall each appear that else might most excel. 
Of every virtue, whose transcendent fame 
Shall grace, alive or dead, her spotless name. 
Be this her chief, her Hercules to raise 
With all her sons to deeds of martial praise. 
To plant the seeds that future wreathes may yield 
To bind their brows in council and in field." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xiii., st. 69. Hoole's Translation. 

A resident for fifteen years at the court of Ferrara, where he 
was in the special service of Cardinal Ippolito, brother of Duke 
Alfonso, Ariosto never tires in his praises of the Este family. Of 
Alfonso he says : 

" Alfonso e quel die eol sapere accoppia 
Si la bonta ; che al secolo future 
La gente credera, che sia dal cielo, 
Tornata Astrea dove pub il caldo e '1 gelo." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto iii., st. 57. 

" Alpl.onso see ! the prince, whose soul shall shine 
With wisdom and with piety divine ; 
That men shall deem Astrea left the earth 
To visit after ages at his birth ! " 

Hoole's Translation. 

And, again, he thus alludes to the two brothers : 

" II giusto Alfonso e Ippolito benigno, 
Che saran quai 1' antica fama suole 
Narrar de' figli del Tindareo cigno, 
Che alternamente si privar' del sole 
Per trar 1' un 1' altro dell' aer maligno ; 
Sara ciascuno d' essi e pronto e forte 
L' altro a salvar con sua perpetua morte. 
II grande amor di questa bella coppia 
Eendera il popol suo via piu. sicuro, 
Che se per opra, di Vulcan, di doppia 
Cinta di ferro avesse intorno il muro." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto iii., st. 50. 



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HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



improvement of artillery. He joined the League of Cambray, and, on 
the side of the French, fought in the great battle of Eavenna, 1 

" Where perished in his fame the hero boy, 
Who lived too long for men, but died too soon 
For human vanity, the young de Foix." 

Byron. 

Fabrizio Colonna, Pescara, Peter of Navarre, and the Cardinal 
Giovanni de' Medici (afterwards Leo X.) were all taken prisoners, and 
Marc- Antonio Colonna surrendered Eavenna ; but the death of Gaston 
clouded the triumph of the conquerors. Alfonso bore at the battle, as 
his device, a grenade, or shell (Fig. 57), to which Ariosto added the 

motto, Loco et tempore, after- 
wards converted into French, 
Lieu et temps, meaning that in 
proper "time and place" he 
would destroy his adversaries, as 
he proved by the skilful direction 
of his artillery, which secured the 
victory to the French. For 
twenty-five years Alfonso con- 
tended against three warrior 
popes : he was excommunicated 
by Pope Leo X., who detained 
him prisoner in spite of his safe 
conduct; but Fabrizio Colonna, 
whom he had liberated after the battle of Eavenna, and Marc-Antonio 
Colonna, rescued him, and forced a passage out of Eome to Marino, 
where he was entrusted to the care of Prospero Colonna, who conducted 
him through Italy in safety to Florence, — a generous action thus met 
with a grateful reward. 2 

When the death of Leo X. saved the house of Este from inevitable 
ruin, Alfonso could not refrain from expressing his joy, and caused a 
medal to be struck representing a man liberating a lamb from the 
claws of a Hon, with the motto, Ex ore leonis, " Out of the lion's 
mouth." Fearing, however, the odium they might excite, Alfonso 
suppressed the medals. 3 

1 Ariosto, who was present at the battle, gives a long description of it in the 
'Orlando Furioso,' canto xiv., 2—10. 

2 Koscoe, ' Leo X.' 3 Piguotti, ' History of Tuscany.' 




Fig. 57. — Alfonso d'Este. 



And again : 



AND WAR-CRIES. 95 

" Methinks I see him with a scanty train, 
Departing sad, return with joy again ; 
While fifteen gallies captive to the shore 
He brings, besides a thousand vessels more." 

Hoole's Translation. 

" . . . . Ippolito, che i tempi 
Dei segni ornaste agl' inimici tolti, 
E che tr'aeste lor galee cattive, 
Di preda carche alle pateme rive. 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xxxvi., st. 2. 

" As when, Hippolito, thy arm divine 
With conquer'd ensigns deck'd each hallow'd shrine ; 
That arm, which from their gallies bore 
With spoils encumber'd to thy native shore." 

Hoole's Translation. 

Este, Beatbice. See Galeazzo Visconti. 

Este, Beatrice. See Ltjdovico Sfobza. 

Este, Isabella op, Marchese di Mantua (-)- 1539). Sister of 
Ippolito, Alfonso and Beatrice, married Gian Francesco di Gonzaga, 
Marquis of Mantua. Finding that her son Frederic bore such love to 
a lady that he neglected his mother, and all the court followed his 
example, to mark her sense of the affront, she caused to be portrayed in 
her palace of Porto, and in other places, the device of a candlestand made 
in the form of a triangle, like those used in the holy week, of which 
each candle is extinguished by the priest except the top light, to signify 
that the light of her faith remained burning. Motto, Una sufficit 
in tenebris, " One suffices in darkness." 1 

Isabella likewise used the numbers xxvii., i.e., Vinti sete, " Thou 
art conquered." 

" Ecco la figlia d'Ercole, Isabella, 

Per cui Perrara si terra felice 

Via piii, perehe in lei nata sara quella, 

Che d' altro ben, che prospera e fautrice 

E benigna Portuna dar le deve 

Volgendo gli anni nel suo corso lieve." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xlii., st. 84. 
" Lo ! Isabella of Perrara, born 

Of Hercules, her country to adorn, 

On whom benignant Fortune shall bestow 

Each gift that birth or lofty rank can know, 

To bless her native land iu weal and woe " 
Hoole's Translation. 



Vnum pro multis (Virgil), " One for many." 



94 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

"Alfonso and Hippolito 
Whose friendship may be match'd with that of old, 
By story'd page of Leda's offspring told : 
Who each, by turns, could seek the nether reign 
To give his brother to the world again. 
So shall these two for ever stand prepar'd 
Each with his own the other's life to guard ; 
And more defend their land in raging war, 
Than steely bulwarks rais'd by Vulcan's care." 

Hoole's Translation. 

Este, Ippolito, first Cardinal (-}- 1520). In whose service Ariosto 

spent many unprofitable years of his life; 1 but whom he eulogises 

throughout the ' Orlando Furioso.' He calls Ippolito 

" . . . . il liberal, magnanimo e sublime 
Gran cardinal della chiesa di Eoma, 
Ippolito, ch' a prose, a versi, a rime 
Dara materia etema in ogni idioma." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto iii., st. 56. 

" . . . . the cardinal in future time, 
The church's great support ! In prose and rhyme, 
The theme of every tongue ; whose boundless praise, 
Like Caesar's, shall demand a Virgil's lays." 

Hoole's Translation. 

The Cardinal had for a device, a falcon supporting the weights of 
a clock, Fal-con tempo — fa lo con tempo — " He will do it with time." 
Besides this, he bore the device of a camel upon its knees, heavily 
laden, with the motto, Non suefro mas de lo quepuedo, " I do not bear 
more than I am able." Giovio considers this an impresa a" amove, " Do 
not give me a greater weight of torment than I am able to support ;" 
but Capaccio views it as applying to important negotiations with 
his rivals, in which he was willing for a short time to show his patience, 
of which the camel is a fit emblem, as it allows itself to be laden as 
much as its strength will bear. 

When the Venetians sailed up the Po, with a fleet, against 

Alfonso, the cardinal marched out with some horse and foot against 

them, sunk four of the ships, and took fifteen : 

" Costui con pochi a piedi, e meno in sella, 
Yeggio uscir mesto, e poi tornar giocondo ; 
Che quindici galee mena cattive, 
Oltra mill' altri legni, a le sue rive." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto iii., st. 57. 



1 Ariosto says — 

" .Aggiungi che dal giogo 
Del Cardinal da Kste oppresso fui." 



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Married Benee de France, who is thus alluded to by Ariosto — 

"Non voglio che in silenzio anco Renata 
Di Francia, nuora di costei, rimagna ; 
Di Luigi duodecimo re nata, 
E dell' eterna gloria di Bretagna : 
Ogni virtu, che in donna mai sia stata, 
Da p.ji che '1 foco scalda, e 1' acqvta bagna, 
E giiM intnrno il cielo, insieme tutta 
Per Eennta adornar vegg : o ridutt.i." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xiii., st. 72. 

" Nor must I here Renata fail to place, 
(Lucrelia's near ally) of Gallia's race, 
Of Lewis born (the twelfth that bears the name) 
And her, of Brittany the lasting fame. 
Each virtue woman hrs been found to know, 
Since fire was seen to burn or streams to flow, 
Since yon bright orbs have circled round the pole, 
I see compriz'd in fair Eenata's soul." 

Hoole's Translation. 

Estb, Ippolito, "Cardinal Ferrara (-)- 1572), son of Alfonso and 
Lucrezia. The most munificent patron of literature of his age. His 
villa at Tivoli and the gardens of Monte Oavallo are monuments of 
his princely splendour. Connected, by the marriage of his brother, 
Duke Ercole, with the crown of France, and his niece being married 
to Francois, Duke of Guise, he became French almost by adoption, and 
was sent as legate to France, where he was loaded with honours and 
benefices. In 1552, he was appointed to the command of the duchy 
of Parma and the province of Siena for Henry II. Paul III. sent him 
to attend the Conference at Poissy, and employed him to detach 
Henry IV. from the Protestant faith. While he was Papal Legate 
to France, in compliment to the " Hercule Gaulois," he took as device 
the apples of the Hesperides, as recording one of his most honourab'e 
labours. Motto, Ab insomni non custodita draoone, " Not guarded by 
a sleeple?s dragon." 

Domenichi gave the Cardinal ; as device, the cuttle fish, with the 
motto, Sic tua non virtus, " So not your virtue only," meaning that 
as the cuttle fish, by its sweet odour, attracts other fish around it, so 
the Cardinal, by the sweetness and affability of his disposition, drew 
all men after him. 

" And verily all living creatures in the sea love the smell of them 

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96 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

" Delia tua ehiara stirpe uscira quella 
D'opere illustri, e di bei studi arnica, 
Ch' io non so ben se piu leggiadra e bella 
Mi debba dire, o piu saggio e pudica, 
Liberale e raagnanima Isabella ; 
Che del bel lume suo di e notte aprica 
Fara la terra cbe sul Menzo siede, 
A cui la madre d' Ocno il nome diede ; 
Dove onoiato e splendido certame 
Avrk col suo dignissimo consorte, 
Cbi di lor piu le virtii prezzi ed ame, 
E chi meglio apra a cortesia le porte." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xiii., st. 59. 

" See ! from thy glorious stem a dame descend, 
To virtuous deeds and liberal arts a friend ; 
With her for grace and beauty rests the prize, 
Chaste with the chastest, with the wisest wise ; 
Fam'd Isabella ! whose resplendent light 
Shall gild with equal beams, by day or night, 
The walls which Mincius' silver waters lave, 
The land whose titles Ocnus' 1 mother gave. 
There shall she long a bright example give, 
There, with her lord, in sweet contention live, 
And best shall rear, who dearest virtue hold, 
Who widest of benevolence unfold 
The sacred gates. In Thema or Tara's land, 
While Gauls repuls'd confess his conquering hand, 
Who, like Penelope, the purest dame, 
Not less than her Ulysses lives to fame. 
Of her great things and many I reveal, 
Compris'd in little space, but more conceal." 

Hoole's Translation, Canto cxxvii. 

Estb, Ekcole II., fourth Duke (-j-1559). Device, a figure of 
Patience, with the Greek motto, OTTOS AIIANTA, " Thus every- 
thing," — i.e., thus govern, thus guide; and thus doing, thou wilt 
overcome. Patience conquers all. 

" Gener del re di Francia, Ercol secoudo 
E 1' un ; quest' altro, accib tutti gl' impari, 
Ippolito, che non con minor raggio 
Che '1 zio, risplendera nel suo lignaggio." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto iii., st. 58. 

" View Hercules the Second first advance, 
Who weds the daughter of the King of France, 
See next Hippolito, whose acts shall shine. 
And like his ancestors adorn his line." 

Hoole's Translation. 



1 Mantua, built by the fairy Manto, mother of Ocnus. 



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A generous mind does not wait for favours to be asked, he 
anticipates them. 

Also, Prometheus with, the sacred fire (Fig. 59). Motto, A Itiora 
" Higher," — Excelsior, in modern parlance. Prometheus only reached 
the wheel of the sun, the Cardinal aspires to Heaven itself. 
Prometheus rose with the torch extinct, his is illumed with the 




Fig. 59. — Cardinal Luigi d' Este. 

sacred light of Faith. Prometheus was assisted by the heathen 
goddess Minerva, or human wisdom ; he by the divine light of the 
Gospel. 

Este, Alfonso II., fifth Duke (+ 1597). Motto, Excelsa fir- 
mitvdine, " By exalted firmness." His wife Barbara (-)- 1572), 
daughter of the Emperor Ferdinand, had a jjeacoek on the globe; 
motto, Omnia vanitas, "All is vanity." Duke Alfonso II. imprisoned 
Tasso. 

Este, Gesare d', Duke of Modena (-f- 1628). Device, the sun 
between the clouds. Obstantia solvet, " He will get rid of obstacles." 
The duke having met with many obstacles to his designs, was not 
wanting in courage to overcome them. 1 

He had also an eagle, with the motto, Nulla potest delere vetustas, 
(Ovid), "No age can destroy it;" alluding to the blazonry of the 
House of Este. 

Farnese, Dukes op Parma. 

Faknese, Alessandko, Pope Paul III. (+ 1549). He took for 

1 Menestrier. 

H 2 



98 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

exceedingly well, which is the cause that fishers besmeare and anoint 
their nets with them, to draw and allure fishe3 thither." 1 

Este, Lttigi, Cardinal (-f-1586). Grandson of Alfonso I. and of 
Louis XII., the friend of Tasso. He took for device, the firmament 
spangled with stars (Fig. 58). Motto, In motu immotum, " Unmoved 
in movement," 2 which motto was afterwards applied to Cardinal 




Fig. 58. — Cardinal Luigi d* Este. 

Eichelieu, who remained firm and unmoved during all the political 
agitations of his ministry. 

A similar meaning is expressed by the Italian verse : 

" Ne per mille rivolte anoor son mosso." 

" Neither by a thousand revolutions am I moved." 

And again, by Lorenzo de' Medici : 

" Quieto sempre, e giammai non mutabile 
Fai e muti ogni cosa, e tutto muove 
Da te fermo motore infatigabili." 

Rime Sacri. 

" At rest thyself, yet active still, 
Thou miik'st and ckangest at thy will ; 
Unmov'd alone, thou movest all."J 

The Cardinal also used the device of the rising sun. Motto, Non 
e-roratus exorior, " Not entreated, I arise." 4 

1 Pliny, book ix., eh. 30. 

2 " II ne change point d'astiette dans tons les mouvemenls qui lagite."— Menestrier. 

3 " Thou art the Eocke, drawest all things, all do'st guide, 

Yet in deepe setled rest do'bt still abide. 

Untoucht with care, thou car'st for all that be, 

Mov'st heaven and earth, yet motion's not in thee." 

T. IIeywood. 
1 " Je ue me fais pas prier pom' me lever."— Mexestrier. 



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101 



suhscribent fata secundis, '' The fates will promote fortunate vows," 
which device the Cardinal had embroidered upon his portiere. 




Fig. 61. — Cardinal Alessaudio Famcw. 



Faenese, Alessandeo, third Duke of Parma (-)- 1592), General 




Fig. 62 — Ales?aiidro Farnese, Duke of Parma. 

of Philip II. in Flanders — the " Prince of Parma " of the Spanish 
Armada, as the old song runs : 

" Their men were young, munition strong, 
And to do us more harm-a, 
They thought it meet to join the fleet, 
All with the Prince of Parma." 

Eitson's Ancient Songs. 



When he went against the Protestants of Germany, he bore upon 
his standards a thunderbolt (Fig. 62), with the motto, Hoc mio Jupiter 



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HISIOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



device the chameleon and the dolphin (Fig. 60), with the motto, 
Mature, conveying the same meaning as the butterfly and crab of 
Augustus, and the dolphin and anchor of Titus. Pliny says: "The 
swiftest of all other living creatures whatsoever, and not of sea-fish 
only, is the dolphin ; quicker than the flying fowle, swifter than the 
arrow shot out of a bow." 1 




Fig. 60.— Pope Paul III. 

Paul III. had also the rainbow above the earth, with the Greek 
words A'IKHSKPI'NON, " The lily of Justice ;" i.e., that as the rain- 
bow brings serenity to a troubled sky, so will his pontificate be the 
harbinger of peace and justice. The rainbow (Iris) also alludes to the 
blue lilies or Florentine iris of the Farnese arms. 2 

Faknesb, Alessandro, Cardinal (-f-1589). Grandson of Paul III. 
He and Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici were the two luminaries of the 
Papal Court. His device was an arrow piercing the centre of a target 
(Fig. 61), with the motto, from Homer, BAAA' x OTTfi£, 3 "Throw 
thus." As all eyes were turned upon him, he meant to show that he 
should have one mark or end in view, and pursue it with a steady 
aim, neither diverting from his course nor acting by chance. 

Cardinal Farnese also saying that in the first year of his cardinalate 
fortune had been propitious to him, even in his most secret wishes, 
Giovio gave him for device a Hemic paper, with the motto, Votis 

1 Book ix., eh. 8. 
2 The Farnese arms are or, six nYurs 3 Beginning of a line of Homers 'Iliad,' 

de lis azure, three, two, and one. lib. 8. 



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higher than the clouds." x Bising above the clouds, winds and rain cannot 
reach it, so his thoughts soared beyond earth and are nearer heaven." 2 

Fauchet, Claude (-j-1601), the zealous collector of the ancient 
Chronicles of France, took for device the rebus of his name, a sickle 
(fauche), with the motto, Sparsa et negleota colgi, " I have gathered 
the scattered and neglected." 3 

Fieschi, Sinibaldo and Ottoboni. To signify the revenge * they 
had taken for the death of their brother Girolamo, who had been 
cruelly murdered by the Fregosi, they took for device an elephant 
attacked by a dragon, in which encounter they both are killed. 5 The 
dragon gives the elephant a mortal bite, and the elephant presses itself 
against a tree with such force as to crush its adversary. The motto 
in Spanish, Non vos alabareis, " You will not exult over us," meaning 
that the Fregosi had no cause for exultation. 

For their device of the kingfisher, see Obange, William of. 

Sinibaldo had, also, as an impresa d'amore, the mariner's compass, 
with the pole-star. Motto, Aspicit imam, " He looks to one alone," to 
show that as the loadstone points only to one star in the heavens, 
where all are beautiful, so his affections were equally fixed upon one 
alone. 6 

Ottoboni was implicated in the celebrated conspiracy of the Fieschi 
against Andrea Doria and his house. 

Finet, Oeonce (-f- 1555). The celebrated mathematician; he 

1 Nubes excedit Olympus (Lucan). an high tree and launceth himselfe upon 

2 " ohe fla piii di me vioino a Dio." him, but the elephant knowing well 
— A. Cako. enough he is not able to withstand his 

3 ' Devises royales et historiques,' G. windings and knottings about him, seek- 
Eenouard. eth to come close to some trees or hard 

4 They had slain four of the Fregnsi. rocks, and so for to crush and squeese 

5 "India bringeth forth the biggest the dragon between him and them. The 
(elephants), as also the dragons, that are dragons ware hereof, entangle and snare 
continually at variance with them, and his feet and legs first with their taile ; 
evermore fighting, and those of such the elephants on the other side undoe 
greatnesse, that they can easily clasp and , those knots with their trunke as with a 
wind round the elephants, and withall hand, but to prevent that againe, the 
tye them fast with a knot. In this con- dragons put in their heads into their 
fliet they die, both the one and the other ; snout, and so stop their wind, and withall 
the elephant hee falls downe dead as fret and gnaw the tenderest parts that 
conquered, and with his heavie weight they nod there." — Book viii., ch. 12. 
crusheth and squeaseth the dragon that ° The same device, with the motto, 
is wound and wreathed about him." — Nunca otira," Never another,'' was borne 
Book viii., ch. 11. .by Don Garzia de Toledo, Viceroy of 

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102 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

ultor, " By this only is Jupiter the avenger ;" alluding to the thunder- 
bolts of the Church, i.e., excommunication. 

Faenese, Beetoldo. In 1554, during the war in Tuscany, 
Bertoldo, a devoted servant of the house of Austria, fitted out a galley 
at his own expense. He was attacked by the French, and, after 
a gallant defence, was taken prisoner, but released with a heavy 
ransom. He returned home, having lost his galley and his property ; 
and then, to show that his mind was unshaken by calamity, but that 
he still relied upon the help of the Almighty, he took for device 
a tower, with the motto, Nomen Domini, " The name of the Lord," 
from Proverbs xviii. 10, " The name of the Lord is a strong tower ; 
the righteous runneth into it, and is safe." 

Faenese, Oeazio, Duke of Castro (-f 1553) ; married Diane, 
legitimee de France, Duchesse d' Angouleme, daughter of Henry II. ; 
who afterwards espoused Francois, eldest son of the Constable Mont- 
morency, whom she saved from the massacre of St. Bartholomew. 
Henry IV. respected her so highly that he said, " J'en crois plus 
a votre parole qu' a mille pages d'ecriture." Diane died when above 
eighty years of age, having seen seven kings upon the throne of 
France. 

Orazio had for his device, four sheaves of unripe wheat, with 
the motto, Flavescent, " They will grow yellow " (i.e., will ripen), — 
meaning that the youth of a prince should aim at some honourable 
or useful maturity. 

Faenese, Ottavio, second Duke of Parma (-f-1586). Married 
Margaret of Austria (see), natural daughter of Charles Y., and widow 
of the Grand Duke Cosmo de' Medici. He was brother to Cardinal 
Alexander, and Orazio, Duke of Castro. For device he took the club, 
the clue of thread, and the three small balls of pitch which Theseus 
was instructed to provide himself with for his expedition against the 
Minotaur. Motto, His artibus, "By these arts;" that is, in order 
to attain the summit of military glory, there required prudence, 
represented by the clue, which enabled Theseus to find his way out of 
the labyrinth ; cunning, figured by the balls of pitch, which he threw 
to the Minotaur, who, swallowing them, could not open his mouth ; and 
force, the club with which he slew him. The labyrinth itself, figures 
difficulties to be overcome. 

Ottavio also took Mount Olympus. Motto, Nuhes excedit, " Is 



AND WAR-CEIES. 105 

At Ravenna he fought by the side of his cousin, Gaston de Foix, and 
received twenty-two wounds. He replaced the Constable Bourbon in 
the Government of the Milanese ; and his defeat at Bicoco compelled 
the French to evacuate Italy. The influence of his sister, Madame de 
Chateaubriant, saved him from the anger of Francis, with whom he 
fought at the battle of Pavia, which was made against his advice. In 
1527, he again assumed the command in Italy, took Pavia, and entered 
the city through the breach on horseback ; laid siege to Naples, where 
he died. He was a good soldier, but a bad governor. 

When governor of Milan, Lautrec offended the Italian nobles by 
his pride, for which he was reproached by the lady of his affections, 
in consequence of which he discontinued the red cow and bells, the 
ancient badge of his house, and took for device a furnace, with a large 
fire inside, and volumes of smoke issuing from the top. Motto, Dov' e 
granfuoeo, h gran fumo, " Where there is great fire, there is great 
smoke," implying that if he made a great show of pride, his merits 
gave him reason for having it. Being considered a person of fierce 
appearance, Lautrec took for device a panther, with the motto, Allicit 
ulterius, " He entices further," alluding to the attractive power of that 
animal, notwithstanding its fierce exterior — an evidence that he had 
as much vanity as ambition. 

So Spenser — 

" The panther, knowing that his spotted hide 

Doth please all beasts, but that his looks them fray, 
Within a bush his dreadful head doth hide 

To let them gaze, while he on them may prey." 

Spenser, Sonnet. 

Pliny says : " It is said that all four-footed beasts are wonderfully 
delighted and enticed by the smell of panthers ; but their hideous looke 
and crabbed countenance, which they bewray so soone as they show 
their heads, skareth them as much againe : and therefore their manner 
is. to hide their heads, and when they have trained other beasts within 
their reach by their sweet savour, they flee upon them and worrie 
them." L 

And again, Sir William Segar 2 says : " The panther is admired of 
all other beasts for the beauty of his skyn, being spotted with variable 
colours, and beloved and followed of them for the sweetness of his 
1 Book viii, oh. 17. 2 Harl. MS. 6085. 



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HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



took for motto, Virescit vulnere virtus, ''Virtue grows green (i.e., 
flourishes) with a wound," in allusion to the imprisonment and per- 
secution he met with, as being one of those who refused, to receive 
the concordat sent by Francis I. to the University. 

Foix. After a war of eighty years (begun 12U0) with the Counts 
of Armagnac, the succession to Beam was settled in the Counts of Foix, 
by the marriage of Beatrix d Armagnac with the son of Gaston Phoebus, 
Count of Foix. 

The arms of Foix are quarterly, 1 and 4 Foix, or, 3 pales gules ; 2 and 
3 Beam, or, 2 cows passant gules, homed, 
collared, and belled azure Some say 
these arms are emblematical of the rich- 
ness of the country ; others, that they 
were assumed by Eoger, Prince of Foix, 
who, having found the body of Saint 
Volusien, Apostle of the Gascons, who 
had been killed by the Arian heretics, 
caused it to he laid in his own car, 
which, according to the custom of the 
country, was drawn by two cows, and 
conveyed to its place of sepulture. In 
memory of the Saint, Eoger placed the 
two cows upon his escutcheon r (Fig. 63). 

Foix, Gaston III., Comte de (-|- 1391), sumamed Phoebus, some 
say on account of his beauty, others because he was fair as the god of 
day, of whom he borrowed the sun as a device. Some writers assert 
that he was fond of astrology ; that it was from this passion that he 
adopted the sun as emblem ; and that he would hear no other name 
than that of Phoebus, by which he is usually designated. He received 
Charles VI. with great magnificence at his chateau of Mazeres. 
Hunting was his favourite pursuit. He is said to have kept 1,600 
dogs ; and he wrote a work upon hunting. His motto was, Toequoy 
si games (Touches y si tu Voses). 

Foix, Petee, Cardinal de (-)- 1490), brother of Henry I., King of 
Navarre. Servire Deo, regnare est, " To serve God is to reign." 

Foix, Odet de Foix, Sieur de Lautrec, Marshal of France 
(-f- 1528). The brave but vain General of Louis XII. and Francis I. 




63.— Aims of Beam. 



1)6 Costc, ' Elogus ilu nos rois qui out cstc Daufius.' Paris, 1643. 



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107 



On the occasion of his marriage, in 1234, St. Louis instituted the 
order of the " Cosse de G-enest " (Fig. 65), and, as an emblem of his 
humility, selected for his badge the broom flower, with a suitable motto, 
Exaltat humiles, " He exalteth the humble." The collar of the 
order was composed of broom flowers, enamelled white and green, 
intermixed with fleurs-de-lis. 

This order appears to have been long held in estimation, for, as 




Fig. 65. — Order of the Cosse de Genest. 



late as the reign of Charles VI., we find a charge in the accounts of 
the " Argentier du Eoi," for four collars of the Cosse de Genest, sent 
to England as presents to King Eichard IT. and his uncles, the dukes 
of Lancaster, Gloucester, and, as he is styled, the " Due d'Yhorst." 
Again the order occurs in the royal accounts, 1393 — " Deux cosses 
de geneste pendan en chacun d'iceulx colliers l'une esmaillee de blanc 
et l'autre de vert" (Gomptes Royaux) ; and in 1395 — "Deux cosses 
pendans au bout de couronnes, l'une esmaillee de blanc et l'autre de 
vert " {Hid). The word " Jamais " was repeated on the collar. 

John, " Le Bon," the prisoner of Poitiers, had two swans for 
supporters, 1 and took, as his device, a star crowned, with the motto, 



1 Louis XI. had two dragons for sup- 
porters. Of his predecessors, Philip 
Augustus took two lions, and Louis 
TIE two wild boars. Of the successors 
of St. Louis, Philip III., Le Hardi, had 
two eagles ; Philip V., Le Long, two 
lions; and, for Navarre, eight esoar- 



buncles. Charles IV., Le Bel, bore two 
lions le'oparde's, and the escarbuncles for 
Navarre. Philip VI., de Valois, had two 
greyhounds. He also took a single lion, 
and sometimes a single angel. — M. Rev, 
Histoire des Couleurs et ties Tnsirjnes de la 
Monarcltie l?m>i';aise. Paris, 1837. 



106 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

breath, that streameth forth of his nostrils and ears like smoke, which 
our paynters mistaking, corruptly doe make fire." 

Fotjquet, Nicholas (+ 1680). The celebrated " surintendant des 
finances " took for his device a squirrel 1 (Fig. 64). Motto, Quo non 
ascendam ? " Whither shall I not rise ? " These squirrels were placed 




Fig. 64. — Nicholas Fouquet. 

all over his chateau at Vaux, and the ambition of the device served to 
increase the anger of the king. The courtiers remarked that the 
squirrel was everywhere represented pursued by a viper, the arms of 
Colbert. 2 In a manuscript quoted by Cambry the two rival ministers 
are alluded to by their devices : 

Le petit escurieux est pour long temps en cage, 3 
Le le'zard, plus adroit, joue mieux son personnage ; 4 
Et le plus fin des trois est un vilain serpent, 5 
Qui s'abaissant s'eleve, et s'avanee en rampant. 

France, Devices and Badges of the Kings of. 

St. Louis took for his device the daisy and the fleur-de-lis, out 
of compliment to his wife, Marguerite de Provence, and in allusion to 
his own armorial bearings. He caused a ring to be made, round 
which was a wreath of daisies and fleurs-de-lis, enamelled in relief, 
and on a sapphire the two flowers were engraved, with this inscription : 
— " Hors cest anel, point n'ay amour ;" implying that all his thoughts 
and affections were centred in his wife and his country. 

1 Arms, argent, a squirrel rampant gules. '-' Voltaire, ' Siecle de Louis XIV.' 

3 Fouquet. < Le Tellier. 5 Colbert. 



AND WAR-CKIES. 109 

Froissart gives a different account of the origin of this device. 

"It happened," he relates, "that during the residence of the 
young King Charles at Senlis, as he was sleeping in his bed, a vision 
appeared to him. He thought he was in the city of Arras, where, 
until then, he had never been, attended by all the flower of his 
kingdom ; that the Earl of Flanders came there to him, and placed 
on his wrist a most beautiful and elegant pilgrim-falcon, saying, ' My 
lord, in God's name I give this falcon to you, for fhe best that was 
ever seen, the most indefatigable hunter, and the most excellent striker 
of birds.' The king was much pleased with the present, and said, 
' Fair cousin, I give you my thanks.' He then turned to the Con- 
stable of France, 1 who was near him, and said, ' Sir Oliver, let you 
and I go to the plains, and try this elegant falcon which my cousin 
of Flanders has given me.' When the constable answered, ' Well, let 
us go.' Then each mounted their horses, and went into the fields, 
taking the falcon with them, where they found plenty of herons to fly 
him at. The king said, ' Constable, cast off the falcon, and we 
shall see how he will hunt.' The constable let him fly, and the falcon 
mounted so high in the air they could scarcely see him. He took the 
direction towards Flanders. 'Let us ride after my bird,' said the 
king to the constable, 'for I will not lose him.' The constable 
assented, and they rode on, as it appeared to the king, through a 
large marsh, when they came to a wood, on which the king crifd out, 
'Dismount, dismount, we cannot pass this wood on horseback.' They 
then dismounted, when some servants came and took their horses. 
The king and constable entered the wood with much difficulty, and 
watched on until they came to an extensive heath, where they saw 
the falcon chasing herons, and striking them down ; but they resisted, 
and there was a battle between them. It seemed to the king that his 
falcon performed gallantly, and drove the birds before him so far that 
he lost sight of him. This much vexed the king, as well as the 
impossibility of following him ; and he said to the constable, ' I shall 
lose my falcon, which I shall very much regret ; for I have neither 
lure nor anything else to call him back.' Whilst the king was in this 
anxiety, he thought a beautiful hart, with two wings, appeared to 
issue out of the wood, and come to this heath, and bend himself down 
before the king, who said to the constable, as he regarded this wonder 

1 Olivier de Clissori. lie led the vanguard at Eosbeo. 



108 



HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Monstrant regibus astra viam, " Stars show the way to kings," in 
allusion to the star that led the three kings to Bethlehem (Fig. 66). 
After the example of Edward III , who had instituted the order of the 
Garter, John established that of the Star. The knights wore no 
collar, but on their mantle was embroidered a blue star, cantonned 




Fig. 66.— John. 



with the letters M.E.A.V., the initials of the king's motto. They 
also wore a ring, with a star enamelled upon it. 2 

Chaeles V., " Le Sage." First dauphin of France, by virtue of 
the bequest of Humbert, Count of Viennois. 

The motto of Charles V. was Recte et fortiter, " Eightly and 
bravely ;" his supporters, two greyhounds azure, and afterwards two 
dolphins. 

Chaeles VI., " Le Bien Servi," took for device a flying stag, with 
a collar of gold round its neck, and the motto, Csesar hoc mihi donavit, 
" This Caesar gave to me." Juvenal des Ursins relates that the king, 
when hunting in the forest of Senlis, found a stag wearing a chain of 
copper gilt round its neck. The stag was taken alive, and on the 
collar was the above inscription. From that time the king adopted 
the flying stag, and bore two of them as supporters to his arms, 
having previously used two angels. 



1 For mosteant, read monstrant. 

2 "Et porteront continuellement un 
Annel en tour la verge duquel sera 
eseript leur nom et surnora, auquel annel 
aura un Esmail plus vermeil, en l'esmail 



une estoile blanche, au milieu de l'Estoile 
une rondeur d'azur, un petit Soleil d'or." 
— Circular letter of John II. to the nobles 
upon whom lie intended conferring the 
order. Oliambre des Comptes, Paris. 



AND WAE-CETES. Ill 

part, awakened, much astonished at the vision he had seen, which was 
so imprinted on his memory, that he told it to some of his attendants 
who were waiting in his chamber. The figure of this hart was so 
agreeable to him, that be could not put it out of his imagination; and 
this was the cause why, on his expedition to Flanders against the 
Flemings, he took a flying bart for his device " x (Fig. 67). 

The sun also appears to have been one of the devices of Charles VI. 
Froissart, in describing the tournament given on the occasion of 
Queen Isabella's entry into Paris, states that " a brilliant sun dis- 
persing its way through the heavens " was the king's device. There 
were thirty knights, including the king, who styled themselves 
Knights of the Golden Sun, all sumptuously apparelled, and each, 
bore on his shield a splendid sun. 

Chaeles VII., " Le Victorieux," used the flying stags of his 
father for supporters, and had as his emblem, a thorny rosebush. 
At his entry into Eouen he bore golden suns. 3 

Louis XL had the flying stags for supporters, and afterwards two 
eagles. Finally, he adopted the image of St. Michael as his special 
emblem. His father Charles VII., had borne the image of this saint 
on his standard, when he took the field, in consequence, it is said, of 
the appearance of St Michael on the bridge of Orleans, defending the 
city against an assault of the English. In obedience to the testa- 
mentary directions of his father, Louis XI. instituted the Order of 
St. Michael. 3 

Chaeles VIII. His motto was, Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra 
nos ? " If God be with us, who shall be against us ?" 

1 Froissart, Book ii., eh. 104, Johne's the royal escutcheon to three. 
Translation. His uncle, Philip the Bold, 3 The collar was composed of escallop 
Duke of Burgundy, made use of this shells, interlaced with double knots, and 
vision to urge' Charles to march against from it hung a medallion representing 
the revolted Flemings, declaring it a St. Michael and the dragon. The motto 
presage of success, as was realised by the of the order was, Immensi tremor oceani, 
gain of the battle of Eosbee, in which " The trembling of the immeasurable 
Philip von Arteveld was slain. ocean.'' 

2 Lancelot, one of the knaves in " 1488. A collar of cokkilschellis con- 
playing-cards, bears a sun upon his coat- tenandxxiii. schellisof gold." — Inventory 
of-arms, a proof, among others, of the of Jewels of James III. The Eoyal 
antiquity of the game. Wardrobe and Jewel House, 1488 — 1606, 

Louis XI. coined " Escus du Soleil," to Edinburgh, 

which Massinger alludes — " 1539. The ordoure of France of the 

" Present your bag cMl and Sanct Michael."— Inventory of 

Crammed wilh crowtis of the Sun." James V Ib'd 
Charles VI. reduced the fleurs-de-lis in 



110 



HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



■with delight, 'Constable, do you remain here, and I will mount this 
hart that offers itself to me, and follow my bird.' The constable 
agreed to it, and the young king joyfully mounted the hart, and went 
seeking the falcon. The hart, like one well tutored to obey the king's 
pleasure, carried him over the tops of the highest trees, when he saw 
his falcon striking down such numbers of birds that he marvelled how 
he could do it. It seemed to the king that when the falcon had 
sufficiently flown, and struck down enough of the herons, he called 
him back, and instantly, as if well taught, he perched on the king's 




Fig. 67.— Charles VI. 

wrist ; when it seemed to him that after he had taken the falcon by 
its lure, and given him his reward, the hart flew back again over the 
wood, and replaced the king on the same heath whence he had carried 
him, and where the constable was waiting, who was much rejoiced at 
his return. On his arrival, he dismounted, the hart returned to the 
wood, and was no more seen. The king then, as he imagined, related 
to the constable how well the hart had carried him ; that he had 
never rode so easy before in his life ; and also the goodness of his 
falcon, who had struck him down such numbers of birds ; to all which 
the constable willingly listened. The servants then seemed to come 
after them with their horses, which, having mounted, they followed a 
magnificent road that brought them back to Arras. The king, at this 



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113 



covered with hives and bees of gold, with the motto, Non utitur 
aouleo rex, " The king does not use a sting." 1 

Louis XII. marked with a red cross the names of his enemies 
when he came to the crown, that he might remember to make them 




Fig. 68.— Louis XII. 



the special objects of his beneficence. This caused a great panic at 
court, upon which he had a medal struck with this inscription, Rubra 
Crux salutis signum, dlbaque Francorum, " The red cross is the sign 
of salvation, the white that of the Franks," — i.e., French. 

Anne of Beetagne (-j-1513), Queen of Charles VIII., and after- 
wards of Louis Xir., adopted the ermine (Fig. 69), the ancient hereditary 
device of her duchy, with the motto, Malo mori quam foedari, " Better 
to die than be sullied," or as the French render it, " Plutot mourir 
que souiller." 

Anne appears, however, more frequently to have used the motto of 
the Breton order of the ermine, " A ma vie." We find the ermine 
with this last legend in her celebrated "Livre d'heures." It was 
placed on the " herse," erected at Nantes, after her death, to receive 
her heart ; and on a fountain in the market-place of Tours may still 



1 " "Whether the king of bees alone 
hath no sting, and is armed only with 
nmjestie? or whether nature hath be- 
stowed a sting upon him, and denied 
hi m only the r ise thereof ? For certain 



it is, that this great commander over 
the rest does nothing with his sting, 
and yet a wonder it is to see liow they 
all readily obey Mm." — Pliny, book xi., 
oh. 17. 



112 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

The letter K, surmounted by a crown, was embroidered upon the 
surcoats of the archers of the guard, and upon his standards. 1 He 
used as supporters, the winged stags, two crosses of Jerusalem, and 
also two unicorns. 

Louis XII., " Pere du Peuple." In 1397, his grandfather, Louis, 
Duke of Orleans, instituted the Order of the Porcupine, and on the 
occasion of the baptism of his son Charles, he took this animal as his 
emblem, with the motto, Cominus et eminus, "Near and afar," 
alluding to the vulgar error that the porcupine is able, not only to 
defend itself from close attack, but can throw its quills against more 
distant assailants ; 2 Duke Louis meaning thereby to convey that he 
could defend himself with his own weapons, and that he could attack 
his enemy, John, Duke of Burgundy, as well at a distance as near. 
Perhaps, too, he may have referred to his distant hope of inheriting 
from his brother (Charles VI.) the crown of France. 3 

Louis XII. abolished the order after his accession, but retained the 
hereditary badge of his family (Fig. 68), and took two porcupines for 
his supporters. His cannon were marked with the porcupine, 4 and his 
golden " ecus au pore epic " were much sought after by the curious. 5 

In his expedition against the Genoese, Louis XII. is described by 
Montfaucon as arrayed, as well as his horse, in white vestments, 

1 "1498. Une couverture a chariot 3 Markham says that Louis XII. took 
branlant, de velours cramoisy, seme'e de the motto, Vultus avos Troise. — Tlie Bool; 
cordelieres et de lettres de K et A de of Honour. I.ond., 1623. 

drap d'or raz et plat." — Inventaire de la * "1396. "C'est le compte de la nef 

Boyne Anne de Bretagne. de Porque'py faite par Hanee Croist 

2 Wilars de Honnecort, a writer of the orfevre, varlet de chambre de MS. le 
thirteenth century, in his album, pre- Due d'Orleans." — Inventaire des Dues de 
served in the Imperial Library at Paris, Bourgogne. 

gives a picture of the porcupine, with In the inventory of the jewels and 

this legend underneath — " Vesci I. pore artillery in the Castle of Edinburgh, in 

espi, e'est une biestelete qui lance ce soie 1578, are — 
quant elle est corecie." " Ane cannon of the fonte markit with 

"1136. On the submission of Paris the the porkepic." 
Constable Richemont goes to dine at the " Ane uther moyane of the fonte markit 

Duke of Orleans' ' Hotel du Pore-epic,' with the porkepik," &c. 
and in 1438 the order is conferred upon 5 The historian Mezerai always kept 

a lady (Mademoiselle de Murat). one in his pocket. He used to say, " Je 

"1440. On the release of the Duke of conserve eel ecu du bon roi Louis, pour 
Orleans from his twenty-five years' cap- payer ma place quand j'irai voir pendre 
tivity, and his marriage with the sister le premier financier du temps. Snmmum 
of the Duke of Burgundy, the two jus, summa injuria, " The loftiest justice, 
princes interchanged their respective the deepest injury."' Me'zerai meant Col- 
orders." — Barante. bert. — Loire Eistwique. 



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115 



her death, the black hangings of the chamber in which she lay are 
described as enriched with '■ des cordelieres de sa devise." 

Mary Tudor (+1534), second wife of Louis XII., afterwards 
married to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Her motto, which 
was placed upon her herse, was, " La volonte de Dieu me soffit." 

Francis I. His well-known device was the salamander, sur- 
rounded by flames, with the motto, Nutrisoo et extinguo, " I nourish 
and extinguish" (Fig. 70), alluding to the belief current in the middle 




Fig. 70. — Francis I. 



ages that the salamander had the faculty of living in fire ; l and also, 
according to Pliny, of extinguishing it. He says — " He is of so cold 
a complexion, that if hee doe but touch the fire, hee will quench it as 
presently as if yce were put into it." 2 ' 

This motto appears to be a somewhat obscure rendering of one 
on a medal of Francis, when Comte d'Angouleme, dated 1512 :'' 
"Nutrisco el buono, stengo el reo," meaning that a good prince 
protects the good and expels the bad. Some insist that it was the 
motto of his father; while Mezerai tells us that it was his tutor, 
Gouffier, Marquis de Boisy, who, seeing the violent and ungovernable 
spirit of his pupil, not unmixed with good and useful impulses, selected 



' tine bieste i r'a Salnroandre, 
Qui en feu vist et si sen paist, 
De cete bieste laine si naist 
Dont on fait chaintures et dras 
Qu' au feu dureut et n'ardent pas.' 



Hence it appears, according to (his 
notice, that asbestos cloth was derived 
from the salamander. 

- Book x., ch. 67. 

3 In the Mint at Paris. 



L' Image du Monde. 



i 2 



114 



HISTOKIO DEVICES, BADGES, 



be seen, on one side, the porcupine of Louis XII., and on the other 
the ermine of Queen Anne, with the motto, " A ma vie." l 

After the death of Charles VIII., who had compelled her, sword in 
hand, to marry him, that he might unite the rich inheritance of the 
" here Bretonne " to the crown, Anne attired herself in black, departing 
from the customary usage of wearing white mourning, which had 




Fig. 69. — AnDe de Bretagne. 

acquired in France, for queens-dowager, the appellation of " reines 
blanches." She encircled her arms with the cordeliere, or cord of 
St. Francis, which she afterwards converted into an order for widow 
ladies, 2 and declared she would follow her husband to the grave. Nine 
months afterwards the " Eeine Duchesse " accepted the hand of his 
successor. The cordeliere, 3 however, still encircled her arms, and on 

between, was placed round their arms. It 
whs given only to ladies of nobility, and 
of irreproachable conduct. The molto, a 
rebus, " J'ai le corps delie " — cordelier. 
The cordelier still encircles the escut- 
cheon of widows. 

3 " In the maritime war between 
England and Fiance, in 1512, Anne 
armed a fleet at Brest, and the principal 
ship, which she built at her own expense, 
and which carried, it is said, 100 guns 
and 1200 men, was called La Cordeliere. 
In an engagement with the English, the 
ship took fire ; its commander, a Breton, 
named Primoiiuet, directed it towards 
that of the English admiral, and both 
blew up together." — Daru, Histoire de 
Bretagne. 



1 Sylvanus Morgan says— " The er- 
mine is a creature of so pure a nature, 
that it will choose rather to be taken 
than defile its skin." — Sphere of Gentry. 
It is said, the hunters surround it with a 
wall of mud, which it will not attempt to 
cross, and therefore becomes an easy prey. 
Hence the ermine is the emblem of 
purity, and of honour without stain. 
The robes of royal and noble persons are 
lined with ermine to signify the internal 
purity that should regulate their conduct. 
See Naples, Ferdinand I. 

2 The Chevalieres de la Cordeliere were 
instituted in 1498. Anne adopted this 
name in honour of St. Francis, the patron 
saint of her father. The badge, a silver 
cord of true lovers' knots, with large knots 



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117 



Eleanor also took a tree with the sun shining upon it; motto, 
His suffulta, '' Supported by these." 

She had a custom of giving a pair of Spanish gloves to whoever 
brought her the news that she should see the king that day, for her 
affection for her indifferent consort continued unabated. On a certain 
occasion, Francis having ordered one of his gentlemen to carry his 
message, another outstripped him and received from the queen the 
customary reward. When the messenger to whom the king had given 
the message arrived and told Eleanor that she might expect his 
Majesty, the queen replied — "Je le scavois bien, vous n'en aurez 
pas les gants," an expression which afterwards passed into a 
proverb. 

Henry II. had for supporters two angels, and subsequently two 
greyhounds. When Dauphin, he adopted the special device by which 
he was distinguished — a crescent, with the motto, Donee totum implead 
orlem, " Until it fill the whole world " (Fig. 71), implying either that 




Fig. 71.— Henry II. 



until he inherited the crown, he could not display his full glory, or 
else, that as the moon gradually increases until it fills the whole cir- 
cumference, so he would not stop in his career until he filled the world 
with his renown. Henry bore the crescent variously disposed, some- 



various heraldic devices, the most con- 
spicuous of which was the salamander of 
the king, with his motto, and a phcenix, 
the badge of Eleanor, with her motto, 
Unica semper avis. When the princes 



met, the salamander began to vomit 
flames, and the phoenix burned gradually 
away." — Pabaotn, Histoire de notre 
Temps. . 



116 HISTOKIO DEVICES, BADGES, 

the salamander for his device, with its appropriate motto. This device 
appears on all the palaces of Francis I. At Fontainebleau and the 
Chateaux of the Loire, it is everywhere to be seen ; at Chambord, there 
are nearly four thousand. On the Chateau d'Azay (dep. Indre-et-Loire) 
the salamander is accompanied by the motto, TJng seul desir ; at the 
" Maison de Francois I.," at Orleans, built for the Demoiselle d'Heillie, 
afterwards Duchesse d'Etampes, we find it intermixed with F's and H's. 
At the meeting of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, the king's guard 
at the tournament was clothed in blue and yellow, with the salamander 
embroidered thereon. 1 In the already quoted inventory of the Castle 
of Edinburgh is — 

" Ane moyane of fonte markit with the sallamandre ;" 

" Ane little gallay cannon of fonte markit with sallamandre ;" 

with many others. 

Claude de France (-(-1524), first wife of Francis I., daughter of 
Louis XII. and Anne of Bretagne, was styled by her subjects, "la 
bonne reine." She took for her device a full moon, with the motto, 
Candida candidis, " White to the white," or " Pure to the pure," 
meaning that as the moon, deriving its light from the sun, can add no 
brilliancy to that luminary, so she could not add to the fame and renown 
of her husband ; or, according to Menestrier, this motto implied that 
she would be sincere towards those who were candid with her. 

Queen Claude also took the swan transfixed by a dart, which device 
is to be seen repeated with the salamander of Francis I., in the coffered 
ceiling of the staircase in the Chateau of Blois. 

Eleanor of Austria (-(-1558), second wife of Francis I., by 
virtue of the disgraceful Treaty of Cambray, had a phoenix, with the 
motto, Non est similis Mi, " There is none like her," — meaning that the 
sister of Charles V. and the wife of so great a king as Francis I. had 
no equal in happiness and good fortune. 

Eleanor also used the same impresa of the phoenix, but changed 
her motto to Vniea semper avis, 2 " Always a solitary (unique) bird," 
either showing how much she was neglected, or else to express her 
determination to remain single. 3 

1 Like Charles VI. and Louis XII., 2 " Et vivas phoenix, unica semper 

Francis used his impresa for supporters. avis." — Ovid. 

From Charles VI. to Louis XII. the stags 3 " At the meeting between Charles V. 

were the customary supporters of the and Francis I., at Loches, the archway of 

French arms. the gate of the town was decorated with 



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119 



alluding to the rising suns of Charles V. and of Philip II. ; against 
both of these princes Henry made war to repair his father's losses. 
It does not, however, appear that he ever made use of this device. 




Catherine db Mbdicis (+1589), Queen of Henry II., three times 
Regent of France. She bore as her device, when young and living with 



^m^_M^-MMf^^^\ 





Fig. 76.— Catherine de Medici?. 



her father, and continued it after her marriage, the rainbow, or Iris, 
from the association of its name with the Florentine lily. The motto 
was both in Greek and Latin— $OX $EPOI HAE TAAHNHN, 



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HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES.. 



times three interlaced, sometimes one only, placed under his escut- 
cheon. It was generally accompanied by bows, quivers, aDd other 
attributes of the chase, in allusion to Diane de Poitiers, and the 
initials (Figs. 72, 73, 74). 





Fig. 72. 



Fig. 73. 



MI 



Fig. 14. 



He ordered the cloth-of-silver mantle of the knights of St. Michael 
to be embroidered with his "device,"— i.e., the three crescents inter- 
spersed with bows and quivers, and seme of tongues and flames of 
fire. The double cipher (72), which is to be seen in the Louvre, on 
the gateway of the Chateau of Anet, 1 and many other buildings, 
answers equally for Diane as for his queen, Catherine. Henry 
always wore Diane's colours, black and white, and was attired in 
them at the fatal tournament whieh termiuated his life. His 
" reign began and ended in a duel ; Henry's death from the hand 
of Gabriel de L'Orge, Comte de Montgomery, accomplishing, among 
many others, 2 the prophecy of Nostradamus, that " L'orge etouffera 
le bon ble." 

The poet Bellay, on seeing him dead, gave him this epitaph — Eic 
jacet Henricus qui fuit orbis amor, " Cy gist Henri qui fut 1' Amour 
du monde." 3 

To Henry is also given as device a full moon, with the motto, 
Quum plena fit est asmula solis (Fig. 75), " When full it rivals the sun," 



1 " II volt (1' Amour) les murs dAnet 
tilth' au bord de l'Eure, 
Lui meme en ordonna la superbe 

structure. 
Par ses adroites mains aveo art en- 



Lcs chiffres de Diane y sont encore 
place's." 

Voltaiue, Henriade. 

2 Another predicted that — 

" Le lyon jeune le vieil surraonteva 
En champ bellic par singulis duelle 
Dans cage d'ov [bis golden helmet] les ycux 
lui crcvera." 



A third, Lucas Guuric, had foretold that 
Henry would die from a wound in the 
eye received in a duel. 

3 It was a current saying among the 
Huguenots that — 

" Par l'oreille, l'espaule, et par l'oeil, 
Dieu a mis trois rois au cetcueil ; " 

meaning Henry II., who was pierced in 
the eye by Montgomery, Captain of the 
Scottish Guard, 1559 ; Francis II., who 
died of a gathering in the ear, at Orleans, 
1560 ; and Antoine de Bourbon, King of 
Navarre, from a wouud in the shoulder 
received at the siege of Kouen, 1502. 



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121 



tournament, a shivered lanco, with the motto, Hinc dolor, hine 
lacrimm, " Hence grief, hence tears " (Fig. 78). 




Fig. 78. — Catherine de Medicis. 



. Feancjs II., " Prince sans tache and sans vice — L Innocent," he 
bore for supporters two lions of Scotland, as sovereign of that 
kingdom. 

His ordinary device was a burning column, encircled by a scroll, 
upon which was inscribed, Lumen rectis, " A light to the upright " 
(Fig. 79), in allusion to the column of fire which guided the Israelites 
by night, and meaning that the Almighty always grants his light 
as a guide to those who seek Him. 




Fig. 79. — Francis II. 



At St. Denis is to be seen the monument erected by Charles IX. 
to contain the heart of his brother, Francis II. It is a beautiful 
work by Germain Pilon, and consists of a marble Corinthian column, 



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H1STOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



'Let it 



"Let this light bring peace;" Lucemferat et serenitatem, 
briDg light and serenity" (Fig. 76). 

After the death of Henry, she took for her device a heap of burn- 
ing ashes with drops of water falling upon it, emblematic of her tears. 
The motto, Ardor em extincta testantur vivere flamma, " Extinct flame 
proves that heat survives " (Fig- 77). 




Fig. 11 — Catherine de Medicis. 



Catherine also adopted the device of a comet crowned, with 
the motto, Fato prudentia major, " Prudence is greater than 
fate." 

A hen with her chickens ; Servatque fovetque, " She preserves 
and fosters," was also among the devices of this queen. 1 

An astrologer had predicted that Catherine should die in St. 
Germain, in consequence of which she superstitiously avoided all 
churches of that name. She went no more to St. Germain-en-Laye ; 
and because her new palace of the Tuileries was in the parish of St. 
Germain l'Auxerrois, she deserted it, and caused the palace of Soissons 
to be built near St. Eustache. When it was known that Laurent de 
Saint Germain, Bishop of Nazareth, had attended her in her last 
moments, the astrologers declared the prophecy to have been accom- 
plished. 

Catherine caused a medal to be struck in reference to the fatal 

1 On a medal. 



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stone, with the motto, Sic spectanda fides, " So is fidelity to be proved " l 
(Fig. 81). 

Francis had also tokens (jetons) struck, upon which was represented 
a cup ; motto, Liter eolypsis exorior, " Among eclipses I arise " (Fig. 82), 
because, says Menestrier, the constellation of the cup is above the 
horizon at the time of the occurrence of eclipses, and Francis was 
not only born in troublous times, but in the year of his birth four 
eclipses took place. 1 




Francis had likewise for device a dolphin with the terrestrial globe, 
encircled by the diamond ring of the Medici, and the crescent of 
Henry II. In the midst issue branches of the palm and olive, 
emblems of victory and peace. Motto, Regain patriis virtutibus 
orbem, " I will rule the world with my father's virtues," — i.e., those I 
have inherited from him. Francis thus united the devices of his 



1 In Pericles, Prince of Tyre, the touch- 
stone is the emblem of one of the six 
knights that present themselves on the 



occasion of a festival on the birthday of 
the king's daughter, Thaisa. The fifth 
she describes as bearing, 



" An hand environed with clouds, 
Holding out gold, that's by the touchstone tried ; 
The motto thus — Sic sjpectandafides." — Act ii., sc. 2. 

2 A total eclipse of the sun occurred partial eclipses of the moon. The other 
January 2*1, 1544, four days after he was two eclipses of the same luminary were 
born, and in the same month there were visible in July and November. 



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HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



with flames issuing from the top, and the motto, Lumen rectis, 
inscribed on its side. 

Francis had also two globes, the one celestial and the other 




Fig. 80.— Francis II. 



terrestrial (Fig. 80), as appear on his medals. Motto, Unus non 
sufficit orlis, 1 " One world suffices not," — a sentiment of piety, not of 
ambition. 2 




A hand issuing from a cloud, holding a coin of gold upon a touch- 

1 " Unus Pellaso juveni non sufficit orbis."— Juvenal. 
2 " 1578. Ane bed of blak velvit en- within the Castell of Edinburgh pertening 
lioheit with armes and spheris, with to our Soverane Lord and his liienes 
bordis of broderie werk of claith of gold." derrest moder. 
— Inventory of Jewelles and Artaillerie 



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for his qneen, Louisa of Lorraine, interlaced with his H (Fig. 87), 
in the collar of the Order of the Holy Ghost. 

Queen Louisa always used the double Lambda, either one 
large (Fig. 88), or two small XX (Fig. 89) ; and the same letter 
(Fig. 90) was continued by Louis XIII. and Louis XIV. as Fig. 87. 
their initial, on the binding of Iheir books and en other works of Art. 




30C 



XX A 



Fig. 



Fig. 89. 



Fig. 90. 



Henry IV. does not appear to have used any Greek initials, but 
he introduced the punning S "trait" (an S with a stroke 
through it), Fig. 91, for Gabrielle d'Estree, united with his 
own, as we see described in the inventory of her effects made 
after her death. 1 

Charles IX. To this youthful monarch the Chancellor Flg - 91 - 
de l'Hopital, with better intentions than foresight, gave the motto, 
Pietate etjusticid, " With piety and justice," with two columns inter- 
laced (Fig. 92), showing that these two virtues are the support of 




Fig. 92.— Charles IX. 



government. 



Charles IX. was godson to Charles V., who assumed 
the columns of Hercules, and it was probably in imitation of the 



1 " 1599. Une boiste de peinture, 
esmaille'e de gris, sur laquelle y a des 
diamans oil est le chifl're du Eoy et a 
coste d'iceluy quatre S (barre'es) et aux 
quatre petites triangles de diamans, prise'e 
ciiijxx eseus." — Inventaire de Gabrielle 



d'Estre'es, MSS., Biblioth. Imp. Paris. 

"Une robe de toille d'argent . . . les 
grandes manohes a l'espagnole. . . 
Double'i s de satin incarnadine, et brode'es 
en broderie d'argent ou sont les chiffres 
du Eoy et de la defunte dame."— Ibid. 



124 HISTOEIO DEVICES, BADGES, 

father and mother, signifying by the diamond the firmness and 
virtue with which he would rule the world. 

For Mary Stuart, queen of Francis II., see Scotland. 
The practice of making anagrams, invented long before the 
Christian era, 1 was first revived by Francis I. In addition to two 
mentioned by Drummond (see Scotland, Mary Sttjakt) a third was 
made on Queen Mary ; Maria Stevarda, Scotorum Regina, was turned 
into Trusa vi regnis, inorte amard cado, " Thrust by force from my 
kingdom, I fall by a bitter death." 

■r In the reign of Francis I., writes Menestrier, the fashion 

CI J began of employing Greek letters for the name, and the Greek, 
"* $ (Fig 83), was used in several places for the king's initial, 
Flg ' 83, because he had re-established letters and the Greek language. 
Francois, second Duke de Guise, also caused his horses to be branded 
with the Phi. Catherine de Medicis used the double k 
jT^ (Fig. 84). It is to be seen on some locks, and other ironwork, 
^^* with the device of the rainbow, in the Louvre (Sauvageot collec- 
tion) ; and she adopted, with many of her contemporaries, Greek 
mottoes for her impreses. Queen Mary followed the fashion of the 
times, and took the <& and the m for the monogram of King 
Francis and herself. Fig 85 is copied from a hand-bell of the 
Queen, and the same monogram is also inscribed on Mary's 
Fig. 85. signet-ring, now preserved in the British Museum ; 2 the M 
resembles that of the Constable Anne de Montmorency, in a monogram 

K & A (^>- ^ on ^ e P^ e °^ a ^k * n * ne Musee de Cluny, at 
Mfm Paris. 

y% y\ Mary's grand-daughter, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, 

used two Epsilons intersecting each other ; and her ill-fated 
Fig. se. h us band, Frederic, took two Phi's intersected, as we find 
noticed in an entry of her jewels. 3 

Henry III. continued the fashion, and introduced the Lambda 

1 By the Greek poet, Lycophron, who 3 " Ane pietour box of gold, qrin is 
flourished B.C. 380, at the court of conteaued iu the on syd the King of 
Ptolemy Philadelphus. Bohcme his portrait, the cover qrof is 

2 The * also appears on some plates in sete with diamonts eftir this forme. #o *, 
the possession of A. Pouutaine, Esq., of conteining twa J deciphered within two 
Narford Hall, as the signature of the o o, resembling twa great l'res (letters) 
celebrated painter of majolica, Orazio * for Frederick the king his name." The 
Pontana, the * forming both the initials writer of the inventory mistook the inter- 
of his name. section of the two 1> for an O. 




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127 



■was represented Pltitus seated upon a cube, his wings folded back, his 
eyes bandaged, and hound with chains of gold; the motto, from 
the sixth book of the ' iEneid,' Sedet asternumque sedebit, " He 
sits and will sit for ever." 

Henry III. instituted the order of St. Esprit, choosing this name 
for his order, because he was elected King of Poland on "Whitsunday, 
and he succeeded to the crown of France on the same festival of the 
following year. The Order of St. Michael had become so debased 
from its indiscriminate use by the sons of Henry II., as to be styled 
the " Collier a toutes Betes," this principally led Henry III. to institute 
his new order ; but the Knights of the Holy Ghost were required, 
before their institution, to receive the Order of St. Michael ; hence the 
Knights of the Holy Ghost are called " Chevaliers des ordres du roy." 

Louise de Vaudemont (-f-1601), the neglected wife of Henry III., 
took for her device the sun-dial (sun-dials, with quaint devices, being 
much in vogue in the seventeenth century), with the motto, 
Aspice ut asjoiciar, " Look on me, that I may be looked on " 




Fig. 94. — Louise de Vaudemont. 

(Fig. 94). As the dial only shows the hours of the day when shone 
upon by the sun, so she entreats the king to look upon her, that she 
may be held in esteem by others. 

After the assassination of Henry III., Louise took possession of 
the Chateau of Chenonceaux, left to her by Catherine de Medicis. All 
her rooms were hung with black, and she wore white (the mourning 
of queens) until her death. Her bed was covered with black velvet 



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HISTOBIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



device of his godfather that Charles IX. selected for his impresa the 
two twisted pillars of the temple of Jerusalem, called Jakin and Boaz. 

Elizabeth of Austbia (+1592), wife of Charles IX., took for her 
device a temple, hefore the door of which she is standing, looking up 
to the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove, with the motlo, In Deo spes 
mea, " My hope is in God," which was also the favourite motto of her 
brother-in-law, Henry III. 

Also, Fortune on a globe buffeted by the winds. Motto, Volente, 
" Being willing." 

Henry III. His supporters were two eagles for Poland. His 
device, three crowns, with the motto, Manet ultima eoelo, "The last 
remains to heaven " (Fig. 93). 




Fig. 93.— Heiny III. 

The Leaguers, to turn the device into ridicule, placed the scissors 
instead of the third crown, and sutstituted " claustro " for " ccelo" 
threatening to shut bim up in a monastery. Cardinal Guise (he who 
was assassinated, with his brother, at Blois) used to say he would 
never die content until he had the head of the king between his knees, 
to give him a monk's crown ; and his sister, the Duchess of Mont- 
pensier, kept a pair of scissors always attached to her girdle, as she 
said, for the same purpose. 

When Henry III. published, in 1577, an edict, reducing the value 
of the crown to sixty sols, it was hoped that this act would help, as it 
did, to reform the currency. Tokens (jetons) were struck, upon which 



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129 



Marguerite de France, daughter of Henry II., first wife of 
Henry IV., and the last of the Valois 
(-f-1615), best known as "Eeine Margot," 
of whose marriage, the forerunner of the 
Massacre of St. Bartholomew, it was said that 
"la livree des noces serait vermeille." 

Margaret was also styled "La Lune," 
because she eclipsed the stars. 

In her youth she bore a palm-tree over- 
shadowing an altar, with the motto, Pios 
altissima surgit in usus, " Being the highest, 
she rises to pious uses." 1 

Her second device was the mystic pen- 
tagon, 2 the symbol of health, with the word Salus inscribed at its 
angles (Fig. 96). 

After her divorce, Margaret took the pearl, in Latin, " unio," with 
the motto, Unio cuncta disjunxit, "Union has disjoined all things." 

Mary de Medicis, second wife of Henry IV., when declared regent 
to her son, caused to be embroidered on the hocquetons of her archers 
an eagle crowned, covering its little ones with its wings. Motto, Tegit 
virtute minores, " He covers the smaller ones by his bravery." 

On the occasion of the marriage of Louis XIII., she changed the 




g. 96. — Marguerite of France. 



1 Paradin. 

2 "A star of five points, composed of 
five A's interlaced, was formerly made 
by physicians the symbol of health, 
uuder the name of Pentalpha." — Menes- 
triee. 

The pentalpha, pentaele, or pentangle, 
consisting of three triangles intersected, 
has always had mysterious powers as- 
signed to it. Aubrey says the pentaele was 
" heretofore used by the Greek Christians 
(as the sign of the cross is now) at the 
beginning of letters or books, for good 
luck's sake." The Jews informed Dr. 
Bathurst " that the women did make this 
mark on their chrysome cloths." " The 
Jews in Barbarie have this mark on their 
trunkes in nailes, and on their cupboards 
and tables." "While Rennet, Bishop of 
Peterborough, adds, " The figure of three 
triangles intersected and made of five 
lines is called the Pentangle of Salomon 



and when it is delineated on the body of 
a man, it is pretended to touch and point 
out the five places wherein the Saviour 
was wounded, and therefore . . . the 
devils were afraid of it '' (Lansd. MS., 
231). It is the "druden fus" of the 
German writers on magie, and is still 
regarded in Germany as a talisman 
agiiiust the power of witches, and is said 
to have its origin in the doctrines of 
Pythagoras, and thence transferred to 
Druidism. The magic pentalpha in the 
western window of the south aisle of 
Westminster Abbey bears evidence that 
the black monks who chanted in the 
choir were deeply read in occult science. 
Goethe makes Faust avail himself of its 
influence ; and John Evelyn, in many of 
his books, after inserting his name in 
monogram, was wont with the pen to 
draw the pentaele between the words 
"Dominus providebit." — Burn's Tokens. 
K 



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HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



fringed with black and white, and her prie : dieu chair was covered 
with black. In an adjoining room hung a large portrait of Henry III., 
underneath which was the portion of a line from the ' iEneid ' (book xii ) 
— Sssvi monumenta doloris, " The memorials of grievous sufferiDg." 
Here she passed her days, praying for the soul of her worthless 
husband. Another of ber devices was — 

The Box-tree. Motto, Nostra vel in tumulo," Ours even in the tomb." 
Henry IV., " Le merveille des rois et le roi des merveilles," who 
succeeded as nearest to the crown on the extinction of the house of 
Valois, was related to Henry III. only in the twenty-third degree. 

Two cows, the arms of Beam (see Foix), and a club, with the 
motto, Invia virtuti nulla est via, " No path is impassable to valour," 
the club of Hercules being emblematic of the labours he had under- 
gone, and the hydra of rebellion he had overcome. 




Fig. 95.— Henry IV. 

Two sceptres in sal tire, traversed by a naked sword to represent 
peace and war, and the two kingdoms of France and Navarre, with 
the motto, Duo y>rotegit unus, " One protects two," to signify that his 
sword had henceforth in view only the defence and protection of his 
two kingdoms (Fig. 95). 1 

The ingenious discovered a curious combination of the number 14 in 
the name and life of Henry IV. ; fourteen letters in " Henri de Bourbon." 
He was born 14 centuries, 14 decades, and 14 years after our Saviour, 
A.i). 1554 ; born on the 14th of December, died on the 14th of March, 
and lived four times 14 years, and four times 14 days, and 14 weeks. 

1 It is carved on the woodwork of the Salle de Marie de Mediuis, in the Louvre. 



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Although Francis II., Charles IX., Henry III., HeDry IV., and 
Louis XIII. had special supporters of their arms, yet they did not 
exclude the two angels of Charles VI., which were considered as the 
ordinary supporters of the arms of the kingdom (Fig. 98). Louis XIV., 
Louis XV., and Louis XVL never used any others. 




Amis of France, with Angela as Supporters. 



Feanchi, Vioenzo di, President of the Council at Naples. 
Took for device a stork with a plane leaf in its mouth. Motto, 
Audentius obstat, " He resists the more bravely." The stork 
carries the plane leaf as an amulet or defence against the insidious 
attacks of the owl, and lines its nest with it for the same object. 1 

Fkegosa, Ottaviano, Doge and afterwards Governor of Genoa. 
Having, with the assistance of Julius II., expelled the French, he 
conferred the ducal dignity upon his brother James, who in his turn 
was dispossessed by the French and the Adorni. Ottaviano having 
again been victorious, was proclaimed Doge, 1513; but in 1515 was 

1 ' Hieroglyphica,' Pierii Valeriani, Lugcluni ap. P. Frellon, 1626. 

K 2 



130 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

device to a pacific eagle, carrying an olive branch ; Nee fulmina 

desunt, 1 "Nor are lightnings wanting." 

A stork 2 feeding its young and rearing them with care; Pia mater 

noxia pello, " A pious mother, I expel hurtful things." 

The heliotrope ; Solem sola sequor, " I follow the sun alone." 
The sun among clouds ; Major in adversis, " Greater in adversity." 
A fire blown by the four winds ; Crescit ah adversis, " It grows 

from adversity." Les oppositions le font croitre? This last she had 

embroidered on tbe casaques of her guards. 

A star; Car a ma hntana, "Dear, though afar." 

Louis XIII. Two Hercules, or sometimes the club of Hercules 

only, with the motto, Erit hsec quoque cognita monstris, "The 

monsters (i.e., heresy and rebellion) shall make acquaintance with this." 
"When Louis XIII. was born, there had not been a dauphin since 

Francis II. — eighty-four years. The province of Dauphine sent a 

deputation to Fontainebleau, headed by the Archbishop of Vienne, to 

recognise the infant as their sovereign, and made him a present of an 

entire service of richly chased plate, with various figures of dolphins, 

estimated at 12,000 crowns. 

Louis XIV. had, from his birth, as his personal device, the sun in 

its splendour (Fig. 97) ; and later, among many other mottoes, he chose 




Fig. 91.— Louis XIV. 



Nee pluribus impar, " Not unequal to many," meaning that the genius 
of the king sufficed, or would suffice, to govern many kingdoms. 4 

1 ' Mercure Francois,' 1615. 4 " This device was first suggested by 

2 Benouard, ' Duvises Eoyales.' Cardinal Mazarin to Monsieur rOuvrier, 

3 Menestrier. an antiquary," — Voltaire. 



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Gheeaedini, Gio. Filippo (Florence). A vine trailing on the 
ground 1 (Fig. 100). Motto, Adhuo delapsa viresao, " Thus far fallen, 
I still nourish (am green) ;" for, according to Pliny, the vine that creeps . 
on the ground bears the largest fruit. He says, " And yet, other- 
whiles, in some coasts the winds are so big and boisterous, that they 
will not suffer them thus to grow upright ; as, namely, in Affricke and 
Languedoc, the province of Narbon. Vines being thus debarred to 
run up in height, resting upon their owne joints and branches, and 




Fig. lOO.^Gio. Filippo Gherardini. 

even like to those that be laid along whiles they are a trimming, by 
delving about their roots, and pruning their superfluous branches, 
traile and creepe too and fro along the ground, as weedes and herbes ; 
and all the way as they spread, sucke the humor of the earth into 
their grapes ; by which meanes, no marvel it is, if in the inland parts 
of Affricke there bee found some of those grapes bigger than pretie 



Gi£, Pieeee, Yicomte de Eohan, better known under the name 
of the Marechal de Gie (-(-1513). In the absence of Cardinal Amboise 
he acted as minister ; he had served under Louis XL, Charles VIII., 
and Louis XII. ; had been thirty years Marshal, and was Lieutenant- 

1 Contile M. Luca, ' Eagionamento supra la Propriety delle Imprese,' fol. Pavia, 
1574, passim. 2 For vikesoe, read vieesco. 3 Book xiv., oil. 1. 



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HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



again compelled to cede the sovereignty of Genoa to Francis I., re- 
maining governor, in the name of the King of France, until 1522, when 
Genoa was taken by Prospero Colonna and the Marquis of Pescara, 
generals of Charles V. Five years afterwards the revolution effected by 
Andrea Doria terminated the rival factions of the Adorni and Fregosi. 

In the War of Bologna he took for device a long row of the letter 
in black, on a field of gold, as a border round the caparisons of his 
horse, which letters in arithmetic are of no value without the addition 
of a numeral. The motto, Hoc per se nihil est, sed si minimum 
addideris maximum fiat, " This by itself is nothing, but if you add 
the least the greatest is made ;" meaning that with the least assistance 
he should have been able to have recovered Genoa, in the defence of 
which his father had died. 

Fregosa, Galeazzo. An eagle gazing steadily at the sun in the 
midst of clouds, thunder, rain and wind. Motto (Span.), Ni matarme, 
ni Sjpaventarme, " Neither kill me, nor alarm me ;" that is, that 
he was not to be deterred by danger or difficulty. The eagle is the 
crest of some of the Fregosa family. They were divided into several 
branches, called after their devices — Fregosi del Pelicano, Aquila, 
Sempreviva, Grancio, Stanga, &c. 

Frellox. See Augustus Cesar. 

Gamba, Cesare. See Academies, Insensati. 

Gambaea, Cardinal. See Domenichi. 




Fig. 99.— Pietro (jliicomu di (jwmtuo. 

Gennaro, Pieteo Giaoomo di. His device was Cupid drawn by 
two snails. Motto, Festinate, " Hasten " (Fig. 99). 



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135 



exert himself, so completely was he prostrated by the blow. Nus- 

quam tuta fides, " Faitb, nowhere safe," is also a motto given to the 

same device. 

" The elephant so huge, and strong to see, 
No perill fear'd but thought a sleepe to game ; 
But foes before had underminde the tree, 
And down lie falls, and so by them was slaine : 
First trye, then truste ; like goulde the copper showes : 
And Nero oft in Numa's clotliinge goes." 

Whitney's Emblems. 

Godfrey of Boulogne 1 (-f-1100). The first Christian King of 
Jerusalem ; the " pio Goffredo " and hero of the ' Jerusalem Delivered ' 
of Tasso. It is related of him, that he, " At one draught of his bow, 
shooting against David's Tower in Jerusalem, broched three feetless 
birds, called Alerions, 2 upon his arrow, and thereupon assumed in his 




Fig. 101. — Godfrey of Boulogne. 



shield, or, three Alerions argent on a bend gules, which the house of 
Lorraine, descending from his race, continue to this day ;" 3 adding to 
it these words from Virgil, Dederitne viam casusve deusve, " Did 
chance or God direct the way?" (Fig. 101.) 



1 Or Bouillon, a castle of Bas Lorraine, 
now "the Belgian province of Luxemburg. 

2 " The alerion is an eagle displayed, 
without beak or feet, the point of the 
wings downwards." A similarity of 
sound between Alerion and Lorraine 



may have influenced the assumption of 
these arras, and it is curious that a 
perfect anagram exists in " Alerion " and 
" Loraine." — Planohe, Poursuivant . of 
Arms, 1832. 
3 Camden, ' Remaines.' 



134 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

General of Picardy. "When he was disgraced and banished from 
court, for having stopped at Angers the boats in which Queen Anne 
of Bretagne had embarked her treasures upon the Loire, he retired 
to his Chateau du Verger (Auvergne), pleased to be allowed to pass 
the remainder of his days in the quiet enjoyment of the goods for- 
tune had left him. He expressed this sentiment by the choice of a 
device which consisted of a hat with large turned-down brim, and 
this motto, A la bonne heure nous frit la fluie, 1 — a proverbial ex- 
pression, meaning, " We have luckily escaped in good time from a 
great annoyance." 2 

Mezerai says : 3 "II se joua une farce sur ce sujet dans un college 
de Paris, ou ils disaient qu' un marechal, ayant vouler ferrer un ane, 
en avoit recu un si grand coup de pied, qu'il en avoit ete jete 
pardessus la muraille de la cour jusque dans le Verger." 

Giovio, G-iuTjIo, nephew of the Bishop of Nocera. A grafted 
tree. Motto, Vvan Gott ovil, — or Quando Iddio vorra, "When 
God will." 4 

Gieami, Ippolito. A Milanese gentleman in the service of the 
Emperor during the Siennese War. A spade with a serpent twisted 
round it. Motto, Hie ducibus, " With these my leaders," — meaning 
that strength and courage (depicted by the spade) combined with 
prudence (the serpent) will lead to victory. 

GiusTiNiANi, Gio. Batt., Cardinal of Venice, was the friend and 
patron of Camilli, 5 who, on the occasion of his death, made a device, 
taken from the manner in which elephants, according to a Greek author, 
are taken in the country round the Bed Sea. The trees against which 
they are accustomed to lean when asleep are partly sawn asunder, so 
that at night, when the elephant goes to rest, he leans against the 
tree, which gives way and throws him down in its fall, when he is 
unable of himself to rise, and becomes a prey to the hunters. Motto, 
Bum stetit, " While he stood ;" that is, the death of the Cardinal, who 
was life and support to Camilli, deprived him of all power to rise and 

1 ' Histoire de Bretagne.'— Daku. was also used by Antonio Borgliese. 

2 Or, as M. le Roux de Liucy renders ., Post huc erlt altera vita (regeneration) 
it, " Although yet young, he had fallen Non sum qui fueram." 

into disgrace." — Livre des Proverbes 0vrD - 

Frangais. Paris, 1859. s Camilli, Camillo, 'Imprese illustri 

3 ' Histoire de France.' di diversi, coi discorsi,' 4to, Ven., 1586, 
1 The same device, with the motto, passim. 

Idem et alter, " The same and another," 



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with ropes, by means of which the strongest cross-bow is loaded without 
any difficulty. Motto, Ingenium super at vires, " Wit overcomes 
strength." 

Gonzaga of Mantua. 1 

Gonzaga, Gian. Fbancesco, Marquis of Mantua (-j-1519). Fran- 
cesco began his career by commanding the confederate army, at the 
battle of the Taro near Fornova, against Charles VIII., 1495. Neither 
party gained the victory. He married Isabella, daughter of Ercole, 
Duke of Ferrara (see Este, Isabella). Notwithstanding his military 
occupations, he found time to apply himself to letters, and his wife Was 
not less distinguished by her elegant accomplishments and refined 
taste. Ariosto has devoted several stanzas to their praise. 

When he had cleared himself from the false accusations made against 
him to the Venetians, who had appointed him Captain General of their 
forces, he caused to be painted upon his standard a crucible filled with 
bars of gold, in a furnace, with the motto, Probasti me Domine et 
cognovisti, " Thou hast tried me, Lord, and hast known me." 2 
A collar of oval medallions with crucibles, and the motto, Domine 
probasti me, "Lord, thou hast tried me," were the insignia of the 
order of the " Redeemer," or " the precious blood of Jesus Christ," 
of Mantua. 3 

Gonzaga, Sigismund, Cardinal (+1525). Brother to Gian Fran- 
cesco. Eepenting of having been, with Cardinal Aragon, the means 
of the election of Leo X. to the papal see, he bore as device, a crocodile, 
with the motto, Croeodili lachrimae, as signifying the dissimulation of 
those who are full of fair words, with hatred id their hearts ; as the 
crocodile pretends to shed tears to attract passers by within his reach. 

1 The ancient arms of Gonzaga are or, tried in the fire, men in adversity," Apoc, 
three bars sable. The Emperor Charles Eocles. ii. 5. " As gold in the furnace 
IV., who was King of Bohemia, granted hath he tried them," Wisdom iii. 6. See 
the Gonzaga family the arms of Bohemia, also Job xxiii. 10; Ps. xii. 6; lxvi. 10 ; 
gules, a lion rampant argent, crowned Zech. xiii. 9 ; 1 Peter i. 7 ; Kev. iii. 18. 
or. In 1433 the Emperor Sigismund s Bronze medallion, Giovanni Fran- 
gave argent, four eagles of the empire cesco Gonzaga. Diam. 1J in., cast and 
sable, divided by a cross gules. In 1535 chased, quattro-cento period (Pisanello ?) 
Frederic III. placed the -word Olympus Ob., bust of Gonzaga, inscribed Iohannes 
in Greek letters under the coronet, and Franciscus Gonz. Kev., an ingot of gold 
above the altar, with Fides for Montsenat. in the midst of flames, with the motto, 

2 A favourite symbol in scripture. Frobitas laudatur on a scroll, and in- 
" They shall be tried as the gold in the scribed Marchio comes Boti. — South Ken- 
fire," 2 Esdras xvi. 73. " For gold is simjton Museum. 



136 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Gonsalvo of Cordova (+1515), Duke of Terranova. The Italians 
style him Ferrante Gonsalvo ; his real name was Hernandez y Aguilar 
Goncalo de Cordova. He carried the standard of Castile at Grenada, 
when that city capitulated to the arms of Ferdinand and Isabella. 
Twice he subdued the kingdom of Naples ; fought the battles of 
Cerignoles and Garigliano ; was Viceroy 1502-1506, and Constable, 
1507, of Naples. Styled the "modern Camillus," he was recalled 
through the jealousy of Prospero Colonna ; but was a third time about 
to set out to Italy when he died. The great captain had made for 
him, as device, thunderbolts, with the motto, Yolitat per sxcula 
nomeii, " The name flies on through ages." 




Fig. 102.— Gonsalvo of Cordova. 

When he had expelled all foreign soldiers from Naples, he was 
honoured by the device of a stork killing serpents ' (Fig. 102), the 
symbol of enemies overcome. Motto, Post longi teedia belli, " After 
the fatigues of a long war." 

A falcon 2 holding a bird in its claw, Non sibi sed Domino, " Not 
for himself, but for the Lord," — i.e., for his king and master. 

Gonsalvo, Fernando, Duke of Sessa, son of the Great Captain 
and Elvira. He showed, in the wars in Naples, no less cunning than 
bravery. Wishing, therefore, to make known how much he had 
succeeded by ingenuity, he took for device one of the winches, or levers, 

1 " So highly regarded they are for fellon in the case of manslaughter.'' — 

slaying of serpents, that in Thessalie it Pliny, hook x., eh. 23. 
is accounted a oapitall crime to kill a 2 Boscliio, E. P. J., ' Symbolographia,' 

storke, and by law he is punished as a Aug. Vind., 1701, passim. 



AND WAE-CKIES. 139 

attacked, so also the Cardinal was prepared to protect and uphold his 
young nephews, of whom his brother Frederic had left him the 
guardian. 

Gonzaga, Giulia (-{-1566), great-granddaughter of Louis III., 
Marquis of Mantua, — the most lovely woman of her time. The fame 
of her beauty reached the ears of the Emperor Soliman, who sent the 
corsair Barbarossa to make a descent upon Fondi to capture her, but 
Giulia, by means of a swift horse, escaped in the night. 1 After the 
death of her husband, Vespasian Colonna, she would listen to no other 
proposals, and took for her device the amaranth, with the motto, Non 
moritura, " Undying," to express the eternity of her love. 

According to Pliny : " When all other flowers doe faile and are 
gone, if it be wet in water, it looketh fresh againe ; and for want of 
others, serves all winter long to make chaplets and guirlands. The 
chiefe and principall vertue that it hath, is shewed in the very name 
Amaranthus, for so it is called in Greeke, because it doth never fade 
or wither. 2 

" Immortal amaranth, a flower which once 
In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, 
Began to bloom, but soon for man's offence 
To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows 
And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life." 

Milton. 

Ariosto thus addresses Giulia : 

" Giulia Gonzaga, che, dovunque il piede 
Volge, e dovunque i sereni occhj gira, 
Non pure ogni altra di belta le cede, 
Ma, comes cesa dal ciel dea, l'ammira." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xlvi., st. 8. 

" For beauty, grace, where e'er her foot she moves, 
Julia Gonzaga every heart approves ; 
Where e'er she darts around her radiant eyes, 
She looks a goddess, lighted from the skies." 

Hoole's Translation. 

Gonzaga, Ltjigi di, of Gazalo (-(- 1528), styled Bodomonte, for 
his intrepidity and great strength. He was a favourite of Charles V., 
and was in his army with Bourbon at the sack of Borne, after which he 
conducted the Pope in safety to Orvieto. Clement made him his general, 

1 For the admiration of Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici, and his device in her honour. 
see Medici, IrPOLiTO, Cardinal. z Book xxi., ch. 8. 



133 HISTOEIO DEVICES, BADGES, 

"The crocodile," says Albertus, "kills men and then weeps;" hence 
the epithet of "crocodile's tears," so often alluded to by poets. 
Shakspeare makes Queen Margaret say that Henry is 

" Too full of foolish pity: and Gloster's show 
Beguiles him, as the mournful crocodile 
With sorrow snares relenting passengers." 

King Henry VI., 2nd Part, Act iii , sc. 1. 

And Othello, in his rage, exclaims : 

" If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, 
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile." 

Othello, Act iv., sc. 1. 

Again, Lelia, in Beaumont and Fletcher, declares : 

" No, I would sooner trust a crocodile 
When lie sheds tears, for he kills suddenly, 
And ends our cares at once." 

The Captain. 

Gonzaga, Fbederigo III., first created Duke of Mantua by the 
Emperor Charles V. for his defence of Pavia (-)- 1540). The sun, 
with the motto, Solus indeficiens, " Alone never wanting," to mark the 
constancy of a faithful friend who never changes. 

Gonzaga, Ekcole, Cardinal of Mantua (-f- 1563). Governor of 
Tivoli, son of Gian. Francesco, brother of Frederic III., and guardian 
to Francis III. ; a patron of letters, papal legate and president 
of the Council of Trent. Two swans fighting an eagle, with the 
motto, Sic repugnant, 1 "Thus they oppose one another." This 
device is also given by Petrasancta, with the motto, Lacessitus, 
" Provoked." 

According to Aristotle and iElian, the swan is at peace with all 
animals, but the eagle alone assails it, and is always defeated ; the 
swan fights valiantly, and justly conquers the bird who provokes 
it. Pliny says : " Swans and eagles jarre and warre one with 
another." 2 

Thus the Cardinal would imply, that he was naturally peacefully 
disposed, but would defend himself against any who assailed him. As the 
swan never leaves her young in the nest, and bravely defends them if 

1 " Aquilam, si pugnam csepirit, repugnantes vincunt." — Aristotle. 
2 Book x., ch. 7. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 141 

So Bodomonte took the burning Temple of Ephesus for his device, 
with the motto, Alterutra claresoere fama, " To become famous by 
one or the other glory," which was given to him by Giovio, a"nd which 
he preferred to that invented by himself, Sive bonum, sive malum, 
fama est, " Whether good or ill, it is glory." 

Gonzaga, Scipione. A vessel with the sails furled, and impelled 
by oars. Motto, Propriis nitar, " I rely on my own." Cardinal Ercole 
was his friend and patron. Scipione made this device after his death, 
showing by the furled sails that he had lost the assistance he had 
received, and must make his way through life's troubled sea by his own 
exertions, — i.e., with the oars. 

Gonzaga, Pieteo, Cardinal of Mantua. He contributed to the 
release of Pope Clement VII., for which he was rewarded by a Car- 
dinal's hat. His device was, Hercules destroying the Lernean hydra, 
with the motto, Tu ne cede malis, " Yield not to misfortunes ;" but 
advance to meet them all the more bravely : 

" Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito." 

Virgil's Mneid, book xi., v. 95. 

" Be thou, secure of soul, unbent by woes, 
The more thy fortune frowns, the more oppose." 

Dryden's Translation. 

See, also, Gonzaga, Cubtio, and Pallavicino, Sfokzo. 

Gonzaga, Gixglielmo, third duke of Mantua. Justice (Astraea) ; 
motto, Cuique mum, " Each man his own." His wife, Leonora of 
Austria, daughter of the Emperor Ferdinand, took a pair of scales, 
Redde cuique suum, " Eestore to each his own." 

Gonzaga, Luigi (-f- 1598), brother to Francesco and Gugliehno, 
second and third dukes. He married Henrietta of Cleves, sister and 
heiress of Francis, last duke of Nevers. Henrietta afterwards married 
Sigismund, King of Poland. A seal asleep upon a rock in a troubled 
sea, with the motto, Sie quiesco, " So rest I." 

The seal, say the ancients, is never struck by lightning. The 
Emperor Augustus always wore a belt of sealskin. " There is no 
living creature sleepeth more soundly," says Pliny, 1 " therefore when 
storms arise, and the sea is rough, the seal goes upon the rocks, where 
it sleeps in safety, unconscious of the storm." 

1 Book ix., ch. 13. 



140 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

and in the assault of Yicovaro he was struck by an arquebuse, and died 
in the arms of his wife, Isabella, daughter of Vespasian Colonna. 1 
Eodomonte was not only a warrior, but an accomplished writer and 
poet. Ariosto thus describes him and Isabella : 

" Th' immortal pair 
LoVd by the Muses and the god of war, 
Sprung from the race that rul'd the favour'd ground 
Which Minoius' stream divides and lakes surround. 
Of these, while one by nature still inclin'd 
To pay due homage to your beauteous kind, 
Bids Cynthus and Parnas3us sound his lays, 
And high to heaven extend your swelling praise ; 
The love, with truth and constancy uninov'd, 
So well by him in Isabella prov'd, 
Exalts your sex so far, your fair renown 
From Envy's shafts he guards above his own ; 
Nor lives throughout the world, so brave a knight, 
Who less shall fear in virtue's cause to fight ; 
His deeds to other bards a theme can give, 
His pen can bid another's glories live : 
Worthy a dame so wealthy, who (endow'd 
With every gift by bounteous Heaven allow'd 
The female name) through every charm could prove 
A steady column of connubial love. 
He worthy her, she worthy him to bless ; 
No worthier two each other to possess." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xxxvii., 8. Hoole's Translation. 

When the Emperor Charles V. made his public entry into Mantua, 
Eodomonte wore a blue surcoat, made in squares. Upon one was 
embroidered a scorpion, upon the other his motto, Qui vivens leedit 
morte -medetur, " Who living wounds, in death is healed." It being 
the property of the scorpion, when killed and laid over the wound, 
to cure the poison, 2 so Eodomonte, if any one presumed to offend hhn, 
would clear himself from the injury by the death of his enemy. 

He took another device. Being present at the sack of Eome, 
where he was among the first to enter the city, he said that the taking 
and destruction of Eome, whether for good or evil, would nevertheless 
bring fame to its destroyers, as the name of Erastotratus was handed 
down to posterity through his burning of the Temple of Diana, 
although a decree was issued forbidding bis name to be uttered. 

1 ' Eitratti di cento Capitani illustri,' and drinke the powder of them in wine, 
Eoma, 1596. it is thought to he present remedie." — 

2 If a man bee stung with a Scorpion, Pliny, book xi., ch. 25. 



AND WAB-CEIES. 143 

The white stag is the emblem of purity — so is the laurel-tree 
(Daphne) ; and the shade of the laurel is also the emblem of safety, 
the lightning never striking this tree. The topaz indicates purity, 
and also the diamond, as it yields neither to fire nor iron. 

Lucretia was left early a widow ; her husband was many years a 
prisoner. By her device she meant to convey her intention of 
preserving her fame unsullied. 

Gonzaga, Cuktio, an Italian poet. He had various imprese 
d'amore. An eagle flying towards the sun, and burning its feathers, 
with the words, Pur che ne godan gli ocelli, ardan le piume, " Let his 
feathers burn, provided his eyes feast." 

This, if not an impresa amorosa, may be taken as implying, that 
nothing, even death itself, should stop him from feasting his mind 
upon the light of science, of which the sun (Apollo) is the fountain. 

Being deceived in his hopes from his lady, he took a pine-tree, 
broken and struck by lightning. Motto, 11 mio sperar, " My hope," 
converting into a device, the lines of Petrarch— 

" Allor, che fulminato e morto giacque 
II mio sperar, che troppo alto montava." 

" Then my hopes which mounted too high, lie thunderstruck and dead." 

Finding his hopes now dead, but his affections unchanged, he took 
the hydra, with the motto, from Petrarch, E s' io V uccidi, piujorte 
rinasce, ''And if I kill it, more strong it revives " (Fig. 103). 




Fig. 103.— Curtio (ionzaga. 

He also took Cupid with two wings in his hands. Motto, also from 



142 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Gonzaga, Vespasiano, Duke of Sabionetta and Traietto. Thunder- 
bolts striking three mountain tops. Motto, Feriunt summos, " They 
strike the summits." 

Also the same device, with the motto, Eis impia terrent, " By 
these they frighten away the impious." See Colonna, Vespasiano. 

G-onzaga, Vicenzo. Fourth duke (+1612). A crescent, with 
the word, Sic, " Thus," which some explain to mean, Sic illustrior 
crescam, " Thus I shall grow more illustrious," — that is, advance in 
virtue, a motto resembling the " Los " of Kene of Anjou. 

Gonzaga, Ferdinand, sixth duke, son of Ferdinand, Duke of 
Guastalla. The sun. Non mutuata luce, " Not with borrowed light," 
meaning that he shone by his own merit alone. 

Gonzaga, Fbancesoo, Cardinal. An eagle placing its foot upon 
an olive branch. Motto, after Virgil, 1 Bella gerant alii, " Let others 
wage war ;" implying, that being a cardinal, he left war to his brothers, 
of whom there were five in the army. 

Gonzaga, Vicenzo, Prince of Mantua. A lizard in a tuft of 
camomile. Motto, fflternumque tenebit, 2 " And will hold (maintain) 
for ever." 

Pliny says : " There is a certaine hearbe called Calaminth, most 
soveraigne and singular against the biting of serpents, wherewith the 
Lezards, whensoever they have fought with them, cure their wounds 
by applying it thereto." 3 

Gonzaga, Lucketia. This device of a white stag, with a neck- 
lace, under the shade of a laurel-tree. Her motto, Nessun mi tocchi, 
" Let no one touch me," was suggested by the sonnet of Petrarch, 
allegorical of his devotion to Laura : 

" Una Candida oerva sopra l'erba 
Verde m' apparve, con due corna d' oro, 
Fra due rivere a 1" ombra d' uu Alloio, 
Levando il sole a la stagion, acerba." 

Petrarch then describes the necklace — 

" Nessun mi tocchi, al bel collo d'intorno, 
Scritt' avea di diamanti, e di Topati, 
Libera farmi al mio Casare pai've." 



" Bella viri, pacemque gerant." 2 " iEtcrnumque tenebit per secula nomen.' 

JEiieid, lib. vii. Yihgil. 

3 Book viii., cli. 27. 



AND WAE-CEIES. 145 

skilful minister of Charles V., and Philip II., associated with Margaret 
of Parma in the government of the Low Countries, until superseded 
by the Duke of Alva. A Burgundian by birth, of the family of 
Plantin, the celebrated printer of Antwerp. He was a patron of 
letters and a collector of paintings, books, and manuscripts. 

A ship beaten by the waves (Fig. 105). Motto, Durate, " Endure," l 
from the '2Eneid,' when iEneas, in the act of being shipwrecked, 




Fig. 105.— Cardinal Granveld. 

through the instrumentality of his enemy, Juno, addresses a conso- 
latory speech to his companions, which concludes, Durate et vosmet 
rebus servate secundis. 

" Endure the hardships of the present state : 
Live and reserve yourselves for better fate." 

Dkyden's Virgil. 

Hold out and preserve yourselves for more prosperous circumstances. 

The hope of better times is the strongest argument that can be used to 

inspirit the drooping resolution. 

Motley 2 states that at Gran veld's villa of La Fontaine, near Brussels, 

over the great gate was the marble statue of a female. " It held an 

empty wine-cup in one hand, and an urn of flowing water in the other. 

Durate was engraved on a pedestal, meaning that his power would 

outlast that of the nobles, and, perennial and pure as living water, it 

would flow tranquilly on long after the wine of life had been drunk to 

the lees." 

1 " Endure and conquer, Jove will soon dispose 
To future good our past and present woes." 

Dutdbn's Virgil. 
1 ' Rise of the Dutch Republic' 



144 HISTOEIO DEVICES, BADGES, 

Petrarch, Con queste, " With these,"— meaning wisdom and virtue, which 
are the two means by which we attain to a knowledge of the Divinity. 

" The feathers of a bird I wore, 
By which above the poles I soar ; 
Which when my swift mind doth embrace, 

All earthly things I count as base.'' 

T. Heywood. 

Gonzaga, Carlo, sixteenth duke (+ 1657). A tulip looking at 
the sun. Motto, &yn sus rayos, mys desmajos, " Without its rays, I 
wither." 1 

Gouffier, 2 Claude de, Marquis de Boisy, Due de Eoannois, 
Grand Ecuyer de France (+1570-2). He took as his device, a 
branch lopped off (souche estronquee), with the motto, Hie terminus 
hmret, " Here the boundary is fixed " (Fig. 1 04), implying, that being 




Fig. 104.— Gouffier. 

the personal friend of his sovereign, Henry II., and loaded by him with 
honours, his ambition was satisfied — he wanted nothing more. 

This motto appears, with his monogram and that of Henry II., 
on the tiles of the chapel in his chateau of Oiron (Deux Sevres), in 
Touraine, built by Claude Gouffier, conjointly with his mother, 
Helene Hangest, to whom the arts are indebted for that mysterious 
ware, called " faience de Henri deux," fabricated, under her direction, 
at Oiron. 

Granveld, Antonio Perenoto, Cardinal de (-)- 1586). The 

1 Other mottoes for the tulip — Guillaume, saved the lifeof Charles VIII. 
Languesco sole latente, " The sun hid- at Fornova, and was chosen governor of 

den, I languish." the Due de Valois, who, when Francis I., 

Senza i suoi raggi io perdo miabelhzm, loaded him with honours, and made 

" Without its rays, I lose my beauty." him Marquis de Carabas. He married 

2 Guillaume Goufner, friend of Charles Helene de Hangest, who resided from 
VII., received from that monarch the 1524, after his death, at Oiron, till she 
demesne of Oiron, and afterwards that of died, 1537, with her son Claude, whom 
Boisy. Louis XI. confided to him the Henry II. made marquis, and afterwards 
education of his son, afterwards Charles duke. In 1568 the chateau was devas- 
VIII. Artus, Sire de Boisy, son of tated by the Huguenots. 



AND WAR-CRIES. • 147 

their way, upon little heaps of stones, to guide those who followed 
them. This is the Mountjoye 1 of the pilgrims, and is said to have 
been the device of the dukes of Gueldres (Fig. 106), with the motto, 
Sans autre guide, " Without other guide." 

Guise, • Lorraine, Claude de, Comte de, founder of the illus- 
trious house which for eighty years wielded the destinies of France, 
was a younger son of Duke Rene II., of Lorraine (see), and obtained 
the favour of Francis II., who erected his territory into a duchy. He 
advanced in riches and honour, and it was of him that Francis II. 
made the well known observation that, 

" Ceux de Guise, 
Mettent les rois de France et leurs enfans en chemise." 

Claude used the Lorraine motto (see Anjou, Rene), amplified, and 
placed it over a maison de plaisance, on the banks of the Marne. 
" Toutes pour une, la et non plus.'' 2 He assumed all the quarterings 
on his shield which showed the lofty pretensions of his family, and at 
his funeral, his pall was semee with the double cross of Jerusalem, 
which afterwards became the celebrated and special badge of the 
house of Lorraine and of its adherents, 3 with a green scarf, the colour 
of their livery. 

Guise, Francois de Lorraine, second Duke (+1503). "Vrai 
serviteur de Dieu, de France, et de son Roy." 

Marked his horses with <1> (Greek phi), a D and G, as initials of 
his name, Francois, Due de Guise. 

1 A hill near Jerusalem, whence pil- these road-signs, " monte gaudii " 

griras first caught a glimpse of the Holy mountjoyes — because, when they saw 

City, was called Mountjoy, or Monte- them, fh'ey began to rejoice at havin°- 

gioia; it was surrounded by a tower for arrived at the end of their journey, 

their protection, and an order of knights 2 ' Histoire des Dues de Guise,' par 

instituted for their defence {Ash-mole). Bene de Bouille. Paris, 1S^9. 

Hence the term was applied to wayside 3 A writer says that the double cross 

marks showing the road to holy places. " monstra que les Dues de Lorraine ont 

A heap of stones, surmounted by a cross or este' doublement Chrestiens, lorsque non 

by plaited branches of plants ; and some- contensr de leur pays, assis au cceur de la 

times towers of refuge on the high road, chrestiente', ils ont entrepris la conquete 

were so called. Near St. Peter's was a de H Jerusalem et de toute la terre sainte 

Mountjoye, by which pilgrims knew they a leurs despans, s'en sont rendus maistres, 

were near that church ; and the Emperor en ont jouy longtemps, et en sont morts 

Frederic I. entered Rome by the " Mount- roys paisibles."— Ourdin, Historic MSS. 

joye " tower. Crosses marked the road de la Maison de Guise. 
from Paris to St. Denis. Pilgrims called 

L 2 



146 



HISTOEIO DEVICES, BADGES, 



Gkimaldi. The motto of the house, Deo juvante, 1 " God helping." 
Arms, lozengy, argent, and gules. 

Geitti, Andrea (-J-1539). At the head of the Venetian army, 
he expelled the Imperialists from Padua, and defended it against the 
Emperor Maximilian, but was surprised and taken prisoner at Brescia 
by Gaston de Foix. Appointed doge in 1523, Venice recovered during 
his administration all she had lost by the League of Cambray. Being 
provveditore, or commissary of the Venetian army, he took for device, 
Atlas, with the world on his shoulders. Motto, Sustinet nee fatiscit, 
" Sustains nor grows weary." 

Geolliee, Jean (-(-1565). Appointed by Francis I. treasurer 
of the Milanese, after the battle of Pavia, he returned to Paris, and 
became celebrated as the patron of literary men. He formed a collection 
of books, remarkable for the excellence of the editions and the beauty of 
the binding. Each book bore two inscriptions, showing his tenderness 
to his friends, and his piety. Inscribed in letters of gold, on one side 
was, Io Grollierii et amicorum ; on the other, Portio mea Dornine sit in 
terra viventiwm, " Let my portion, Lord, be in the land ot the living." 

Geyphetjs. See Baglione. 

Gueldkes, Dukes of. It was the custom of pilgrims to holy 




Fig. 106.— Gueldres, Dukes of. 

places to leave knotted branches of the Genista, or other plants, on 

1 Motto of the Earl of Fife. Deo adjuvante, " God assisting," of the Earl of Exmouth. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 149 

the omnipotence of the Cardinal placed in danger. By the pyramid, 
the Cardinal meant the favour of Henry II. ; by the crescent, the king 
himself, whose device it was. 

The Cardinal had also another device, a light placed upon a high 
candlestick, with the motto, Lux publiea principis ignes, " The prince's 
fire, the public lights." 

Guise, Louis de, Loeeaine, Cardinal de (-j-1578). Archbishop of 
Eheims, brother of Francois and the Cardinal de Lorraine, generally 
styled " Cardinal des Bouteilles." The emblem which he gave himself 
was nine zeros, 000,000,000, with the motto, Hog per se nihil est, sed 
si minimum addideris maximum fiat, " This by itself is nothing, but 
if thou shouldst add the least, it will become the greatest," as implying, 
saj s Ourdin, that Dature of herself can do nothing acceptable in the 
sight of Heaven ; but assisted by Divine grace, it can do all thiDgs. 1 

A medal struck in his honour attributes also to him the symbol of 
a paschal lamb surrounded by celestial light, and holding between its 
fore-feet a cross, to which is attached a banner of two points, the 
whole encircled by the legend, Ortu clarus, sine dolo, " By birth 
illustrious, without deceit," — an anagram of his name. 

Maeie de Loeeaine, Queen of Scotland, and mother of Mary 
Stuart, was sister of these three brothers. See Scotland. 

Guise, Henei de Loeeaine, (-f-1588), third Duke "le Balafre." 2 
On his base assassination at Blois, the green scarf of the leaguers 
was changed to black. When three hundred Guisard horse, under 
Brosse, Savense and d'Allonville, were taken and slain by Chatillon, 
the officers wore the Guise mourning — black standards charged with 
the cross of Lorraine, the lances painted black and semee with tears. 
Savense had caused to be inscribed in red upon his guidon these 
Spanish words, Moriro mas contento, signifying that he would 
die content if he avenged the murder of the Balafre and his brother. 

On the death of Henry III. the implacable Duchesse de Mont- 
pensier caused an immediate distribution of green scarfs, colours of 
the house of Lorraine, instead of the black mourning for the Balafre. 

In Henri de Lorraine, Due de Guise, was found the anagram, 

1 See Fbegosa, Ottaviano. 
2 It was lie who took Calais from the saying, when speaking of a general un- 
EDglish, and finally expelled them from equal . to a great undertaking, " II ne 
France, a deed considered so hopeless. to chassera jamais les Anglais hors de 
accomplish, that it was a proverbial France." — Beantome. 



148 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

From the first, the Dukes of Guise constituted themselves the 
enemies of the reformed religion, and, after the fashion of the age, a 
contemporary author finds in Frangois de Lorraine the anagram, 
Croi dans la foi, n'erre. 

Guise, Chakles de, Cardinal de Lorraine (+1574), younger 
son of Claude, and brother of Francois (second Duke). The poets of 
the time called him Mercury, from his eloquence; his precocious 
talents caused him to be styled monstre de la nature by the Chancellor 
Olivier, who found in the name, Carolus Lotaringus, the anagram, 
Orator gallicus unus. 




Fig. 107. — Cardinal de Lorraine. 

His enemies on the other side derived from Charles de Lorraine 
two other anagrams, renard lasohe le roi, and racle as Tor de Henri, in 
allusion to hi3 great wealth, and to his administration of the finances, 
hence too he was termed Cardinal de la ruine, instead of Lorraine. The 
Cardinal de Lorraine took for device a pyramid (Fig. 107) surmounted 
by a crescent, and encircled by green ivy, with the motto, Te stante 
virebo, " While you stand, I shall flourish," which his enemies turned 
to his disadvantage by saying, Te virente peribo, "While you flourish, 
I shall perish," — alluding to the monarch or the crown of France which 



AND WAB-CRIES. 151 

Francis II. and Charles IX., and previously of Marguerite de Valois, 
Duchess of Berry, one of the principal legislators of France. He 
resigned the seals after the massacre of St. Bartholomew. He lived 
austerely, and died poor. For his arms, he took his device of a rock 
in the midst of the sea, and a thunderbolt falling upon it. Motto, 
Impavidum ferient ruinm, " Euin will strike in Yain the fearless." 1 

Hobologgi, Giusttniano. A hand with a rod, angling. Non capio 
ni oapior, " I catch not, nor am caught." 

" The pleasant' s angling is to see the fish 
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, 
And greedily devour the treacherous bait." 

Much Ado about Nothing, Act iii., sc. 1. 

Iceland. Gules, a stockfish argent, crowned, or, are the appropriate 
arms of Iceland, and borne by the kings of Denmark. Before the 
discovery of Newfoundland, the principal supply of codfish for the 
countries of Europe was obtained from Iceland and Norway. 2 " Of 
Iceland," says Hakluyt, " to write is little nede, save of stock-fish." 3 

Isolani, Count Antonio. To show that good men may after all 
say, In tribulatione dilatasti me, " In tribulation thou hast enlarged 
me," 4 he had for his device, a serpent that had cast its skin looking up 
to the sun, from which it receives strength at that time. Motto, 
Nitidus, " Shining." 

Shakspeare alludes to the snake casting its skin : 

" And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin, 
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in." 

Midsummer-Night's Dream, Act ii., sc. 2. 

And again, Beaumont and Fletcher : 

" I could thrust my head betwixt two poles, and strip me out of 
My old skin like a snake." The Captain. 

Ascanio Salimbeni used the same device as an emblem of immor- 
tality or regeneration, with the motto, Cangio la vecchia e nuova, 
spoglia prenda, " I cast off the old and put on new spoils " — as 
St. Paul says, " put on the new man," &c. 5 

See, also, Savoy, Emmanuel Philieert. 

1 Godefroy, ' Histoire des Chanceliers.' 4 " Thou hast enlarged me when I was 

2 Moule, ' Heraldry of Fish.' in distress." — Psalms iv. 1 . 

3 ' Principal Navigation,' &c, 1589. s Ephes. iv. 22. 




150 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Ne hardi, il decide nos guerres. From Henri de Valois; Vilain 
Herodes, and Boi es de nul hai. From his assassin, Jacques Clement; 
Venfer ma cree. 

Over the hotel of the Dukes of Guise were placed two A's within 
two O's (Fig. 108), meaning, A chaewi son tow. 
This device, taken by the family during the time of 
the League, was interpreted by their enemies as 
implying the ambitious designs they had formed 
upon the crown of France, which they pretended to 
belong to them by descent. But the people, who were attached to the 
family, viewed the motto in a more liberal sense, and attributed it as 
referring to the inconstancy of worldly affairs, and as meaning, " If 
you now have the advantage over us, if you persecute and hate 
us, we will try to revenge ourselves in our turn." 

Guise, Henri de Lorraine, Due de (-f- 1664). The hero of 
the romantic expedition to Naples. Before he set out for Italy, he 
took for device Mount Vesuvius, with the motto, Undique terror, " On 
all sides terror." 

Hagenbach, Pierre de. The reeve or bailiff of Charles the Bash, 
for the Burgundian provinces adjoining Switzerland. See Berne. 
His badge was a die, with the motto, Je passe, to express his intention 
of awaiting a favourable chance. 

A die, with the motto, Nusquam devius, " Nowhere out of the 
way," was the device of the Chancellor Seguier ; and with Semper 
aliquid, 1 " Always somewhat," that of Clement Piccolomini. 

Hainault, William VI., Count of Holland (+ 1417), son of 
Albert of Bavaria and father of the celebrated Jacqueline. He bore 
for device a harrow on his standard, which was displayed in the 
Christian army against the Saracens in Africa, before the town of 
Mara. Motto, Evertit et sequat, " It crushes and levels," — meaning 
that a prince may, by his wise laws and good government, subvert 
bad principles and crush those who resist his authority. 2 See 
Morvilliers. 

Hopital, Michel de l' (+ 1573), the virtuous chancellor of 

1 Semper jactatus, " Always tossed of Ostrevant, eldest son of Duke Albert 
about," is another motto for the die. of Bavaria, Count of Hainault, Holland, 

2 " Then were placed the Hainalettiers and Zealand, which device was a harrow 
whose standard bore the device of Lord or, on a field gules." — Fboissart. 
William of Hainault, at that time Count 



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153 



brothers, and their descendants took, 1 were composed by Charles VII. 
himself, and are, azure, a sword argent in pale, crossed and pom- 
meled or, supporting on the point a crown of gold cotice with two fleurs 
de lis of the same (Fig. 109). The special device, borne by Jeanne was 
a hand holding a sword, motto, Consilio firmata Dei, " Strengthened 
by the counsel of God," which Yulson states to have seen upon a medal 




Fig, 109.— Jeanne d'Arc. 



struck in her honour, after she had caused Charles to be crowned at 
Eheims. Also, a bee upon a hive crowned, Usee Virgo Regnwm 
muerone tuetur, " This Virgin defends the kingdom with a sword." 

In the gallery of the Palais Eoyal 3 was painted for her device, 
a phoenix, with the motto, Invito fvmere vivat, " Her death itself will 
make her live." 

Joyeuse, Cardinal. See Cakafa. 

Lalaing. The motto of this noble family of Hainault is, Lalaing 
sans reproche. 

Lalaing, Jacques de (-)- 1453), surnamed " Le bon Chevalier," 
one of the most adventurous of the knights of the court of the good 
Duke Philip, at Nancy, celebrated for his success at tournaments, 
and his knight-errant feats in France, Spain, and Portugal. Hearing 
of the valour of James Douglas, Lalaing set out for Scotland to break 

1 By command of the king they assumed the name of Du Lis. 

2 For fiematei. read fikmata. 3 Menestrier. 



152 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre in 1555+1572. Daughter 
of Henry II., King of Navarre, and Marguerite d'Angouleme (see). 
"When Jeanne was born Charles V. observed, " Milagro ! la vaca hizo 
una oveja !"— " Wonders ! the cow has had a sheep," alluding to the 
arms of Beam (see Foix). The usual sobriquet given by the Spaniards 
to her father Henri was, el vaquero, " the cowherd." Henry, on 
the birth of his grandson Henry IV., taking up the infant into his 
arms, passed into the ante-chamber, and holding it up said, " Senores 
mira, agora esta oveja pario un hone" " Look, sirs ! now this sheep 
has brought forth a lion," alluding to the contemptuous speech of 
Charles V. First given in marriage to the Duke of Cleves, against 
which, though only twelve years of age, she made a most spirited 
protest, but was threatened to be severely whipped by her governess 
if she did not speedily show a becoming submission. Jeanne was 
so laden with jewels on her bridal day that she could not walk, and 
the king ordered the Constable Montmorency to carry the little bride, 
instead of walking before her with the sword of state, an indignity 
indicating his approaching disgrace. 1 The marriage festivities were 
followed by a general rise of the gabelle, so that her nuptials were 
after alluded to under the sobriquet of " les noces salees." 2 

Jeanne showed great attachment to her father, who was very 
proud of her ; so that between his indulgence and that of her uncle, 
King Francis, the child narrowly escaped being spoiled ; and so appa- 
rent became the fact that the courtiers bestowed upon "la petite 
Madame Jeanne" the sobriquet of " La mignonne des rois." 3 Her 
motto, Gratia Dei sum quod sum, "By the grace of God, I am 
what I am," i was the same as that of Charlemagne. 

On emerging from retirement, after the death of Antoine, her 
husband, she ordered a medal to be struck, and distributed among her 
people. Its device and emblem indicating her determination to surmount 
every difficulty. On one side of the medal were the arms of Beam, 
with the motto, Sum id quod sum, " I am that I am." The reverse 
bore the device of a flower, with the words, Aut faeiat, aut inveniat 
viam, " Either make or find a way." 

Jeanne d'Aro (+ 1430). The arms which Jeanne d'Orleans, her 

1 Miss Freer, ' Life of Marguerite d' 3 Cayet, ' Chron. Novenaire.' 
Angouleme, Queen of Navarre' i Symeone Gab., Sententiose, imprese, 

2 Me'zerai. ot dialogo del.' Lyon, 1560. 



AND WAB-CKIES. 155 

Because he loved the court where he ruined himself by his extravagance, 
he took for device a butterfly burning itself in a candle. Motto, Yo voy 
dietro aquel die me arde, " I follow after that which consumes me." 

Laval, Bois-dofin db, Archbishop of Embrun. A labyrinth 
with the motto, -Fata viam invenient, " Fate will find the way ;" 
meaning that Providence places in our hands the clue of his holy 
commandments, which, if we hold and follow, will lead us over the 
devious paths of the world to life eternal. 

Lauea of Petrarch 1 (-j- 1348). This noble lady was the 

daughter of Audibert de Noves, of an ancient family in Provence. At 

seventeen she married Hugues de Sade, of Avignon, where the Dame 

Laura was the ornament of the papal court. She had eleven children, 

and fell a victim to the great plague which devastated Europe in 1348. 

She was buried in the church of the Cordeliers, at Avignon. Paradin 

states that on her tomb were sculptured two branches of laurel placed 

saltierways, and over them, a cross surmounted by a rose. In 1533 

the tomb was opened, and was found to contain a small leaden box, in 

which was enclosed a sonnet signed by Petrarch, and a bronze medal 

of a female, surrounded by the legend, M. L. M. G\, supposed to mean 

Madonna Laura morta giace. Francis I., passing by Avignon, in 

the same year visited the tomb, and wrote the following epitaph 

on Laura : 

" En petit lieu compris, voua pouvez voir 
Ce qui comprend beaucoup par renoiniiiee, 
Plume, labeur, la langue et le savoir 
Furent vaincus par raymant et l'ayme'e. 
gentille ame ! etant tant estmie'e, 
Qui te pourra louer qu'en se taisant? 
Car la parole est toujours reprimee 
Quand le sujet surmonte le disaut." 



and presenting his own sword to'the king, loved it both for itself and for the re- 
said, " II ne convenient pas qu'un officier semblance of its name to that of his 
de l'empereur voit un grand roi disarme', mistress ; he wrote of it continually, and 
quoique prisonnier." he was called from out of its shade to be 
Gilbert de Lannoy was sent by our crowned with it in the Capitol. It is a 
Henry V., in a.d. 1422, to report on the remarkable instance of the fondness with 
state of Palestine. Vide ' Archseologia,' which he cherished the united ideas of 
xxi., 281 — 444. Laura and the Laurel, that he confesses 
1 " The Laurel seems more appropri- it to be one of the greatest delights he 
ated to Petrarch than to any other poet. experienced in receiving the crown upon 
He delighted to sit under its leaves ; he his head." — Leigh Hunt. 



154 HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

a lance with him. Lalaing came off victorious. He then visited Eng- 
land, and on his return to Burgundy sustained a pas against all comers 
for a year ; after which he went to Borne, and returning to Hainault at 
the time the Duke of Burgundy was holding a chapter of the Order of 
the Golden Fleece, Lalaing was elected a knight hy acclamation. 
After performing prodigies of valour in the war against the rebels 
of Ghent, he was killed at the siege of Ponckes, by a stone from a 
falconet, at the age of thirty-two. The duke wept when he heard 
of his death ; and having taken the fortress, caused all its inmates to 
be hanged or strangled, except six — a leper and five children. Thirty- 
two banners were suspended over Lalaing's tomb. 

Lalaing, Antonio de, Count of Hooghstraeten (-J- 1540). His 
motto was, A nulle plus ; and his wife, Isabella of Calemburg, took in 
return, Y ne moy autre. 

In the ' Catalogue des objets d'art religieux exposes a Malines, 1864,' 
we find two pieces of tapestry, one representing scenes from the life 
of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, the other from that of St. Anthony, now 
preserved in the church of St. Catherine, at Hoogstraeten. Both have 
several times repeated round the border the mottoes, " Ne moy autre 
— nulle plus," of Antoine de Lalaing, for whom they were made." 

Antonio had the device of a hand, holding a sheaf of corn and 
sowing the grain ; motto, La mano fa T opera, " The hand makes the 
work." A diamond ring ; motto, Elle dure et durera, " It lasts and will 
last." A grenade exploding in water ; motto, 

Tout plus grand est son froideur 
Et plus est aspre son ardeur, 
" The greater its coldness, the sharper the heat." 

Lanoi, Gaspabre. A viper biting the lance which pins it to the 
ground. Motto, Indarno, " In vain." From Ariosto : 

" Qual Serpe, che nell' hasta, oh' alia sabbia 
Le tenga fiasa, in darno i denti metta." 

The virtuous man cannot be injured by the biting tooth of 
slander. 

Lannoy, 1 Philip de, of Naples, Prince of Sulmone (-[- 1597). 

1 One of the most ancient houses in in Italy and Viceroy of Naples, that 
Flanders. It was to Charles Lannoy, Francis I. surrendered his sword at 
commander-in-chief of (he Imperial troops Pavia. Lannoy received it on one knee, 



AND WAE-OEIES. 157 

This he wore when he went to the coronation of the emperor at 
Bologna. Charles was pleased with the ingenuity of the device, and said 
to Leyva, " JV* vos tampoco os quexareis, pues yo mismio soy el medico? 
" Do not lament so much, since I myself am the physician," — imply- 
ing, that he, the Emperor, had deceived him and would also heal 
him, which he effectually performed by the honours he conferred 
upon Leyva and his family. 

Ligne, Charles de, Count of Aremberg (-f- 1616). His motto, 
Toujowrs constant. His wife's, Lafidelite. 

Ligne, Claude Lamoeal, Prince de (-)- 1670), was viceroy of 
Sicily and governor of Milan. 

When viceroy he struck a medal : on reverse, a ship beaten by 
the waves, traversed with the bend of the arms of de Ligne, Quo res 
cwmque cadunt, semper linea recta, 1 " Whatever befalls, this line is 
always straight." 

Ligny. See Luxembourg. 

Lodrone, Count Battista da, died at the siege of Casal. His 
device was a thistle (tribolo), with the motto, In utramque fortunam 
(paratus ?), "For both (i.e., every) fortune (prepared)." Showing 
that his valour and constancy would remain firm and upright in every 
vicissitude of fortune, as the thistle, throw it any way you please, still 
stands erect, pointing towards heaven. 

Loredano, PrETRO. The saffron, or crocus. Motto, Coneuhatum 
uberius, " The more fruitful when trod on." Pliny says : " Saffron 
loveth a life to be trampled and trode upon under foot: and in 
truth, the more injurie is done unto it, for to mar it, the better it 
thriveth." 2 

And Matthiole : " II aime d'estre foulle, et n' en frucifie que 
mieus." 3 



These lines have been variously rendered : 

" This verae I made, another had "I wrote these lines— another had the credit. 

The profit that I lack ; Thus do ye oxen bear the yoke for others ; 

So sheepe a fleese doth bravely hear Thus do ye hees make honey for others ; 

To cloth an other's back ; Thus do ye sheep wear fleeces for others ; 

So bees to feed an other's need Thus do ye birds build nests for others." 

From flowers doth hony gather ;. 

So oxen toyle, and plough the soyle, The real line from ' ^Sneid,' ii. 709, 

And yet for others labour ; is " Quo res cunque cadent, unum et 

So byrds nests build— their labour yealds commune periclum " 

No profyt for their paynea ; , Book xx j ^ g 

We spinn and card, and weave full hard, o 1 . 

While others have the gayne." Gommentaire but Dioscoride.' Lyon, 

Westcote. 1572. 



156 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

He ordered a monument to be erected to her memory, with the in- 
scription, Victrix casta fides, " Chaste faith victorious," but it was 
never executed. 

Lauteec. See Foix, Odet de. 

Laval, Andbe de, Admiral of Prance. The -flaming oar, with 
the motto, Pour un autre non, to indicate his ardent zeal in the 
service of his king. 

LesdiguiSbes, Fean^ois de Bonne, Due de, Constable of France 
(-f- 1626), the captain of Henry IY. "qui n'a jamais ete vaincu, et 
qui a toujours ete vainqueur " (expression in his letters of nomination 
as Constable of France). Queen Elisabeth said, " If there were two 
Lesdiguieres in France, I would ask the king for one of them." 
Mottoes, Frangit inaeeessa, " He breaks the inaccessible ;" and Pennse 
nido majores, " Wings greater than the nest." 

Lettchtenbeegh, Geoege Louis, Landgrave of (-j- 1613). Motto, 
Nititur ad laudem virtus, " Valour strives for praise." 

Leyva, Antonio de (-)- 1537). Began his career as a common 
soldier, a pupil of Gonsalvo of Cordova, he took part at the battle of 
Bavenna, defended Pavia, and by his unexpected sortie decided the 
fate of the battle. He fought in a chair. Charles V. made him 
generalissimo of the Italian army. In 1530, when he was in 
Italy, he sent for de Leyva, and desired him to sit by his side and 
keep his hat on, saying, that a captain who made sixty campaigns 
deserved to remain seated and covered before an emperor of thirty 
years. 

Having conquered the Milanese for Charles V., he considered that 
the emperor ought to have conferred upon him the government of the 
duchy, instead of restoring it to Francesco Sforza. To show how 
aggrieved he felt at having had to work that others might enjoy, he 
took the device of bees who make honey for others, and not for them- 
selves, and used for motto the well-known line of Virgil, 1 Sic vos non 
vohis. 

1 When the physician appropriated to Virgil thus finished and amplified the 

himself the praise and the rewards con- lines, which renewed his favour still more 

ferred upon the verses made by Virgil in with the emperor. 

honour of Augustus, Virgil fastened in •■ Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores. 

the same place where he had put the sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves. 

others, four times, the beginning of the sic ms m>n mois vMerafertis oves. 

verse the words, 8ie vos non vohis. . Sic vos non vobis meUificatis apes. 

. i i • . i - - , , . Sic vot non vobis fertis aratra boves ' ' 

Augustus asking the meaning of this »«"w»«ra, 



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and Louis XII. as the " Comte de Ligne," 1 used the same device as his 
father. On a field azure, a sun or, surrounded by clouds, with the 
same motto. 

Luxbmbotjbg, FsANgoisE de (-j~ 1557). Wife of John, Count 
Egmont. Her motto, Lafoy que fay, with her sixteen quarterings 
of nobility with the sixteen of her husband, were inscribed upon her 
tomb. 

Maino, Jason (+ 1519). This celebrated jurisconsult, whose 
lectures were attended by Louis XII. and his court, placed over the 
door of his house at Paris, Virtutis fortuna comes, " Fortune the 
companion of virtue." 

Malatesta, the sovereign lords of Eimini and of a great part 
of Eomagna, had for their device an elephant, allusive, perhaps, 
to the bones of Hannibal's elephants, said to have been found at 
the Forli pass, near Fossombrone and Fano, of which they were 
lords. 

Mandrtjccio, Ceistofoko, Cardinal Trent (-\- 1578). A phoenix 
on the funeral fire (Fig. 110). Motto, Dt vivat, " That it may live ;" 




Fig. 110.— Cardinal Trent. 



i.e., ready to die in the body, to live with Christ. Tertullian makes 
the phoenix an image of the resurrection; it is also that of the 
Christian. 

As the phoenix, when old and wearied, seeks the rays of the sun 

1 It was to De Ligny that Ludovic Sforza surrendered when betrayed by the 
Swiss at Novara. 



158 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Signora Bernardo Eota used the saffron flower, with the motto, 
Pereundo inelior, 1 " The better in perishing." 

Lorraine, Bene II., Duke of, bore the alerions of Godfrey of 
Boulogne, and the double or patriarchal cross of Jerusalem ; also, the 
device and motto of Bene of Anjou (see). His eldest son suc- 
ceeded to the duchy of Lorraine. Claude, the younger, was the 
founder of the illustrious house of Cruise. 

His wife, Philippa of Gueldres, who was very beautiful, bore, 
when at court, 2 the thistle, with the motto, Ne me toques, il pent. 

Lorraine. See Anjou, Bene, Duke of. 

Lorraine. See Guise. 

Lorraine, Charles V., Duke of (-f- 1690). Placed upon his 
standards, Aut nunc, aut numquam, " Now or never." 

Lucca. A panther. 

" La pantera, eke Lucca abbraccia e onora." 

Parisotti. 

Luxembourg, Jean de, Count de Ligny (-f-1482). This illustrious 
house, possessed with large territories in France and Germany, has 
produced five emperors, four kings, six queens, and numerous princes, 
constables, &c. A camel sinking under his heavy burden. Motto, 
Nemo ad impossibile tenetur, " No one is held to impossibilities." 3 

Luxembourg, Pierre de, Comte de St. Paul, de Ligny, &c. 
(-(-1482). Son of the unfortunate Constable of France. The celebrated 
Comte de St. Paul, given up by Charles of Burgundy to Louis XI., 
by whom he was beheaded 1475. As perfidious as the masters he 
alternately served, Count Pierre himself fell a victim to their treachery. 
He was reinstated in his family titles and possessions by Mary of 
Burgundy, and took the device of a sun surrounded by clouds, 
with the motto, Obstantia nubila solvet, "It disperses opposing 
clouds ;" meaning that he would extricate himself from the clouds 
and difficulties which surrounded him after the death of his father. 
His son, 

Luxembourg, Loots de, known in the Italian wars of Charles VIII. 

1 Other mottoes: Pulchrior attrita re- yet greener, trod on;" Atrita melior, 

surgo, " Ground down, I arise more " Ground down, the better." 
lovely ; " Pereundo provenit, " It advances 2 Barante. 

by perishing ; " CaJcafa vimtrimt, " Grows " Maus. de la Toison d'Or. 



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Funeral and bridal both ; and all around 

The borders with corruptless myrrh are crown 'd. 

On this incumbent, till ethereal flame 

First catches, then consumes the costly frame ; 

Consumes him too, as on the pile he lies : 

He liv'd on odours, and on odours dies. 

An infant phoenix from the former springs, 
His father's heir, and from his tender wings 
Shakes off his parent dust, his method he pursues, 
And the same lease of life on the same terms renews. 
When grown to manhood he begins his reign, 
And with stiff pinions can his flight sustain; 
He lightens of his load the tree that bore 
His father's royal sepulchre before. 
And his own cradle ; this with pious care 
Plac'd on his back, he cuts the buxom air, 
Seeks the sun's city, and his sacred church, 
And decently lays down his burden in the porch." 

Dryden. 

And again : 

" So that lone bird in fruitful Arahie, 

When now her strength and waning life decays, 
Upon some airy rock or mountain high, 
In spicy bed (fir'd by near Phcebus' rays) 
Herself and all her crooked age consumes ; 
Straight from her ashes, and those rich perfumes, 
A new-born phoenix flies, and widow'd place resumes." 

P. Fletcher, The Purpte Island. 

We have already alluded to the phoenix as the device of Eleanor, 
Queen of Francis I., and also as that of Vittoria Colonna. It formed 
likewise part of the badge given to Queen Jane Seymour — a phoenix, 
in flames, issuing from a ducal coronet, being the crest of their family. 
Her son, Edward VI., added the motto, Nascatur ut alter, " That 
another may be born," alluding to the nature of her death. Queen 
Jane Seymour lies buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, with a 
Latin epitaph by Bishop Godwin, which has been thus translated by 
his son Morgan : 

" Here a phcenix lieth, whose death 
To another phoenix gave breth, 
It is to be lamented much 
The world at once ne'er knew two such." 

Queen Elizabeth also placed a phosnix upon her medals, with her 
favourite motto, Semper eadem, " Always the same," and others. She 



160 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

to consume its body, 1 again to be revived in life and vigour, so 
the Christian, worn and exhausted by worldly labour and suffering, 
turns to the Sun of Eighteousness for regeneration and newness 
of life. 

Ariosto alludes to the phoenix in the voyage of Astolfo : 

" Arabia, ch' e detta Felice, 
Eioca di mirra e d' odorato inoenso, 
Che per suo albergo 1' unica Penioe 
Eletto s' ha di tutto '1 mondo immense" 

Orlando Furiosi), Canto xv., 39. 

"Arabia, nam'd the Happy, now he gains. 
Incense and myrrh perfume her grateful plains ; 
The virgin phoenix there in seek of rest, 
Selects from all the world her balmy nest." 

Hoole's Translation. 

But the ancient fable of the phoenix is most fully given by Ovid, 
thus translated by Dryden : 

" AH these receive their birth from other things, 
But from himself the phoenix only springs ; 
Self-born, begotten by the parent flame 
In which he burn'd, another and the same ; 
Who not by corn or herbs his life sustains, 
But the sweet essence Amomum drains ; 
And watches the rich gums Arabia bears, 
While yet in tender dews they drop their tears. 
He (his five centuries of life fulfill'd) 
His nest on oaken boughs begins to build, 
On trembling tops of palms : and first he draws 
The plan with his broad bill and crooked claws, 
Nature's artificers : on this the pile 
Is form'd, and rises round ; then with the spoil 
Of Cassia, Cynamon, and stems of Nard, 
(For softness strew'd beneath) his funeral bed is rear'd. 



1 " He (Manilius) reporteth that never that of his bones and marrow there 

man was knowne to see him feeding ; breedeth at first, as it were, a little worme, 

that in Arabie hee is held a sacred bird, which afterwards proveth to bee a pretie 

dedicated unto the sunne ; that he liveth bird. And the first thing that this young 

660 years, and when he groweth old and phoenix doth is to performe the obsequies 

begins to decay, he builds himselfe a nest of the former phoenix late deceased; to 

with the twigs and branches of the canell, translate and oarie away his whole nest 

or cinnamon, and frankincense trees: into the citie of the sunne, near Pauchse, 

and when he hath filled it with all sort and to bestow it full devoutly there upon 

of sweet aromaticall spices, yieldeth up the altar." — Pliny, book x., ch. 2. 
his life thereupon. He saith, moreover, 



AND WAB-CKIES. 163 

Burgundy, Duchess of Savoy (-|- 1530). Betrothed to Charles YIIL, 
married to John of Spain, who died the same year, she next married 
Philihert le Beau, of Savoy, who died, leaving her a widow at four-and- 
twenty. She took the motto, Fortune, infortune, forte line, the meaning 
of which has puzzled the curious to discover. The most probable 
rendering is, " In fortune or misfortune there is one (woman) strong 
in heart." 

Margaret was appointed Governess of the Low Countries, where 
she ruled with a mild sway for her father and her nephew. She died 
at Brussels, and was buried at Bourg-en-Bresse (Dep.-de-lAin), in the 
church built by herself. Her motto is repeated in several parts of the 
building. 

A coin of Margaret (1522) bears for device a hand issuing from 
the clouds, and, extended over a daisy (marguerite) ; the legend, Maims 
Domini protegit me, " The hand of God will protect me." 

A hand issuing from a cloud, holding a thunderbolt over a tree. 
Motto, Spoliat mors munere nostro, " Death destroys with our gifts." 
Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Florence and Parma (-)- 1586), 
natural daughter of Charles V., married, first, Alexander de' Medici, 
Duke of Florence ; secondly, Ottavio Farnese ; and was mother of 
Alessandro Farnese. She and Ottavio both died the same year. The 
Villa Madama, on the Monte Mario, at Eome, is so called after 
Margaret, who occupied it. It was begun for Cardinal Giulio de' 
Medici, after the designs of Baffaelle, and finished by Giulio 
Eomano. 

When a widow her device was an arm issuing from the clouds and 
armed with thunder, threatening an oak-tree. Motto, Versa est in 
cineres, " It is turned into ashes." Also a violin, with motto, Versa 
est in lachrymas, " It is turned into tears." 

When separating from her sister, she took the 'Savoy or true lover's 
knot. Motto, En s'eloignant elles se serrent. 

A pearl (marguerite) shining from its shell, Deaus allatura 
coronse, " About to bring glory to the crown." 

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother 
of Henry VII. See England, Henry VII. 

Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VII. See Scotland, 
James IV. 

Margaret of York. See Burgundy, Charles le Temeraire. 
TWATifHTF.nTTTi'. dtt. VAT,oTs_ or jrZANftorrT.Tgivrffi, Duchess of Alencon 

M 2 



162 



HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



is often compared to the phcenix. Sylvester, in his ' Corona Dedi- 
catoria,' says : 

" As when the Arabian (only) bird doth burne 
Her aged bodie in sweet flames to death, 
Out of her cinders a new bird hath breath, 
In whom the beauties of the first return ; 
From spiey ashes of the saered urne 
Of our dead phoenix (deere Elizabeth) 
A new true phcenix lively flourisheth." 

On the tomb, in Westminster Abbey, of Linacre, fourjder of the 
College of Physicians, and honorary physician to four sovereigns, is a 
phoenix, with the motto, Vivit -post funera virtus? " Virtue survives 
the funeral ." 

Mandrtjccio, Ludovico, Cardinal, nephew of Cristofero (-(-1600). 




Fig. 111.— Cardinal Mandruccio. 

The lotus (Fig. Ill), with the motto, Emergo lueente sole, "With 
the sun shining, I come out." See for lotus, Carafa, Ferdinand. 

Margaret of Anjou. See England, Henry VI. 

Maegabet of Austria, daughter of Maximilian and Mary of 

by death has prolonged his life 



1 Other mottots for the phcenix: De 
mi muerte mi viola, " From my death my 
life ; " TJror, morior, orior, " I am burnt, 
I die, I arise ; " mors, ero mors tua, 
"O Death, I shall be thy death;" Se 
necat ut vivat, " Slays himself that he 
m:iy live;" De mort a vie, ' : Froni death 
to life ; " El morte vitam protutit, " And 



' Vivre 

pour mourir, mourir pour vivre, " Live, to 
die, die to live ; " Hurio y nacio, " I die 
and am born;" Ne pereat, "That it 
should not perish ; " Truova sol nei tor- 
menti il suo gioire, " It finds alone its joy 
in its suffering ; " Ex morte, immortalitas, 
" Out of death, immortality." 



AND WAE-CBIES. 



165 



d'Alencon, to show, says Brantome, that " her heart was devoted to God ; 
she chose for her device the sunflower (Fig. 112), and this flower 
bearing the greatest affinity to the sun, as much by the similarity of its 
rays and its leaves, as that it turns from all parts to where he moves." 
Margaret added, from Virgil, the motto, Non inferiora seoutus, " I 
have followed no inferior things," "to signify," continues Brantome, 
" how she directed all her thoughts, will, and affections towards that 
great San which is God." 




Fig. 112.— Maiguerile, Queen of Navarre, Sister of Francis I. 



The sunflower, with the same motto, is on a medal struck, in 1636, 
in honour of Frederick Henry of Orange. 

Catherine, daughter of the Emperor Albert I., had the same device. 
Motto, Deorsum nunquam, " Never downwards." 

Margaret also had a lily between two daisies, with the motto, 
Mirandum naturx opus, "A work of nature is to be admired." 

In the second edition of her poem, "Le Miroir de l'Ame 
Pecheresse," 1 she has the motto, Vng pour tout, i.e., " God for us all." 

In the poem 2 called " La coche " the motto is, Plus vous que mot/. 



1 England rendered the most brilliant 
homage to her learning and virtues. 
Queen Elizabeth translated into English 
Marguerite's poem, ' Le Miroir de l'Ame 
Pecheresse,' and three sisters of the 
illustrious house of Seymour, Anne. 
Margaret, and Jane Seymour, composed 
a hundred Latin verses in the Queen's 
honour, and to express their afflic- 
tion at her death. T he poet Nicholas 



Denysot, preceptor of these learned 
sisters, edited their poem, which ap- 
peared in Paris, under the title of ' Le 
Tombeau de Marguerite de Navarre,' 
with translations appended in French 
and Italian. 

2 Her poems are collected under the 
title of 'Marguerites de la Marguerite 
rles Princesses, tre's illustre'e Eoyne de 
Navarre,' Lyon, 1547. 



164 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

and Berry, Queen of Navarre (+ 1549), daughter of Charles, Duke 
of Orleans and Louise de Savoie; married to the Duke d'Alencon 
(1509 and 1527), afterwards to Henri de Bourbon, King of Navarre. 
Their daughter was Jeanne d' Albert, mother of Henry IV. Her life 
presents one long series of intercessions for the oppressed and miser- 
able ; and her power over Francis, which to the last day of her existence 
remained paramount, was always exercised in favour of others rather 
than for her own aggrandisement. Her court at Nerac was the 
resort of the literary and the learned. She was the protector of Calvin 
during his stormy sojourn in France. Erasmus, Clement, Marot, and 
Beza here found an asylum from persecution. 

" La Royne Marguerite, 
La plus belle fleur d'elite, 
Qu' onques la terre enfanta." 

Eonsard. 

The beloved sister of Francis I., who called- her his " Mignonne," 
his " Marguerite des Marguerites." She was the ornament of his court, 
her understanding excellent, her learning great, and her heart open to 
good and generous feelings. She well deserved the epitaph — 

■' Musarum decima et Charitum quarta 
Indigta regum, 
Et soror, et conjux, Marguaris ilia jacet." 

" The tenth muse, the fourth of the graces, Margaret, favourite sister and wife of 
kings, lies here." 

Etienne Forcadel also proclaimed her wisdom and merit in a Latin 
epitaph. 1 

They said she was " une Marguerite (margarita — pearl) qui 
surpassait en valeur les pedes de l'Orient." 

Eonsard, in his touching lament upon her death, says : 

" Tu fus la perle et l'honneur 
Des princesses de nostre age." 

Being somewhat of a mystic turn, Margaret took outward symbols 
to express the inward promptings of her mind, and, when Duchesse 

1 " Huio rex fmter erat, rex vir, mens docta. Quid ultra ? 
Ocoidit. Heu, fatcor Palluda posse mori ! " 

" To her a king was father, a king husband, a mind learned. What more ? 
She died. Alas ! I confess that Pallas could die 1 " 

" That imperfect, ill-shaped, and counterfeit pearl," as she terms herself, in a 
letter to Bri<;onuet, Bishop of Meaux." —MSS., Bill. Imp. 



AND WAR-CEIES. 167 

des poetes." Boileau says — "Imitez de Marot l'elegant badinage." 
His motto was, La rnort ny mort. 

Maey of Loeeaine. See Scotland. 

Mart de Medicis. See Feance. 

Maey Stuart. See Scotland. 

Massaei Giov. Alfonso. A man of letters. A falcon hooded, 
gessed and tied, trying to fly, but unable to execute its purpose. 
Motto, Voluisse satis, " Enough to have wished," — the good intention 
is sufficient. 

Mataleone, Count Tomaso. See Caeafa. 

Mattei, Gieolamo. Captain of the Guard to Clement VII. 
Haying killed Gieromino, nephew of the Cardinal Delle Valle, to 
avenge the death of his brother, whom Gieromino had cruelly put 
to death, to show that time would enable him to get over the greatest 
injuries, he placed upon his flag an ostrich swallowing an iron nail, 
with the motto, Sjpiritus durissima co-quit, ' : Courage digests the 
hardest things ;" that is, the brave man grows accustomed to danger, 
and is not easily shaken by fear,— a device which was so lauded, that 
his enemies, the Delle Valle, accepted peace, and the Pope forgave 
him the homicide. 

Jack Cade says : 

" I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich, and swallow my sword like a groat pin." 

King Hairy VI, 2nd Part, Act iv., sc. 10. 

" II a un estomac d'autrache ; il digei-eroit le fer." 

French Proverb. 

Mayence, Willigis, Archbishop of. When Otho III. succeeded, 
983, at the age of three years, to the empire, Henry, 

Duke of Bavaria, renewed his attempts on the crown I /j^^- 

of Germany, and endeavoured to get possession of I - 

the king's person, but the nobles would not support Kwf 

him. At the head of these loyalists was Willigis, | (IlfPj 

Archbishop of Mayence, the sou of a wheelwright, k. ""■— ~— " 
who had adopted as his arms a wheel, with the "^ N/"""'' 

motto. "Willigis, forget not thine origin." Hence, fir. 113.- Arms of the 

„ °, , , , „ nir i Archbishop of Mayence. 

the arms of the electoral see ot Mayence nave 

ever since been gules, a wheel with six spokes, argent (Pig. 113). 

Mazabin, Jules, Cardinal (-f- 1661). From his arms he took 
three stars (Fig 114). Motto, Invidite fines virtute reliquit, " He left by 



166 HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

On the binding of one of her books l is the lily on a hillock, with 
the motto, Expeeta non eludet, " Waited for, it shall not escape." 

Marguerite de France, Duchess of Berry and Savoy, daughter 
of Francis I. (+ 1574). She married (1559) Emanuel Philibert, the 
hero of St. Quentin. 

After the example of her father and her aunt, this Princess culti- 
vated letters and the arts. Bonsard celebrated her under the designation 
of Pallas. Her subjects styled her "La mere des peuples." Her 
device was an olive branch entwined with serpents. Motto, Rerum 
sapientia custos, " Wisdom the guardian of affairs," signifying that all 
things should be guided and governed by wisdom. On her marriage, 
she took the shield of Minerva, with the motto, Berum prudentia 
custos, " Prudence the guardian of affairs." 

Marig-nan, Gio. Jacopo, Medichino, Marquis of (-)- 1555), or de' 
Medici, to which family he bore no relation, though he assumed their 
arms. He was one of the great captains of the day— first in the 
service of Francesco Sforza ; then in that of Charles V., who made him 
a marquis. He was brother to Pius IV. (Giov. Angelo de' Medici), 
who caused a magnificent mausoleum to be raised over him in the 
cathedral at Milan, designed, it is said, by Michael Angelo. 

A ship in a troubled sea. Motto, Custodes Bomine vigilantes, 
" The watchful guardians of the Lord." 

Marguerite de France. See France, Henry IV. 

Marillac, Louis de (-f-1632), victim of the "journee des dupes" 
and the vengeance of Eichelieu. Although the princes of Conde said 
" qu'il n'y avait pas la de quoi fouctter un page " in the allegations 
against him, the unfortunate marshal wa 3 beheaded on a scaffold raised 
upon the last step of his hotel, to spare him the ignominy of being 
dragged in a cart to execution. Over his tomb was placed, Sorte 
fimesta clarus, " Eenowned for his sad fate." 

Marot, Clement (-(-1544), de Cahors en Quercy, valet de 
chambre to Francis I. and his sister, was taken prisoner at Pavia, 
fighting bravely at the side of the king, but on account of his literary 
merit, he was released without a ransom. A Lutheran, he lived 
proscribed in Beam ; his versification of the Psalms of David were 
most popular at the French court. Francis I. and his courtiers sang 
them to the tunes of their vaudevilles. " Poete des princes, et prince 

1 In the possession of the Earl of Gosford. 



AND WAB-CEIES. 



169 



guished a place in the history of Italy, and exercised so important an 
influence over the revival of literature, the arts, and sciences, bore for 
their arms, in heraldic parlance, six torteaux gules. Whether these 
represented pills or cupping-glasses, as badges of the profession their 
name denotes, it is impossible to say; but the "palle" and the 
"gigli" 1 have in all popular commotions been the war-cry of the 
several parties in Florence. " Viva le palle e muoiano i traditori ! " 
was the cry of the populace who paraded the streets after the 
conspiracy of the Pazzi. 

Medici, Cosmo de' (+ 1464). The founder of the family, styled 
by a decree of the senate, Pater Patrise, " Father of his country," and 
so inscribed upon his tomb at San Lorenzo. He bore three diamond 
rings interlaced (Fig. 116), the meaning of which is not known ; but a 




Fig. II 6. — Cosmo de' Medici. 



pointed diamond ring, " diamante in punta," was introduced into their 
impresa by most of his descendants. 

Medici, Pietro de' (-)- 1470), son of Cosmo, took a falcon with a 



1 " The beautiful Giglio, or Iris, the 
city's emblem, still clings to her grey 
walls. The giglio of Florence was once 
white. According to the most popular 
opinion upon the subject, among the pro- 
fusion of these flowers which formerly 
decorated the meads between the Mug- 
none and the Arno (which then flowed 
across the Piazza di Santa Maria), a 
white flower of the same species having 
sho^n itself among the rising fabrics, the 
incident was poetically seized upon, and 
the white lily then assumed its station 
in the crimson banner of Florence." — 
Napiek's History of Florence. 



The white lily was subsequently 
changed by the Guelph party (1257) to 
red; and Dante deplores the alteration 
as a consequence of the discords and 
divisions of Florence. 

" vid 'io glorioso, 

R giusto, '1 popol suo tanto, che'l giglio 
Nun era ad asta mai porto a ritroso 
Ne per division fatto vermiglio." 

Paradiso, xvi. 151. 

" have I seen 

Her people just and glorious, so that ne'er 
Stained through division, had her lily been 
With vermeil, or reversed upon the spear." 
Wright's Tiamlution. 



168 



HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



valour the boundaries of envy ;"— a lictor's fasces and the stars, motto, 
Prxest prudentia hettis, " Prudence is eminent in wars." He took, 
after the peace of the Pyrenees, the same stars, motto, Ab his venit 
omne serenum, " From these (hence) all serenity." Vigilant et euncta 
quiesount, "They watch and all things are quiet." Eine ordo et 
ccypia rerum, " Hence just order and abundance to the ruler." 




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Fig. 114. — Mazarin. 



See also Medici, Cardinal Ippolito ; and Richelieu. 
"Mecjenas. Mecsenas bore for device a frog (Fig. 115), either to 
show the empire he possessed both by sea and by land, having the 
full confidence of the Emperor Augustus, or else as an emblem of his 




Fig. 115.— Meotnas. 

taciturnity. According to iElian, the frogs of Syriapha (an island in 
the .ZEgean sea) never croak in their own marshes. 

And Pliny also says : " A little frog there is, delighting to live most 
among grass and in reed plots ; mute the same is, and never croaketh." 1 

These frogs therefore are emblematical of silence and secrecy, for 
which two qualities Mecaenas was held in such reverence by his master. 2 

The Medici. This illustrious family, which occupied so distin- 



ISook xxxii. eh- 7. 



2 Paradin. 



AND WAB-CKIES. 



171 



to be found. This device has been perpetuated by all the members of 
his bouse. 1 

In 1468, a tournament was held at Florence, in the Piazza di 
Santa Croce, at which the brothers Giuliano and Lorenzo bore away 
tbe prizes. Lorenzo's motto was, Le terns revient ; his device, a fleur- 
de-lis, the privilege of using the arms of France having heen recently 
conceded to his father by Louis XI. 2 

Medici, Pieeo de' (-f- 1503), eldest son of Lorenzo. In his days 
of gaiety, and amidst the delights of Florence, Piero assumed a device 
intended to characterise his temper and pursuits, to which Politiano 
supplied him with an appropriate motto. 3 The device represented 




Fig. 119. — Pie.ro de' Medici. 



green branches crossed over each other, with flames issuing from 
them (Fig. 119). The motto, In viridi teneras exurit flamma 



1 We find it on an edition of Plautus, 
in yellum, printed at Florence by the 
Giunta, in 1514, and dedicated to Lo- 
renzo II., a copy of which is now in the 
British Museum (Eoy. Lib). 

In the Laurentian Library, the MSS. 
.acquired by Piero de' Medici are distin- 
guished by the fleur-de-lis; those col- 
lected by Lorenzo are marked, not only 
with the Medioean arms, but also with a 
laurel branch, in allusion to Lis name 
and the motto, Semper. — Roscoe, Life of 
Lorenzo de' Medici. 

2 The Medici arms were previously 
five torteaux iu orle gules. They then 
received the augmentation of the sixth in 
chief, azure, charged withthree fleurs-de- 

3 Eoscoe, 



lis. The grant of the French king states 
that ■' Que nous ayant en memoire la 
grande louable et recommandable re- 
nomme'e que feu Cosme de' Medici a eue 
en sou vivant en tout ses faits et affaires, 
lesquels il a conduitz en si boune vertu 
et prudence, que ses enfaus et autres ses 
parens et amis en doivent estre recom- 
mandez et eslevez en toute honneur." 
Therefore, the king grants permission to 
Piero de' Medici, his heirs and successors, 
to bear on their arms three fleurs-de-lis, 
and these arms are given " pour en user 
par tous les lieux et entre toutes les per- 
sonnes que bon leur semblera et tant en 
temps de pais, que en temps de guerre," 
&c. — Mont Lugon, 1465. 
Leo X.' 



170 



HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



diamond ring in its claw (Fig. 117), and the motto, Semper, " Always ;" 
meaning that every action of his life should he done with the love of 
God. Semper fa-l-con di (Dio) amante. 




Fig. 117.— Pietro de' Medici. 

Giovio observes, the diamond, from its resistance to fire or the 
hammer, was the more appropriate to Piero, who had been so wonder- 
fully preserved from the conspiracy of Luca Pitti. 

The impresa of Piero, surmounting a crown with the lily of 
Florence in front, 1 forms the crest of the grand-dukes of Tuscany. 

Medici, Lokenzo de' " The Magnificent " (+ 1492). He con- 
tinued the device of the ring, in which he placed three feathers, green, 
white, and blue (Fig. 118), with his father's motto, Semper, implying that 




Fig. 118. — Lorenzo de'Medici. 



where the love of God (di-amante) existed, the virtues — faith, hope,* and 
charity (indicated by the white, green, and red feathers), were always 

' A fleur-de-lis fioienee'e or, expanded, gules. — Souverains du dhmde. 



AND WAE-CEIES. 173 

Leo's own personal impresa was the yoke 1 (Fig. 121), with the 
motto, Suave, " Easy," taken from the words of our Saviour, Jugum 
meum suave est, et onus meum leve, " My yoke is easy, and my hurden 
is light." 

Leo assumed this device when restored to Florence, after eighteen 
years' exile, to signify that he was returned, not to be the tyrant of his 
country and to revenge his injuries, but to rule conformably to the 
scriptural words of his motto, and to the sacred habit he wore. Eoscoe 
observes, in his ' Life of Pope Leo X.' : — " It is, however, highly 




Fig. 121— Leo X. 

probable that such an unlimited assumption of absolute power, as that 
emblem implies, was not compensated by the language which accom- 
panied it, in the estimation of those inflexible friends to the liberties 
of their country, many of whom still remained within the city, and 
who were well aware that if they were once effectually placed under 
the yoke, the weight of it must in future depend upon the will of their 
master." 

It appears that this device was first invented by the great Cosmo, 
who, when recalled to Florence, caused a medal to be struck, in which 
Florence was represented seated upon a chair, with the yoke under her 
feet. 2 

Medici, Giuliano db' ( -f 1516), third son of the great Lorenzo. 

1 Another motto for the yoke, Superare ferendo, " To overcome by endurance." 

2 Giovio. 



172 



HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



medullas, " The flame eats out the tender pith in the green (branch) ;" 
or, as Menestrier translates it, " Je brule tout verd que je suis," to 
signify in his " verdi anni " the consuming fire of his love. 1 His 
second brother, 

Medici, Giovanni de', the celebrated Pope Leo X. 2 (+ 1521), 
placed the three rings of his great grandfather Cosmo round 




Fig. 120.— Medici Arms. 



his escutcheon (Fig. 120), and also used the device of his father 
Lorenzo. 3 



1 Piero, having joined the French, 
was with them at their defeat at Gari- 
gliano. He attempted to pass the river, 
but the boat, being heavily laden, sunk 
in the middle of the current, and Piero 
miserably perished after having sup- 
ported ten years of exile. 

2 In assuming the name of Leo, lie 
meant to allude to the emblem of Flo- 
rence, a lion (the "marzocco"), and to 
the dream of his mother, that she gave 
birth to a lion. Ariosto addresses him 
" Tu gran leune." — Orlando Furioso, 
c. xvii., 79. 

3 In a description of the coronation of 
Pope Leo X., 1512, in a letter by Penni, 
a Florentine physician, it states : " After 
the princess, the sonatori dressed in the 



livrea del pontifice chie di finissimo panno 
cioe bianclie, rose et verde, et in nel 
petto un dignissimo ricamo de oro facto 
vi era un diamante con tre penne, una 
e biancha 1' altra verde, e 1' altra pavo- 
nazza, ligate al pie con un brevicello, 
nel qual vi era questa parola scripta. 
Semper, et derieto nelle rene un Jugo, 
con questa aver simil littera di sopra, 
N. Di sotto, un brevicello che dicea, 
Suave." 

From St. Angelo to the end of the 
bridge were cloths adorned with festoons 
and pontifical ensigns, yokes, diamonds, 
and feathers. 

Andevan le voci al cielo de " Leone, 
Leone,— Palle, Palle." 



AND WAE-CEIES. 



175 



triumphs, and exhibitions, that now once more enlivened the city 
of Florence, which were doubtless intended to turn the attention 
of the people from the consideration of their new state of political 
degradation." 

Medici, Loeenzo II., or Loeenzino de' (-)- 1519). Son of Pietro, 
chief of the Florentine Bepublic in 15 L3. 1 His device was a laurel tree 
between two lions (Fig. 123). Motto, Ita et virtus, " So too, is virtue," 





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— that is to say, virtue is like a laurel between two lions — you must 
face the lions to earn the laurel. " No cross, no crown," a device ill 
befitting this proud, frivolous prince, who was equally unworthy of 
the complimentary verses of Ariosto, 2 as of the tomb of Michael 
Angelo. 

All are familiar with those marvellous works of Michael Angelo, 
the tombs of the weak Giuliano, and of his worthless nephew Lorenzo, 
in the chapel of the Medici at Florence. The statues of the warrior- 
clad Giuliano and the gloomy Lorenzo are perfect, and the figures of 
Day and Night upon the tomb of one, and of Morning and Evening 
upon that of the other, are among the greatest conceptions of his 



1 In 1516 Lorenzo obtained the duchy 
of TJrbino from the Eovere family. In 
1518 he married Madeleine de Boulogne, 
mother of Catherine de' Medici. 



Beginning — 

" Nella stagion che'l bel tempo ramena, 
Dia mia man posi un ramuscel di lanro." 



174 HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

He married the sister 1 of Louise de Savoie, in consequence of which, 
Francis I. made him Duke de Nemours. Being also appointed to the 
high office of Gonfalonier of the Church, to show that fortune, which 
previously had frowned upon him, began to turn in his favour, Giuliano 
took as his device a triangle or shield, on which were six letters 
inscribed, G L V I S, which, read backwards, form Si volge, " It 
(that is, fortune) turns " (Fig. 122). This motto is to be seen on 
a majolica jug, with the Medici arms, in the South Kensington 
Museum. 




Fig. 122. — Giuliano de' Medici. 

Eoscoe states, that on their restoration to Florence, in 1512, 
"Among other methods adopted by the Medici to strengthen their 
own authority, and conciliate the favour of the populace, was the 
institution of two companies, or orders of merit. One of these was 
denominated the Order of the Diamond, alluding to the emblem or 
impresa of a diamond ring with three feathers, and the motto Semper, 
adopted by Lorenzo the Magnificent, and now restored by his younger 
son Giuliano, with a view of securing his own influence by recalling 
the memory of his father. 

" The other order, of which Lorenzo de' Medici, the son of the 
unfortunate Piero, was considered as the chief, was called the 
Company of the Broncone, in allusion to the impresa of Piero, 
representing trunks of wood consuming in the midst of flames. 
This society was chiefly composed of the younger part of the 
citizens, who, from their rank and time of life, were judged to be 
most suitable companions for Lorenzo, upon whom, as the repre- 
sentative of the elder branch of his family, the authority which 
it had enjoyed in the state was expected to devolve. To the 
members of these societies precedence was given on public occasions, 
and it was their particular province to preside over the festivals, 

1 Filiberta, to whom Ariosto addressed, on the death of Giuliano, the beautiful 
ode, beginning — 

" Anina eletta, cbe nel mondo folic." 



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177 



so the purity of his soul could not be injured by the malignity of his 
enemies. This device was made in the time of Adrian VI., when 
the adversaries of the Cardinal conspired against his life. 1 It is of 
frequent occurrence on medals, and in the decorations of the Vatican. 
Mr. J. C. Eobinson, in his elaborate catalogue of the Napier Collection, 




Fig. 124.— Pope Clement VII. 



at West Shandon, notes a " majolica plate, reverse decorated with a 
shield of arms in the centre, and motto, Candor illsesus" probably 
executed for Pope Clement VII. 

Medici, Cardinal Ippolito de' ( -J- 1535), son of Giuliano, and 
nephew of Pope Leo X. He was styled the Magnificent. " At once,' 
says Eoscoe, " the patron, companion, and the rival of all the poets, the 
musicians, and the wits of his time. Without territories and without 
subjects, Ippolito maintained at Bologna a court far more splendid 
than that of any Italian potentate." 

To mark the surpassing beauty of Giulia di Gonzaga, for whom 
his adoration was unbounded, Ippolito took for impresa the planet 
Venus (Fig. 125), which outvies all other stars in brightness, and 
throws out its rays like the tail of a comet ; his motto, Inter omnes, 
" Among all," an abbreviation of a line from Horace : 

" Micat inter omnes 
Juliurn sidus." 



Capaccio. 



2 For oaudor, read candoe. 



176 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

powerful chisel. 1 The observation of the Emperor Charles "V., that 
"he was surprised not to see the statues rise and speak," probably- 
suggested the verses of the poet Strozzi : 

" La notte che tu vedi in si dolci atti 
Dormir, fu da un Angelo scolpita 
In questo sasso, e purche dorme, ha vita ; 
Destala, se nol credi, e parleratti." 

("The night which thou seest sleeping in so sweet an attitude 
was sculptured in this stone by an angel, and, since it sleeps, 
it has life. Wake it, if thou believest not, and it will speak to 

thee.") 2 

Eogers has also described these monuments with his usual truth- 
fulness : 

" Nor then forget that chamber of the dead 
"Where the gigantic shapes of Night and Day, 
Turned into stone, rest everlastingly, 
Yet still are breathing, and shed round at noon 
A two-fold influence — only to be felt — 
A light, a darkness, mingling each with each ; 
Both, and yet neither. There, from age to age, 
Two ghosts are sitting on their sepulchres. 
That is the Duke Lorenzo — mark him well ! 
He meditates, his head upon his hand — 
What, from beneath nis helm-like bonnet scowls? 
Is it a face, or but an eyeless skull ? 
'Tis lost in shade ; yet, like the basilisk, 
It fascinates, and is intolerable. 
His mien is noble, most majestic ! 

Then most so, when the distant choir is heard at noon or eve." 

Italy. 

Medici, Giulio de', Pope Clement VII. (-f- 1534). 3 The rays of 
the sun passing through a ball of crystal (Fig. 124). Motto, Candor 
illmsus, " Purity unsullied ;" that is, as the rays of the sun passing 
through a ball of crystal burn objects of every colour except white, 

1 Rogers. more to be of stone. It is a great happi- 

2 Michael Angelo's reply shows his ness to me not to see or hear, while evil 
courageous opposition to the power that and shame last. Therefore do not awaken 
oppressed his country : me : pray ! speak low." 

" Grato m' e il sonno, e pih 1'esser di sasso ; 3 Natural son of Giuliano, the brother 

Mentre che il dannu e la vergogoa dura, of Lorenzo the Magnificent, who was 

Non veder.nonsentir.m' egran ventura; killed in the conspiracy of the Pazzi, 

Poro, non mi destar : deh ! parla basso." u9 g Giulio was e j ected pQpe j Q 

"Sleep is grateful to me, and still 1525. 



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179 



Medici, Alessandko de', first Duke, assassinated by Lorenzino, 
a descendant of the younger branch of the Medici. 1 During the 
imperial war against Eome, Emanuel, King of Portugal, sent an 
elephant to the Pontiff to be used in the wars. The elephant never 
reached Eome, for the vessel which conveyed it struck upon a rock 
off Porto Venere, and the animal being chained, was unable to save 
itself by swimming. Duke Alexander availed himself of the incident 
to manifest his animosity to Eome by choosing for his device 




Fig. 127. — Alejandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence. 



a rhinoceros (Fig. 127), the great enemy ot the elephant, 2 and 
caused this impresa to be damascened upon his cuirass, and 
embroidered on the housings of a horse he ran at Eome for the 
races, with the motto, Non buelvo sin veneer, " I do not roar without 
conquering." See Badges, England, Cromwell. 



1 Superstition observed that Alexander 
died in the year 1536 (Florentine style), 
on the sixth day of the month, on the 
sixth hour of the night, of six wounds, 
at twenty-six years of age, in the sixth 
year of his reign, and therefore six sixes 
were combined in his death, making up 
the age of 6 x 6 = 36 of the current year of 
the sixteenth century .-Napieb's Florence. 

2 Pliny says that the rhinoceros is the . 



second enemy of the elephant (the dragon 
is the first), that the rhinoceros " fileth 
that home of his against hard stones, 
and maketh it sharpe against he should 
fight," and in his conflict with the 
elephant he pierces him in the more 
tender parts, until he killeth him, or the 
elephant overthrows his adversary by 
strangling him with his proboscis.—. 
Book viii., ch. 20. 

N 2 



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HISTOEIO DEVICES, BADGES, 



" The Julian star," alluding to her name, " outshines the rest." This 
device, observes Giovio, bore the form of a comet, and therefore may 
be said to have prognosticated the death of Ippolito, which was occa- 




Fig. 125. — Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici. 

sioned by his affection for Giulia, as he was poisoned in a castle 
belonging to that lady at Itri, to the great grief of the Eoman 
Court. 

This device and motto of Ippolito were also given to Cardinal 
Mazarin, whose name was Giulio, and who bore stars in his 
arms. 

Cardinal Ippolito had another impresa, an eclipse of the moon 




Fig. 126.— Oardiml Ippolito do' Medici. 



(Fig. 126). Motto, Bine aliquando eludabor, "Hence I shall at 
some time struggle out," as one who hoped to extricate him?elf from 
unfavourable affairs — " Mine is only a temporary eclipse." 



AND WAE-CEIES. 181 

Ere leave be giv'n to tempt the nether skies. 

The first thus rent, a second will arise ; 

And the same metal the same room supplies, 

Look round the wood, with lifted eyes, to see 

The lurking gold upon the fatal tree : 

Then rend it off, as holy rites command : 

The willing metal will obey thy hand, 

Following with ease, if, favour'd by thy fate, 

Thou art predoom'd to view the Stygian state : 

If not, no labour can the tree constrain, 

And strength of stubborn arms, and steel are vain." 

Detden's JEneid, Book vi. 

The impresa is bad, but the motto at once suggests its meaning, viz., 
that although Duke Alexander's life had been taken away, there 
would not be wanting another golden branch of the same race to 
succeed. The Grand Duke Cosmo was descended from Lorenzo, 
younger brother of Cosmo, " Pater Patriae," Alexander being the last 
of the elder branch of the Medici who ruled in Florence. This made 
the device the more appropriate, as with Cosmo a new branch shot 
forth. 

The impresa of the torn branch and its motto was also assumed by 
Vulson de la Colombiere, the " father of heraldry ;" he meaning to 
intimate that if he were cut off in the midst of his labours there soon 
would be found one like him for a successor. 

Cosmo, like the Emperor Augustus, was born under the sign of 
Capricorn, and on the same day (the 1st of August) that Augustus 
won the battle of Actium, Cosmo gained the victory which established 
his authority and extinguished the Florentine republic, 1538. He 
therefore chose for his device the zodiacal sign, as figured on the 
ancient medals, with the world under his feet, and the helm and cornu- 
copias. The motto, Fidem fati, virtute sequemur, " In reliance on 
destiny, we will follow virtue," being the words he addressed to his 
uncle, Cardinal Cybo, after the assassination of his predecessor, when he 
modestly declared that he would endeavour by his own merits to 
procure the good fortune promised by his horoscope. 

Cosmo also took two anchors crossed, with the motto Dudbus, 
" By two," meaning, either that he had secured his authority upon two 
supports, the protection of the Emperor Charles Y. and the impreg- 
nable condition of his fortresses ; or, as Domenichi infers, upon the 
affections of his subjects and the fear of God. 

Another impresa adopted by Cosmo was the tortoise with a sail 



180 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Medici, Cosmo de', the first Grand Duke of Tuscany (+1574), 
was son of Giovanni de' Medici, styled, II gran diavolo, general of the 
black band — " Banda Nera " — long celebrated for their courage and 
ferocity, and so styled because they carried black banners after the 
death of their master and patron, Pope Leo X. 

Cosmo adopted the old devices of the Medici, with punning 
significations; the feathers and ring to signify he would be always 
unmovable in the midst of difficulties : Semper adamas in pcenis, 
" Always adamant in trouble " — there being little difference between 
the words poenis and pennis. Also the silver falcon and diamond ring 
cut in a point, Sper aver un di-amante senza fine. 

At the beginning of his reign, Cosmo took the device of a branch 
torn from a tree, from the place of which another immediately shot 




Kig. 128. — Cosmo, Grand Duke of Tuscany. 

forth (Fig. 128) with the motto, Primo avulso non deficit alter, 
" When the first is torn away, a second is not wanting," — alluding to 
the bough of the golden tree which iEneas, by direction of the Sibyl, 
gathered before his descent into the infernal regions, thus described by 
Virgil : 

" In the neighb'ring grove 

There stands a tree : the queen of Stygian Jove 

Claims it her own ; thick woods and gloomy night 

Conceal the happy plant from human sight. 

One bough it bears ; but (wondrous to behold) 

The ductile rind and leaves of radiant gold : 

This from the vulgar branches must be torn, 

And to fair Proserpine the present bomo, 



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1S3 



of Pliny, who, speaking of this herb, says : — " In the like manner it is 
singular good against the stinging of serpents ; for the very weasels, 
when they prepare themselves to combat with them, use to eat this 
herb beforehand, for to be secured from their venom." 

Giovanna, of Austria, the wife of Francesco, took, on the occasion 




Fig. 131. — Giovanna de' Medici. 



of their marriage, the device of two turtle doves (Fig. 131), with the 
motto, Fida conjunetio, " A faithful union ;" and that of two crows : the 
one a symbol of conjugal fidelity, the other of concord and long life. 




Fig. 13*2.— Giovanna de' Medici. 

Also, the sun shining upon a pearl just emerged from the ocean 
(Fig. 132). Motto, Tu splendorem, tu vigorem, " Thou (givest) bright- 
ness; thou strength," that is, as the pearl derives all its whiteness, 
brilliancy, and firmness from the sun, so from heaven alone she looked 
for strength, virtue, and grace. " The pearl," says Pliny, " is soft and 
tender so long as it is in the water ; take it forth once, and pre- 
sently it hardeneth." 



182 



HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



(Fig. 129). Motto, Festina lente, " Hasten slowly ;" a device suggested 
by the Crab and Butterfly of Augustus, or the Dolphin and Anchor of 
Vespasian. " Do nothing rashly. Let your haste be restrained by 
caution." The same sentiment was expressed by the Dolphin and 
Chameleon of Pope Paul III. 




Fig. L29_ — Cosmo, Grand Duke of Tuscany. 

Leonora di Toledo, wife of Duke Cosmo, took a log of burning 
wood lying on the ground, .the flames ascending to heaven ; in imitation 
probably, of the " broncone " of Piero de' Medici. Motto, Imis hmrens, 
ad suprema, " Clinging to the lowest, I mount to the highest," — mean- 
ing that although tied and bound to earthly objects, her aspirations 
rose to heaven. 

Medici, Fkancesco de' (-[-1587), second Grand Duke of Tuscany, 
adopted for his device, a toad gazing at a weasel armed with a branch 




Fig. 130.— Francesco, (Jraml Duke of Tuscany. 



of rue (Fig. 130). Motto, Amai victoria curam, 1 ." Victory loves care;" 
i.e., demands caution, a whimsical impresa derived from the statement 



1 " Jure igitur vincemur, amat victoria 
uram." — Catullus. This motto has been 



aptly adopted by Her Majesty's physician, 
Sir James Clarke, Bart. 



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185 



This is the etymology of the name of the city of Milan, which is 
said to have been so named because at its first foundation was found a 
biformed pig (half pig and half sheep), covered half with silk, and half 
with wool, hence called in French Mi-lan, and in Latin Mediolanum ; 
the pig-sheep containing in its signification the arms of two cities of 
France, viz., Autun, formerly the first town of the G-auls, which bears a 
pig, and Bourges, metropolis of Berry and G-uyenne, which bears a sheep. 

Milan, Visconti of. Much has been written as to the origin of 
the Uscia, or serpent devouring a child (Fig. 133), borne as their 




Fig. 133— Biscia of Milan. 

arms by the Dukes of Milan. 1 Some assign this singular bearing to 
Ottone Visconti, who led a body of Milanese in the train of Peter the 
Hermit, and at the Crusades fought and killed in single combat the 
Saracen giant, Volux, upon whose helmet was this device, which 
Ottone afterwards assumed as his own, instead of the seven crowns' 2 
he previously bore. Such is the version adopted by Tasso, who 
enumerates Ottone among the Christian warriors : 

" E '1 forte Otton die conquist.6 lo scudo, 
In cui dall' angue esce il fanciullo ignudo.'' 

Gerusalemme Liberata, Canto i., st. 5o. 

'• Otho fierce, whose valour won the shield 
That bears a child and serpent on the field." 

Hoole's Translation. 



1 An ancient writer on heraldry thus 
describes the Visconti arms : — " Le due ile 
Milan porte d'argent a un serpent d'azur, 
nomme une giosse le'zarde a dix tours 
toumans, cinq en tournant, et cinq en 
avalant sa queue rcoioquillant, ayant 



englouty un enfant de gueulles." 

2 Iralioff (' Hist. Italia et Hispania 
Genealogicoe ') says the seven crowns are 
the arras of the ancient Lombard king- 
dom of Italy. 



184 H1ST0EIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

When a girl, Giovanna's motto was, Et a Domino non cessdbit cor 
meum, " And from the Lord ray heart does not depart," suggested by 
the words of Jeremiah xvii. 5. 

Fekdinand, Cardinal and Grand Duke of Tuscany (-f-1609), to 
announce his intention to govern with paternal kindness, assumed for 
his device a swarm of bees encompassing their queen (who is said to 
have no sting). Motto, Majestate tantum, " By her royalty alone." 
This device is also placed on the equestrian statue of the Grand Duke 
Cosmo I. at Leghorn. 

Ferdinand likewise used, with his bees, the motto, Pro rege 
exacuunt, " For the king they point their sting," as Yirgil describes 
them in the fourth Georgic : 

" Onward they troop, and brandishing their wings, 
Fit their fierce claws, and point their poison'd stings ; 
Throng to th' imperial tent, their king surround, 
Provoke the foe, and loud defiance sound." 

Detden's Virgil. 

Ferdinand was succeeded by Cosmo II., the protector of Galileo, 
who named the " Stelle Medicii " in compliment to his patron. 

Melfi, 1 Giovanni Caracciolo, second Prince of. Placed round 
the blue lion of his house the motto, Solantw conscientia et finis, 
" Conscience and the end are consoled." 

Milan, City. 

" Austun le pore, Bourges ha le mouton, 
Aus quels le nom de mon pays doiht on 
Nomme' Milan demy laine, en cette aage 
Tenu sacre', en veille Francois langnge. 
La fut Pallas, oue Tecle est venere'e, 
Devant le temple a la vierge honnoree, 
Un pore mouton pour signe est a la porte, 
Qui demy snyo et demy laine porte.'' z 



1 Melfi, a city in the province of the Joanna II. conferred the title upon the 

Basilieata, founded by some Roman Caracciolo family, and by Frederic it was 

nobles who were shipwrecked in accom- raised to a principality. Giovanni Carue- 

panying Constantine the Great to Con- ciolo rebelled against Charles V. and 

stantinople, a.d. 304. Finding the joined the French, which ended the reign 

situation too exposed to invasion, some of the Caraccioli in Melfi, and the title 

of the inhabitants migrated to the mown- of Prince of Melfi was conferred by 

tains near Salerno, where they founded a Charles V. upon Andrea Doria. — 'Descrit- 

city called A-melli, — i.e., from Melfi. tione del Kegnodi Napoli.' Napoli, 1671. 

Joanna made Niccolb Accialo, the Grand 2 ' Emblemes d'Alciat en Latin et 

Seneschal, Count of Melfi ; but in 1392 Francois.' Paris, 1561. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 187 

Violante, to Lionel, Duke of Clarence. When in Holland, he killed a 
knight, whose singular device on his shield he transferred to his own 
— a burning branch, tizzone, from which two water-buckets were 
suspended, with the motto, Humentia siccis, 1 " The wet with the dry," 
the exact meaning of which is not known, but it probably was 
intended to convey that ardour must be moderated by prudence. 
Galeazzo bore this device upon his coins. 

Visconti, Bernabo (-f 1385), the cruel brother of Galeazzo. 
His passion for the chase was so great that he kept more than fifty 
thousand dogs, all of which were quartered upon the citizens of Milan, 
who were responsible for their health. In the Brera at Milan is the 
tomb of Bernabo, surmounted by the earliest equestrian statue in 
Europe. The lisoia is prominently displayed on his back. Force 
and Justice are represented, the latter with a label in her left hand, 
at the end of which is the word. "Souvrayne," and a barking dog 
between two plants, and underneath, the device of a dog concealed 
among the flames, all now unintelligible. Bernabo was poisoned at 
the age of seventy. 

Visconti, Gian Galeazzo (-f 1-102), first Duke of Milan. 
Having dethroned his uncle, Bernabo, he sought to aggrandize his 
territory; he bought the title of Duke of Milan of the Emperor 
Wen^ceslaus, 1395 ; and had he lived, would have converted his 
duchy into a kingdom. He quartered the French fleur-de-lis on his 
marriage with Isabella, daughter of Charles VI., and he married his 
daughter Valentine to Louis, Duke of Orleans : alliances which proved 
fatal to the peace of Italy. He founded the Certosa at Pa via, which 
is rich in the pietra dura of the altars and the whole, of its archi- 
tectural decoration. The sarcophagus of Gian Galeazzo is of the 
finest workmanship, and is enriched with six historical relievos, 
representing his creation as Duke of Milan, his foundation of the 
Certosa, his victory over the imperialists at Brescia, and other actions 
of his life ; he died at Marignano. His funeral was at Milan, and was 
followed by two hundred and forty cavaliers bearing the banners of 
as many cities and castles subject to him. His portrait at the Certosa 
represents him attired in a robe semee, with doves and rays of the 
sun, a symbol he usually employed. If the painting had been better 
preserved, the motto, A hon droit, would be seen on the ribbon in the 

i " Frigida pugnabant calidis, humentia siccis.'' — Ovid, 



186 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

From another legend we learn that, when Count Boniface, Lord 
of Milan, went to the Crusades, his child, born during his absence, 
was devoured in its cradle by a huge serpent which ravaged 
the country. On his return, Count Boniface went in search of the 
monster, and found him with a child in its mouth. He fought and 
slew him, but at the cost of his own life. Hence his posterity bore 
the serpent and child as their ensign. 

Menestrier says that the first lords of Milan were called after their 
castle of Angleria, in Latin anguis, and that these are only the armes 
parlantes of their names. Be that as it may — 

" Lo squamoso Biseion," 

" The scaly snake" (Parisotti), 

was adopted alike by all the Visconti lords, and by their successors of 

the house of Sforza. 

" Sforza e Viseontei colubri." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xiii., st. 63. 



And again : 



" Ugo il figlio e con lui, che di Milano 
Fara l'acquisto, e spieghera i colubri." 

Ibid. Canto iii., st. 26. 

' Hugo appears with him, his valiant son, 
Who plants his conquering snakes in Milan's town. ' 

Hoole's Translation. 



Matteo Visconti was, in 1294, elected Imperial Vicar, with per- 
mission to add the imperial eagle to his escutcheon, and upon his 
descendants, the Emperor Albert conferred the privilege of placing a 
crown of gold upon the head of the serpent. 

Nor does Dante omit to allude to this celebrated device. When 
Beatrice of Este, widow of Nino, Judge of Gallura, remarried to 
Galeazzo Visconti (-f- 1328), meets her first husband in purgatory, he 
thus reproaches her : 

" Non lo fara si bella sepoltura 
La vipera che i Milanesi accampa 
Com' avria futto il gallo di Gallura." 

Purgatorio, Canto vii., 1. 79. 

Visconti, Galeazzo, II. (-j- 1378) shared the inheritance of his 
uncle, the cardinal, successively with his two brothers, Matteo and the 
wicked Bernabo. He was a learned prince, the friend of Petrarch, 
and connected with England by the- marriage of his daughter, 



AND WAK-CBIES. 189 

semee of white tears. After a year of sorrow, Valentine died at trie 
age of thirty-eight. Her device is to be seen at Blois, and in the 
magnificent tomb raised to her memory by her grandson, Louis XII., 
to whom she left the fatal inheritance of her right to the duchy of 
Milan. The chantepleure is mentioned by Lydgate — 

"Like chautepleure, now singing, now weeping." 

It is of frequent occurrence, as the device of the Duchess of Orleans, 
in the inventories of the time. 

" 1455. Pour avoir faict une chantepleure d'or, a la devise de ma dicte dame (la 
Ducbesse d'Orleans), par elle donne'e a MS. Alof de Cleves, son frere pour porter line 
plume sur son chappeau." — Inv. des Dues de Bourgogne, No. 6732. 

" 1455. A. Jehan Lessayeur, orfevre, pour avoir fait deux jartieres d'or pour 
Madame la Duehesse (d'Orleans) esmaille'es a larmes et a pense'es." — Ibid. 

" 1455. Une chantepleure d'or a la devise de Madame (la Duehesse d'Orleans) 
pour porter une plume sur le chappeau." — Ibid. No. 6732. 

Visconti, Giovan Maria (-f-1404) fell by assassination. He 
began his administration by parricide, and continued a course of 
cruelty almost unparalleled ; he hunted his victims with dogs trained 
for the purpose. On the painting in the Certosa he is represented 
with the hiscia and the tizzone of his grandfather. 

ViscoNTr, Filippo Maria (-)-1447), brother of Giovan Maria, 
and husband of the ill-fated Beatrice di Tenda, whom he caused to 
be put to death at the castle of Binasco. He deprived his general, 
Carmagnola, of his dignities, and had afterwards to oppose him as 
commander-in-chief of the Venetian and Florentine armies, until the 
unjust execution of this great man delivered Filippo Maria from his 
most formidable opponent. He restored Alfonso of Aragon to liberty, 
and by marrying his only daughter and heiress, Bianca Maria, to 
Francesco Sforza, the dukedom passed into that family. Duke Filippo 
quartered the liscia with three eagles. 1 

Milan, Sforza op. 

According to the system of shrouding the origin of a great family 
in fable, the house of Sforza is said to have sprung from Muzio 
Attendolo, a peasant of Cotignola, in Bomagna, in the fourteenth 

1 Litta, ' Famiglie Celebri.' 



188 



HISTOEIC DEVfCES, BADGES, 



bird's beak. Money was coined with this device, as appears from an 
ordinance, by which an additional value is given to several coins, 
among which is mentioned that of " Pigione." 

Visconti, Valentine (-|- 1408), widow of Louis I., Duke of 
Orleans, after whose assassination she retired to Blois, from which 
city she in vain demanded justice of the murderers of her husband. 
Her entreaties were not comprehended by the imbecile king, 
Charles VI., nor listened to by his corrupt queen, Isabella of 




Bavaria. Valentine took for device the watering-pot (chai depletive) 1 
between two letters S, initials of Soucy and Soujnr (Fig. 134), with 
the motto— 

'Eien ne m'est pins. 
Plus ne most rien." 

These two melancholy lines were repeated in every part of the rooms 
of the duchess, the walls of which were hung with black drapery 



1 "The chantepleure, or water-pot, 
was made of earthenware, about a foot 
high, the orifice at the top the size of a 
pea, and the bottom pierced with 
numerous small holes. Immersed in 
water, it quickly fills. If the opening 



at the top be then closed with (he thumb, 
the vessel may be carried, and the water 
distributed in small or large quantities, 
as required, in the mode of a modern 
watering-pot."— Smith, Catalogue of the 
Museum of Loudon Antiquities. 



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191 



bravery of his band, who came to his assistance against the Duke of 
Milan, he said, " Io ti voglio donare un leone degno della tua prodezza, 
il quale colla man sinistra sostegna il cotogno, e minaccendo colla 
destra il defende ; e guai a chi lo tocchi !" (" I will give you a lion 
worthy of your bravery, which will support the quince with the left 
hand, and defend it with the right ; and woe to him who touches 
it !") 

Spoeza, Fbancesco (+1466), fourth son of Muzio Attendolo, by 
right of his wife, Bianca Visconti, took possession of the state of 
Milan ; and, having quelled all disturbances, he caused to be em- 
broidered on his military surcoat a dog seated under a tree, with the 




Fig. 136. — Francesco Sfurza. 



motto, Quietum nemo me impune lacessit, " When at rest, no one 
shall safely provoke me " (Fig. 136) ; meaning that he molested 
no one, but was ready to defend himself against any who dared to 
attack him. 

Sfoeza, Galeazzo Maria (-(-1476), son and successor of Francesco, 
used a most obscure device — a lion with a helmet on its head, seated 
before the burning branch (tiszone), and water-buckets of Galeazzo 
Visconti, with the word Jovii, " Belonging to Jove " (Fig. 137). This 



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HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



century. He was one day working in the fields, when the sound of 
military music awakened his martial feeling. Struggling between 
his duty to his family and his own inclinations, he determined to refer 
the decision to chance. " I am going," said he, " to throw my axe 
against this oak : if it remains in the tree, I will he a soldier ; if it 
falls to the ground I will remain as I am." The axe was fixed in the 
oak, and Muzio followed the soldiers. 

The surname of Sforza was given to his grandson, born 1369. 
He was one of the most celebrated condottieri of the fourteenth 
century, having served under Sir John Hawkwood, II Broglio, and 
Alberigo Barbiano; and having passed through all the necessary 
grades, according to the fashion of the time, he placed himself at the 




Fig. 135. — Sforza Arms. 

head of a band of adventurers, and entered the service of the Emperor 
Kobert. He assisted the Church to sustain the Angevin party in 
Naples, he defeated Ladislaus at the Garigliano, and was created by 
John II. Count of Cotignola. Jealous of Paolo Orsini, he left the 
service of the Church and joined Ladislaus, who made him first baron 
of the kingdom of Naples, and Joanna II. conferred on him the 
dignity of High Constable. He was drowned, 1424, in the river 
Pescara. At his death, Joanna decreed that his surname Sforza 
should be substituted for his cognomen of Attendolo, and remain 
hereditary in his descendants. Sforza bore on his banner a quince 
{Porno cotogno), the emblem of the town of Cotignola, where he was 
born. The Emperor Kobert, of Bavaria, 1401, granted the lion 
rampant or (Pig. 135) to Sforza, at a time when, astonished at the 



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193 



wisest tree of all others : but after that she begins once to put forth 
buds, she dispatcheth her business out of hand, insomuch as in one 
night she hath done ; and that with such a force, that the breaking 
forth a man may evidently heare the noise." ' 

When Ludovico assumed, the epithet of the Moor, the children 
in the streets used to call out, " Moro, Moro !" as he passed. 

In the time of his prosperity he was wont to boast of having 
driven the French out of Italy, an enterprise of which he caused a 
puerile imitation to be made ; viz., a map of Italy full of cocks and 
chickens, and a Moor, with a broom in his hand, driving them away. 

He likewise ordered a medal to be struck : on the reverse, a 
drooping lily, meaning Charles VIII., bitten by a viper, with the 
legend, Cosi ioAho di Dio faro in Italia dei nemici Francesi, "Thus 
will I, the instrument of God, do in Italy with its enemies, the French." 




Fig. 138. — Ludovico Slorza. 

He also took for his device a castellated female figure, representing 
Italy, her robe covered with cities, and by her side a moorish servant 
with a brush in his hand (Fig. 138). " What means," said the French 
ambassador to the duke, "that black servant who is brushing the 
castles on the dress?" Sforza replied, " To cleanse them from every 
vileness." To which the acute ambassador rejoined, "Beware, my 
lord, lest the Moor, in using the brush, does not draw all the dust 

1 Book xvi., ch. 25. 





192 HISTOEIO DEVICES, BADGES, 

tyrant fell by the hand of three conspirators, urged by a fanatic to 
imitate the example of those in ancient history who had perished in 
the extirpation of tyranny. 




Fig. 13V. — Galeazzo Maria Sforza. 

His wife, Bona of Savoy, who was left, with the faithful Simo- 
netta, guardian of his son, a child of eight years of age, took at his 
death, and had engraved upon her coins, a phoenix, with the motto, 
Sola facta, solum deum sequor, " Being made solitary, I follow only 
God." 

This princess is thus introduced by the poet Accolti, lamenting 
her misfortunes : 

•' Re padre, re fratel, duca o eonsorte, 
Ebbi, e in tre anni, i tre rapi la morte." 

" I had a king for my father, a king for my brother, and a duke for my husband, 
and in three years death deprived me of the three." 

Sfokza, Ludovico — the Moor, " II Moro." Some imagiDe that 
Ludovico was called the Moor from his dark complexion, which is a 
mistake, for he was rather white and pallid. He took the name when 
he assumed as his device the mulberry-tree (Latin, morus), because 
that tree being the last to bud and the first to ripen its fruit, thereby 
avoiding cold and frost, is reputed the wisest of trees, and is the 
received emblem of prudence and cautious policy. Pliny says : 

" Others againe bee backward and slow both to bud and blossom ; 
but they make speed to ripen their fruit, as the Mulberie tree, which 
of civile and domesticall trees is the last that doth bud, and never 
before all the cold weather is past ; and therefore she is called the 




AND WAR CRIES. 195 

be the greatest enemy of his family, as it was through his machinations 
that Ludovico was expelled from Milan, and he never ceased persecuting 
the house of Sforza until they were deprived of their duchy and sent 
prisoners to France. Cardinal Ascanio took for device the eclipse of 
the sun, which is caused by the intervention of 
the moon stopping the sun's rays from falling 
upon the earth, with the motto, Totum adimit 
quo ingrata refulget, " It takes away the whole 
(light) from which it ungratefully shines." 

An old device of the Sforza house was the 
bulb of a tulip about to shoot forth its leaves, 
with the motto, Mil zeit, or Col tempo, " "With 
time" (Fig. 139). It is on the reverse of a «*■ "*-»*» b**. 
medal struck upon the marriage of Francis II., last duke, with 
Christiana, 1533. 

Conte di Santa Fioee, a lineal descendant of the great Sforza of 
Cotignola, bore at the battle of Scrivia a red standard semee of golden 
quinces. On a scroll was the motto, Fragrantia durant, Herculea 
collecta manu, " Their fragrance remains, gathered by the hand of 
Hercules," — alluding to the golden fruit gathered by Hercules in the 
gardens of the Hesperides. 

Montefelteo. See Ubbino. 

Montluo (Blaise de), Seigneur de (-f- 1577), Marshal of France. 
This ferocious Gascon took for device, Deo duce etferro comite, " God 
leading, and my sword following." 

Montluo, Jean de (-)- 1579), brother of the Marshal, Bishop of 
Valence, Ambassador to Queen Elizabeth. In reference to his various 
diplomatic labours, he took for motto, Quse regio in terris nostri non 
plena laboris? (Virgil) "What region of the earth is not full of 
toil ?" 

Montmajeuk, Joseph Comte de (-)- 1570), ambassador from 
Em. Philibert, Duke of Savoy, to Charles IX. His device was an 
eagle looking at the sun, with the motto, Freda ferar et non connivebo, 
" I shall hold myself erect, and not blink,' to show that his birth from 
a house so noble and illustrious, that he could, without being dazzled, 
sustain the highest fortune, and aspire to the highest honours that 
could be desired by a gentleman of his condition. 1 

1 ' Torabeaux Illustres.' 

2 



194 HISTOBIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

upon his own back " — a true prognostic of his own fate. Deserted by 

the Swiss at the fatal battle of Novara, he was taken prisoner and 

conveyed to the castle of Loches, in Touraine, where he died after ten 

years' captivity. Thus was 

" Ludovico il Moro 
Dato in poter d' un altro Ludovico." 

Orlando Furioso. 

" Ludovico named 
II Moro, in our time has since proclaimed 
Who by another Ludovico fell." 

Hoolb's Translation. 

Ariosto alludes to the descent of Louis XII. into Italy : 

"Pei mostra ove il duodecimo Luigi 
Passa con scorta Italiana i monti ; 
B svelto il Moro, pon li Fiordiligi 
Nel fecondo terren gia dei Visconti." 

Orlando Furiow, Canto xxxiv. 

" See ! the twelfth Louis from the hills descend, 
And with Italian scouts his army bend 
T" uproot the mulberry, and the lily place 
In fruitful fields where ruled Visconti's race." 

Hoole's Translation. ' - 

Ludovico had also the device of a serpent (alluding to the ensign 
of his family) gliding into a hedge. Motto, Sed contra audentior ito, 
" But, on the other hand, go on more boldly ;" Tu ne cede malis, " Do 
not yield to adversity," being understood. 

Beatrice d'Este, his wife. Among other dona'tions to the church 
of Santa Maria delle Grazie, 1 to which Ludovico and his wife were 
liberal contributors, each gave splendid altar hangings. Upon those 
presented by Beatrice she caused to be embroidered her device, a sieve 
held by a hand on either side, with the motto, Ti a mi, e mi a ti, 
"Thou to me, and I to thee." 

Beatrice is buried in the Certosa at Pavia, by the side of the 
empty cenotaph of Ludovico. 

Sforza, Cardinal Ascanio (-(- 1505), youngest brother of 
Ludovico, after having used all his influence to promote the elevation 
of Boderigo Borgia (Alexander VI.) to the pontificate, found him to 

1 Better known as containing, in the di A'inci, painted 1493, by order of 
refectory of the convent attached, the Ludovico, who made Leonardo fix his 
'Last Supper,' or Cenacolo, of Leonardo residence at Milan. 



AND WAR- OKIES. 



197 



of the states at Orleans, prevailed upon several knights to appear 
habited in a gold collar, with the figure of a dog, the emblem of 
fidelity, pendent thereto — the motto of the order being the same 
as their war-cry. The Order of the Cock is attributed to the same 
family. 

The supporters of the Montmorenci arms are two angels, like those 
of the French kings. A fixed star, 1 with the word, AlTAANflS 2 
(Aplanos), " Without change or shadow of turning," is the ancient and 
favourite device and motto of the family. 

Anne de Montmorenci had five mottoes, besides the two he bore 
as Grand Master. In mandatis tuts Domine semper speravi, " I have 
always trusted in thy commandments, Lord." 

Sicut erat in principio, " As it was in the beginning," to show 
that the nobility of his house was such as to admit of no increase of 
honour ; or that honour and prosperity had not changed his heart. 




Fig. 140. — Constable Anne de Montmorenci. 

When made Constable, he bore for device the armed hand issuing 
out of a cloud, with a naked sword, the fieur-de-lise scabbard and belt 

1 The star -without the motto appears upon the seal of Herve de Montmorency, 
in the year 1186. 2 " Sans fraude."— Pakadw. 



196 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Montmokenci, Anne de (-)- 1567), godson of Queen Anne of 
Brittany, fifth Constable of his name, " premier baron," and Grand 
Master of France, Knight of the Garter and St. Michael, Anne de 
Montmorenci was brought up from his youth with Francis I., who 
employed him upon the most important services of peace or war. So 
great were his services to Henry II., and so great the king's love for 
him, that, having raised him to a dukedom, and decorated him with 
every honour, he commanded that, when dead, their hearts, which had 
been united in life, should repose in the same tomb. Under Francis II. 
his favour changed, but not his fidelity. On the accession of Charles IX. 
he returned to France, and served against the Protestants, whom he 
defeated at Dreux, where he was taken prisoner, and at St. Denis, 
where his victory cost him his life. He fell, having received eight 
mortal wounds. His body was carried to Montmorency, where was 
erected one of the richest mausoleums of Europe ; and his heart was 
placed at the Celestius, near that of his beloved master. 

The Montmorenci's take their name from the valley of Mont- 
morenci, near Paris. When Dionysius the Areopagite, in the reign 
of Trajan, arrived at Paris, he converted Lisbius de Montmorenci, 
first lord of the city, who afterwards suffered martyrdom. When the 
Franks spread over Gaul, Lisoye, the Lord of Montmorenci, was one 
of the first to make alliance with the conquerors ; and as he was the 
first and most powerful lord of the Isle de France, he retained thence- 
forth the title of the first baron of France, and, after the baptism of 
Clovis, added that of " premier baron Chrestien," which has been trans- 
mitted to their descendants, who, to show that piety was dearer to 
them than glory and ambition, took for their war-cry, " Dieu ayde au 
premier Chrestien." 

The Montmorenci arms are or, a cross gules (as a mark of the 
martyrdom of their ancestor) cantoned with sixteen alerions azure, 
augmented with four by Bouchard, Lord of Montmorenci, in memory 
of four imperial standards taken by him from the army of Otho II. on 
his defeat (978) near the Biver Aisne. Mathieu de Montmorenci 
added twelve more, in memory of as many ensigns won (1214) from 
Otho 1Y. at the battle of Bouvines. 

The Montmorenci crest was a hound, with hanging ears, borne, 
it is to be presumed, by the family as a mark of fidelity to their kings, 
and in remembrance of the Order of the Dog, said to have been insti- 
tuted by their ancestor, Lisoye de Montmorenci, who, on an assembly 



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199 



laws and good government, subvert bad principles, and crush those 
who resist his authority. 

The letter Y is called the letter of Pythagoras, because that 
philosopher made it the symbol of life. The foot of the letter, he 
said, represented infancy, and as man gradually rises to the age of 
reason, he finds two paths set before him, the one leading to good, the 
other to evil — portrayed by the two forks of the letter. 




Kig. 141. — Chancellor de Morvilliers. 

The Pythagorean Y forms part of the symbolic decoration of a 
carved mirror frame in the museum at South Kensington, an exquisite 
specimen of the Italian work of the sixteenth century. At the base is 
a tuft of acanthus leaves, into which is set a large letter Y, from which, 
on each side, springs an acanthus scroll, running to the top ; and at 
their juncture is the device of a flaming grenade, on one side of which 
is the recording angel, on the other a human skeleton. Within the 
scroll are various animals ; on the right (looking from the mirror) are 
the lion, unicorn, eagle, and others, symbolic of the virtues; and on tbe 
left, below the skeleton, the dog, ape, a satyr, &c, representing the 
vices of human nature. Each animal is accompanied by a capital 
letter, picked out in gold, forming the words BONUM MALUM. The 
composition, therefore, represents the life of man, with the choice of 
good or evil set before him. This mirror forms part of the Soulage 
collection, and is reported to have been the property of Lucrezia 
Borgia, which is probable, as the flaming grenade was the device of 
her husband, Duke Alfonso of Este. 



198 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

of the Constable hanging beneath (Fig. 140), with the motto, from 
Lucan, 

Armata tenenti, 
Omnia did, quijmta neyat. 

'' He grants evei ything who denies justice to him who holds arms — i.e., a successful 
combatant will not be content with his just rights, but will insist on more." 

" Un dextrochere arme de gantelets, issuant d'un nuage tenant, 
la pointe haute, l'epee de Connetable, qu' entoure une banderole sur 
lequel est le devise." 

He also used this device with " Aplanos," the motto of his house, 
and two others : — Fidus et verax in justitia judical et pugnat, " The 
faithful and true in justice judges and fights," — a fitting motto for a 
Constable of France ; also, Dieu et mon grand service. 

The following epitaph was placed over Montmorenci's heart in the 
Celestins at Paris : 

" C'y dessous gist un cceur pleiu de vaillance, 
XJn cceur d'hunneur, un coeur qui tout scavoit, 
Cceur de vertu, qui mille cceurs avoit, 
Cceur de trois Eois et de toute la Franca, 
C'y gist ce cceur qui fut notre asseurance, 
Cceur qui le cceur de Justice vivoit, 
Coeur qui de force et de Conseil servoit, 
Coeur que le Ciel honora des l'enfanoe, 
Cceur non jamais, ny trop liaut, ny rcniis 
Le cceur des siens, l'effroy di s ennemis, 
Coeur qui fut cceur du Roy Henry son Maistre, 
Roy qui voulut qu' un sepulchre commun 
Les enfermast apres leur mort, pour estre 
Comme en vivant deux mesmes cceurs en un." 

Moevilliebs, Jean de ( + 1577), who succeeded Michel de l'Hopital 
as Chancellor of France, bore for his device the harrow (Fig. 141) tied 
to the Pythagorean Y, a rebus of his name. Mort-vie-lies, " Death and 
life united." The harrow is the symbol of death, which makes all 
things equal, as the harrow breaks up and equalises the clods of 
the field. Pere Menestrier states that in Eome, at the funerals of 
princes, cardinals, and other great personages, a harrow always figured 
in the ceremony, inscribed with the motto, Mors mquat omnia, " Death 
levels all things." He saw it at the funeral of Queen Henrietta 
Maria, and others. Morvilliers' motto was, Hoc virtutis iter, " This 
is the road to virtue." The device of the harrow was also taken 
by William of Hainault (see), meaning that a prince may, by his wise 



AND WAR- CRIES. 201 

Egyptiens ont prise pour un vray pere de famille, qui partage egale- 
ment son bien a ses enfans ; a 1'imitation de cet oiseau charitable, qui 
fait egale la portion de ses petits, et qui n'oste jamais rien a l'une 
pour le donner a l'autre." 

The Egyptians, therefore, considered this bird as the symbol of a 
father who distributes his inheritance equally among his children ; or 
of a prince, who, making himself equal with his fellow-citizens, seeks 
neither pomp nor ambition. 1 

Eobert also bore for device a serpent, with a crown, twisted round 
a sword. Motto, His ducibus, " With these leaders." 

Louis of Tabento, second husband of Queen Joanna, instituted 
the Order of the Knot, 1252. The badge of silk, gold, and pearls was 
tied in a knot upon the arm, and those who were invested with it 
made a vow to untie it at Jerusalem. 

Charles of Diteazzo (-f- 1386), on the death of his brother 
Louis, caused Queen Joanna to be strangled. His device was a 
bar of iron beaten by hammers on an anvil, the sparks flying in all 
directions. Motto, Faites moy raison, a term used at banquets.' The 
device probably alluded to the name Durazzo. 

Ladislaus (-(-1414), his son. "With the object of conquering the 
whole of Italy and attaining the empire, took as his motto, Aut Gsesar, 
aut nihil, " Or Csesar, or nothing " {see Boegia, Cesar), with the 
lofty sounding title of King of Eome, which neither Goth, Lombard, 
nor Prank, from fear of the Eastern Empire, had ever ventured to 
assume. By the people he was called in derision, " Ee guastagrano," 
because he ravaged the country without any serious attempt to 
conquer it. 2 

Alfonso I. (V. of Aeagon, see), the Wise or the Magnanimous 
(-f-1458). Adopted by Joanna II., who wavered in her choice 
between him and his rival, Eene of Anjou. Alfonso was very 
studious; he always carried Caesar's Commentaries about with him, 
and slept with books under his pillow. 

He had for device an open book, without a motto, to denote, either 
that the perfection of the human intellect is a knowledge of the arts 
and sciences, or that it is the duty of a king to know everything. 
Also, a ship and the pole-star. Motto, Buena guia, " A good guide." 

1 Kipa, ' Iconologie des Chevaliers.' Paris, 1681. 
2 Napier. 



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HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Naples. — Manfred (-j-126fi), the usurper over the unfortunate 
Conradin. "When Charles of Anjou approached, he resolved to die 
rather than yield. While in the act of adjusting his helmet, a silver 
eagle, which formed the crest, fell on his saddle-bow. Hoc est signum 
Dei, " This is the sign of God," he said, " I fixed this crest with my 
own hands, it has now fallen by chance." Immediately plunging into 
the thickest of the fight, but unable to rally his troops, he fell dead 
amidst a heap of enemies. 1 

A vine trailing on the ground. Motto, Juncta quiescam, "Joined, 
I am at rest." 

Charles of Anjou, King of Naples (-(-1309). Sawing a mountain. 
In patientia suavitas, " In patience, sweetness," — that is, by patience 
and gentleness the greatest difficulties may be overcome. 

Eobert the Good, King of Naples (-{-1343), knowing that 
nothing would better conciliate the populace than the appearance of 
equality, caused to be portrayed in his apartment the swallow feeding 




Fig. 142.— Robert, King of Naples. 



its young (Fig. 142), with the motto, Concordia regni, " The concord 
of the reign," because when the swallow supplies its little ones with 
food, it never gives twice to one in preference to another. 

Pliny says : " In feeding of their little ones, they keepe a very 
good order and even hand, giving them their pittance and allowance 
by course one after another." 2 

Eipa also gives as an emblem of equality : " L'hirondelle que les 



Napier's ' Florenc 



2 Book v., ch. 33. 



AND WAB-CRIES. 203 

pension, with the title of Duke of Anjou, and Frederic died at Tours, 
1504. Two years after the partition, Ferdinand the Catholic made 
himself master of the whole. 

He caused to be struck a medal, upon which was represented a book 
in flames, lettered MCCCCXCV, and surmounted by the crown of 
Naples (Fig. 143), with the motto, Recedant Vetera, " Let old things 
pass away, and let all things be new " (et nova sint omnia), — meaning 




Fig. 143.— Frederic, King of Naples. 

either that he intended to establish a better order of things, or that he 
generously forgave his enemies all the political offences of the year 
1495, which he did, inasmuch as, upon his accession, he did not punish 
those among his nobles who had espoused the Angevine cause, but 
restored them to their domains. 

Nassau, Engelbert, Count of (-J-1504), was made prisoner when 
fighting by the side of Charles the Bold at Nancy, and he afterwards 
proved himself the faithful adherent to his daughter Mary. His 
motto, Ce sera moy Nassau, was also borne by his successor, Henry, 
Count of Nassau (+1538). 

Nassau, William of. See Orange. 

Nassau, Maurice of. See Orange. 

Nassau, Philip William of, Prince of Orange (-J--1618). His 
motto, Sustinendo progredio, " In sustaining I go forward." 

Nassau, John Louis, Count of (-(-1653). Duke et decorum est 
pro Ghriste et patriot mori, " Sweet and beautiful it is to die for 
Christ and our country." 



202 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Bene, titular King of Naples. See Anjou. 

Ferdinand I. (-(-1494), illegitimate son of Alfonso. When the 
Duke of Sessa, who had joined the party of John of Anjou, son of 
Bene, was in his power, Ferdinand refused to put him to death, but 
condemned him to imprisonment, saying that he would not imbue his 
hands in the blood of his relatives. He then took for device the 
ermine, surrounded by a wall of mud, with the motto, Malo mori 
quam foedari, " Better to die than be sullied." 1 

" Whose honour, ermine-like, can never suffer 
Spot, or black soil." 

Beaumont and Fletcher. Knight of Malta. 

Alfonso II., son of Ferdinand I., resigned 1495 to his son 
Ferdinand II., and embarked for Sicily to a villa of his mother-in-law, 
the Queen Dowager of Naples, and sister of Ferdinand of Spain. 

The day of the battle of Campo Morto, near Velletri, he displayed 
upon his standard, three heavenly diadems united together with the 
word, Valer, " Valour," to signify that on that day great valour would 
be displayed. 2 

After the death of Alfonso, who, from the wars of Charles VIII., 
had been obliged to impose grievous taxes upon his subjects for the 
defence of his kingdom, the Neapolitans set up for device a broken 
lance, with the motto from the Psalms, Laqueus contritus est, et nos 
liberati sumus, " The snare is broken, and we are delivered," — meaning 
that by the death of Alfonso they were freed from servitude. 

Ferdinand II., his son (-(-1496). To show that his gene- 
rosity and mercy were the effects of his naturally good disposi- 
tion, he took a mountain of adamant, of which all the points are 
crystallized or formed in regular facets by nature, with the motto, 
Naturse non artibus opus, " The work of nature, not of art." 

Frederic (-f-1501). Uncle of Ferdinand II. When menaced 
by Louis XII., he refused to buy the protection of Alexander VI. 
by marrying his daughter to Caesar Borgia. The disgraceful and 
treacherous partition of his dominions by France and Spain, 1501, 
left him without a kingdom. Capua was taken, and Frederic retired 
for six months with his family to Ischia. Louis XII. granted him a 

1 Alfonso XL, King of Castile, had the Ferdinand the motto, Probanda, is with 
same device and motto. In a MS. book of the ermine. Also, Nunquam, '' Never." 
■ Ferdinand IV., King of Castile, had the same device and motto. 



AND WAE- CRIES. 205 

that the ostrich never hatches her eggs by sitting upon them, hut 
by the rays of light and warmth from her eyes (Fig 144). Motto, 




Fig. 144. — Peter of JNavarre. 

Ab aliis virtute valemus, " From others (from other sources) we prevail 
in valour." 

" With such a look, as fables say, 
The mother ostrich fixes on her eggs, 
Till that intense affection 
Kindle its light of life." 

Sodthev, Thalaba. 

" Virtu diversa, inusitata e nova 
Hanna da gli altrui Augei veracemente 
Gli Struzzi ; che non mai corano 1' ova : 
Ma quelle rirairando flssamente, 
Pur clie da gli occhi lor discenda e piova 
Cnlor si vivo, e vigor si possente, 
Oh' infonde dentro lor spiiito e possa, 
E ne nascon gli Augei con carne e ossa." 

Dolce. 

Nerli, Francesco, Cardinal (-f 1670). A Florentine, Latin 
secretary to Innocent X., Alexander VIII., and Clement IX. A 
branch of coral 1 rising out of the water, which plant from white, its 

1 " Sic et coralium, quo primum contigit auras 

Tempore, durescit ; mollis fuit herba sub undis." 

Ovid. 
" So coral, soft and white in ocean's bed, 
Comes hardqji'd up in air, and glows with red.'' 

Dkyden's Translation. 



204 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Navaeee, Jeanne de. See Jeanne. 

Navaeee, Aems of. The chains 1 which form the arms of Navarre, 
are said to be derived from those which defended the camp of the 
Moorish king defeated by Sancho of Navarre ; but Menestrier 2 shows 
that, like the majority of the ancient coats, it is simply a canting one ; 
such a chain being called in Navarre, una varra, and, in the patois of 
the country, the u being dropped, na varra, therefore assimilating 
completely with the name of the kingdom. The oak was one of the 
badges of Navarre. 

Navaeeo, Pieeo di, the Vauban of his age, a Biscayan general. 
Having learned the art of mining from the Genoese, and improved 
upon it himself, he accompanied Gronsalvo of Cordova to Naples, was 
at Cerignola, and made his first successful trial at the siege of the 
Castel dell' Uovo. Navarro was made prisoner at the battle of 
Eavenna, and his avaricious sovereign, Ferdinand the Catholic, refused 
to pay his ransom. On the accession of Francis, he found Navarro 
still languishing in prison, and paid his ransom (20,000 crowns of 
gold) ; but Navarro, before he would accept the bounty of the king, 
again addressed himself to his old master, even now entreating him to 
be liberated and placed in his former employ. On the relentless 
refusal of Ferdinand, Navarro transmitted to him a resignation of all 
the grants made to him as a reward for his services, and took an 
oath of allegiance to the French monarch, to whom his talents and 
experience were of singular service, and to whom he ever after retained 
unshaken fidelity. 3 

Before accepting his bounty, Navarro passed into the service of 
Francis I.: directs the passage of the Alps, is at Marignano and 
Bicocca. "Was taken prisoner at Aversa ; and Charles V., who never 
forgave desertion to the enemy, is said to have caused him to be 
smothered in prison, in the Castel dell' Uovo, at Naples, 1528. No 
captain of his age so well understood the art of sieges and fortifications. 
He and Lautrec are both buried in the church of St. Maria Nuova, at 
Naples. 

In consequence of his skill in mining, by which he blew up the 
Castel dell' Uovo and other fortresses, Griovio gave him for device 
a pair of ostriches with their eyes fixed upon their eggs, it being said 

1 Gules, a cross and saltire of chains, and sometimes to an orle (sometimes to a 
affixed to an annulet in the fess point, doule orle). 

' Origine des armoiries et du Blazon.' * Roscoe 'LeoX' 



■: t. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 207 

of Orange, who was attempting to rally the fugitives, finding himself 
alone in a wood, tore from his breast the black cross and cast 
himself upon his face among the slaughtered heaps of the Germans 
whom Maximilian had sent to the aid of his affianced bride ; but he 
was recognised by the " ecrevisse " which he bore as his badge, and 
carried off prisoner. 

Orange, House of. — William of Nassau, Prince of Orange. 
Elected Stadtholder, 1579 ; fell, 1584, by the hand of the assassin, 
Balthazar G erard. One of the noblest characters in modern history ; 
to him the republic of the Seven United Provinces owes its founda- 
tion. 

After the taking of Brill, and William's subsequent successes, he 
caused a medal to be struck, 1572, bearing on the reverse a poplar 
tree, with the words of Turnus from the ' iEneid,' Audaces fortuna 
juvat, " Fortune favours the brave." The poplar being a tree that 
lives best in marshes, was especially appropriate as the emblem of 
Holland. 

. Another of William's mottoes was, Usque quo fortuna, " Thus far 
fortune," — i.e., " So far, whither fortune leads." 

He also bore on some of his standards the pelican, on others the 
motto, Pro lege, grege, et rege, " For the law, the people, and the king." 
As says the poet Burns — 

" For while we sing, ' God save the king,' 
We'll ne'er forget the people." 

The same motto was used by William's son and successor, Maurice 
of Nassau, the defender of his country at 

" Ostend's bloody siege, that stage of war, 
Wherein the flower of many nations acted, 
And the whole Christian world spectators were." 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure. 

But to whom posterity can never pardon the execution of the aged 
Barneveldt, or the persecution of the followers of Arminius. 

William's customary device was a kingfisher building its nest upon 
the sea (Fig. 146). Motto, Seems tranquillus in undis, "Tranquil in 
boisterous waves," — meaning that he remained as serene and unruffled 
amidst the political storms that surrounded him as the fabled halcyon 
on the waters of the ocean. 

The kingfisher, say the naturalists, waits for those days in the 



206 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

natural colour, becomes red when exposed to the rays of the sun; 
Motto, A corde leuconde chromate erythror, 1 referring probably to his 
being raised to the dignity of cardinal 2 (Fig. 145). 




Fig. 145. -Cardinal Nerli. 

Cardinal Borghese had the same device, with the motto, Gonspeeta 
rubescunt, " When seen, they grow red." See also Visconti, Cardinal. 

Pliny states: "Corall resembleth a bush or shrub in forme, 
and of it selfe within the water, is of colour greene. The berries 
thereof under the water be white and soft ; no sooner be they taken 
forth, but presently they was hard, and turne red : much bike bothe 
in shape and in bignesse to the grains or fruit of the gentle garden 
corneil tree." 3 

" Ses fruits sont sous l'eau blancs et tendres, tirez dehors incon- 
tinent s'endurcissent, et deviennent rouges, de sorte que de figure et 
de grandeur resemblent aux cornoilles domestiques." 4 

Orange, Ben£ op Chalons, Prince of (-)- 1544). Son of Henry, 
Count of Nassau, and nephew by his mother of Philibert, Prince of 
Orange, who left him his principality. Killed at the siege of Saint 
Dizier, he appointed as his successor William of Nassau, his cousin- 
german, founder of the Eepublic of the United Provinces. Motto, 
Je maintiendray Ghalon. 

At the battle of St. Aubin du Cormier, when the army of Francis, 
Duke of Brittany, was defeated, all who wore the black cross of 
Brittany were executed on the spot by the conqueror. The Prince 

' Not translatable as it stands. Pro- medals engraved in the Museum Mazzu- 

bably it means, as suggested by Mazzu- chellianum, T. ii., tav. exxii., Nos. 4, 5. 
chelli, " Originally white — red from solar 3 Book xxxii., ch. 2. 

colour," — i.e., influence. * Matthiole, ' Corumentaire sur Dios- 

■ This device is on the reverse of two coride.' 



AND WAE-CEIES. 209 

in fashion of a round ball, the mouth or entrie thereof standeth some- 
what out, and is very narrow, much like great spunges." 1 

When the kingfisher is engaged in hatching her young, the sea is 
believed to remain so calm that the sailor ventures his bark upon the 
main with the happy certainty of not being exposed to a storm. 

" As calm as the flood 
When the peace loving halcyon deposits her brood." 

Cowper. 
" Halcyons of all the birds that haunt the main, 
Most loved and honour'd by the Nereid train." 

Theocritus, Idyll vii. Fawke's Translation. 

The brothers Sinibaldo and Ottoboni Fieschi, of Genoa, used the 
device of two kingfishers sitting on their nest, with the motto, Nous 
savons lien le temps, when they were waiting a favourable opportunity 
for joining the party of the Emperor against the French. 

Other mottoes for the kingfisher : Oecasio omnium, rerum optima 
est, " Opportunity is the best of all things." Sat cito, si sat tempestive, 
" Soon enough, if fitting enough." 

On the mausoleum of William of Orange, at Delft, are his various 
emblems, the kingfisher with its motto. Two anchors, with, Je main- 
tiendrey. Scales upon an altar, motto, Je maintiendrey piete et justice; 
and an open Bible, motto, Te vindice tuta libertas, " With thee guard- 
ing it, liberty is safe." 

Each of these emblems is placed twice round the monument. 

The Gueux. To this period belongs the celebrated confederacy 
of the Gueux, who assumed the well-known device of the beggar's 
wallet. The elegant author of the ' Life of Philip II.' thus relates 
its origin : 

" At one of the banquets given at Culemborg House, when three hundred con- 
federates were present, Brederode presided. During the repast he related to some of 
the company, who had arrived on the clay after the petition was delivered, the 
manner in which it had been received by the duchess. She seemed at first discon- 
certed, he said, by the number of the confederates, but was reassured by parliament, 
who told her ' they were nothing but a crowd of beggars.'. This greatly incensed 
some of the company, with whom, probably, it was too true for a jest. But Brederode, 
taking it more good-humouredly, said that he and his friends had no objection to the 
name, since they were ready at any time to become beggars for the service of their 
king and country. This sally was received with great applause by the guests, who, as 
they drank to one another, shouted forth, Vivent les Gueux, ' Long live the beggars.' 

" Brederode, finding the jest took so well, an event, indeed, for which he seems to 

1 Book x., di. 32. 



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HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



winter solstice, called the summer of St. Martin, 1 during which period 
the ocean is perfectly calm, to build her nest. 




Fig. 14G. — William of Orange. From a medal. 

Dryden thus translates Ovid's description of Alcyone — 

" Seven days sits brooding on her floating nest ; 
A wintry queen ; her sire fit length is kind, 
Calms every storm, and hushes every wind ; 
Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease, 
And for his hatching nephews stills the sens." 

Dkyden. 

And again, Drayton — 

" The halcyon, whom the sea obeys, 
When she her neat upon the water lays." 

Noah's Flood. 

Pliny thus describes the habits of the kingfisher : — " They lay and 
set about midwinter, when daies be shortest, and the time whiles they 
are broodie is called the Halcyon daies ; for during that season, the 
sea is calm and navigable, especially in the coast of Sicilie. In other 
ports also the sea is not so boisterous, but more quiet than at otber 
times : but surely the Sicilian sea is very gentle, both in the straights 
and also in the open ocean. Now about seven daies before midwinter, 
that is to say, in the beginning of December, they build ; and within 
as many after, they have hatched. Their nests are wonderously made, 

1 The Maid of Orleans says to the Dauphin of France, when foretelling her 

successes : 

" Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days, 
Since t have entered into these wars." 

King Henry VI.. 1st Part, .Act i., sc 2. 

That is, expect prosperity after misfortune, fan- weather after winter lias begun. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 211 

badge; 1 and the Gueux penny, aa it was called — a gold or silver coin— was hung 
from the neck, bearing on one side the effigy of Philip, with the inscription, Fideles 
au roi, and on the other two hands grasping a beggar's wallet (Kg. 147), with this for 
the legend, Jusques a porter la besace, ' Faithful to the king, even to carrying the 
wallet.' Even the garments of the mendicants were affected by the confederates, who 
used them as a substitute for their family liveries; and troops of their retainers, clad 
in the ash-grey habiliments of the begging friars, miyht be seen in the streets of 
Brussels and the other cities of the Netherlands." 2 

The arms of the province of Zealand are a lion rising out of the 
waves. Motto, Luctor et emergo, " I struggle and keep above water." 
When Queen Elizabeth concluded a treaty with the United Provinces, 
they added, Authore Deo, favente regina, " God being the author, 
and the Queen the promoter ;" i.e., By the mercy of God and the favour 
of the Queen. 

Orange, Feedeeick Henby oe Nassau, Stadtholder (-j- 1647). 
He took for motto, Patri Patriseque, " To his father and his country," 
to show that he devoted himself to the memory of the one and to 
the service of the other. 

See Spain, Charles V., note, and Maegueeite de Valois. 

Oeange, Maurice oe Nassau, Prince of. Immediately after his 
father's death, he assumed for his device a fallen oak, with a young 
sapling springing from its root. His motto, Tandem fit surculus 
arbor, " The twig shall yet become a tree." 3 

Orange, William III. (-(-1701). On his being made Stadtholder> 
in 1672, a medal was struck, having on the reverse Pallas holding a 
buckler charged with a poplar ; on her left, an altar on which a 
phoenix is consumed, and on her right, an orange tree. Nee sorte, nee 
fato, " Neither by lot nor by fate," but a just tribute to his merit, 
which was triumphant, and owed nothing to chance or destiny. 

Orleans, Louis, Duke of, see Burgundy. 

Orleans, Valentine, Duchess of. See Milan, Visconti, Valentine. 

Oesini of Rome. Arms, bendy of six argent and gules. On a 
chief argent a rose gules. Device, a bear : 

" L' orsa rabioso, con gli orsaci suoi." 

Petrarch. 

This ancient family, always in perpetual rivalry and discord with 

1 No. 3451. "A small oval badge, hands, and two beggars' wallets, with the 
silver gilt, with portrait of Philip II., of legend, Jusques a porter la Besace." — 
Spain, and the legend, En tout fidelles au Bernal Catalogue. 
Hoy ; and on the reverse, two united 2 Prescott's ' Philip II.,' vol. ii., 14. 

3 Motley's ' United Netherlands.' 

p 2 



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HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



have been prepared, left the room, and soon returned with a beggar's wallet and a 
wooden bowl, such as was used by the mendicant fraternity in the Netherlands. 
Then pledging the company in a bumper he swore to devote his life and fortune to 
the cause. The wallet and bowl went round the table ; and, as each of the merry 
guests drank in turn to his confederate, the shout arose of Vivent les Gfueux, until the 
hall rang with the mirth of the revellers. 1 

"It happened that at the time the Prince of Orange and the Counts Egmont and 
Horn were passing by on their way to the council. Their attention was attracted by 
the noise, and they paused a moment, when William, who knew the temper of the 
jovial party, proposed they should go in, and endeavour to break up their revels. 
'We may have some business of the council to transact with these men this evening,' 
he said, ' and at this rate, they will hardly be in a condition fit for it.' The appear- 
ance of the three nobles gave a fresh impulse to the boisterous movements of the 
company, and as the new comers pledged their friends in the wine cup, it was 
received with the same thundering acclamations of Vivent les Oueux. 

" This incident, of so little importance in itself, was afterwards made of consequence 
by the turn that was given to it in the prosecution of the two unfortunate noblemen 
who accompanied the Prince of Orange. 

" It (name of Gueux) soon was understood to signify those who were opposed to 
the government, and, in an under sense, to the Eoman Catholic religion. In every 
language in which the history of these acts has been recorded — the Latin, German, 
Spanish, or English— the French term Gnenx is ever employed to designate this party 
of malcontents in the Netherlands. 




Fig. 14?.— Badge of the Gueux. 

" It now became common to follow out the original idea by imitations of the 
different articles used by mendicants. Staffs were procured, after the fashion of those 
in the hands of the pilgrims, but more elaborately carved ; wooden bowls, spoons, and 
knives became in great request, though richly inlaid with silver, according to the 
fancy or wealth of the possessor. 

" Medals, resembling those stuck by the beggars in then- bonnets, wero worn as a 



1 Each threw some salt into his goblet, and repeated this impromptu distich : 

" Par le sel, par le pain, par le besache, 
Les Q ueux ne changeront quoy qu'on s'y fache." 

P. Paykk {quoted by Motley). 



AND WAE-CRIES. 



213 



mathematics, painting, and sculpture. He took for device a bear 
sucking its paws, to imply that he fed upon the resources of his own 




Kig. 149.— i'lavio Orsini. 

mind, as the bear fattens on his own paws (Fig. 149). Motto, Ipse 
alimenta sibi, " Himself his own nourishment." 

" They lye 
Just like a brace of bear-whelps, close and crafty, 
Sucking their fingers for their food." 

Beaumont and Fletchek, Bonduca. 

He also took the Orsini' rose, with the motto, Suavis et aspera, 
" Sweet and rough." 

Oksini, Felice, wife of Marcantonio Golonna. Her device was the 
constellation of the Little Bear. Motto, Sine oceasu felix, " Happy 
with no setting," — alluding to his name and surname. 

A house on fire, Opes, non animam, 1 " Wealth, not soul." That 
is, the fire deprived me of my goods, but not of my heart. 

Oksini, Caklo. See Chabot. 

Oksini, Virginio, Prince of Bracciano (-j- 1497), was, from his 
riches, the number of his followers, and his noble house, one of 
the first princes of Italy. Grand Constable of Naples, and general 
to Ferdinand and Alfonso II., with the Count of Pitigliano, at 

1 " Opes fortuna auferre, non animum potest." 

Seneca, in Medea. 



212 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

the Colonna and Savelli, with whom they were often in arms in the 
middle of the city, bore for device a hear, from whose nostrils issued 
the smoke of their breath, with the motto, Horrent commota moveri, 
" The moved abhor the moving." 

But when the Italian families began to form themselves into fac- 
tions, so that in the time of the Emperor Frederic II., the Milanese 
were divided into Yisconti and Torriani; Genoa, into Adorni and 
Fregosi ; Florence, into Guelfs and Ghibelines ; and the Bpman 
families, into the Colonnese and Orsini ; the Orsini took for device the 




Fig. 148. — Device of the Orsini. 

bear with an hour-glass (Fig. 148), and the motto, Tempus et hora, 
" Time and the hour." Some attribute this device to the Orsini lords, 
when they separated themselves from Caesar Borgia. 

The Csesarini family had the device of a column with an eagle, 
their arms, upon the top, and a bear chained at the base, upon which 
was made the distich : 

" Redde aquilam Imperio, oolumnam redde Columnis, 
Ursinio ursam, sola catena tua est." 

" Restore the eagle to the Emperor, the column to the Colonnas, 
The bear to the Orsini — chains are yours alone." 

Orsini, Olympia. A flame ascending, Deorsum nunquam, " Down- 
ward never." 

Claudia Bangone used the same device and motto. 

Orsini, Fiavio (•-)- 1698). Cultivated poetry, oratory, music, 



AND WAR-CRIES. 215 

" La verso il freddo plaustro un lume spleude, 
Clie non mai dentro a 1' ocean s'asconde. 
A lui sempre si volge a lui estende 
Pietra, oui sal virtu natura infonde. 
Lume similo il raio pensiero acoende, 
Che mi svia ratto col suo bel!o altronde : 
Virtu, ohe mai non cede e la mia scorta, 
Che seoo al ciel per dritta via mi porta.'' 

C. Camilli. 

Oesini, Nicolo, Conte di Pitigliano (-f 1510). One of the 
mercenaries in the pay, in turn, of the Pope, the French, and the 
Neapolitan tings. General, with Alviano, of the Venetians during the 
League of Cambray, he showed himself to be as cool and deliberate as 
his confederate was rash and imprudent. He took for device an iron 
dog collar, with spikes like those placed round the necks of the 
shepherds' mastiffs, to defend them from the bite of the wolves. 
Motto, Sauciat et defendit, " He wounds and defends." 

Oesini, Duke of Paliano. An owl, with the motto, Sortem ne 
despicefati, "Despise not the lot of fate." 1 The owl was a symbol 
of death. The Ethiopians, when they wished to pronounce sentence 
of death upon a person, carried to him a table, upon which an owl 
was painted, when the guilty man saw the notice, he was expected 
to destroy himself with his own hand. 

Shakspeare always gives the owl as portending death : 

" Out on ye owls ! nothing but songs of death !" 
, King Richard III., Act iv., sc. 4. 

Macbeth says : 

" It was the owl that shriek'd, that fatal bellman 
Which glv'st the stern'st good night." 
Act i., sc. 2. 

" And boding scritch owls make the concert full." 

Henry VI., 2nd Part, Act iii , sc. 2. 

Pliny says : " The scritch-owle betokeneth alwaies some heavie 
newes, and is most execrable and accursed, and namely in the presages 
of publicke affaires. He keepeth ever in the deserts ; and loveth not 
onely such unpeopled places but also that are horrible hard of accesse. 

1 The crow was also given for an un- and are full of chat, which most men 

lucky device to the Duke of Paliano. take for an unluckie signe and presage 

Pliny says : " These birds, crows and of ill fortune." — Book s., ch. 12. 
rooks, all of them keep much prattling, 



214 HISTOBIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Nola. 1 He afterwards joined Charles VIII. Was made prisoner by 
Ferdinand, with the Count of Pitigliano, at Nola, and confined in the 
Castel dell' Uovo, where he died. 

When Cardinal Ascanio Sforza and the Colonna lords returned 
to the service of the King of Naples, first Prosjsero then Fabrizio, 
Virginio was invited, with great rewards, to join them ; but to his 
own dishonour, and to the diappointment of the Orsini lords, he ac- 
cepted the pay of Charle3 VIII., saying, in reply to their remonstrances, 
" I am like the camel, 2 which, by nature, when it reaches a river, 
does not drink the water until by putting its foot into it, it has ren- 
dered it muddy." Hence the device given to him of a camel stirring 
up the mud in a stream previous to drinking, with the motto, 11 me 
plait la trouble, " I delight in troubled waters." 

On his shield, Virginio bore the house-leek. Motto, La virtu fa? 

As a member of the Furfurario Academy, whose emblem was a 
corn-mill, he took a sword in a heap of bran, with the motto, A 
tempo. As the sword in time of peace is laid in bran to keep it from 
rusting, so he occupied his repose from war in literary pursuits. 

Orsini, Leone, Bishop of Frejus. The burning of Hercules 
upon Mount CEta, Arso il mortale, al del riandra V eterno. See 
Academies, Infiammati. 

Orsini, Laelio. Constellation of the Little Bear. Motto, Sicut in 

coslis, " As in heaven," — implying, that as the Little Bear i never hides 

iteelf in the ocean, so he on earth will never descend to any low action. 

" Around the axle of the sky, 
The Bear, revolving, points the golden eye ; 
Still shines exalted in th' ethereal plain, 
Nor bathes his blazing forehead in the main." 

Pope's Homer. 
" The Bears that dread their flaming lights to lave, 
And slowly roll above the ocean wave." 

Dktden, Georgia i. 

1 " Celuy jour mesme, par maniere past and to come ; but before they drinke, 

subtilte, they must trample with their feet to raise 

Put prins a Nosle le domp Seigneur mud and sand, and so trouble the water ; 

Virgile [Virginio Orsino] ; otherwise they take no pleasure in their 

Semblablement le comte Petelinne drinking."— Pliny, book viii., ch. 18. 

Qui aux Francoys cuydoit faire de 

l'asne." 3 " La virtu fa sempre vivo." 

Vekgiee d'Honnetje. Peteabch. 

2 " When they take occasion to drinke 4 Polar star, which never sets. Mas 

and meet with water, they fill their skin veiante ningum, " None more watchful 

full enough to serve both for the time than he." 




AND WAR-CRIES. 217 

altar and a plough. Motto, In utrumque paratus, "Prepared for 
both." 1 

" Whatever sky's above me, 
Here's a heart for every fate." 
• Byron. 

Pasquier, Etienne (-J-1615), the formidable adversary of the 
Jesuits. Genio et ingenio, " By talent and wit." 

Piccolomini of Siena. The arms of this family are argent, a 
cross azure charged with three silver 
crescents, from whence many of their 
devices were taken. Nicolo Piccolomini 
bore a crescent, with the words, Sine 
macula, "Without spot" (Fig. 151); 
Ascanio, with the motto, Plena luna 
proxima, " The full moon near at hand," 
in expectation of being raised to the pon- 
tificate. Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Pope Fig. 151— Nicoio Piccoiomim. 
Pius II.), and his nephew, Francesco 

(subsequently Pope Pius III.), both adopted the crescent, with the 
motto, OUm plena, " Formerly full." Pius II. had also a hand holding 
Aaron's rod. Motto, Insperata floruit, " It flowered unhoped for," 2 
alluded to his unexpected elevation. 

Pius III. likewise bore a hand holding a scourge and a branch 
of laurel, with the motto, Poena et premium, " Punishment and 
reward." 

Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, having been made by his brother- 
in-law, the Marchese del Yasto, General of the Light Horse during 
the war in Piedmont, took for device, in token of his vigilance, a 
crane with his left leg raised, and a pebble in its claw — a remedy 
against sleep (Fig. 152), with the motto, Officium natura docet, 
" Nature teaches its office " (i e., use). Pliny says of these birds : 
"They maintain a set watch all the night long, and have their 
sentinels. These stand upon one foot, and hold a little stone within 
the other, which, by falling from it if they should chance to sleepe, 
might awaken them, and reprove them for their negligence. Whiles 
these watch all the rest sleepe, couching their heads under their 

1 ' iEneid ' ii. 61. buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded 

2 "Aaron's rod that brought forth almonds."— Numbers xvii. 8. 



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HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



In summe, he is the verie momter of the night, neither crying, nor 
singing out cleare, but uttering a certaine heavie grone of dolefull 
moning. And, therefore, if he be seene either within citties or other- 
wise abroad in any place it is not for good, but prognosticated some 
fearfull misfortune." 1 

Paladins of Chaelemagne. Their imaginary bearings, as given 
by Paolo Giovio, are as follow : 

Einaldo 

Olivier . 

Astolfo . 

Ogier the Dane 

Solomon de Bretagne 

Ganes . 
Pallavictno, Sfobza. A 



Lion fretty. 

Griffin. 

Leopard. 

Ladder. 

Cbecquers. 

Peregrine falcon, 
eating rue before it fights 
against a serpent. Motto Cautius pugnat, "He fights the more 
carefully." So Pallavicino, before he went to fight against the Turks, 
provided himself with good armour and a valiant heart. Also, the 
hydra, with the motto, Utcimque, " In whatever way soever," — 
however he might fight, he would come out victorious. 
Pescaea, Marquis of. See Avalos, Feancesco. 
Peeez, Gonsalvo. The Minotaur (Fig. 150) in the labyrinth. 
In silentio ei spe, " In silence and hope." 2 




Fig. 150.— Gonsalvo Perez. 

Panvinio, Ont/feio, of Ceemona. A bullock standing between an 

Book x., ch. 12. " I n quietness and in confidence shall be 

! In silentio el spe sit fortitudo nostra, your strength."— Isaiah xxx. 15. 



AND WAB-CRIES. 219 

Pibi'ea, Count Clement, being in love with a lady, whom he 
was obliged to leave, he bore for device an elephant, who, finding 
itself pursued by the hunters, and knowing it is hunted only on 
account of its teeth, beats them against a tree until they drop off. 
The motto from Petrarch, Lasciai di me la miglior parte a dietro, 
" I left the best part of myself behind." 

. " When they chanced to be environed and compassed round about 
with hunters, they set foremost in the ranke to be seene, those of the 
hearde that have the least teeth ; to the end that their price might not 
he thought worth the hazard and venture in chase for them. But 
afterwards, when they see the hunters eager and themselves over- 
matched and wearie, they breake them with running against the hard 
trees, and leaving them behind, escape by this raunsome as it were, 
out of their hands." 1 

In love with a lady named Laura, he took the crow fighting the 
chameleon, which, being wounded and poisoned by its enemy, as an 
antidote takes and eats the fruit of the laurel. Motto, Hine sola 
salus, " Hence alone safe," showing that Laura was the only cure for 
his wounds. 

" The raven, when he hath killed the chameleon and yet perceiving 
that he is hurt and poysoned by him, flieth for remedie to the laurele, 
and with it represseth and extinguished the venome that he is infected 
withall." 2 

Pietea, Count Bkunoro, il Vecchio. An old stork in its nest 
with its little ones, which are bringing it food. Motto, Antipelargiam 
serva, " I reserve (or guard) the stork." This device was given to 
him by Maximilian Sforza, who had been much assisted by Brunoro. 

" The indulgent storke, who builds her nest on hye 
(.Observ'd for her alternat pietie), 
Doth cherish her unfeather'd yong and feed them, 
And looks from them the like, when she should need them, 
(That's when she grows decrepit, old and weake). 
Nor doth her pious Issue cov'nant breeke ; 
For unto her bee'ng hungry, food she brings, 
And being weake, supports her on her wings." 

T. Hetwood, The Hierachie of the blessed AngeUs. 

Lib. 8. The Arch Angell — London, 1635. 



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wings ; and one while they rest upon the one foot, and otherwiles 
they shift to the other." 1 







Fig. 152.— Duke of Amalfl. 

The device of the crane has been used with other mottoes 
implying vigilance, Non dormit qui custodit, " He that is keeper is no 
sleeper ;" and Amat victoria curam, " Yictory requires caution ;" Pour 
vaincre, il faut veiller. Also, Nunquam decidet, "He will never fall;" 
Ut alii dormiant, "That others may sleep ;" Una omnibus, " One for all." 

Piccolomni, Alessandro. A laurel struck in a clear and cloudless 
sky. Motto, „ gotto la fe del cieli e r aere cMaro 

Tempo non mi parea da far riparo." 

Piccolomini, Asoanio, Cardinal. Two buckets in a well. Altera 
levatur, " The other (or second) is raised." 

Piccolomini, Clemente. The herb Lunaria (Moonwort, or 
Honesty) and the moon. Motto, Tu mihi quodcunque, " Thou to 
me whatsoever." Probably an impresa d'amore, signifying in the 
concluding lines of a sonnet by Bembo, 

" . . . mi giro 
Pur sempre a voi com' eliotropio al sole." 2 
" I turn always to thee, as the heliotrope to the sun." 
See, also, Hagenbach. 

1 Book x., oh. 23. The Cranstoun (cranes- stone) crest is a crane dormant, holding a 
stone in his foot. Border motto, Thou ihalt want ere I want. 

" He marked the crane on the Baron's crest." — Lay of Hie Last Minstrel. 

2 The heliotrope and sun motto, Mens eadem, " The same mind " (Ever the same), 
of Aurelio Porcelaga, conveys the same meaning. 



AND WAE-CEIES. 221 

to perfection and maturity in the breasts of learned men. 1 Another 
motto for the same device, Bore divino, " By the divine dew." 

Of the pearl, Pliny says : " Pearles, better or worse, great or small, 
according to the qualitie and quantitie of the dew which they received. 
For if the dew were pure and cleare which went into them, then are 
the perles white, fair and orient ; if grosse and troubled, the perles 



Fig. 153. — Elena Piscopia. 

likewise are dimme, foule and duskish . . . Whereby no doubt it 
is apparent and plaine that they participate more of the aire and skie, 
than of the water and the sea ; for according as the morning is faire, 
so are they cleare, otherwise, if it were mistie and cloudie, they also 
will be thick and muddie in colour." 2 

Pitti, Luca, the celebrated rival of the elder Cosmo de' Medici, 
placed over his palace the device of a piece of artillery, which, by the 
force of powder and fire, drives out a ball (jpalla), implying that he 
would have driven the Medici out of Florence. 

Popes, the date is that of their accession. 

Maktin IV., Pope, 1281. Simon de Biie. Portio mea sit in 
terra viventium, " Let my portion be in the land of the living." 

Boniface IX., Pietro Tomacella (Naples), 1389. A serpent in a fire 
looking up to a star. Quis separabit f " Who shall separate them ?" 

Innocent VII., Cosmato Miliorato, 140 i. A rock in the midst 
of the sea, crowned with the papal tiara and assailed by winds. 

1 Museum Muz. 2 Book ix., eh. 35. 



220 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

" The Stork's an emblem of true piety ; 
Because, when age has seized and made his dam 
Unfit for flight, the grateful young one takes 
His mother on his back, provides her food, 
Repaying thus her tender care of him, 
Ere he was fit to fly." 

Beaumont. 

" Of this kind nature they are, that the young will keepe and feed 
their parents when they be old, as they themselves were by them 
nourished in the beginning." 1 

Being captain of the horse in Piedmont, Brunoro took an eagle 
flying towards the sun, and, like Icarus, burning its wings. Motto, 
Aude aliquid dignum, " Dare something worthy of you." 

When he went to the Siennese war, he bore on his flag a bird called 
Seleucida, 2 sent by Providence to the inhabitants of Mount Cassius to 
destroy the locusts which devour the corn. It is not known whence 
it comes or where it goes ; but when locusts appear it appears also. 
His motto was Loco et tempore, " At the place and time," meaning, 
that although in time of peace he was moving in various places, yet, 
when he was wanted, he was ready to defend his lord against 
his enemies. 

Piscopia, Elena Lucrezia Corraro (-J-1684). Of the Corraro 
family of Venice. This illustrious lady received the doctor's degree in 
the cathedral, at Padua. She understood six languages besides her 
own ; sung her own poetry, discoursed upon philosophy, mathematics, 
astronomy, and theology. She was modest as she was wise. She 
died at the age of thirty-eight. A statue of her is in the 
vestibule of the university, at Padua. She always wore the habit of 
St. Benedict. 

On the reverse of a medal struck in her honour, by a decree of the 
university, is an open shell (Fig. 153), receiving the drops of dew 
from heaven, which form into pearls. Motto, Non sine foenore, " Not 
without usury," pointing out that the principles of science are brought 

1 Pliny, book x., ch. 23. the people, sendeth these foules among 

2 " The birds called Seleucides, come them to destroy the said locusts. But 
to succour the inhabitants of the moun- from whence they come, or whither they 
taine Casius against the locusts. For goe againe, no man knoweth ; for never 
when they make a great wast in are they seene but upon this occasion, 
their corne and other fruits, Jupiter, at namely, when there is such need of 
the instant praiers and supplications of their help." — Pliny, book x., ch. 27. 



AND WAE-CEIES. 223 

Pope Clement was very charitable, and caused twelve beggars to 
eat every day at his table. He also encouraged the arts — Bernini, 
Claude Lorraine, Pietro da Cortona were patronised by him. 

Innocent XI., 1676. A lion alone in a field, Cum grege non 
graditur, " He does not walk with the herd." 

POETA, GlAMBATTISTA. See ACADEMIES, LlNCEI (-J-1615). A 

butterfly breaking through its chrysalis, 1 Et feci et fregi, " I have 
both made and broken." Porta would never marry lest it should 
weaken the affection of his brother, with whom he lived. Their house 
was called " Villa di duo Porta." 

Pobto, Cte. Francesco. Drops of water falling upon a stone, 
from the saying, Guita cavat lapidem, "A drop hollows the stone." 
Motto, Hinc spes, " Hence our hope." 

" And waste huge stones with little water drops." 

Shakspeare. 

On a panel in Pengersick Castle, Cornwall, is inscribed under a 
painting representing water dropping from a rock— 

" What thing is harder than a rook ? 

What softer is than water clear ? 
Yet will the same with often drop 

The hard rock pierce, which doth appear ; 
Even so, there nothing is so hard to attayne, 
But may be had with labour and pain." 2 

" Much rain wears the marble." 

Shakspeaee, Henry VI., 3rd Part, Act. 3, sc. 2. 

" The drop cloth pierce the stone by falling long and fast, 
So by enduring long, long sought for love is found." 

Whitney. 

Portugal, Kings op. — Emanuel (1495 -4- 1521), "the Great, or 
the Fortunate." The great promoter of geographical discovery ; under 
his reign, Vasco de Gama first doubled the Cape of Good Hope (1497), 
and reached the Malabar Coast. Cabral sailed to Bengal (1500), and 
secured this rich possession to Portugal ; Almeyde, 3 Albuquerque, 4 and 
Correa, 5 made conquests and establishments in the East, and to this 

1 Ecee novas omnia, "Behold all things are become new."— 2 Cor. v. 17. 
2 "Quid magis est durum saxo quid? 3 Sent viceroy to the Indies, 1506. 

mollius unda? 4 To °k. the island of Ornius, 1507; 

Dura tamen molli saxa cavantur Goa, 1511. 

aqua." Ovid. s Overran the kingdom of Pegu. 



222 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

In seternum non commovebitur, " Shall not be moved (disturbed) in 
eternity." 

Gregory XII., Angelo Corraro (Venice), 1406. A serpent round 
an obelisk. Prudentia in adversis, " Prudence in adversity." 

Eugbnius IV., Gabriello Condulmiero (Venice), 1431. A hand 
issuing from a cloud holding scales. Bedde cuiqui swum, " Bender 
each his own." 

Felix V., Antipope. See Savoy, Amadeus VIII. 

Pius II. See Piocolomini. 

Innocent VIII. See Cybo, Giov. Batt. 

Pius III. See Piocolomini, Francesco. 

Julius II., Giuliano della Eovere (Savona) 1503. A castle upon 
a rock, over which the moon is shining and dispelling the clouds. 
Post tenebras lucem, " After darkness, light." 

Leo X. See Medici, Giovanni de'. 

Adrian VI. 1522. A pyramid in the progress of building. Ut 
ipse finiam, " That I myself may finish it." The pyramid, as one of 
the most wondrous of the works of man, is a symbol of glory, there- 
fore Pope Adrian hopes that by his labours the glory and power of the 
Church may attain its greatest height. 

Clement VII. See Medici, Giulio de'. 

Paul III. See Farnese, Alessandro. 

Marcellus II., Cervino de Montepulciano, 1555. A smoking altar, 
above a star, Nostra latens. 

Paul IV. See Caraja, Gio. Antonio. 

Pius V. See Accolti. 

Gregory XIII. See Boncompagno. 

Sixtus V., Fra. Felice Peretto da Montalto (Ancona), 1585. A 
lion, seated upon a square plinth, with a star, and his hand upon the 
three hills. Yigilat saori thesauri custos, " The guardian of the 
sacred treasure is wakeful." 

Paul V., Camillo Borghese, 1605. See Accolti, foot note. 

Urban VIII. See Barberini, Maffho. 

Clement IX., Giulio Kospigliosi, 1667, died of grief at the 
taking of Candia by the Turks. Device, a reed, Eesurgam, " I shall 
rise again." A pelican in its piety; motto, Aliis non sibi clemens, 
" Tender-hearted to others, not himself." The heavens studded with 
stars, Velociter ut prosit, " In speed that he may succeed." Aswan, 
Cum candore canore, " Melody with whiteness (purity)." 



AND WAR-CRIES. 225 

rain. Motto, Serenabit, " It will clear up." As it is the nature of 
these animals to play when it rains, looking for fine weather, so he in 
the troublous times in which he lived, looked to heaven for sunshine 
and tranquillity. 

Ehine, Counts Palatine of the. 

Frederick II. (The Wise). (+1556.) Non mild Domine, sed 
nomini tuo da gloriam, " Not to me, Lord, but to Thy name give 
the praise." 

Also, on a medal, a balance suspended from the clouds, above the 
earth. Qui judicatis terrain, diligite justitiam, " Ye who judge the 
earth, delight in justice." 

"Wolfgang-, William (-)- 1653). In Deo mea consolatio, "My 
consolation is in God." 

Biario, Baffaelle, Cardinal San Giorgio (-(-1521). Great 
nephew of Sixtus IV., under whose directions he acted a prominent 
part in the conspiracy of the Pazzi. 1 He aspired to the papacy, but 
the election of Leo X. put an end to his ambitious hopes, and being 
implicated in the conspiracy of Cardinal Alfonso Petrucci against 
that pope, he was degraded, but afterwards pardoned, and retired to 
Naples till his death. His magnificent palace, built by Bramante, is 
one of the finest monuments of the renaissance at Borne. 2 

His device was the helm and the globe. Motto, Hoc opus, " This 
(is my) work ;" meaning, that in order to execute his great designs, he 
should have been invested with the government of the world; i.e., 
should have been made pope. This device he placed in every part of 
his palace at Borne. 

Bichelieu, Armand Jean Duplessis, Cardinal, Due de (-f- 1642). 
His device, the prow of a galley (Fig. 155) may still he seen forming 
part of the architectural decoration of his palace, 3 with the two 
anchors of the admiralty underneath. This device was the subject of 
an epigram of the time : 

" Navire de crams pas, ton pilot est mi Dieu 
Jamais ton Anchre n'estoit en si Richelieu." 



1 See Eoscoe's ' Leo X.,' iii., 163. 

2 Letarouilly, ' Edifices de Rome moderne,' 1840-53. 

3 " L'univers entier ne peut rien voir d'egal, 

Aux superbes dehors du Palais Cardinal." 

Corseille, Le Merdenr. 

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rapid increase of the prosperity and power of Portugal, Emanuel has 
justly deserved the epithet of the Great. 

His device was a terrestial globe, with the motto, Primus cireum- 
dedistime, "Thou hast first encompassed me" (Fig- 154). 




Fig. 154. — Emanuel, King of Portugal. 

Alfonso III. (•+ 1248). An oak beaten by the winds and the 
waves, Ni undas ni vientos, " Neither waters nor winds." 

Alfonso IV. (-f- 1325). A ship in full sail, Velum ventis, " The 
sail to the winds." 

Peter (+ 1357). The star of the Magi, Monstrat iter, "It 
shows the ways." 

John (-)- 1384), married Philippa, daughter of John of Gaunt. A 
sword cleaving a rock, Acuit ut penetrat, " It sharpens that it may 
penetrate." 

Edward (-)- 1438). A serpent round a lance, Loco et tempore, 
" In place and time." 

Henry II. A dolphin and ship, Vber et tuber, "Fruitful and 
free." 

Eangonb, Clatoio, of Modena, Count of Castelvetro (-f- 1537). 
Two Metse (see Urbino) over one, Nee eitra, " Neither on this side ;" 
over the other, Nee ultra, " Nor beyond." Ne piu in qua, ne piu 
in la, " The happy medium." See, also, Orsini, Olympia. 

Eegio, Paolo, Bishop of Yico Equense. Two bears playing in 

1 For bedkstime, read dedistime. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 227 

Bichelieu, Louis Francois Armand Duplessis de, Marshal 1 
(-f-1788). A rocket, 2 Ardo para subir, "I burn to rise;" or, Aut 
sidera cursum, " My course is towards the stars." 

The rocket bursting into stars; motto from Virgil, Ardens e vexit 
ad asthera virtus, " Burning courage has carried her to the stars," 
was taken by Christirie, Duchess of Savoy, and was placed over the 
" herse " of her sister, Henrietta Maria of England. 

Eobeetot, Florimond, Secretary of State to Francis I., and 
subsequently " intendant des finances " to Francis II. Francis I. once 
complaining to him, "Quetoutes plumes levolaient," Bobertot replied, 
" Forgs ugne, Sire " (except one), and these words were placed as his 
motto round his escutcheon. 

Bohan. One of the most illustrious families of Brittany. Their 
motto is, Roi je ne peux, due je ne veux, Rohan je suis. 

Bohan, Guemene, Princess Anne de. Spes durat avorum, " The 
hope of my ancestors remains." 

Eonsard, Pieree de (-j-1585). The favourite court poet of the 
kings of France from Francis I. to Charles IX., who never travelled 
without him. His poems were the consolation of Mary Stuart. 

Charles IX. writes to his friend : 

" II faut suivre son roi qui t'aime par sus ious.'' 

In one of his epistles, the king writes : 

'■ L'art de faire des vers, dut-on s'en indigner, 
Doit etre a plus haut pvix que celui de regner. 
Tous deux egalement nous portons des couronnes ; 
Mais, roi je les recois, poete tu les donnes .... 
Ta lyre qni ravit par de si doux accords, 
T" assuroit les esprits, dont je n'ai que les corps ; 
Elle t'en rend le maitre, et te sait introduire, 
Oil le plus fler tyran ne peut avoir d' empire." 

When Eonsard was crowned at the Jeux floraux, the judges, instead 
of the customary prize of the eglantine, assigned him a Minerva of 

1 He was much addicted to the use of raised;" Bwmpor in alto, "I am broken 
perfumes. Voltaire writes — on high." 

■' Un gigot tout a. lait, un seigneur tout a l'arobre, Ite rocket which rises to the greatest 

A souper vous sont destines: height its power will admit, and then 

On doit, quand Eichelieu parait dans une , , -. £ -.-. . .-, , , ., 

chambre bursts and falls to the ground whence it 

Biendefendre son coBur.etbienbouclier son nez." ro se, is an image of the proud man, who, 

2 Other mottoes for the rocket : Hum inflated by imaginary glory, thinks him- 
ardeo, extollor, " When I burn, I am self above his fellows, until lie meets 
raised up ;" Poco duri pur die m' inalzi, with a sudden fall, which humbles him 
"I last for a short time when I am to the dust."— Georgette Montenay. 

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He took also an eagle in the air, with two serpents rearing them- 
selves. Motto, Non deseret alia, " He will not desert the heights ;" 
i.e., he will not condescend to lower himself to them. 




Fig. 155. — Cardinal Richelieu. From the Galerie d'Orleans, Palais Royal. 

Richelieu also took the carpenter's level, the Greek A, or chevron 
(Fig. 156), Motto, Firmatque, regitque, " He strengthens and 
rules," as his successor, Cardinal Mazarin, adopted the bricklayer's 
plumb x (Fig. 157). 



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Fig. 156. — Cardinal Richelieu. 



Fig. 157. — Cardinal Mazarin. 



Of Aemandus Kichelieu was made the anagram, Hercules 
admirandus. See Este, Ltjigi. 

1 Antonio Abnnrlanti had a pair of (Euclid's first problem). Motto, Mquatis 

compasses describing a circle, Dirigor et undique, " Equal every way." Plantin, 

dirigo, "lam directed, and I direct." the printer of Antwerp, had a pair of com- 

Another took an equilateral triangle passes. Motto, Lahore et comtantia. 



AND WAR CRIES. 229 

This lie bore in honour of his wife. After his accusation he took 
as motto, A tort et a grand tort. 1 

Salimbbni, Ascanio. See Isolani. 

Sanazzaro, Jacopo ( -J- 1530). The name of the family is derived 
from San-Nazaro, a chateau between the Po and Ticino, not far from 
Padua, where they first settled in Italy from Spain. Sanazzaro was 
the poet and faithful friend of Frederic, who gave him the Villa Mer- 
zellina, an ancient residence of the Angevine princes. He followed 
Frederic into exile, and was at Tours at his death. He was buried at 
Mergaglino, and a superb monument raised to his memory, with a 
Latin epitaph by Bembo : 

" Fresh flow'rets strew, for Sanazzar lies here, 
In genius, as in place, to Virgil near.' 

" Jacobo Sannazar, eh' alle camene 
Laseiar fa i monti, td abitar l'.aiene." 

Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, Canto xlvi. 17. 

" Great Sannazaro, who the Muses' train, 
From mountains led to dwell beside the main." 

Hoole's Translation. 

When attached to a lady, he took for device a balloting urn filled 
with black pebbles and one white one. Motto, Mquabit nigras Can- 
dida sola dies, " One white day shall be a match for all the black ;" 
meaning that the day he should be deemed worthy of her affections 
would counterbalance all the days of black despair he had endured. 
See Aragon, Cardinal of. 

San Giorgio, Cardinal. See Eiaeio. 

Sanseverino, Giovan Francesco, Conte di Galiazzo, who left the 
service of Ludovic Sforza and entered that of the French, at the 
expense rather of his honour, bore embroidered upon the casaques of 
his hundred lances a shoeing box, in which blacksmiths place restive 
horses to be shod. Motto, Pour dompter follie. 

Savoy. — Humbert I., " aux Blanche Mains," Count of Maurienne, 
founder of the House of Savoy (lived circ. 1027). Jussa Domini Dei, 
" The commands of the Lord God." 

Amadeus I., " Long-tail," his son (circ. 1048), Count of Mauri- 
enne, a title given him when he followed the Emperor Henry III. to 
Verona with a magnificent suite. He took the peacock, with the 
motto, Est milii cauda decus, " My tail is my glory." 

1 De Coste, ' Daufins de France.' . . . 



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massive silver, and proclaimed him par excellence the " Poete francais." 
His motto was a hemistich of Theocritus — oj? ISov w? efidvr/v, " Thus 
I saw — thus I learnt." 

Saint- Andre, Jacq. dAlbon, Marechal de. See Spain, Ferdinand. 

Saint-Luc, Francis d'Espinay de (-J-1599). Arranged with his 
brother-in-law, Brissac, the surrender of Paris to Henry IV., who 
called him the " brave St. Luc." He was killed at the siege of Amiens. 

When made, by Henry, Grand Master of the Artillery, he toot as 
his device a thunderbolt among the clouds, with the motto, Quo jussa 
Jovis, " Whither the commands of Jupiter (lead)," to show his readiness 
to execute the commands of his master, — a device so suitable to the 
office, that it was retained by Sully, his successor. 

Saint- Valier, Jean de Poitiers, Seigneur de. Captain of the 
archers of the guard to Francis I. Was at the battle of Marignano. 
Afterwards, having lent himself to the intrigues of the Constable 




Fig. 158.— Saint- Valier. 

Bourbon, he was condemned to death as an accomplice, and pardoned 
upon the scaffold at the entreaties of his daughter, Diane de Poitiers. 
He bore as device upon his ensigns at Marignano a burning torch 
reversed, extinguished by the melting wax (Fig. 158), with the motto, 
Qui me alit, me extinguit, "Who feeds me, extinguishes me," in 
imitation of the " Nutrisco et extinguo " of his master. 1 



(See France, Francis II.) 



1 This is the device of the fourth knight hi ' Pericles.' 
Simonides. What is the fourth ? 
Thaisa. A burning torch, that's turned upside down ; 
The word, " Quod me alit me extinguit." 

Sim. Which shows, that beauty hath his power and will, 
Which can as well inflame, as it can kill. Pericles, Act ii., sc. 2. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 231 

knights, who resolved with him to turn hermits. They were clad in a 
grey cloth, scarlet cap, and a girdle and cross of gold ; they were not 
restrained by any vows, and the convivial life they led gave rise to the 
proverbial expression, /aire ripaille. He was elected pope under the 
name of Felix V., 1439, but put an end to the schism of the Church 
by his abdication, 1449. 

Philip II., Duke of Savoy (-(-1496). As this prince often 
changed sides to suit his own interest as leader of the factions during 
four reigns, he took for device a serpent who has cast its skin, with 
the motto, Paratior, " More ready." x 

Philibert the Faie (-j-1504). 2 Married Margaret, daughter of 
Maximilian, and Governess of the Low Countries (see). His device 
was the anemone, or windflower. 3 Motto, Bella ma poco dura, 
" Beautiful, but lasting little." 

" This fioure hath this propertie, never io open but when the wind 

doth blow." 4 

" Youth, like a thin anemone, displays 
His silken leaf, and in a morn decays." 

Sir W. Jones. 

Philibert, Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy (-f-1580). He learned the 
art of war under the Duke of Alba and Charles V., in whose court 
he lived. The hero of St. Quentin, 1557. The French had not 
experienced such a defeat since Agincourt. "When Charles V. received 
tidings of the victory, he asked " whether Philip was at Paris." 
Emmanuel was a suitor of Queen Elizabeth, his pretensions warmly 
supported by his master, Philip II., who would have used some con- 
straint in the matter, had he not been restrained by Mary's refusal to 
do violence to the inclinations of her sister. 

The French having despoiled him of his estates, he took for device 
a naked arm with a sword ; motto, Spoliatis arma supersunt, " Arms 

1 Maus. du Toison d'or. 

2 Bronze gilt medallion, Philibert, true-love knot, thistles, and the motto, 

eighth Duke of Savoy, and his duchess, " fett." Inscribed, " Gloria • in altisimis ■ 

Margaret of Austria — circa 1500. Ob., deo • et in terra pax • hominibus • burgus." 

regardant busts of the duke and duchess, —South Kensington Museum. 
a wicker hurdle stretches across the lower 3 Other mottoes for the anemone: 

part of the field, the upper part powdered Brevis est usus, " Short is its use " ; Gloria 

with thistles and true-love knots, in- vento discutitur, " [Its] glory is dispelled 

scribed, " Philibertus • dux • Sabaudie • by the wind " ; Perflant omnia venti, 

VIII • Margua • Maxi • Cac ■ aug • fi • d ■ " The winds blow through all things." 
sa • " Rev., Arms of Savoy, devices of a 4 Plihy, book xxi., oh. 23. 



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HISTORIC DEVICES, BAD&ES, 



Thomas, Count of Savoy ( + 1233). The ordinary device of the 
house, the Savoy or true lover's knot (Fig. 159). Motto, Strings ma 
non constringe, " It binds but not constrains." 




Fig. 159. — The Savoy Knot. 

Amadeus IV., Count of Savoy, The Great (-(-1323). Famous for 
his defence of Ehodes, 1315, then besieged by the Turks; and to this 
expedition historians attributed the origin 1 of the mOtto of Savoy, 
F. E. E. T., which they render, Fortitudo ejus Rhodium tenuit, " His 
courage held Ehodes." 2 

Amadeus V. or YL, Count of Savoy, the " Comte Vert " (+1383). 
So called because on his return after his successful expedition to 
Piedmont he gave a tournament at Chambery, at which he appeared 
clad in green armour, the caparisons of his horse of the same colour, 
and his squire in green livery. In 1362 he instituted the Order of 
the Collar, or Knot, in honour of the fifteen mysteries of the Eosary, 
afterwards styled that of the Annunciation. 

The device is given to the Comte Vert of money tried by the 
Lydian, or Touchstone. Motto, Be mi color mi valor. 3 

Amadeus VIII. (+ 1451). Made Duke of Savoy by the 
Emperor Wenceslaus, 1416; abdicated, and retired from the world to 
Eipaille, upon the borders of the Lake of Geneva, with six of his 



1 With respect to the F. E. E. T., ori- 
ginating with Amadeus the Great, Ash- 
mole says it was long hefore the device of 
the house of Savoy, as is manifest from 
the coins of Louis de Savoy, haron de 
Vaud (+ 1301), — from the monument of 
Thomas de Savoy (+ 123B), whereon is 
lying at his feet a dog with a collar about 
its neck inscribed Fert, as an integral 
word, — and from a brass coin of the 



said earl, on the reverse whereof are the 
knots of the model spoken of before, and 
the word/eri in the midst. There is also 
the silver coin of Peter of Savoy (who 
erected the Savoy in the Strand, temp. 
Henry III.), where is represented the 
device in Gothic characters. 

2 Favine renders it, " Frappez, En- 
trez, Rompez, Tout." 

3 Boschio. 



AND WAE-CBIES. 233 

the sun, with the motto, Non degenero, " I do not degenerate," to 
imply that he would sustain the reputation of his ancestors. 

During the troubles in France, he seized the marquisate of Saluces, 
and caused money to be coined, upon which was the constellation of 
the Sagittarius, or the centaur, having that of the crown at its feet, 
with the motto, Opportune, " Observe the opportunity," 1 — meaning 
that having found a crown, abandoned by the disorder of France, he 
had availed himself of the opportunity of possessing himself of it. 

Another device was a mailed arm, holding a sword, with this 
hemistich of Lucan — Arma tenenti omnia dat, qui justa negat, 
" Whoso denies justice, give everything to him who holds the arms." 

Victor Amadeus (-(-1637). The bird of Paradise. Motto, 
Gxlestes semula motus, " Emulate the celestial motions," was one of 
Victor Amadeus' favourite devices. Another device was a tulip, with 
the word, Perfieior, " I am made perfect." 2 

Christine (-f- 1660), wife of Victor Amadeus. See Eichelieu, 
Marshal. 

Scotland. — Eobert Stuart II. (ace. 1371). Celestial crown 
over the globe. Vauitas, vanitatum et omnia vanitas, " Vanity of 
vanities, and all things are vanity." 

James III. (1460). A hen with her chickens under her wing. 
Non dormit qui eustodit, " He sleeps not who guards." Two rocks in 
the midst of the sea. Durabo, " I shall endure." 

James IV. (1488). A column upon a rock, surmounted by two 
heads, Utrumque, "On both sides." His wife, Margaret Tudor, 
eldest daughter of Henry VII., used the daisy. 

James V. (1513. A whale led by a little fish, called by Pliny, 
musculus. Motto, Urget major a, "He urges on a greater." 
" There be examples of friendship among fishes, besides those of 
whose societie and fellowship I have allreadie written, namely, be- 
tweene the great whale balaena, and the little musculus. For whereas 
the whale aforesaid hath no use of his eies (by reason of the heavie 

1 " Observe the opportunity." — Apoo. Savoy. Legend : Fcedere Et lieligione 

Eooles. iv. 20. Tenemur — another reading of the con- 

2 There exists a gold doubloon of tested F.E. 11. T. — Jules Baux, ' Histoiro 

Victor Amadeus, bearing on one side his de l'Bglise de N. D. de Brou ' (at Bourg- 

effigy ; on the reverse, four Savoy knots en - Bresse), containing the splendid 

with as many devices of two hands con- monuments of Philibert the Fair and 

joined, arranged round the arms of Margaret. 



232 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

still remain to the despoiled ;" meaning that he who retains his arms 
is not deprived of everything ; a good omen, as he regained them at 
the battle of St. Quentin, after which he took a pile of arms, with 
the motto, Becondimtur, non retundtmtur, " They are laid by, not 
blunted," — i.e., that even in peace, the preparation for war should not 
be neglected. 

In 1553, when Emmanuel was general of the Imperial army, a 
medal was struck, bearing his device of an elephant making room 
for itself among a flock of sheep, separating them with his trunk, 
so that he may not trample upon them. Motto, Infestus infestis, 
"Enemies crush enemies" (Fig. 160). "This beast," says Pliny, "is 



Fig. 160. — Emmanuel Philibert, Duke ot Savoy. 

so gentle to all others that are but weake, and not so strong as himselfe 
that if he passe through a flocke or heard of smaller cattell, it will 
with the nose or trunke, which serveth insteed of his hand, remoove 
and turne aside whatsoever beast commeth in his way, for feare he 
should go over them, and so crush and tread under his foot any of 
them, ere it were aware. And never doe they any hurt, unless they 
be provoked thereto." 3 So Emmanuel did not wish to crush any except 
his adversaries. 

Chaeles Emmanuel, Duke of (1630), styled, " The Great." This 
prince had several mottoes. At the beginning of his reign he used, 
Dirige gressus ineos, " Lord direct my steps." And when he went 
to Saragossa to marry Catherine, the infanta of Spain, he chose for 
his device at the carousal given on the occasion, an eagle looking at 
1 For infeste, read infestis. 2 Book viii., eh. 7. 



AND WAR-OKIES. 235 

the more) from a wound." This impresa is upon a hand-hell 
formerly belonging to Queen Mary, and now the property of Mr. 
Robert Bruce, of Kennet. 1 It likewise appears upon one of Mary's 
jetons. Miss Strickland also mentions the device, ascribing to it a 
different signification. " Mary," she writes, " sent Norfolk a cushion 
embroidered by herself, with the royal arms of Scotland, beneath which 
there was a hand with a knife in it pruning a vine, and the motto, 
Virescit vulnere virtus, " Virtue is strengthened by affliction." 2 Lesley 
knew enough of the metaphorical and poetic turn of Mary's mind to 
be able to explain that the mysterious design embroidered on the 
cushion was an impresa devised by herself to convey a moral sentiment 
applicable to her own case, signifying that the vine was improved by 
the discipline to which it was subjected, as, in the language of Scrip- 
ture, ' Faithful are the wounds of a friend.' " 3 

The fullest account of the impreses of Queen Mary is given by 
Drummond of Hawthornden, in a letter addressed to Ben Jonson. " I 
have been curious," writes Drummond, " to find out for you the im- 
preses and emblems on a bed of state, wrought and embroidered all 
with gold and silk by the late Queen Mary, mother to our sacred 
sovereign, which will embellish greatly some pages of your book, and 
is worthy of your remembrance. The first is the Loadstone turning 
towards the Pole ; the word, her Majesty's name turned into an ana- 
gram, Marie Steuart, ' Sa vertu m'attire,' which is not inferior to 
Veritas armata, ' armed truth,' which is likewise meant as an anagram 
on Marie Stuarta. 4 This hath reference to a crucifix, before which, 
with all her royal ornaments, she is humbled on her knees most lively, 
with the word Undique, ' On every side,' which would signify that 
through the cross she is armed at all points." 

Drummond next gives the impresa of Mary of Lorraine, her 
mother — a phoenix in flames ; the word, En ma fin git mon commence- 
ment. This same motto attracted the attention of Elizabeth's emissaries; 
when Mary was at Tutbury, in 1569. Nicholas Whyte writes to 
Cecil, " In looking upon her cloth of estate, I notice this sentence 
embroidered, En ma fin est mon commencement, which is a riddle I 
understood not." Miss Strickland observes, " This motto, it may be 
remembered, had previously puzzled Kandolph, and other English spy 

1 Exhibited at Edinburgh in 1862. 

2 On a silken jeton. 4 See also p, 124 for other anagrams, 

3 ' Queens of Scotland,' vol. vii. and for Mary's monograms. 



234 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

weight of his eie-brows that cover them) the other swimmeth before 
him, serveth him in steed of eies and lights, to shew that hee is neere 
the shelves and shallows, wherein he may be soone grounded, so big 
and huge he is." 1 

Also a pyramid crowned, in the sea, assailed by winds and clouds. 
Adhuc stat, " It still stands." 

Marie de Lorraine, 2 Queen dowager of Scotland, and Eegent 
during the minority of her daughter, Mary Stuart ; prudent, just and 
resolute, and devoted to the interests of her country. Her device 
was a crown placed upon a rock, beaten on all sides by the wind and 
waves, with the motto, Adlmc stat, " Still stands." See Mary Stuart. 

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland and France. Mary Stuart was 
six years old when she arrived in France ; at fifteen she married 
Francis, then only fourteen years of age. They were styled the Koy 
Dauphin and the Beine Dauphine ; and Queen Mary of England dying 
soon after, King Henry II. required that the Dauphin should assume, 
with the arms of France, Dauphine, and Scotland, those of England 
and Ireland, and affix them publicly in several places in Paris by his 
herald "Dauphine," styling themselves Francois and Marie, by the grace 
of God, King and Queen of Scotland, England, and Ireland, Dauphin 
and Dauphine of Viennois. These designations, though merely re- 
calling the eventual rights of Mary, called forth remonstrance on the 
part of the English ambassador, and were productive of disastrous 
consequences. 

Mary's devices were numerous. On the death of Francis II. she 
took the liquorice plant, the root only of which is sweet, and all above 
ground bitter. The motto, Dulce meum terra, tegit, " The earth covers 
my sweet one." 

Again, a vine, intended to represent the kingdom of Scotland, with 
two branches, one of which is leafless ; a hand issuing from the 
clouds, and holding a pruning-bill, cuts off the withered branch, em- 
blematic of rebels and heretics, in order that the green branch (her 
Catholic subjects) may flourish and bear forth more grapes. The 
motto was, Virescit vulnere virtus, " Virtue grows green (flourishes 

1 Book ix., ch. 62. Henry VIII. vehemently demanded her 

2 She married, first, Louis II., Duke of hand, when wooed by James V., and the 
Longueville, and she captivated the Dauphin was with difficulty prevented 
hearts of Henry VIII. and James V., from divorcing his wife, Catherine de 
and the Dauphin (afterwards Henry II.). Mwlicis, in order to marry her. 



AND WAE-CEIES. 237 

As an antithesis, she describes the improving uses of adversity by 
camomile in a garden, and the motto, Fructus calcata dat amplos, 
" Trampled upon, she giveth out greater fragrance." 

Again, she typifies herself in the character of the palm-tree, with 
the motto, Ponderibus virtus innata resisiit, " Innate virtue resisteth 
oppression." See Ubbino. 

Also, as a bird in a cage, with a hawk hovering above ; the motto, II 
mal me preme e me spaventa peggio, " It is ill with me now, and I 
fear worse betides me." 

A triangle, with a sun in the middle of a circle ; the word, Trino 
non eonvenit orlis, " The round does not fit the circle." 

A porcupine amongst sea-rocks ; the word, Ne volutetur, " That it 
should not be rolled about." 

The panoply of war, helmets, lances, pikes, muskets, cannon, and 
the words, Ddbit Deus his qiioque finem, " God can put an end to 
these things also." 

A. tree planted in a churchyard, environed with dead men's 
bones ; the word, Pietas revocabit ah Oreo, " Piety shall recall from 
hell." 

Eclipses of the sun and the moon ; the word, Ipsa sibi lumen 
quod invidet aufert, " She taketh from herself the light she envies," 
glancing, as may appear, at Queen Elizabeth, figured as the eclipsing 
moon. 

Scarcely less pathetically applicable to her own sad case are 
Brennus's balance, a sword cast in the scale to weigh gold ; the motto, 
Quid nisi vietis dolor ? " What remaineth for the vanquished but 
misery." 

A vine, having one branch withered, receives water from an urn. 
Mea sic mihi prosunt, " Thus are mine profitable to me." This has 
been supposed to express the bitterness of Mary's feelings at the 
conduct of James, who had strengthened himself by diverting her 
resources to his own use. It is more probable it was issued in 
the same spirit as the second jeton, with the vine and the pruning 
knife, inculcating patience under affliction, as virtue flourishes under 
suffering. The following explanation is given by Mezerai : " Elle 
n'oublia aucun soin d'y arroser et cultiver e'est a dire de favoriser 
le parti Catholique, qui estoit le sien, et pour desraciner celui 
des Protestans. Ces paroles mea sic mihi prosint [sic) est un 



23o historic devices, badges, 

reporters, when they saw it wrought upon her throne at Holyrood ; 
not comprehending that the young blooming sovereign, in her nine- 
teenth year, undazzled by the glories of her earthly state, testified 
thereby her hope of a better inheritance when the mortal shall have 
put on immortality. Chosen for her warning in the days of her 
prosperity, she adopted it in the season of adversity as her consola- 
tion." 1 These impreses show that a strain of melancholy moralising 
occupied the mind, and pervaded even the needlework, of this accom- 
plished and ill-fated princess. 

Another device, wrought on this elaborated specimen of her taste 
and industry, was an apple-tree growing on a thorn ; the motto, Per 
vincula crescit, "Through chains it increases," — implying thereby that 
her cause was increased by her captivity. 

Another of these allegories was Mercury charming Argus with his 
hundred eyes, expressed by his caduceus, two flutes, and a peacock ; 
the motto, Eloquium tot lumina clausit, " Eloquence has closed so 
many eyes." Others are : 

Two women upon the wheel of fortune, the one holding a lance 
emblematic of war, the other a cornucopia, emblem of peace, which 
impresa evidently typified Queen Elizabeth and herself ; the motto, 
Fortunee comites, " The companions of Fortune," — implying that 
whomsoever fortune favoured would prevail. 

A ship, with its masts shivered, still resisting the buffeting of the 
ocean ; Numquam nisi rectam, " Never till righted," or " Never unless 
erect," descriptive of her invincible constancy — though assailed on 
every side by her Protestant subjects — to remain firm in the Catholic 
faith. On the scaffold she declared, " I was born in the Catholic 
faith, I have lived in the Catholic faith, and I am resolved to die in it." 

Her maternal pride is expressed in the device of a lioness, with her 
whelp beside her, and the words, Unum quidem, sed leonem, " One 
only, but that one a lion." 

Her bitter sense of the insolence of her inferiors is intimated by 
the emblem of a lion taken in a net, and hares wantonly passing over 
him, with the words, Et lepores devicto insvltant hone, " Even hares 
trample on the conquered lion." 2 

1 'Queens of Scotland,' vol. vi. 
2 Of this device Alciat gives a representation, and Philip Faulconbridge says, 
tauntingly, to Austria — 

"You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, 
Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard." — King John, Act vii., sc. 1. 



. AND WAK-CEIES. 239 

admirable and royally shining virtues, justly honoured even by the 
enemies of her cause." 

Schweppermann (Seyeried) was the occasion of Frederic the Fair, 
Duke of Austria, being defeated at Muhldorf by his rival, Louis of 
Bavaria, 1322, Frederic falling into the error of thinking that a fresh 
army he saw approaching was a reinforcement from his brother 
Leopold, when it proved to be a force commanded by Seyfried 
Schweppermann, a citizen of Nuremberg, who had deceived the enemy 
by displaying the standards of Hapsburg. Louis, who was not present 
in person at the battle, acknowledged that he owed the victory to this 
courageous citizen ; and when a basket of eggs (the only provision 
which could be procured) was divided among the officers, Lewis pre- 
sented two to Schweppermann, with the words, Jedem ein ei, dem 
frommen Schweppermann zwei, 

" An 6gg for each man's share, 

To worthy Schweppermann a pair." 

These words were inscribed upon his tomb; and an egg was ever 
afterwards borne in the escutcheon of his family. 

Seguieb, Pieeee, III. The intrepid Chancellor of the Eegent 
Anne of Austria and Louis XIV. (-)- 1672). See Hagenbach. 

Seminaea, Carlo Spinelli, Duke of. The same as one of the 
devices of the Emperor Charles V. The sun, Non dum in auge, " Not 
yet ;" i.e., that his greatness had not yet reached its zenith. 

Sevigne, Marie de Eabutin Chantal, Marquise de (-j- 1696). 
A swallow 1 flying to warmer climes, Le froid me cliasse. 

Sforza. See Milan. 

Sorel, or Soreau, Agnes (-{- 1450). The "Demoiselle de 
Fromenteau," who used the ascendancy she possessed over the king's 

1 With the motto, Non Jiabemus Wo manentem civitatem, "Here we have no 
abiding city," the swallow is a fit emblem of the Christian pilgrim. 

" No sorrow loads their breast, or swells their eye, 
To quit their friendly haunts, or native home ; 
Nor fear they, launching on the boundless sky, 
In search of future settlements to roam. 

" They feel a power, an impulse all divine, 

That warms them hence ; they feel it, and obey ; 
In this direction all their cares resign, 

Unknown their destined stage, unmarked their way." 

Jago. 



238 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

souhait qu'elle elle fait pour 1'acoroissement de la religion Catholique, 
trea-saint et tres pieux, mais qui fut mulcte aussi bien que ses 
travaux." 

In allusion to her great reverse, a wheel rolled from the mountain 
into the sea ; the motto, Piena di dolor vida di speranza, " Full of 
griefs, empty of hope." * 

A heap of wings and feathers dispersed ; the motto, Magnatum 
vicinitas, "The vicinity of magnates," implying that she had too 
powerful a neighbour, who rent her plumes and rifled her nest. 

A trophy upon a tree, with mitre3, crowns, hats, masks, swords, 
boots, and a woman with a veil about her eyes, or muffled, pointing to 
some one about her, with this motto, TJt casus dederit, " As chance 
shall have given." 

A winged female (Fortune), holding a wheel and rudder, Adrastia 
aderit, " Fortune will come." 

One of the most beautiful of these allegories, describing the source 
from which Mary derived consolation under the pressure of her cala- 
mities, is the device of three crowns, two opposite, and one above in 
the sky, the motto, Aliamque moratur, " And awaits another ;" imply- 
ing that the rightful Queen of France and Scotland awaits a crown 
celestial in the heavens. The last device is an eclipse, with the 
motto, Medio oceidit die, " Darkened at noonday." 

In addition to these devices, the impresa and mottoes of 
Francis I., Henry II., Godfrey of Bouillon, the Cardinal Lorraine, 
together with the Tudor portcullis, and the Order of the Annun- 
ciation of Savoy, were all embroidered upon this bed by Queen 
Mary and her ladies. The workmanship, concludes Drummond, " is 
curiously done, and truly it may be said of it, the execution surpassed 
the material." 

On Mary's banner in Peterborough Cathedral was the Scottish 
unicorn and three thistles ; motto, " In my defence " (Lansdown MS., 
No. 874). 

It would appear, from a despatch of Dickenson, that Queen 
Elizabeth directed she should use her motto : " Her Majesty's most 
royal daughter is to use her godmother's impress, Semper eadem, 
' Full of princely courage,' and therefore, as well for that as her other 

1 A similar motto, in Spanish, with water-buckets on a wheel, Los Memos de dolor, 
los vazios de speranza, was used by Dom Diego de Guzman. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 2-11 

Spain. 1 — Sisenando, King of the Goths, 631, having destroyed his 
numerous enemies, and overcome the obstacles to the Gothic throne, 
took as device an elephant covered with flies,' which it destroys, 
according to Pliny, by suddenly contracting the wrinkles of its skin. 
His motto was, Al mejor que jouedo, "In the best way I can." 
" Covered their skin is neither with haire nor bristle, no, not so much as 
in their taile, which might serve them in good stead to drive away the 
busie and troublesome flie (for as vast and huge a beast as he is, the flie 
haunteth and stingeth him) ; but full their skin is of crosse wrinckks 
lattisewise ; and besides that, the smell thereof is able to draw and 
allure such vennine to it, and therfore when they are laid stretched 
along, and perceive the flies by whole swarmes settled on their skin, 
sodainly they draw those cranies and crevices together close, and so 
crush them all to death. This serves them instead of taile, maine, 
and long haire." 2 

Thebesa, daughter of Alfonso V., King of Leon and the Asturias, 
999, when married by her father to Abdallah, king of Toledo, whose 
assistance he sought against Almanzor, the Moorish king of Cordova, 
took for device a mortar in which gunpowder is being pounded, with 
the motto, Minima maxima fecit, " A little makes much ;" meaning 
that as a small spark would ignite the whole, so wrath should be 
extinguished as soon as kindled, lest it cause the destruction of the 
author. 

Others attribute this device to Garcias, 910, son of Alfonso the 
Great, King of Leon and the Asturias, and that he bore it on his 
standard when he went to war against Abdallah, the Moorish king of 
Cordova, whom he so successfully defeated. 

Petek II., King of Aragon, 1196. An eagle. Sub umbra alarum 
tuarum, " Under the shadow of thy wings." 

James I., King of Aragon, 1213, the Conqueror. A knight over- 
throwing another. Dubia fortuna, " Doubtful fortune." 

Peter III., King of Aragon and Sicily, 1270, the Great. The 
contriver of the horrible massacre known as the Sicilian Vespers in 
1282, originating in the plot of Procida, and ending in the expulsion 
of the French and the separation of Sicily from Naples. Peter, who 

1 The dates are those of accession. 

2 Pliny, book viii., ch. 10. 



240 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

mind to raise him from his lethargy, instead of remaining under the 

appellation of the " petit roi de Bourges." As Brantome relates it, 

an astrologer being one day consulted by Charles in her presence, 

Agnes asked him her destiny. He replied that she would fix the 

affections of a great king ; upon which Agnes rose, and, making a low 

curtsey to Charles, asked permission to go to the court of the King of 

England to fulfil her fate, for, added she, " Sire, c'est lui sans doute 

que regards la prediction, puisque vous allez perdre votre couronne, 

et que bientot Henri va la reunir a la sienne." The king took the 

reproof, " Se mit a pleurer, et de la, prenant courage, quittant la chasse 

et les jardins, il fit si bien, par son bonheur et sa vaillance, qu'il 

chassa les Anglais de son royaume." 1 He gave her the chateau de 

Beaute, 2 on the banks of the Marne, between Vincennes and 

Nogent, whence she took the name of the " Dame de Beaute." The 

armorial bearings of her family were a rebus on their name, Or, a 

sureau 3 (sallow or willow), vert ; and in the chateau which Charles VII- 

built for her at La Guerche, 4 the device by which she is designated 

is the tree surelle. The walls are covered with it, and with A and 

A • 

L superposed, -r forming A sur L, — a curious rebus of her name. 

Agnes was buried in the Abbey of Loches. As long as she lived, 
the chanoines had been the most obsequious courtiers ; after her death 
they gave an asylum to her remains only because Charles VII. was 
living ; but scarcely had he closed his eyes than they applied for per- 
mission to remove from the choir the tomb of the " belle des belles." 
" J'y consens," replied Louis XL, 5 " mais rendez le dot." The tomb 
remained. Francis I. wrote of her : 

" Gentille Agnes plus d'honneur tu me'rites, 
La cause e'tant de France recouvrer. 
Que ce que pent dedans un cloitre ouvrer 
Clause nonnain ou bien de'vot hermite." 



1 Brantome. 

2 Adjoining the royal park of the s During her lifetime, Louis was her 
Bois de Vincennes. Here Charles, dau- greatest enemy. He " se laissa aller k 
phin (eldest son of Charles VI. by des prompitudes contre la belle A gnes ;" 
Isabella of Bavaria), was born, and died i.e., he once gave her a box on the ear 
1386-7.— De Coste. in the Castle of Cliinon, and he was one 

3 Sureau, soreau, sorel, surelle. of those who was unjustly accused of 

4 Near Loches, dap. Indre-et-Loire. causing her death by poison. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 243 

Alfonso X., the Wise, King of Castile, 1252. A pelican in its 
piety (Fig. 162). Motto, Pro lege et grege, "For the law and the 
people." 1 




Fig. 162.— Alfonso the Wise, King of Castile. 

The poets loved to celebrate the maternal love of the pelican : 

" The loving pel'can, 
Whose young ones poison'd by the serpent's sting, 
With her own blood to life again doth bring." 

Dbayton, Noah's Flood. 
Again — 

" The Pelicane, whose sons are nurst vfith bloode. 

she stabbeth deep her breast, 

Self murtheresse through fondnesse to hir broode." 

Birds forbidden, printed in Bibliotheca 
Biblica, black Utter. 

And when the king, in ' Hamlet,' reproaches Laertes for venting his 
revenge at his father's death alike on friends and foes, Laertes says : 

" To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms, 
And, like the kind, life-rend'ring pelican, 
Repast them with my blood." 

Hamlet, Act iv., sc. 5. 

" Phisiologus dist del Pellican qu'il aime moult ses oiseles et quant 
ils sont nes et creu ils s'esbanoient en lor ni contre lor pere et le flerent 
de lors eles en ventilant ensi come il li vont entor et tant le fierent 
qu'ils le blechent es ex. Et lors les refiert le peres et les occit. Et 
la mere est de tel nature que ele vient al ni al tierc jor et s'accoste sor 

1 Other mottoes for the pelican: — Ut herself of herself;" Mortuos vivijicat, 
vitam habeant, " That they may have " Makes the dead alive ;" Nee sibi jjarcit, 
life;" Immemor ipse sui, "Unmindful ' Nor spares herself." 
2 Fur rege, read lege. 

E 2 



242 H1ST0EIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

was married to Constance, daughter of the usurper Manfred, was 
crowned king of Sicily. 

A caltrops ; French, chausse trappe ; a ball of iron, with spikes so 
placed that when thrown upon the ground one spike is always erect. 
It was used to maim horses. 

" I think they ha' strewed the highways with caltrops, 
No horse dares pass them." 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Pilgrimage. 

Peter's motto was, Quocunque ferar, "Wherever I may be carried." 

Martin I., 1396, King of Aragon. Victory seated upon a globe 
(Fig. 161). Non in tenelris, "Not in darkness." 




Fig. 161.— Martin, King of Aragon. 

John, King of Aragon, 1458. A salamander in the fire. Durabo, 
" I will endure." 

Feedinand I., the Great, 1035. By right of his wife, Sancha, 
king of Leon, and by tbat of his mother, Elvira, of Castile. When 
deceived by a nobleman of Granada, he took the device of the pome- 
granate, 1 the emblem of treachery and deceit, with the motto, Vos 
Mentis, thus alluding to the noble's native town and to his disloyal 
perfidy. 

Feedinand III., the Saint, King of Castile, 1230. A helm and 
globe. Te guhematore, " Thou, the pilot." 

1 When Granada was captured, 1492, the pomegranate was added to the shield. 



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245 



husband's name. Ferdinand a yoke, Yugo, and the letter Y, initial of 
his wife Isabella, and of the despotic machine which he fixed alike on 
Moor and Spaniard. Also, the Gordian knot (Fig. 1 63), with the motto, 
Tanto monta, rendered by Mr. Ford as " Tantamount," to mark his 
assumed equality with his Castilian queen, which the Castilians never 
admitted. Other writers refer the motto to a dispute with regard to 
the succession of Castile, which finding no means of obtaining justice 
except by the sword, led Ferdinand to adopt the device of the Grordian 
knot, the motto implying that it was easier to solve the difficulty by 
cutting than untying it. 




Fig. 163.— Ferdinand the Catholic, King of Castile and Amgitn. 

The device of the Gordian knot was taken by Jacques d'Albon, 
Marechal dAndre", who formed with the Due de Guise and the Con- 
stable Montmorency, the famous triumvirate which was to extinguish 
liberty in France. His motto was, Nodos virtute resolvo, " I loose the 
knot by strength." 

So, when extolling the virtues of the young King Henry V., the 
archbishop says — 

" Turn him to any cause of policy, 
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose 
Familiar as his garter." 

King Henry V., Act i., sc. i. 

And Iachimo, when he takes off the bracelet of Imogen, finds it 

" As slippery as the Gordian knot was hard." 

Cymbeline, Act ii., sc. 2. 



244 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

ses oiseles et ensi le3 resucite de mort ; car li oiseles par nature 
rechoivent le sang si toit come il sant de la mere et le boivent." 1 

" Than sayd the Pellycane, 
When my Byrdts be slayne, 
With my Bloude I them revyve, 
Scrypture doth record, . 
The same dyd our Lord, 
And rose from deth to lyve." 

Skelton, Armory of Birds. 2 

Peter I., the Cruel, King of Castile, 1350. A hand armed 
• with a lance. Hoc opus est, " This is the labour." 

Deposed by his subjects for his cruelty, Peter was reinstated by 
Edward the Black Prince, but was afterwards slain by Henry de 
Transtamare, who succeeded him. 

Henry II., de Transtamare, 1368. Two anchors crossed with 
the pole star. Buena guia, " A sure guide." 

John I., King of Castile, 1377. An arm with a falcon on the 
wrist. Maiora cedunt, " The greater jield." 

Henry III., King of Castile, 1390. The oak. Semper eadem, 
" Always the same." 

" He is the rock, the oak not to be •windshaken." 

Coriolanus, Act v., sc. 2. 

A pyramidal tower. Nisi domino frustra, " In vain but by the Lord's 
help." 

Ferdinand the Catholic, 1 572, King of Aragon, who, by his 
marriage with Isabella of Castile and his conquest of Granada and 
Navarre, united the kingdoms of the Peninsula, and became king of 
all Spain. 

Being much devoted to St. John the Evangelist, Ferdinand and 
Isabella adopted his eagle, sable, with one head, as the supporter of 
their common shield. 3 They each had their separate device. Isabella 
took a bundle of arrows, FlecJias, and the letter F, initial of her 

1 ' Bestiarum,' Boyal Library, Brussels 3 The arms of the different kingdoms 
1074. of Spain are all comprised in the cscut- 

2 The pelican, with the motto, cheon of Ferdinand and Isabella. 
" En moy la mort, Aragon, Castile, Granada, Leon, and 



En moy la vie," 



Sicily. 



was the sign of the printers Hier. de " 11 baston giallo e vermiglio." 

Marnef and Guill. de Cavellat, of Paris. Orlando Furioso, xw. 4. 



AND WAE-CEIES. 



247 



the emperor he had frequent occasion to name the imperial eagle, 
upon which Charles, having attentively listened till the close of the 
speech, turned suddenly towards the orator, and with sarcastic em- 
phasis repeated the above lines, " L'aquila grifagna," &c. Alamanni 
promptly replied, " When I wrote those lines I wrote as a poet, to 
whom it is allowed to feign ; but now I come as the ambassador of one 
great sovereign towards another. They were the productions of my 
youth, but now I speak with the gravity of age ; they were provoked 
by my having been banished from my native place, but now I appear 
before your Maj' sty divested of all rancour and passion." Charles, 
rising from his seat and laying his hand on the shoulder of the 
ambassador, told him with great kindness that he had no cause to 
regret the loss of his country since he had found such a patron 
as Francis I., adding, that to a virtuous man every place is his 
country. 




Fig. 165.— Charles V. 

Conscious of the elements of greatness within him, Charles V. 
took for the motto of his maiden shield, when but eighteen years old, 
at a tournament at Yalladolid, Non dum, " Not yet," meaning that he 
would bide his time. 1 Typotius gives him the device of the sun 
ascending the meridian (Kg. 165), with the motto, Non dum in 
auge, "Not yet in its zenith," expressing the character of one 
whose ambition is not satisfied, but who aspires to higher things. 
1 Prescott's ' Life of Philip II,' vol. i, p. 278. 



246 HISTOBIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Joan op Castile (Jeanne la Folle) (-f 1555), daughter of Isabella 
and Ferdinand, succeeded, on her mother's death, 1 504, to the throne of 
Castile, jointly with her husband, Philip the Fair of Austria. Philip 
dying, 1506, and Joan becoming insane with grief at his loss, her 
father, Ferdinand, continued to reign, and thus perpetuated the union 
of Castile with Aragon. 

The device of Joan was a peacock, in his pride, upon the terrestrial 
globe (Fig. 164). Motto, Omnia Vanitas, "All Vanity." 




Fig. 164.— Joan of Castile. 

That of Philip, her husband, a knight on horseback, armed at all 
points, with a lance in his hand, riding before the lists. Motto, Qui 
volet, or Quis vult, 1 " Who wills." 

Charles I, son of Jeanne la Folle and Philip le Bel, 1516, after- 
wards, 1519, Emperor of Germany as Charles V. When Charles 
became emperor, the apostolic one-headed eagle of his grandfather 
gave place to the double-headed eagle of the Germanic empire, 
described by the Florentine poet Alamanni as 

" L'aquila grifagna 
Che per phi divorar due becchi porta." 

" The rapacious eagle, which the more to devour bears two beaks." 

When Alamanni, who had been banished from his native city for 
being concerned in a conspiracy to assassinate Pope Leo X., and had 
withdrawn to France, was sent on an embassy from Francis I. to 
invest Charles V. with the order of St. Michael, in' his oration before 

1 The same device, with the motto Qui eapit, " Who desires," is assigned to 
Sancho IV,, King of Castile. 



AND WAE-CKIES. 249 

And thus Tasso — 

" Tempo verra, che sian d'Ercole i segni 
Favola vile ai naviganti industri." 

Ger. Lib., Canto vi., st. 220. 

" The time will come when sailors yet unborn 
Shall name Alcides' narrow bounds in scorn." 

" Hercules Pillars " was a sign in Fleet Street, probably after the 
visit of the Emperor Charles V. to this country. 1 

When Charles V. besieged Metz in 1552, Francois Duke de Guise, 
its youthful and chivalrous defender, happily alludes, in his address to 
his army, to the proud boast of the emperor. He says, " Apprenez a 
toute l'Europe qu'il n'a pas ete impossible a un petit nombre de 
Francais d'arreter un empereur qui les assiegeoit avec trois armees, et 
qui se vantait de n'avoir pas estre arreste par les colonnes d'Hercule." 

It was on being compelled to raise the siege of Metz— 

" Ou le destin avait son outre limite, 
Contre les nouveaux murs d'une faible cite' " 

(Eonsabd), 

that Charles V. exclaimed, " I see that fortune resembles a woman, she 
prefers a young king to an old emperor." 

On this occasion the device was made of an eagle attached to the 
column of Hercules, with the motto, Non ultra metas, " Not beyond 
the boundaries ;" but there is an equivoque in the word metas, which 
signifies the city of Metz as well as boundaries. Francois de Guise 
having obliged him to retire, chained the imperial eagle to the 
columns, with the motto, "Thou shalt not go beyond Metz." 2 

When Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, had been successful 
over the Spaniards, a medal was struck, in 1 631, on the reverse of 
which were the columns of Hercules, the one falling, the other borne 
up by the lion of Holland above. Motto, Concussit utramque, " He 
has shaken both." 3 

After his victory over Francis I., Charles had the device of a fleur- 

1 Pepys mentions taking a friend " to sent Sampson pulling down the pillars of 

' Hercules Pillars ' to drink ; " and again, the Temple of Dagou. 

" with Mr. Creed to ' Hercules Pillars,' " No. 3455. A silver-gilt diamond 

where we drank." On a token is a shaped ornament, with portrait of 

crowned male figure, erect, and grasping Charles V. of Germany, with Plus ultra 

a pillar in each hand, which, but for the device behind. 1547." — Bemal Catalogue. 

inscription, might be supposed to repre- z Vulson de la Colombiere. 

3 Bizot, Hist. Metallique de la Hollande, 168S. 



248 



HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Charles afterwards assumed his proud device of the columns of 
Hercules 1 (Fig. 166), -with the motto, Plus oultre, " More beyond," a 
Bnrgundian or French motto, altered by Italians to Piu oltre, or Plus 
ultra. These words refer to the acquisition of a world unknown to 




Fig. 166.— Charles V. 

the ancients, or perhaps not only to the actual passing of the boun- 
daries prescribed by Hercules, but to show that he would surpass the 
fabled hero, in fame, valour, and glory. 

These pillars of Hercules are constantly mentioned — 

" Altri lnsciar le destre e le manome 
Rive, che due per opra Erculea fersi." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xv., st. 22. 

" Some pass the pillars rais'd on either strand, 
The well-known labour of Alcides' hand." 

Hoole's Translation. 



1 Calpe and Abile. Hercules, when 
seeking the oxlu of Gevyon, separated 
this mountain, and having gathered the 
golden apples of Atlantis, ho left these 
two rooks as termini, or signs to naviga- 
tors not to pass beyond. 

" II segno che prescritto 
Avea gih a' naviganti Ercole invitto." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto vi., st. 17. 



" That region where 
TJncontiuer'd Hercules, in ages past, 
His boundary to mariners had plac'd." 

Hoole's Translation. 
" La meta che pose 
Ai primi naviganti Ercole invitto." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto xxxil., st. 98. 

" And now the bounds he trac'd 
Which once for mariners Alcides plac'd." 

Hoole's Translation. 



AND WAR-OKIES. 251 

After the abdication of his father, Philip took Hercules relieving 
Atlas 1 from the weight of the globe (Fig. 168). Motto, Tit quiescat 
Atlas, " That Atlas may repose." 

" Si come gia depose, e vecchio e stanco 
Sopra gli omeri d'Ercole possenti 
Atlante il giro de le stelle ardenti, 
Che sotto il peso eterno venia manco, 
Cobi," &c. — Silvio Antoniano. 



Fig. 168.— Philip II. 

When Philip married Mary of England, he took Bellerophon 
fighting with the monster, with the motto, Hinc vigilo, "Hence 
I watch," to imply that he awaited the favourable moment for 
attacking the monster heresy in England. 

The terrestrial globe, of which half is in darkness. Reliquum 
datur, " The rest is given." 

Two batons in saltire. Motto, Dominus mihi adjutor, " Grod is 
my helper." 

Two sceptres passed in saltire through a crown over an open 
pomegranate (Fig. 169). Motto, Tot Zopiro, "As many of Zopyros," 
originating in the following incident. One day Philip being asked of 
what he would like as large a number as the seeds of a pomegranate, 
answered he would like as many of Zopyros, that is, as many faithful 

1 " Quel vecchio stanco, 

Che con le sue spalle ombia Marocco." 

Petkakca. 



250 



HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



de-lis withered by blasts from winds blowing from the south. Motto, 
Perjlantious Austris, " The south winds blowing ;'' making allusion to 
the house of Austria, and to a passage in one of the Fathers, which 
says that the lily fades when the south wind blows. 

Charles also took the device of the stag, which, when he sheds his 
horns, lies in the sun that they may be hardened by its rays. Motto, Tu 
perficis, " Thou makest perfect," meaning that no glory is perfect unless 
derived from the Almighty, the author and giver of all good gifts. 

" So long as they be destitute of theire homes, and perceive theire 
heads naked, they goe forth to releife by night ; and as they grow 
bigger and bigger they harden them in the hot sunne, eftsoons making 
proof of them against trees ; and when they perceive that they be 
tough and strong enough, they goe abroad boldly." 1 

Philip II., 1556. When yet Infant of Spain, he took the chariot 
of the rising sun, Apollo holding the reins (Fig. 167), with the motto, 
Jam Ulustrdbit omnia, " Soon it will light all." 2 




Fig. 167.— Phil'p ir. 



A horse leaping the barriers of a circus, with the motto from 
Juvenal, TJnus non suffioit orhis, " One world is not enough," alluding 
to his empire in the New World. 



1 Pliny, book viii., ch. 32. 
2 Bronze medal of Philip II. Obverse, of the sun. Diameter 2| in. 
bust to the right. Reverse, the chariot — South Kensington Museum. 



(6759). 



AND WAR-OKIES. 253 

Sully, Max. de Bethunb, Due de (-f- 1 641). An eagle with the 
thunderbolts. Mottoes, Quo jussa Jovis, "Whither Jove commands." 
Ardeo ubi aspicior, " I burn when I am looked upon." See 
Montluo. 

Sweden, Christina, Queen of (-)- 16S9). The foreshadowing of 
the intricate path before her caused her to take for device a labyrinth, 
with the motto, Fata viam invenient, " Fate will find the way," 
which appears on a medal struck in 1751. 

She endeavoured to persuade the world of her satisfaction at her 
abdication, by causing a medal to be struck which represented Mount 
Olympus with Pegasus on the top. Motto, Sedes hsec solio potior, 
" This seat is preferable to the throne." 

To the last she was proud of her independence ; for one of her 
last medals, struck at Ronie, bore a phoenix, with the motto, " I was 
born, lived, and died free." 

Sun-dials, with appropriate mottoes, were very fashionable in the 
seventeenth century, particularly in Paris. 

M. de Fienbet, counsellor of state to Louis XIV., had on the front 
of his town residence, figures of Labour and Eepose supporting a dial ; 
mottd, Plures labori, dulcibus quidam otiis, " Many to labour, some 
to sweet ease;" and another, in the gardens of bis country-house, 
making the style the monitor, Dumfugit umbra, quiesco, "While the 
shadow flies, I am at rest." On another was a verse from Horace, 
Dona prsesentis rape Isetus horse, " Seize with joy the gifts of the 
present hour." Again, a verse from Martial, Pereunt et imputantur, 
" They die away and they are reckoned up," — i.e., take their flight to 
heaven, and bear witness of the good or evil we have done. Another 
warns the reader, Dubia omnibus, ultima multis, " Uncertain to all, 
the last to many;" while another no less briefly declares, Suprema 
lime multis, forsantibi, " The last to many, perhaps to thee." One 
quotes the royal psalmist, TJmbrse transitus est tempus nostrum, " Our 
time is as the passing of a shadow ;" while another selects from the 
same source, Dies mei sicut umbra deelinaverunt, " My days are gone 
as a shadow." 1 On the old sun-dial at the Palais de Justice is inscribed, 
in letters of gold, Sacra themis mores, ut pendula dirigit horas, 
" Holy justice guides manners as this dial does the hours." 

1 Many of the above are taken from Burgon's ' Life of Sir Christopher Wren,' and 
' The Leisure Hour.' See, also, Erasmus ; and France, Louise de Vaudemont. 



252 



HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



friends, alluding to the well-known self-devotion of Zopyros, who, by- 
cutting off his nose and ears, wounding himself, and pretending to he 
a fugitive, placed Babylon in the power of his sovereign Darius. 




Fig. 169.— Philip II. 



Philip also took the device of the world, with the motto, Cum 
Jove, " With Jove," from Yirgil. 

" Deviso e '1 mondo con Giove, Cesare have." 

JEneid. Aiwibal Caeo's Translation. 

Elizabeth, or (as . the Spaniards styled her) Isabella of Valois, 
second wife of Philip IT. (-)- 1568). As her marriage formed one of 
the articles of the peace of Cambray, she was called by the Spaniards 
Isabel de la Paz, La Eeyna de la Paz y de la bondad, and by the 
French L'Olive de la paix. 

As Philip took the rising sun, his queen took for device a serene 
sky studded with stars, on one side the sun, on the other the moon. 
Motto, lam felioiter omnia, "Now all is well." 

This device of Queen Isabella, with the crescent of Henry II. of 
France, and the rainbow of Catherine de Medicis, all point to the 
tranquillity of the Christian universe at the period in which they 
lived. 

Anne of Austria, fourth wife of Philip II. (-)- 1580). Two doves 
on a tree, in a ring. Mtemo conjuge, " In eternal union." 



AND WAE-CEIES. 255 

Thus evil often recoils on its author, or slander destroys secretly 
as the basilisk kills, without an apparent wound. 

Tibnb, Count Odoakdo. Took the bay tree or laurel with a 
thunderbolt, which falls but does not strike; motto, Intacta virtus, 
" His virtue is untouched ;" i.e., that not the darkest storm could affect 
his virtuous intentions. The security of the bay tree from lightning 
is noticed by Pliny and by the poets. 

Pliny says : " Of all those things which growe out of the earth, 
Lightning blasteth not the laurell-tree nor entreth at any time above 
five foot deepe into the ground ; and therefore, men fearful of 
lightning, suppose the deeper caves to be the surest and most safe ; 
or else tooths made of skinnes of sea-beasts, which they call seales, or 
sea-calves ; for of all creatures in the sea, this alone is not subject to 
the stroke of lightning, like as of all flying fowles, the ^Egle, which 
for this cause is imagined to be the armour-bearer of Jupiter, for this 
kind of weapon." 1 

So Sir W. Brown : 

" Where bayes still grow (by thunder not struck down), 
The victor's garland and the poet's crown." 

And again : 

" 'Twere but to me like thunder 'gainst the bay, 
Whose lightning may enclose but never stay 
Upon its charmed branches." 

Beatjmont and Fletchek, Faithful Shepherdess. 

" Secure from thunder and unharm'd by Jove." — Dkyden. 

Titian (-)- 1576). The great Venetian painter took for his 
device a bear licking her cubs into shape (Fig. 170), with the motto, 
Natura fotentior ars, "Nature is the more powerful Art," — the 
strongest efforts of Art can never attain the excellence of Nature. 

Writing of bears, Pliny says : " At the first they seeme to be a 
lumpe of white flesh without all forme, little bigger than rattons, 
without eyes, and wanting hair ; onely there is some shew and appear- 
ance of clawes that put forth. This rude lumpe, with licking, they 
fashion by little and little into some shape." 

" The cubs of bears a living lump appear, 
When whelp'd, and no determined figure wear. 
The mother licks them into shape, and gives 
As much of form as she herself receives." — Dkyden. 

1 Book x., ch. 55. 



254 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Another — 

" Si nescio, Hospes, sunt hie oracula Phoebe, 
Consula ; respondent hoe tibi — Disce mori." 

" If thou knowest it not, stranger, these are the oracles of Phoebus ; 
consult them, they reply to thee — Learn to die." 

" Io vado e vengo ogni giorno, 
Ma tu andrai senza ritorno." 
" Haste, traveller, the sun is sinking low ; 
He shall return again, but never thou." 

Carps diem (Horace), "Make the best of the day." Gressus 
denumerat (Job xxxi. 4), " Thy steps are counted," — " Watch and 
pray, time steals away." Festmat sufrema, " The last hour hastens." 
Memento horse novissime, " Remember the last hour." Volat sine mora, 
" It flies and tarries not." Nee momentum sine linea, was on a sun- 
dial of Cardinal Eichelieu. 

On a sun-dial at Bourges : 

" La vie est comme l'hombre, 
Insensible en son cours, 
On la oroit immobile, 
Elles avanee toujours. 

Non numero horas nisi serenas, " I count only the hours when serene," 
is the motto of a sun-dial near Venice, — take no note of time but by 
its benefits ; turn always to the sunny side of things. 

Tatjfel, George. A ship in a storm, and a lighthouse with a 
beacon ; x motto, Cursum dirigit, " It directs the course." 

Thon, Simon de, Doyen of Trent. A basilisk 2 killing itself by 
looking at itself in a mirror, Im author ea. 

" II Basilieo che priva e divide 
Ciascun di vita, in cui la vista gira, 
Mentre sua imago contro lo speechio mira 
Se stesso, autor de 1' altrui morte, uceide." 

Dolce. 

" The basilisk that deprives each one of life who turns his look towards it, while it 
gazes on its own image in the glass, the author of other's death, it kills itself." 



1 Other mottoes for a lighthouse: Dux the wanderers." 

sum errantibus, " I am guide to the 2 Other mottoes : — Kecat sine vulnere, 

wanderers ; "' Dat ritare, dum dat " He kills without a wound," — " It kills 

videre, " He gives the means of escape without wounding ;" S'jo mho, jo moro, 

when he gives those of sight ; " 7m tutum " If I look I die ;" Aid perit, aut perimit , 

allicit, "He entices you to safety ;" Er- "He is either destroyed or destroys." 

rantibus una micat, " He alone shines for For Basilisk, see Alba. 



AND WAR OEIES. 257 

Syria ; and in modern times with the dolphin by Aldus, the celebrated 
printer of Venice f and, with the motto, Festina lente, " On — slowly," 
by the Emperor Adolplms of Nassau, and by Admiral Chabot. 

Toco, Don Charles (-f- 1674). See Bembo. 

Toetoli, Pietbo Feanoesco. A spike of corn, ripe and bending. 
Motto, Quia plena (recurvo), " I bend down because I am full," — the 
modesty of true learn ng. 

"Why droops my Lord, like over-ripen'd corn, 
Hanging the head at Ceres' plenteous load ?" 

King Henry VI., 2nd Part, Act i., sc. 2. 

Bipe corn has been taken as a device with the motto, Plus reddit, 
plus quan acceperit, " It gives back more than it has received." A 
sentiment derived from Hesiod, showing we should imitate the corn, 
which renders more fruit than the seed sown. 

Totjenon, Feancois de, Cardinal (-(-1562). Employed by the 
Eegent to negotiate the deliverance of Francis I., he signed the dis- 
graceful Treaty of Madrid, which that of Cambray happily blotted out 
from the page of history, and for ten years he enjoyed the full confi- 
dence of the king, who enjoined his son, on his death-bed, to be 
guided by his counsels ; but the Lorraine princes and the Duchesse 
de Valentinois succeeded to the ascendency, and Tournon retired 
to his diocese. He was nevertheless again employed on a mission 
to Borne, where he endeavoured to preserve peace, but the influence 
of the Guise and Carafa party was too strong, and the battle of 
St. Quentin the disastrous consequence of their ambition. The death 
of Henry II. restored him to Court favour. The Colloque de Poissy, 
at which he presided, was the last act of his long political life, 
which extended over four reigns. His cruelty to the Calvinists and 
the Vaudois is a lasting reproach to his memory. 

His device was, manna falling from the clouds, with the 

1 " Would you still be safely landed, 
On the Aldine anchor ride : 
Never yet was vessel stranded, 
With the dolphin by its side," 

Gentleman's Magazine, 1836. 

" When tempests arise, and seamen cast their anchor, the dolphin, from its lovo to 
man, twines itself round it, and directs it so that it may more safely lay hold of the 
ground." — Camerarius. 

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256 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Gloster declares that Nature did disproportion him, 

" .... in every part, 
Like to a chaos, or an tmlick'd bear-whelp." 

TTenryVI., 3rd Part, Act iii , so. 2. 




Fig. HO.— Titian. 

Titian lies buried at Venice, in the church of the Frari, with this 
doggrel as epitaph — 

" Qui giaoe Tiziano de' Vecelli 
Dign' emulo dei Zeussi e degli Apelli." 

" Here lies Tiziano de' Vecelli, worthy rival of Zeuxis and Apelles." 

Titus, Emperor of Eome, took the well-known device of a dolphin 
twisted round an anchor, to imply, like the emblem of Augustus, the 
medium between haste and slowness, the anchor being the symbol of 
delay, as it is also of firmness and security, while the dolphin is the 
swiftest of fish. 1 This device appears also upon the coins of Vespasian, 
the father of Titus. 

The anchor was also used as a signet ring by Seleucus, King of 



1 Of a man he is nothing airraid, 
neither avoideth from him as a stranger ; 
but of himselfe meeteth their ships, 
plaieth and disporteth himselfe, and 
feteheth a thouband friskes and gambols 
before them. He will swimme along by 



the mariners, as it were for a wager, who 
should make way most speedily, and 
alwaies outgoelh them, saile they with 
never so good a fore-wind. — ■ Pliny, 
book ix., ch. 8. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 259 

Tkignano, Comte di. A rose tree between two onions (Fig. 172). 
Motto, Per opposite/,, "Through things opposite." Plutarch says 
that when planted among onions, the rose produces the sweetest 
flowers, so a good man shines most and is most purified living in a 
wicked world. 




Fig. 172. — Count de Trlgnano. 

Tbinoheeo, Gio. Battista. Cranes flying over a rock, upon which 
eagles are perched, with sand in their mouths. Motto, Tida silentia 
merces, " Silence is safe merchandise." 1 

Teivulzio Family, of Milan. Have for their crest a man's head 
with three faces, Tre volte, whence their name, to which has sometimes 
been applied the motto, Mens wiica, " But one mind." 

Teitolzio, Gian Giacomo, surnamed the Great (-(-1518). Tri- 
vulzio left the service of Alfonso, and returned at the head of a 
French army, and may be said to have been the chief cause of the 
ruin of his country. Fought for Charles VIII. at the battle of Taro. 
When Louis XII. succeeded to the throne, Trivulzio in less than a 
month reconquered the Milanese, and compelled Ludovico to flee to 
Germany, for which service he was made a Marshal of France. Tri- 
vulzio's despotic administration excited a revolt and the return of the 
Moor ; but Trivulzio took both the brothers prisoners. He led the 

1 The same device is given with the thy mouih." Le Verein, ' Livre curieux 
mottoes, Silentia tuta, " Silence is safe ;" ot utile pour les savans et les artistes.' 
and Pone orifrenum, •' Keep a bridle on Paris, 16S6. 

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HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



motto, Non quee super terram, " Not what is above earth," — but the 
bread that cometh down from heaven (John v. 1), the hidden manna, 
i.e. Christ, promised (Eev. ii. 17) to him that overcometh. 

Tremoiixe, or Trimouille, Louis, second of the name, Sire de la. 
At the age of 27 he gained the battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier, 
against the Duke of Brittany, where he made prisoners the Prince of 
Orange and Louis, Duke of Orleans. When Louis became king his 
courtiers reminded him of his wrongs at St. Aubin, which occasioned 
the memorable answer of Louis XII., that " it did not become the 
King of France to avenge the injuries of the Duke of Orleans." Louis 




Fig. 171. — Louis de la Tremuiile. 



confided to him the command of the army of Italy. He gave evidence 
of his valour at Aignadel and Marignano; Pavia terminated his 
glorious career, 1525. The battle was given against his advice, and 
he fell pierced with wounds. He was honoured with the title of 
Chevalier sans reproche, and deserved the device he took after the 
battle of Saint Aubin, and which has been kept by his descendants — 
a wheel (Fig. 171), with the motto, Sans point sortir de Torniere, 
to signify that no personal interest would cause htm to swerve from the 
path of honour. 

See Mandrttccio, Cristoforo. 

Trent, Cardinal. A bundle of lances. Motto, TJnitas. Like 
the sheaf of arrows of the Seven United Provinces, both referring to 
the story told in Plutarch of Scilurus and his eighty sons, or ZEsop's 
fable of the old man and the bundle of sticks. 



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Francesco degli Alidosi, Cardinal of Pavia, accused him of causing the 
loss of Bologna. Unahle to obtain an audience to justify himself to 
the' Pope, Francesco Maria vented his indignation upon the cardinal, 
whom he killed, when meeting in the street at Eavenna. 

Leo X. deprived him of his sovereignty, and gave it to Lorenzino 
de' Medici. After a fruitless contest, Francesco Maria retired with 
his artillery and his grandfather's library to Mantua, but he returned 
to Urbino on the death of Leo X. 

Francesco bore for his arms the oak and acorns, " Le ricche 
ghiande d'oro," 1 of the Delia Eovere family. After the death of the 
Cardinal of Pavia, he assumed, on a field gules, a lion rampant proper, 
holding a rapier. Motto, Non deest in generoso pectore virtus, 
" Courage is not wanting in the noble breast," a device invented by 
Castiglione as an assertion of Francesco Maria's worth. 




Fig. 174. — Francesco Maria, Duke of Urbino. 



On the recovery of his duchy, at the death of Leo X., and his 
reconciliation with Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, he took for device upon 
his standard the palm-tree, 2 bent towards the ground by a block of 
marble (Fig. 174). Motto, Inclinata resurgit, "Though bent, it 



1 " Thy warlike arm the golden acorns 

shook." 

Orlando Furioso. 

2 Speaking of woods good for timber, 



Pliny says : — " Poplar settleth and 
bendeth downwards, whereas the date- 
tree, contrariwise, riselh upwards and 
archwise." — Book xvi. 42. 



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HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



vanguard of Louis XII. at the battle of Aignadel, and had a large 
share in the victory of Marignano. He ordered to be inscribed upon 
his tomb at Milan, in the church of San Nazzaro, " Johannes Jacobus 
Magnus Trivultins Antonii Alius quo numquam quievit quiescit, tace." 
Seeing Ludovico Sforza's design upon the duchy of Milan, to the 
prejudice of his nephew, GHan Galeazzo (he was one of the Council of 
Eegency at Naples appointed by Galeazzo Maria), Trivulzio left in 
disgust and joined the King of Aragon, Alfonso II., the avowed 
enemy of Ludovico. And wishing to show that in the administration 
of Milan he would not yield one point to Ludovico, he bore as his device a 
square slab of marble with an iron style placed in the centre, opposite 
the sun, the ancient ensign of the Trivulzio house (Fig. 173), with the 




Fig. 173. — Gian Giacomo Trivulzio. 



motto, Non eedit umbra soli, " The shadow yields not to the sun," for 
the sun — moving round where it would, the style still rendered its 
shadow. 

Trivulzio bore a panther on his standard, with the motto, Mens 
sibi eonscia fadi, " The mind conscious to itself of the deed," — the 
panther signifying foresight (providence), from the number of eyes in 
his coat ; others said he wished to imply that he knew how to manage 
for himself in the various changes of his capricious fortune. 

UBBrsro, Dukes of. 

Fbancesco Maria della Kovebe (-f 1538), fourth Duke of 
Urbino. He showed himself not unworthy in war and letters of his 
great-grandfather Frederic, of Montefeltro. When scarcely eighteen, 
his uncle. Pope Julius II., gave him the command of the Papal troops. 



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263 



Ovid, Ponderibus librata sua, 1 " Poised by its own weight ;" i. e., 
that he would govern himself and maintain himself by his own 
strength. 

Also, an eagle burning its feathers by approaching too near the 
sun : Pur die godan gli ocelli, ardan le piume, " That the eyes may 
enjoy, the feathers are burned," — an impresa d'amore. 

Likewise, a lighted candle, by which others are lighted : Non 
degener, addam, " Not inferior myself, I will add " (i.e., light). 

Gtjidobaldo II. (-f- 1574), Duke of Urbino, son of Francesco 
Maria, General of the Church and of the Venetian Eepublic, the 
Augustus of TJrbino. His court was the resort of learned men, whom 
he received with the greatest magnificence and hospitality. 2 He was 
twice married, and one of his devices was the initials of his own two 
names, linked by a Gordian knot to those of his two wives — G. G. and 
V. V. ; i.e., " Guido with Giulia ; Ubaldo with Victoria'." Motto, Gordio 
fortior, " Stronger than Gordius." One of his mottoes was, Meritu 
minora, "Less than his merit." That of Giulia his wife, Adversis 
adversa solatio, " Things adverse are a solace in adversity." 

His device was three metse, or antique goal pillars of the Hippo- 
drome (Fig. 177), with the motto in Greek, QiXcuperoTaTw 
(Filairetotato), Virtutis amantissimo, "To the most devoted lover 
of virtue," — meaning that the crown and reward of true glory shall 
be adjudged to him who most of all distinguishes himself as a lover 
and follower of virtue. 

Much difference exists as to the form of the ancient mete, or 
winning-posts ; but, from the Greek name signifying a fir cone, 



1 Taken also as a tournament device 
by the Baron de Senece. 

2 Describing the voyage of Kiualdo to 
the island of Lipadusa, Aviosto pays a 
compliment to the Urbino court : 

" A Rimino passd la sera ancora, 
Ne in Montefior" aspetta il mattutino, 
E quasi a par col Sol giunge in Urbino. 
Quivi non era Federico allora, 
Ne Elisabetta,2 ne '1 buon Guido 3 V era, 
Ne Francesco Maria, ne Leonora, 4 
Che con cortese i'orza, e non altiera 
Avesse astretto a far seco dimora 
Si famoso Guerrier piii d' una sera, 
Come fer' gia molt' anni, ed oggi fanno 
A Donne, e a Cavalier, cbe di la vanno." 

Canto xllii., st. 25, ^l>. 



" Then, changing steeds, his journey he pursued, 
And Rimini at close of evening, vlew'd ; 
Nor would at Monteflor till morning wait, 
But reach'd, witb rising Sol, TJrbino's gate. 
No Guido Uiere, no Frederico there 
Resided ; no Elizabetta fair, 
Nor Leonora, nor Francesco named 
In later times ; for these a knight so famed, 
With courteous welcome bad awhile constrain'd 
To rest with honour in their seats detain'd ; 
Such courteous welcome as they since have paid 
To every noble knight and virtuous maid." 

Hoole's Translation. 



Second Duke of Urbino. 
Elisabetta Gonzaga, wife of 
Guidubaldo L, third Duke of Urbino. 
Leonora Gonzaga, wile of Francesco Maria. 



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HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



springs again," 1 in token of his successful struggle against evil 
fortune. 

Also, a flame ascending to heaven (Fig. 175). Motto, Quiescdtin 




Fig. 175.— Francesco Maria, Duke of Urbino. 



sublime, " Let it rest on high ;" that is, that his mind would never 
rest satisfied, except by elevated actions. 2 See Oksini, Olympia. 




Fig. 176. — Francesco Maria, Duke of Urbino. 



Duke Francesco Maria caused to be stamped upon his money the 
spheres, with the earth in the middle (Fig. 176), and the motto, from 



1 Crescit sub pondere virtus, " Virtue 
grows under the imposed weight." — 
Motto of the Earl of Denbigh. See also 
Maiy Stuart's devices— all derived from 
the idea that the palm grows the faster, in 
proportion to the weight imposed upon it. 

2 Many other mottoes are used with 
the device of a flame, emblematic, in 
Christian iconography, of death, or of 



the spirit ascending to heaven :—Bepetit 
ccelum sua dona, " Heaven claims back 
its gifts." Vnde venne ritorna, " It re- 
turns whence it came." " The spirit 
of man that goeth upward." — Eccle- 
siastes iii. 21. " The spirit shall return 
to God who gave it." — Ibid. xii. 7. Also a a 
emblematic of ambition, Aut eundum, aid 
pereundum, " Either go on, or perish." 



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celebrated eastern traveller writes, " I bore for my impress a blaze of 
flames, with the Italian word of Tasso, Men doloe si, ma non men 
calde al core, which impress I have been wont to use frequently since 
the death of my wife, Sitti Maani. 1 The work of my clothes was 
wholly together flames ; only distinguished here and there with tears, 
which showed my grief." 2 

Vallieee, Louise Feancoise de la. At the Carrousel given by 
Louis XIV., 1662, in homage to Mademoiselle de la Valliere, the 
monarch's device, alluding to La Valliere, was a half- blown rose peeping 
out from amidst its leaves, with the motto, from Tasso, Quanto si 
mostra men, tanto e piu bella. 

Vasto, Marchese di. See Avalos. 

Velasco, Dom Luis de. Tanto mayor gloria, "So much the 
greater glory," in allusion to the motto of the constables of Castile, 
from whom he was descended, which is, 

" Quanto mas Moras, 
Tanto mayor gloria.'' 

" The more Moors, the greater glory." 

Visconti. See Milan. 

Vitelleschi, B. The culumns of cloud and fire of the Israelites, 
Este duces, " Be (my) guides." 

Vulson, della Colombi&ee, Le Sierjr (-|- 1658). See Medici, 
Cosmo de', Grand Duke. 

1 Pietro della Valle married a young was interred in the church of Ara Cceli, 

Assyrian Christian, who died during where he is also buried, 

their travels, and he had the body em- 2 Travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, 

balmed and carried it to Eome, where it Lond. 1665. 



204 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

they would appear to be of that form. Sanazzaro speaks of the 

cypress : 

" Un cipresso imitatore dell' alto mete." 

They were three cones, placed on a square base, and terminated by 
balls on the top. A design for Guidobaldo's goals was sent by 
Bernardo Ta-so, taken from the Circus Maximus at Eome. 




Fig. 17?.— Guidobaldo II., Duke of Urbino. 

This impresa is often to be seen on the enamelled Faience and 
ornamental furniture of the period, probably executed for Duke 
Gruidobaldo himself, for he was the great patron of Majolica. He gave 
every encouragement to the advancement of the potter's art, wbich 
attained at that period its greatest perfection. He procured the best 
designs for his painters, and delighted in making presents to contem- 
porary princes of specimens of his Majolica. 1 The Marquis d'Azeglio 
has a pair of Majolica candlesticks three feet and a balf high, with 
the three metse painted upon them ; and Baron Meyer de RothscLild 
possesses a similar pair. 

In the South Kensington Museum are four folding chairs (chaises 
pliantes) inlaid with tarsia, or mosaic-work, of ivory and wood. On a 
circular medallion, is an oval shield of the arms of the Dukes of Urbino, 
surmounted by the three metse of tlie Hippodrome, encircled by tbe 
ducal coronet. The gilded nails which attach tbe velvet backs and 
seats are in the form of large acorns, the Delia Bovere cognisance. 

Valle, Pieteo della (-)- 1624). "At a masquerade at Goa,"this 

1 The celebrated collection of Mujolii a as an offering to our Lady at Loreto. 

vases executed for the Spezieria, or Queen Christina, of Sweden, according 

medical dispensary attached to the ducal to tradition, offered for them their weight 

palace, were presented by his successor in gold. 



207 



Part II.— BADGES. 



" Every man shall camp by his standard, and under the ensign of his father's 
house." — Numbers ii. 2. 

" Banner'd host. 
Under spread ensigns marching." 

Mlltok. 

" Behold the eagles, lions, talbots, bears, 
The badges of your famous ancestries." 

Drayton's Baron's War. 

" All the devices blazoned on the shield 
In then 1 own tinct." 

Tennyson, Idylls of the King. 

" A savage tygress on her helmet lies ; 
The famous badge Clorinda us'd to bear." 

Fairfax's Tasso. 

" Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge." 

Shakspbake. 

" Standards and gonfalons 'twixt van and rear 
Stream in the air." 

Milton. 

We have already alluded to the importance formerly attached to 
the badge ; Shakspeare shows how degrading was the being deprived 
of it. Bolingbroke enumerates it in the list of his wrongs, when he 
tells King Eichard's minions — they have 

" From my own windows torn my household coat, 
Haz'd out my impress, leaving me no sign — 
Save men's opinions, and my living blood — ■ 
To show the world I am a gentleman." 

King Richard II., Act iii., so. 1. 



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Arundel, Earls of — by feudal tenure of Arundel Castle. 

" Since William rose, and Harold fell, 
There have been Counts of Arundel. 
And Earls old Arundel shall have, 
While rivers flow and forests wave." 

So runs the old rhyme. Eoger Montgomery, who came over with 
William the Conqueror, had the grant of Arundel, which was forfeited 
to the crown by the rebellion of his grandson in the reign of Henry I., 
who assigned Arundel Castle, with the earldom of Sussex, as dowry to 
his widow, Adeliza, of Brabant. She married William de Albini, of 
the Strong Hand, who had distinguished himself at some jousts at 
Paris, where his bravery " caused the Queen Dowager of France to 
fall in love with him, and to desire him in marriage ; but William 
rejected her offers, alleging that he had given his faith to a lady in 
England, which denial," continues the historian, " the saide queen 
tooke in evill part, and therefore practised to get him into a cave in 
her garden, where she had caused a lion to be put to devoure him ; 
which, when he saw, he fiercely set upon him, thrusting his arme into 
the lion's mouth, pulling out his tongue, which done, he conveyed 
himselfe into England, and performed his promise to Queen Adeliza. 
Jn token of which noble and valiant act, this William assumed to beare 
for his armes a lion gold in a field gueules, which his successors have 
ever since continued." 1 

The title of Earl of Arundel passed at the death of the fifth of the 
Albinis to his nephew, the son of his sister and John Fitzalan. 
Eichard, third Earl of the Fitzalans, is described in the Eoll of 
Karlaverok 2 with the family cognisance : 

" Richard le Conte de Aroundel, 
Beau chivalier et Men ame, 
I vl je rioliement arme, 
En rouge au lyon rampant de or." 

" Eichard, the Earl of Arundel, 

A well-beloved and handsome knight, 
In crimson surcoat marked I well, 
With gold of rampant lion diglit." 



1 Burke. 
2 An old heraldic French poem, which in 1300, in his expedition to Scotland, 
recites the names of the knights and when he laid siege to the Castle of Kar- 
barons who accompanied King Edward I. lavcrok, Dumfries. 



268 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

So general had they become that they were forbidden by Kichard III., 
and again by Henry VII. 1 

It is astonishing that in this age of heraldic stationery, the 
badges have not come into favour. They surely are more interesting 
and more suitable for decorating writing-paper than the tortured 
monograms of the present time. 2 

Abekgavenny. See Neville. 

Abingdon, Lord. See BEBTrE. 

Appleyabd. An apple. 

Abbtjthnot, of Fiddes. A peacock passant ; motto, Tam interna 
quam externa, " Beautiful both within 3 and without." 

Aegyll, Duke. A galley or lymphad, with its sails furled, flag 
and pennants flying, for the Lordship of Lorn. 

The same badge as Lords of Lorn is also borne by the Marquis of 
Brea^albane, the Duke of Abercorn (for Earl of Arran), and also the 
McDonalds, on whose monuments at Ion a it repeatedly occurs. 

Abmstbong. 4 An arm embowed in armour, grasping a sword proper. 

Their original name of Fairbairn was changed to Armstrong on 
the following occasion. An ancient king of Scotland, having his horse 
killed under him in battle, was immediately remounted by his armour- 
bearer Fairbairn, who seized him by the thigh and placed him on his 
own horse. To perpetuate the circumstance, the king rewarded him 
with lands, and gave him the name of Armstrong, assigning him for 
crest an armed hand and arm, in the hand a leg and foot in armour, 
couped at the thigh, all proper. 

1 Proclamation of Richard III. sent to the year 1520, in the College of Arms 
the mayor and bailiff of Nortl.ampton. (published in Excerpta Historica), also 
It forbids the inhabitants " to take or with Sir Charles Barker's heraldic col- 
receive any liveries or recognisances of lections, temp. Henry VIII., Harl. MS. 
any person of what estate, degree, or con- 4632 (described in ' Collectanea Top. and 
dition soever he be of," induced by a Geneal.,' vol. iii.), are the principal autho- 
report that " great devastations and dis- rities for the badges here given, 
sensions had arisen in consequence of The standard is generally divided into 
oaths, the givers of signs and recogni- three, either horizontally or transversely, 
sauces of time past.''— Harl. MSS., 433. In the centre is the "beast," and in the 

In 1484 letters were sent to the magis- other divisions the badge. They are 
trates of the chief towns in the southern designated as A, B, and C. 
counties, charging them not to suffer any 3 Probably alluding to the fabled in- 
livery, signs, or recognisances whatever, corruptibility of the flesh of the peacock, 
except the king's livery, to be worn or which no! ion caused the bird to be a 
distributed. — Iiol. Furl, vi., 238. type of the resurrection. 

'-' A MS. collection of standards about 4 Burke's ' Lande 1 Gentry.' 




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Devonshire, 1 he is represented on horseback, with a branch of oak-leaves 
and acorns on his horse's head, and acorns are intermixed among the 
red plumes of his helmet. 

The other Fitzalan mottoes are — " My truste ys," which 
appears with the badge (Fig. 179) as that of William, Earl of 
Arundel, who died in 1543, and Virtutis laus actio, "Action the 
glory of bravery." 

A capital A within a roundlet, or rundel (Fig. 180), was used for 
his name by Thomas, Earl of Arundel. /"A^N 

The swallow, hirondelle, is the punning cognisance for ( /\ ) 
Arundel. The seal of the town of Arundel is a swallow v_^/ 
(Pig. 181). Baron Arundel, of Wardour, bears six swallows F «- 1S0 - 
for his arms, and a swallow on the wing is in one of the windows of 
the Collegiate Chapel at Arundel. 

" The great Arundels " — as they were called on 
account of their wealth — of Lhanheron, Cornwall, 
have as mottoes, De Hirundine, "Concerning the 
swallow," and Nulli %/rmda, "A prey to none;" 
and a Latin poem of the twelfth century is thus Vj , ,_ ., , ;! 
rendered — tow " of Armdei. 

" Swift as the swallow, whence his arms' device 
And his own name are took, enrag'd he flies 
Thro' gazing troops, the wonder of tlie field, 
And sticks his lance in William's glittering shield." 

William Brito. 

Swallows are on the standard of "Mayster Arundyll," temp. 
Henry VIII., with the motto, Faiotes le Ugerement. 

By the marriage of Mary, heiress of the Pitzalans, to Thomas 
Howard, the ill-fated Duke of Norfolk, the Eitzalan badges passed 
into the house of Norfolk. The monument of the Lady Mary, with 
that of the duke's second wife, is in Eramlingham Church, Suffolk. 
Their effigies lie side by side ; the head of the Lady Mary rests on a 
couchant horse. 

Askew. On the standard of Mayster Assecu 2 is an ass's head and 
three lion's jambs, erased or, B and C one jamb. 

Astley, Agnew. A cinquefoil ermine, their arms. 

1 In an Exhibition of National Portraits at the South Kensington Museum, 

2 Badges, temp. Edward IV. MS. Coll. of Arms. 



270 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

The Fitzalan badges 1 are — 

1. A white horse holding in his mouth a sprig of oak. 

2. The same galloping before an oak-tree fruited or (Fig. 178). 




Fig. 178.— Arundel. 



3. A chapeau or and gules, surmounted by a fret 2 or, and an acorn 
leaved, vert (Fig. 179). 




Fig. 1»9.— Arundel. 

4. An oak-leaf and acorn proper charged with a fret or. 

An acorn is given as the badge of Sir John Arundel, time of 
Edward IV. 3 

In the sepulchral chapel in Arundel Castle the Countess of Arundel 
wears round her neck a splendid necklace of roses and suns, alternately 
connected by clusters of oak-leaves. 4 

On the standard of William, Earl of Arundel, time of Henry VIII., 
is the galloping horse (Fig. 178), with oak-branches, surmounted by the 
Maltravers fret, motto, " Cause me oblige ;" and in a portrait of Henry, 
last of the Fitzalan earls (died 1580), belonging to the Duke of 

1 Dallaway, ' History of Sussex.' 

2 The fret is derived from the marriage the principal nobility in the reign of 
of the third earl with the sister and heiress Edward IV., from a contemporary MS. in 
of Lord Maltravers. the College of Arms. 

3 In a list of badges borne by some of * Bloro's ' Monumental Remains.' 



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273 



Shirley also alludes to his prowess : 

" Behold 
When gallant Audley, like a tempest pours 
Destruction thro' the thickest ranks of foes." 

W. Shieley, Edward the Black Prince. 

Joan, daughter and heiress of this valiant knight, married Sir John 
Touchet, and their son, John Touchet, was created Lord Audley. 
His descendants served in the French wars of Henry V. and VI., and 
James, a devoted Lancastrian, fell at the battle of Bloreheath : 

" Here noble Touchet, the Lord Audley, dy'd, 
Whose father won him such renown in France.'' 

Drayton, Miseries of Queen Margaret. 

The Audley badge was a butterfly (Fig. 183) derived from their 
original arms — three butterflies argent. These were 
subsequently changed for a fret or, which, with their 
motto, Je le Metis, are retained by the present Lord 
Audley. The butterfly is sculptured over the chapel 
of Bishop Audley, 1 in Salisbury Cathedral, and was 
borne on his standard by Sir John Touchet, knight, 
in 1520/ with a moor's head. 

Baekbr. An heraldic tiger. A tiger's head was the sign of 
Christopher and Robert Barker, Paternoster Bow, printers and book- 
sellers to Queen Elizabeth, and publishers of the English Mercurie, 
the first English newspaper. They took also the punning device of a 
man barking a tree. 

Beauchamp. See "Warwick. 

Bedford, John, Duke of, brother of King Henry V., and Regent 
of France during the minority of his nephew, 
King Henry VI. " The firebrand-to poor France," 
as he is styled by Drayton. 3 He bore for his badge 
a golden root (Fig. 184). 

In that magnificent work called the Bedford 
Missal, executed for him in 1425, and presented 
by his Duchess, Anne of Burgundy, to Henry VI., 
by order of the dnke, is a portrait of the duke, and 




Fig. 183.— Audley. 




Fig. 184.— Bedford 
(fiom the Bedford Missal). 



1 Edmund, Bishop of Rochester, 1480 ; 
Hereford, 1492 ; and Salisbury, 1492 to 
1524. 

3 Also in Harl. MS. 4632, and a MS. 



in Lnmbeth Palace gives a butterfly as 
the badge of the same John Touchet, 
then Lord Audley, 1559. 
3 ' Polyolbion.' 



272 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Sir John de Astley had for badge a cinquefoil ermine. This 
knight, famous for his duel on horseback with Peter de Massei, a 
Frenchman, fought at Paris before Charles VII. Sir John having 
pierced his antagonist through the head, had the helmet of the 
vanquished to present to his lady. He afterwards encountered a 
knight of Aragon, Sir Philip Boyle, at Smithfield, in presence of 
King Henry VI., after which he was knighted and pensioned, and 
subsequently elected a Knight of the Garter. 1 

Aubernotjn, Sib John T>'. On the brass of Sir John d'Aubernoun, 
St. Mary's, Stoke Dabernon, Surrey, 1277, the earliest brass of knights 
extant, 2 and the only one of the time of King Edward I., he is 
represented not cross-legged but in complete mail, the hauberk or shirt 
reaching nearly to the knees, and having a hood or coif, and long 
sleeves terminating in mufflers ; above, the surcoat. The ornament 
on the guige 3 of his shield is alternately a rose and the mystic fylfot. 
^__^ This remarkable symbol (Fig. 182), called Gam- 

i—i I | 1 madion, from its being a combination of the Greek 

I 1 I I letter gamma, four times repeated,, is frequently 

■ 1 | — | introduced in the vestments of the Greek Church. 

__| U It was used as a symbol in India and China 4 in 

the tenth century, and with us was in more peculiar 

F.g. 182.— Fylfot. uge £ Q ^ thirteen^ an( J fourteenth, when it forms 

a frequent ornament in ecclesiastical apparel. It adorns the mitre 
of Thomas a Becket, preserved in the cathedral at Sens; is on 
the effigy of Bishop Edindon at Winchester, and examples are also to 
be seen at Cbartham, Kent, where the orphrey of the cope of Kobert 
Arthur, priest, 1454, is ornamented alternately with quatrefoils and 
fylfots, and also the amice of Abbot Stoke, 145 1 , at St. Alban's Abbey. 
Audley, Baron. First in fame among those who bore the title 
of Audley was James Audley, the hero of Poitiers : 

" Then Audley, most renown'd amongst lliose valiant powers, 
That with the Prince of Wales at conquer'd Poitiers fought, 
Such wonders that in arms before both armies wrought, 
The first that charg'd the French, and all that dreadful day 
Through still renewing worlds of danger made his way." 

Drayton, Pnlyolbwn. 



1 Dugdale. right shoulder, which attached the shield 

* Waller, * Monumental Brasses.' above the left arin. 

3 "Guige" is a strap passing over the 4 'Archaeological Journal,' vol. iii. 



AND WAE-CRIES. 275 

Blount. A wolf, &c, between four eyes encircled with rays 
argent. B and C three eyes. Motto, Pour par venir. 

The sun in his glory and therein an eye, is the present crest of the 
Bishop of London. 

The Blunt family were so named ("blond ") from their yellow hair. 
The family, says Camden, is " noble and ancient, and the branches 
thereof far spread." 

Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Essex, Earls of Northampton, 
and High Constables of England, adopted the Mandeville (see) badge of 
the swan, which they inherited by the marriage of Maud Mandeville, 
heiress of her brothers, to Henry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford. It is 
to be found on the seal of Humphrey de Bohun (-f- 1298) to the letter 
from the barons of England to Pope Boniface VIII. in 1 301. Two small 
shields with the Bohun arms are suspended from the back of a swan. 

His son Humphrey (-j- 1321) leaves to his eldest son "an entire 
bed of green, powdered with white swans" ("un lit entier de vert, 
poudre de cynes blaunches "). 1 

On the seal, and also on the tomb in St. Edmund's Chapel, West- 
minster Abbey, of his great-granddaughter Eleanor Bohun, Duchess 
of Gloucester, sister to Henry IV. 's first wife, we find the swan; and 
in Eleanor's will, she bequeaths to her son Humphrey, " a p?alter, richly 
illuminated, with clasps of gold, enamelled with white swans" (" un 
psaultier, bien et richement enlumine, ove les claspes dor enamailes 
ove cignes blank ") ; and to her daughter Joan, " Un lit petit par un 
closel de blanc tertaryn balas ove lyonns et cignes." 

The seal of Thomas of Gloucester has the ground a diaper of 
ostrich-feathers and swans, and in his inventory are " xvij tapites et 
Banquets de vert poudres de cygnes." 

Humphrey Plantagenet, the " good Duke " of Gloucester, Lord 
Protector of Henry VI., who was murdered at the instigation of the 
Queen and the Duke of Suffolk, and buried in St. Alban's Abbey 
(-j- 1447), is designated in the satirical poem before quoted by his 
family badge, " The Swanne is goon." 

Bolton. The rebus of 

" Prior Bolton, 
With his bolt and tun." 

Ben Josson, New Inn. 



'Royal and Noble Wills,' 181, 182. 

T 2 



274 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

behind, his banner, seme of golden roots, with his motto, A vous 

entier. That of his duchess was, J 'en suis contente. 

In a satirical poem published about 1449, in wbich the leading 

persons of the time are designated by their badges, Bedford's death is 

thus referred to : 

" The Rote is dead." 

This badge is termed by the French heralds, Le racine de Bedfori. 

Beaumont. An ass's head. 

Bedingfield, of Oxborough, Norfolk. Badge, a fetterlock, 
granted to the Burke family by Edward IV. . 

Berkeley. The manor of Berkeley, one of the largest in the 
kingdom, includes the fishery of the Severn, and the lords of Berkeley 
hold the exclusive right of the salmon fishery. In the Church of 
St. Mary, Wotton-under-Edge, in Gloucestershire, is a plain altar 
tomb, upon which are the brass figures of Thomas, fifth Lord Berkeley, 
and his wife. 1 He was one of those appointed to pronounce the 
sentence of deposition upon Bichard II. His feet repose upon a lion, 
and over his mailed tippet or camail he wears a collar of mermaids 
(Fig. 185), denoting his maritime jurisdiction ; or, may be, this cogni- 




Fig. 185. — Berkeley. 

sanee is derived from the " Mermaids of the See," a device to which 
Edward the Black Prince refers in his will, and may indicate his 
attachment to that prince. 

The seal of the Lord of Berkeley, in the time of Edward III., 
bears his arms with a merman. 

Bertie. A battering ram (Fig. 186). The arms of Bertie, Earl 




Fig. 186. — Bertie. 

of Abingdon, are three battering rams, with the motto, Virtus ariete 
fortior, " Virtue is stronger than a battering ram." 

1 ' Manual of Monumental Brasses.' Oxford, 1848. 



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277 



chier knot" (Fig. 189), to which also is added the water bouget derived 
from their arms. 




Fig. 1S9— Bouvclier. 



In the magnificent monument of Archbishop Bourchier, 1 erected 
by himself in Canterbury Cathedral, the family knot is scattered over 
the whole, combined with the water bouget, as in Fig. 190. 2 

On that in the chapel of St. Edmund, Westminster 
Abbey, to the memory of his nephew, Humphrey, 
eldest son of the first Lord Berners, there are three 
shields on each side of the brass figure (which is 
gone), the guige or belt of Bourchier knots formed 
of straps, one distinguished from the other by being 
studded ; to both ends are buckles. 

The "Bowser" Chapel at Little Easton, Essex, 
the burial-place of the Bourchier, now of the May- 
nard family, is ornamented with the Bourchier knot, 
together with the fetterlock of the house of York, to Fig . 190.— Monument 
whom the family were steady adherents. In the °Mt r rchblshop Bour " 
church is a bell, called Bowser's bell, inscribed 
with the knot, and having inserted a silver coin of King Edward IV. 
This bell is said to have been the gift of a Countess of Essex. 

Among other costly monuments is that of Henry Bourchier 
(brother to the Archbishop, Earl of Eu and Essex, 1483). The red 
lambrequin, or mantling, of his helm, instead of the customary lining 




1 Thomas Bourchier, second son of 
William Bourchier, Earl of Eu, in Nor- 
mandy. " He was," says Weaver, " pre- 
ferred to the Bishopric of Worcester, 
from whence he was translated to Ely, 
and lastly enthroned in this chair of 
Canterbury, where he sat thirty years, 
and lived after the time of his first con- 
secration fifty-one years. I find not that 



ever an Englishman continued so long a 
bishop, or that any archbishop, either 
before or after him, in 800 years, enjoyed 
that place so long. And to add more 
lionour to his grace, and money to his 
purse, he was about two years Lord 
Chancellor of England, and Cardinal of 
S. Ciiiaci, in Thermes. He died in 1486." 
— ' Funeral Monuments.' 



2 dough's ' Scviulcliial Monuments.' 



276 



HTSTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 




A ton, or tun, pierced by a bird-holt" (Fig. 187), is in the church of 
Great St. Bartholomew, Smithfield, of which he was the 
last prior. 1 This style of rebus seems to have found 
favour with ecclesiastics. In Winchester Cathedral we 
find for Prior Thomas Hunton (1470-78) a capital T, 
Hun., and a ton, and in another place a hen sitting 
upon a ton or barrel. In the same cathedral a musical 
note called " long " and a ton, represent Bishop 
Langton. Also, at Winchester, Prior Silkstede has a 
skein of silk. 

Borough, or Burgh, Sir Thomas de. The arming of an arm and 
gauntlet. 

Bothwell. See Hepburn. 

Botreaux. A toad, armes parlantes, " bottreau," French, toad. 
This barony passed by marriage to the Lords of Hungerford, and 
subsequently to those of Hastings. The present Marquis of Hastings 
is Baron Botreaux, and bears the three toads on his escutcheon. 
Boscastle, in Cornwall, was once a baronial castle of the Norman de 
Botreaux. When the church was built, the Lord de Botreaux ordered 
from London a peal of bells to be sent by sea. The vessel arrived 
safely off Boscastle at a time when the bells of Tintagel were swinging. 
The sound of the chimes of his native village was welcome to the 
pilot, who piously thanked God he should be safe ashore that evening. 
" Thank the ship and the canvas ; thank God ashore," exclaimed the 
captain. " Nay," said the pilot, " we should thank God at sea as well 
as at land." " Not so," said the captain. The pilot 
rejoined and the captain grew choleric. Meantime a 
storm arose, drove the ship on the coast, where she 
foundered, and alt on board perished save the pilot. 
During the storm the clang of the bells was distinctly 
heard, and to this day these solemn sounds are still 
heard during the storms which so frequently assail 
the coast. 2 

Bottrell. A quiver sable filled with silver arrows 
(Fig. 188). 
Bourchier. The badge of this family is the well-known "Bour- 




Kig. 188 .— Bottrell. 



1 He died 4th of Edward VI. 
2 ' The Silent Tower of Bptreaux,' Sir Richard K. Hawker. 



AND WAR-CBIES. 279 

window-curtains of the modern castle of Streatlam, county Durham, 
seat of the elder branch of the family. It dates from the time of 
William the Conqueror, who placed in a castle belonging to the Earl 
of Brittany, in that division of Yorkshire called Eichmondshire, a 
knight with five hundred archers to defend it against the insurgents 
of Cumberland and Westmoreland, who were in league with the Scots. 
William gave him, for device upon his standard, the arms of Brittany, 
with three bows and a bundle of arrows, whence the castle and its 
commander derive their name. 1 

Beackenbuey. Among the metrical legends of the county of 
Durham is this distich : 

" The black lion under the oaken tree, 
Makes the Saxons to fight and the Normans to flee ;" 

which Sir Cuthbert Sharp explains by the Brackenbury device, a 
green tree, under which is a couchant lion. Motto, Sans reculer 
jamais 1 (Fig. 193). 




Fig. 193. — Brackenbury. 

Beay. The badge of the Bray family is a hackle or hemp-breaker 
(Fig. 194), formerly used for breaking the stalks 
of hemp — Bray, from the French, hroyer, to break, 
bruise, or pound. The hempbreak is still the 
crest of the family. 

Sir Beginald Bray, K.Gr., and for one year 
Lord Treasurer, was in the service of Margaret, 
Countes3 of Richmond, and by her was confiden- 
tially employed in the negotiations which led to 
the accession of her son. It was Sir Eeginald 
who found the crown in a hawthorn-bush on the field of Bosworth, 




Fig. 194.— Bray. 



1 Sharp's ' Memorials of the Rebellion.' 
e Flower's ' Visitation of the County Palatine of Durham,' 1575. 



278 



HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



of ermine, is semee of small water bougets j 1 and in the satirical poem 
before quoted, be is alluded to by tbe same badge : 

" The Watc r Bowge and the Wyne Botele, 2 
With the Vetterlochs cheyne ben fast." 

Jobn Berners, second Lord Bourchier, son of Humphrey, was 
eminent for his learning, and by command of 
Henry VIII. he translated the 'Chronicles' of Sir 
John Froissart into English. His badge was the 
branch of a knotty tree entwined into the Bour- 
chier knot (Fig. 191). It appears on bis standard, 
with his motto, Bien je espoyre. 

His kins:nan and contemporary, Jobn Bour- 
chier, Lord Fitzwarin, bore for Lis badge a pavache, 
or til ting-shield, with tbe guige tied in the Bour- 
chier knot. 

Drayton thus eulogises Bonrcbier of Poitiers fame : 




Fig. 191. — Berners, Lord 
Bourchier. 



" With these our Beauchamps may our Bourchiers reckon'd he, 
Of which that valiant lord, most famous in those days, 
That hazarded in France so many dangerous frays, 
Whuse blade in all the fights betwixt the French and us, 
Like to a blazing star was ever ominous." — Polyolbion. 

Bowen. A knot forming four loops, or bows (Fig. 192), a rebus 
of tbe name Bow-en. 




Fig. 1 92.— Bowen Knot. 

Bowes, Sir George, Knight-Marshal of Queen Elizabeth during 
tbat great rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland, 
called " the Bising of the North." He bore on his seal the customary 
badge of his house, a sbeaf of sharpened arrows, with tbe motto, Sans 
variance terme de ma vie. This cognisance is introduced in the 



1 The stall plate of his brother John, 
Lord Berners, K.G., in St. George's 
Chapel, Windsor, exhibits his mantling- 



seme' alternately with water bougets and 
Bourchier knots. 

2 Badge of Vcre, Earl "of Oxford. 



AND WAR-OKIES. 281 

Queen Anne Bullen, and maternal grandfather to Queen Elizabeth. 
He was sent ambassador to the Pope, whose foot he absolutely refused 
to kiss. 

At St. Peter's Church, Hever, Kent, is his brass monument— a 
large, armed figure. He is attired in the full insignia of the Order 
of the Garter 1 — mantle, star, garter, and collar of garters, each of them 
surrounding a red rose. Beneath his head is his tilting helmet, 
with the assumed crest of Ormonds, a demi-falcon volant ar. issuing 
from a mound vert, which has descended from the Ormonds as a 
badge of the Bullens 2 (see England, Queen Anne Bullen). His feet 
rest upon a male griffin, also derived from the Ormond descent. A 
bull's head sable, couped and armed gules, was also used as a badge. 

Blickling was the country seat of Sir Geoffrey Bullen, Lord 
Mayor of London in 1458, and son of Sir William Bullen of Blickling, 
Norfolk, grandfather of Sir Thomas, who resided there with his 
daughter Anne, and where later Queen Elizabeth was a guest. It 
was also visited by Charles II. and his queen. 

" Blickling two monarchs and two queens has seen. 
One king fetch'd thence, another brought, a queen." 

Burkett. Sir John BurJett, of Bromcote, Warwick. Or ; crest, 
a lion's head sable, with four pansies slipped. B and C, pansies. 

Burgh. A black dragon, which was subsequently used by 
Edward IV., in token of his descent. 3 

Buteller — Butler. A covered cup argent, in allusion to the 
office. A boar's head. 

Byrche. A squirrel sejant. 

Byron (Beroun). A mermaid argent, crined and finned or, holding 
in the left hand a comb, in the right a mirror, both of the last. 

Calthorpe. A caltraps or. 

Capell, Sir Gyles de, Stebbing, Essex. An anchor erect gules, 
bezanty the ring or, between two jessamine slips proper. B one, 
C tbree, jessamine slips. Motto, " Pour entre tenir." 

1 Among the monumental brasses 1483, Little Easton, Essex, who lias also 

there only remain four examples of the mantle, and Sir T. Bullen, who has 

Knights of the Order of the Garter : Sir the full insignia. 

Simon de Felbrigge, + 1413, at Felbrigg, = "Walter's 'Monumental Brasses.' 

Norfolk, and Sir Thomas Camoys, 3 Willement's ' Heraldic Notices of 

Trotton, Sussex, who wear the garter Canterbury Cathedral,' London, 1827, 

simply; Henry Bourcliior, Earl of Essex, passim. 



280 HISTOEIO DEVICES, BADGES, 

and gave it to Lord Stanley, who placed it on the head of the 
victorious Henry, in memory of which he afterwards bore it as a 
crest. A thornbush, with a crown in the midst, is to be seen in 
the hall-window of Stene, Northamptonshire, one of the forfeited 
estates of Lord Lovel granted to Lord Bray. 1 Sir Keginald laid 
the first stone of King Henry VII.'s Chapel at Westminster, 
1502-1503, and died the same year. He desired to be buried in 
the Chapel of St. George, Windsor, which he had " new made with 
that intent, and also in honour of Almighty God." That St. George's 
Chapel owes much to Sir Eeginald there can be little douht. His 
arms, his device of the flax-breaker, the initials of his name and 
that of his wife, in so many parts of the ceiling and windows, could 
not have been placed there without a more than ordinary claim to 
distinction. 2 

In the remains of stained glass in Shere Church, Surrey, is the 
bray or hemp-breaker of Sir Eeginald. 

The badge is on the standard of his son, who was created Lord 
Bray, with the motto, Seray come a Dieu plaira. 

Beook, Sib Edward, the first Lord Cobham of that name, the 
last Baron having been Sir John Oldcastle, the Lollard martyr. He 
was a firm Yorkist, and fought at St. Alban's and Northampton. 
He bore a black Saracen's head. See the Cobham monuments at 
Cobham, Kent. 

Brook, Thomas, Lord Cobham, who was present at the taking of 
Tournay by Henry VIII. has the same badge. His motto, Je me fie 
en Dieu. 

The ancient families of Brooke and Grey both assumed the 
badger : an animal known provincially by the name of " brock " or 
" grey/' and, with the fox, regarded equally as an object of sport : a 
" To hunt by day the fox, by night the gray." 

Beyan. A bugle horn. In the church of St. Peter's, Seal, Kent, 
is the brass of Sir William de Br\ene (+1395). His head rests 
upon a tilting helmet, havhig on its crest a bugle horn. This is one 
of the Northumberland badges the family derive by marriage. 

Bullen, Sie Thomas, K.G. Viscount Kochford, Earl of Ormond, 
created Earl of Wiltshire by King Henry VIII. (+1538), father of 

1 Brydges' 'History of Northampton.' 2 Burke's 'Landed Gentry.' 

3 Moulc, 'Heraldry of Fishes.' 



AND WAE-CEIES. 



'283 



Towton. 1 Henry, then only ten years of age, was concealed by his 
mother at a farm, in the garb of a shepherd, that he might escape the 
vengeance of the house of York, to whom the memory of " that cruel 
child-killer" was so hateful after the murder of young Kutland. 
Henry Clifford lived in retirement until the age of thirty-two, when, 
on the accession of King Henry VII., he was restored to his titles and 
estates. 

Clinton. A mullet pierced, 2 gold (Fig. 196). This badge is 
still borne, with the Pelham buckle, by the Duke of Newcastle ; also, 
a greyhound. 3 





Fig. 196.— Clinton. 



Fig. 197. — Coiupton. 



Cobham. See Brook. 

Compton. A fire beacon (Fig. 197). The present crest of the 
Eirl of Northampton. 

Constable. Sir Marmaduke Constable had for badge on his 
standard, 1520, an anchor erect or, ringed at the crown, and charged 
with a crescent sable. Motto, Soies ferine. 

Conyers. Sir William Conyers, summoned, 1509, as Baron 
Conyers. He distinguished himself at Flodden Field. His standard 
is semee of two badges, the first two wings in lure gules, tied by a 
cord azure ; the other, a cross crosslet gules, the device a lion passant 
azure. Motto, Ung Dieu, ung roy. 

In another list of standards Lord Conyers is argent. A lion passant 
azure, the whole banner semee of cross crosslets gules, and a pair of 
wings gules, addorsed and connected by a knot azure. Ung Dieu, 
ung roy. 

Lord Conyers bore a garb, and also a trefoil argent. 

1 Clifford tays to King Henry — 

" King Henry, be thy title right or wrong, 
Lord Clifford vows to right in thy defence. 
May that ground gape, and swallow me alive, 
Where I shall kneel to him that slew my father !" 

King Henry VI., 3rd Part, Act i. sc. 1. 

2 Badges, temp. Edward IV. 

3 Bagford MS. on the Art of Printing, Harl. MS., 5910. 



28^ HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Cake. A buck's head couped, argent, &c, between four columbines 
slipped and leaved or, flowered azure and argent. B and C columbines. 

Caeew, Sir John, Kt. A or and sable. Carew crest of demi lion, 
set round with spears between four spears bendways headed azure. 
B, C, and D two spears bendways. E four chevrons 

Sir William Cai ew, Kt. de Devon. On a wreath a demi-lion issuant 
from the round top of a ship, and two falcons collared and jessed gules, 
bells on the neck and legs or. B, falcon and round top of a ship ; 
C ditto between two round tops. Felix quy poterit, " Happy who can." 

Chamberlain, Sir Baffe. An ass's head erased argent, ducally 
gorged or (present crest). 

Bauff, Chamberlain of Byngston, in Cambridgeshire. G aDd purp. 
An ass's head, as above. " En acroacis sunt vostra." 

Sir Eobert Chamberleyn. A friar's girdle, azure. 1 

Chenie. The upper part of a rose gules, seeded or, barbed vert, 
therefrom the rays of the sun issuing downwards, or. 

Cholmondeley. Chambley. 2 A close helmet in profile argent, 
garnished or. The present arms are two helmets in chief. Motto, 
Cassis tutissima virtus, " Virtue (or valour) is the safest helmet." 

Sir Bych Cholmondeley. A helmet, &c, four birds rising or, the 
inside of the wings sable. B and C one bird. De eueur entier. 

Clarke, John de Qtjarendon. A bird holding an ear of corn. 
" Bee advised." 

Clifford. An annulet. This badge (Pig. 195) occurs on the 




Fig. 195.— Clifford. 

standard of Henry, thirteenth Lord Clifford, — 

" Clifford, whom no danger yet could dure" 

(Drayton's Miseries uf Queen Margaret), 

son of that fierce Lancastrian who commanded at Wakefield and fell at 

1 Badges, Edward IV. MS. College of Arms. 2 Ibid. 



AND WAE-CEIES. 285 

Cornbwall. A Cornish chough proper. 

Sir Thomas Cornewall, knight. Argent, a lion passant, gules 
ducally crowned, and seme'e of bezants or, between four Cornish choughs 
proper, ducally collared or. 

Coubtenay. A dolphin, one of the ensigns of the Greek empire 
on the Byzantine coins, was assumed by the Courtenays, in reference 
to the " purple of three emperors." 

The Courtenays, Earls of Devon, used a grey hoar as their badge ; 
and, in the satirical verses, circ. 1449, already quoted, the lines — 

" The boar is fav in the west 
That should us helpe with shield and spere," 

apply to Thomas, fifth Earl of Devon, who, with his two brothers, 
lost his life in the Lancastrian cause. 

The arms of Peter Courtenay, Bishop of Exeter and Winchester, 
environed by three dolphins, are sculptured on a chimneypiece in the 
bishop's palace at Exeter. It was to this bishop and his brother 
that Shakspeare refers, when the messenger announces to King 
Eichard III.— 

" My gracious sovereign, now in Devonshire, 
As I by friends am well advertised. 
Sir Edward Courtenay and the haughty prelate, 
Bishop of Exeter, his elder brother, 
With many more confederates, are in arms." 

King Eichard III., Act iv., sc. i. 

The standard of Sir William Courtenay, of Powderham Castle — 
a possession they have held since 1377 — has a boar, and dolphins 
embowed of silver. Motto, Passes lien devant. 

Hugh, third Earl of DevoD, married Margaret Bohun. Their 
monument is in Exeter Cathedral. Her feet repose on a swan, the 
badge of her family. He was father to Edward, the " blind good 
earl," whose monument was at Tiverton, until that church was 
destroyed in the Parliamentary wars, with this inscription — 

" Hoe, hoe ! who lies here? 
I, the goode Erie of Devenshire, 
With Maud, my wyfe, to mee full dere, 
We lyved togeather fyfty-fyve yere. 

What wee gave, wee have ; 

What wee spent, wee had ; 

What wee lefte, wee loste." 



284 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Besides the manor of Sockburn, near Darlington, in Durham, 
which they hold by a singular tenure, the manors of Hornby, in 
Yorkshire, and Charlton, Kent, were also held by this ancient family. 

Sir John Conyers is recorded to have slain a venomous wyvern, 
which was the terror of the country round, and to have been requited 
by a royal gift of the Manor of Sockburn, to be held by the service of 
presenting a falchion to each Bishop of Durham on his first entrance 
into the Palatinate. In compliance of which tenure when each new 
Bishop of Durham first enters his diocese, the Lord of Sockburn, 
meeting him in the middle of Neashamford or Croft Bridge, presented 
him with a falchion, addressing him in these words : " My Lord Bishop, 
I here present you with the falchion wherewith the Champion Conyers 
slew the worm, dragon, or fiery flying serpent. It destroyed man, 
woman, and child ; in memory of which, the king then reigning gave 
him the Manor of Sockburn, to hold by this tenure, that, upon the 
first entrance of any bishop into the county, this falchion should he 
presented." The bishop returns it, wishing the Lord of Sockburn 
health and long enjoyment of the manor. 1 

Conyngham, Cuntngham. A shake fork. Motto, "Over fork, 
over." Crest of the present Marquis of Conyngham, but the device 
occurs in seals of the family in 1500. 2 

Cooke, John, of Gedehall, Essex. Unicorns and boars. Motto, 
" Bee contented." 

Copingbe. An arm embowed, vested gules, holding in the hand 
a brush gules, garnished or. 

Cossyn db Londeys. On a ground a cubit arm erect, habited or, 
charged with two chevrons azure, cuff argent, hand proper, grasping 
a bunch of filberts or, If aved vert, between two mounts vert, on each 
a columbine azure, and leaping thereout a coney sable. B and C on 
each a mount vert, and thereon as before. Ne trop ne moins. The 
antiquity of this family is proved by the proverbial distich — 

" Griiker, Orewys, and Copplestone, 
When the Conqueror came were at home." 

Corbet. A cor beau standing on a tree occurs on seals of the 
twelfth century ; and the device of the raven was afterwards adopted by 
several members of the Corbet family, both in England and Scotland. 3 

1 Longstaffe's ' History of Darlington,' sions from ancient Scottish Seals.' Henry 
quoted in Burke's ' Vicissitudes.' Laing. Edinburgh, 1S50. 

2 lA'MTintivc ' Catalogue of Impivs- 3 Ibid. 




AND WAR-CEIES. 287 

The banner of Thomas, second lord Dacre, of Gillesland, Warden 
of the West Marshes, who distinguished himself at Flodden Field, is 
given thus : 

Le Seigneur Dacre de Gilslande, chevalier de la 
tres noble ordre de la Jarretiere, Lieut, des Marshe3 
vers Escosse, fort en loyaute. Four stripes, or, and 
azure. A, a bull passant gules, ducally gorged, un- 
guled, and collared or, with the badge of Dacre four 
times repeated — viz., an escallop argent, and a staff 
raguly, also argent connected by the Dacre knot, 
gules. B and C same badge. 

He married Elizabeth, third daughter and sole heiress of Ealph de 
Greystock, Baron Greystock, E.G. 

The Lord Dacre Fynnys of the South : A wolf-dog statant argent, 
collar spiked, chain with a log at the end, or, between four coronets of 
the last issuing from each, a wyvern azure, one and two wyverns, De 
moy nul mot sy rayson neve velt. 

The Lord Dacre Fynnys of the South : A bull, saltire gules, 
ducally gorged, and chevron or, armed, and unguled of the last 
between four repetitions of the ciphers T and D, connected by the 
Dacre knot, all or, C and D, in each, the cipher twice repeated as 
before. 

Fiennes, Lord Dacre : A griffin's head, erased gules, holding in its 
beak an annulet or. 

The above standards were those of Thomas Fines, Baron Dacres of 
the South, "who was executed," says Weever, "at Tyburn, in 1541, 
for that he, with others, going to hunt in Master Pelham's park, in 
Laughton, in Sussex, and meeting with some company casually by the 
way, with whom and his confederates ensued a quarrel, in which a 
private man was slain by the said lord or some of his associates (all 
three executed for the same fact). The death of this lord was generally 
lamented, being an hopeful gentleman of twenty-four years. This 
happened in that year when Henry VIII. unsheathed his sword upon 
the necks of the nobility." * 

The Dacre badge is over the arms of William de Dacre, temp. 
Edward III. 2 

1 Weever's ' Funeral Monuments.' 

2 'Fragments relative to the Duchy of Lancaster,' Matthew Gregson. London, 
1817. 



286 



HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 




ClJRZON. 



The idea is similar to an epitaph given by Gough as on a brass 

at St. Alban's, in Latin and English — 

" Lo, all that ever I spent, that sometime had I ; 
All that I gave in good intent, that now have I ; 
That I never gave, nor lent, that now had I ; 
That I kept till I went, that lost I." 

Cotjrtenay, Sir Pekse, temp. Edward IV., bore for badge 
St. Anthony's cross azure. 

Cotjrtenay, Henry, Marquis of Exeter. See Exeter. 
Cromwell. A silver purse, tasselled and buttoned gold, was 
taken for his badge by Ealph, Lord Cromwell, Lord 
High Treasurer from 1434 to 1444, in allusion to bis 
office. At Tattershall Castle, Lincoln, the stately edifice 
he built, on the ground-floor, is a carved stone chimney- 
piece, 1 ornamented alternately with his arms and treasury 
purses (Fig. 198), with his motto, Nay je droit. 2 The 
pelican is a Cromwell bearing. 

A cockatrice, wings elevated, tail nowed, and ending in 
a dragon's head, is the badge on the standard of 
Eobert, Lord Curzon, in 1520. Fig. 199 is given 
by Edmonstone as the ancient badge of the family. 

Dacre. This family derives its name and arms 
from a Crusader ancestor, who distinguished himself 
at the siege of Acre. Their badge, an escallop 3 
united by a knot to a ragged staff (Fig. 200), indicates 
their office of hereditary foresters of Cumberland. 
There have been two Barons Dacre, called North 
and South. The North is Dacre of Gilsland, in Cumberland, merged 
into the Earldom of Carlisle ; the other Dacre of Essex, now a barony, 
derived from Joan, heiress of the Barons Dacre, who married Sir Bichard 
Fynes, of Hurst, Sussex, in 1 145, who was received as Baron Dacre. 

1 A plaster east of this chimneypieoc is in the South Kensington Museum. 

2 Sander's ' History of Lincoln.' 

3 Gules, three escallops, argent. 

" Give me my scallopshell of quiet, 
My staff of faitb to walk upon ; 
My scrip of joy, immortal diet, 
My bottle of salvation." 

Sri: W. Raleigh. 
" Your crest, my father's pride, 
That swept the shores of Judah's sea, 
And waved in gales of Galilee." 

Lay of the Last Mimtrel. 




AND WAR-CRIES. 



289 



king's sword (Fig. 202), and Sir John Pelham the buckle of a belt, as 
a memorial of the same achievement. 




Fig. 202.— De la Wurre. 

The standard of Lord La ware Alphyn, in 1520, is semee of crampits, 
and the badge is introduced in the wainscot carvings of Halnaker 
House, Sussex, founded by Sir Thomas West, who married Elizabeth 
Bonville, temp. Henry VIII. 

The Tudor rose (Fig. 203) is also borne as a badge by Lord De la 
Warre. 



Fig. 203.— De la Warre. 

On the sinister side of his crest Lord De la Warre bears a rose per 
pale argent and gules, from Mortimer of Wigmore, Earl of March, 
whose arms he quarters, and whose descent from Edward III. allied 
them to both the white and red roses, and they were, indeed, heirs to 
the crown. 

Del ye. A dolphin embowed azure. 

Dbnham. A hart's head caboshed. 1 

Denley. A mullet, pierced or. 

Dennan. Or, three columns argent, capitals and bases or, two 
arches of the first. 

From the family of Arches, whose arms were quartered with 
Dynham. 

1 Sir George Mackenzie, Hail. MS., 88. 

U 



28S HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Dance. A horse's head, gules, bezantee, bridled or. 
Danet. A greyhound's head. 

DAkcy. Sir Thomas DArcy, created a baron in 1509, and E.G., 
having joined in Ask's rebellion, called " the Pilgrimage of Grace," 
was accused of delivering up Pontefract Castle to the rebels, and 
■was convicted of high treason, and beheaded on Tower Hill in 
1538. His standard was, vert, an heraldic tiger argent, in the dexter 
lower corner three-parts of a broken spear, or, the point erect, and 
two-parts of the staff in saltire ; a buck's head, couped at the neck, 
ermine. 

Daece. A reindeer's head, couped ermine, armed or. 
Daecy, Monto, at Maldon, Essex. The broken spear is the crest 
of Darcey, county Galway. 

Daeell, Sip. Edwaed de Lytyllcott, Wylts. B and C a lion's 
head, erased or, ducally crowned or. 

Dattbeney. Henry, Lord Daubeney, created, 1538, Earl of 
Bridgewater, bore as badge two bats' wings addorsed 
sable, tied by a cord or (Fig. 201). 

De la Waere. The crampit, or chape, is the 
metal termination, or ornament, at the end of a 
scabbard, which prevents the point of the sword 
from protruding. This is still borne by the Earl 
de la Warr, 1 the lineal descendant of Sir Roger la 
Warr, to whom the badge was first granted. Sir Soger 
shared in the glory of Poitiers, in which battle 
Fig. 2oi.-Daub.ney. John> ■ King of ^aiice, and the Dauphin, were taken 

prisoners. Much contention arose as to whom belonged the honour of 
his capture, for the French king defended himself with great valour, till 
the pressure upon him became so great that those who knew him called 
out, " Sire, surrender, or you are dead !" Whereupon he yielded, according 
to Froissart, to Sir Dennis Morbeck, a knight of Artois, in the English 
service : but being forced from that captain, more than ten knights and 
esquires claimed the honour of taking the royal prisoner. Among 
these the pretensions of Sir Boger la Warr and Sir John Pelham 
having been acknowledged the strongest, the former had, in com- 
memoration of so valiant an exploit, the chape, or crampit, of the 

1 De la Warre. A crampit or, the or, charged with the letter E of the 
inside per pale azure and gnles, rimmed first. 




AND WAE- CRIES. 291 

Castle, Warwickshire, founded by Lord Hereford, with his initials, 
W. D., and motto ; and on the chimneypieee at Tamworth Castle, 
Staffordshire, with the motto, Only one} 

Digby. An ostrich or, in his beak, a horse-shoe gules. 

Mayster Dygby. Azure, an ostrich argent, beaked, membered, and 
vorant a horse-shoe or, with three ciphers of J. D. connected by a knot 
gules. As God be plesid. 

Digby. A fleur-de-lis argent. 

Docea, Thomas, Lord Prior of St. John's, commonly called Master 
of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem ; sat in Parliament as premier 
Baron. 

Froissart calls the Prior of St. John's " Le grand Priour d'Angle- 
terre du Temple." 

Lord Thomas Doewra, Lord of St. John's. A demi-lion rampant, 
double quened, on dexter paw a plate charged with a pale gules, with 
gules d'or holding a plate as before, three wreaths, on each a lion's paw, 
B and C two lion's paws erased, sable, holding a plate, as in the crest, 
charge, with a pale gules. Saneboro. 

Dodsley, Mr., Dean of the king's chapel (temp. Edward IV.). A 
grate silver. 

Doeset. See Geey. 

Douglas. 

" The blodye harte in the Dowglas armes 
Hys standere stood on hye, 
That every man myght fule well knowe ; 
By side stode starres three." 

Battle of Otteriourne (written cir. Henry VI.). 

" The bloody heart blazed in the van, 
Announcing Douglas' dreaded men." 

Sib "W. Scott. 

King Bobert Bruce had vowed to go to the Crusades, but finding 
himself on his deathbed (1329), he said, " Since my body cannot accom- 
plish what my heart wishes, I will send my heart instead of my body 
to fulfil my vows." He requested Sir James Douglas to undertake 
the task, and he accordingly set out with the heart in a silver casket, 
which he wore attached to a cord of gold and silk. Landing at 
Valencia, in Spain, Alfonso, King of Aragon, begged his assistance 
against the Moors of Granada. In the Battle of Salado, Sir James 

1 Pennant, 'Journey to Chester.' 

u 2 



290 



HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 




Denny. Two arches supported, on columns argent (Fig. 204), 
their bases or, was the badge of Sir Anthony Denny, Groom of the 
Stole to Henry VIII., the only individual among 
the courtiers who had the courage to apprise his 
royal master of his approaching death. Henry so 
highly esteemed Sir Anthony, that he was allowed to 
perform his task with impunity. The king presented 
him with a pair of gloves richly worked with pearls, 
. 204.— Denny. an( j a pp 0m t e d him one of his executors and counsellors 
to Prince Edward. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, wrote an epitaph 
to his memory : 

"Death and the King did, as it were, contend 
Which of them two bare Denny greatest love : 
The King, to show his love, gan farre extend, 
Did him advance his betters farre above : 
Nere place, much wealth, great honours eke him gave, 
To make it known what power great princes have. 

" But when Death came with his triumphant gift, 
From worldly carke he quit his wearied ghost, 
Free from the corpes, and straight to heaven it lift. 
Now deme that can who did for Denny most ; 

The King gave wealth, but fading and unsure ; 

Death brought him blisse that ever shall endure." 

Dering, of Surrenden, Dering, Kent. The father of Eichard 
Dering, a monk, gave to Canterbury Cathedral, according to Weever, 
" the hangings of rich and faire cloth of Arras which adorn the quire, 
at the request of his son, who was one of the adherents of Elizabeth 
Barton, the Holy Maid of Kent, who, according to his monkish herald, 
hath figured in the borders, his rebus or name- devices, a deer and a 
ring, instead of arms." 

Devereux, Baron Ferrers, of Chartley, Viscount 
Hereford. 

On the stall plate, as Knight of the Garter, of Sir 
Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers, created Viscount 
Hereford by Edward VI., great grandfather of the 
unfortunate favourite of Queen Elizabeth, are two 
badges, the horse-shoe of the Ferrers, and the " French 
wife's hood "(Fig. 205), with the motto, Loyalle suys. 
The latter occurs as early as Edward IV., and both 
badges are on the banner of Lord Ferrers in 1520- 
The horse- shoes are on the great bay-window of the hall at Chartley 




Fig. 205 — Devereux. 




AND WAR- OKIES. 293 

Exeter. Henry Courtenay, Earl of Devon, created Marquis of 
Exeter by Henry VIII., but afterwards beheaded. His 
badge was a fagot or bundle of sticks, banded, or 
(Fig. 206). 

Fatjconbekg, William Neville, Lord, youngest 
son of Balph, fifth Earl of Westmoreland, took a 
leading part in the French wars, commanded the van 
of King Edward IV.'s army at Towton, was created 
Earl of Kent, and filled the office of Lord High ^fi^Ims 
Admiral. county. 

" Stern Falconbridge commands the narrow seas." 

King Henry VI, 3rd Part, Act iv. se. 1. 

Being sent ambassador to France to treat for peace, he was perfidiously 
seized and detained. Shakspeare enumerates him among the prisoners : 

" The thrice victorious Lord of Falconbridge, 
Knight of the noble Order of St. George, 
Worthy Saint Michael and the Golden Fleece ; 
Great mareschal to Henry the Sixth, 
Of all his wars within the realm of France." 

King Henry VI, 1st Part, Act iv., sc. 7. 

His cognisance was a fishhook, which is noted in the contemporary 
poem before quoted, 

" The fischer hath lost his hangulhook, 
Gete theym again when it woll be" 

(Satirical Verses'), 

when alluding to his captivity in France, 1447. Among other crests 
of knights (Lansd. MS. 870), is " The fysshe hoke." 

Fenwick. A phoenix. Motto, Perit ut vivat, " It perishes that 
it may live again." Sir John de Fenwicke having served his master, 
Henry V., in the wars with France, the king granted him the lordship 
of Trouble Yille, in Normandy, with permission to bear for his motto, 
A Tous Jours loyal. See Wab Cbies. There is the Phoenix mn at 
Morpeth, and in a ballad of the seventeenth century the Fenwicks 
are designated by their badge : 

" Out upon thee Withrington, 
And fie upon thee Phcenix, 
Thou hast put down the doughty one 
That stole the sheep from Amoix." 

Ballad, circ. 1C10. 



292 HISTOBIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

fought by the side of the Spaniards ; the tide of victory turned against 
the Christians, and being surrounded by the enemy, Sir James, in his 
deep despair, taking the casket from his neck, he threw it before him, 
saying, " Now pass thou onward as thou wert wont, and Douglas will 
follow thee or die." Surrounded by numbers, Sir James was slain, 
and his body found lying close to the silver case, to which he 
clung till death. 1 

The Bruce's heart was picked up by a fellow soldier, Sir Simon 
Lockhard, who took it back to Scotland, where it was interred beneath 
the high altar in Melrose Abbey. He changed his name to Lock- 
heart, and bore upon his shield a man's heart with a padlock upon 
it, in memorial of the royal heart he had charge of to its native 
country. 2 

Dkummond, Earl of Perth. The field of his standard, semee of 
caltrops. Motto, Gang warily. 

Dundas. A salamander. 3 

Dunstable, Sib, Eichakd. Temp. Edward IV. A white cock. 

Dymoee. Mayster Dymmocke. Two swords sheathed erect, point 
downwards, garnished, or, pommel and hilt of the last, with four 
wreaths, on each a pair of hares' ears. B a like sword between two 
pairs of ears, two swords and two pairs of ears. 

Scrivelsby was granted by William the Conqueror to Bobert de 
Marmion, to be held by performing the office of king's champion. At 
the coronation of Edward III., Sir J. Dymoke performed it as Lord of 
Scrivelsby. 4 

Edgecombe. Sir Percy Edgecombe. Demi stag, &c, with three 
boars' heads 5 couped and erect argent, armed or, each issuing from a 
laurel wreath vert. B and C the boars' heads. Au plaisir fort de 
Dieu. The same for Edgecombe in H. MS., 4632. 

Egeeton. A pheon, the point upwards, sable. 

Mayster Bauffe Egerton de Bydley, Cheshire. On a wreath, a 
lion's jamb, &c, with five pheons azure, each charged with a crescent, 
B and C in each, two pheons. Fin f aid tout. 

Essex, Earls. See Mandeville. 

1 Argent a heart imperially crowned * Present crest, sword erect argent, 
proper, on a chief azure three mullets of hilt and pommel or, two, lions, three, scalp 
the field. of a hare, ears erect proper. 

2 ' Enshrined hearts.' Emily Sophia 5 Mount-Edgcumbe, Earl of. Present 
Hartshorne. London, 1861. arms, gules, on a bend an ermine cottised 

3 Sir George Mackenzie, Harl. MS., 88. or, three boars' heads couped argent. 



AND WAK-CEIES. 295 

disaster, ran out of the house and left the child alone in the cradle, when 
a baboon or ape, kept in the family, took it up and carried it to the top 
of the steeple of the abbey of Tralee ; from whence, after carrying it 
round the battlements and showing it for some time, to the surprise 
and agitation of the spectators, he brought it down safe, and re-placed 
it in the cradle. From this perilous circumstance, he ever retained 
the name of the ape, and the family adopted the animal for their crest 
and supporters. 1 

Fitzlotjis. A trefoil slipped sable. 

Fitzwaein. See Bourchier. 

Fitzroy, Henry, Duke of Eichmond and Somerset, natural son of 
King Henry VIII. The badge assigned to him was an open rose 
per fess gules and argent, seeded and slipped proper ; from the centre 
of which is issuant a demi-lion argent, gorged with a coronet and 
chained or. 2 His tomb is in Framlingham church, Suffolk. 

Fitz Uryan. Syr Res (Ryce) ap Thomas Fitz Uryan is mentioned 
by Shakspeare : 

"Eice ap Thomas, with a valiant crew." 

King Richard III., Act iv., sc. 5. 

His standard was white. One large and three small ravens sable, 
standing on a turf vert. B and C two ravens. Arms, a chevron sable, 
between three ravens proper. 

Fitz Walter. See Ratcliffe. 

Fitzwilliam:, William, KG-., created (1537) Earl of Southampton. 
The badge on his standard is a trefoil with a transverse bar on the 
slip, or. This badge (Fig. 208), with the anchor he bore as Lord High 
Admiral, remains sculptured on the ceiling at Cowdray House, 
Sussex, which he built. The motto on his standard is, Loyal 
et s' aprouvara. In 1539, he received the Lady Anne of 
Cleves at Calais, on which occasion he wore, suspended to 
a golden chain, a whistle of gold set with precious, stones, 
such as was then used by officers of the highest rank in 
communicating orders. The whistle is now only worn by the 
boatswain. 

1 Farrar, 'History of Limeiick.' Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond.' — 

2 Camden Society. ' Inventories of J. G. Nichols. 




294 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Feeeees. A horse-shoe (Fig. 207). 1 Both name, arms, and badge 
are said to commemorate Henry de Ferrariis, who came over with the 
Conqueror in the capacity of chief farrier. 

Speed, in his ' Theatre of Great Britain,' says, " The 
familie of the Ferrers were first seated in Butlandshire, 
as, besides the credit of writers, the horse-shoe, whose 
badge it was, doth witnesse ; wherein the castle, and now 
Fig 207.-Ferrers. * ne s hi re nai lj right over the seat of the judge, a horse- 
shoe of iron, curiously wrought, containing five foote and 
a halfe in length, and the breadth thereto proportionably is fixed." 

A horseshoe enclosing a nail-head is on the seal of Margaret 
Ferrour, and a hammer and horse-shoe on that of Alice Ferrour. 2 

Among other good wishes enumerated by Dr. Barton Holiday in 
his ' Marriage of the Arts,' 1610, is, " May the horse-shoe never be 
pulled from your threshhold," — i.e., " May your good fortune never fail 

you." 

A horse-shoe is the trade mark of Meux's brewery. The charm 
in the horse-shoe consists in its presenting two points, — any forked 
object has equally the power of driving away witches. 

Feeeeks of Geoby, county Leicester, Barons. William, brother of 
the last Earl of Derby, obtained, by gift of his mother (daughter and 
co-heir of Boger de Quinci, Earl of Winchester), the manor of Groby, 
and assumed the Quinci arms. Gules seven, mascles voided or. Her 
son was made Baron Ferrers of Groby. 

Feekys, Sie Edwaed, Knight. Vert, an unicorn ermine, charged 
on the shoulder with a crescent sable, between six mascles or, B and C 
two mascles. 

Finch. Sir William Fynche de Ikylsham, Sussex. Bed. A finch 
vert, wings elevated and expanded or, standing on a thistle slipped 
proper. Je responderay. 

Fitzgeeald. Thomas Fitzgerald, father of John, first Earl of 
Kildare, was nicknamed Thomas an Appogh, or the monkey earl. He 
was only nine months old when his father and grandfather were killed 
at Callan, in Desmond, by MacCarthy (against whom they had raised a 
large army in 1261), and being nursed at Tralee, the nurses who 
attended him, in their first consternation on receiving the news of the 

1 Arms of Ferrers, Earls of Derby, argent six horse-shoes, sable, pierced, or, three, 
two and one. s Laing's ' Scottish Seals.' 



AND WAR-CEIES. 
Fynden. An ox-yoke, or (Fig. 210). 



297 




Fig. 210.— Fyndeu. 

Describing the battle of Towton, Drayton mentions — 

" Hussey and Findern knights, bearing mighty sway." 

Polyolbion. 

Gaotokd. A greyhound current sable, collared gules. 

Gaknon op Canndyshe. On a wreath, a wolf's head between nine 
pellets. B blade of a scythe and four pellets, G semee of pellets. 

Gifford of Chillington. Mayster John Gyfford de Chelyngton, 
Staff. A tiger's head erased and azure, between two stirrups, or. 
B two, B three, stirrups. This standard dates from Henry II. 

Sir John Gyfford de Chelyngton, Staff. On a wreath an archer 
(as in present arms), 1 and two repetitions of ermine, argent and azure, 
a leopard's head guardant erased or, spotted azure and gules vomiting 
flames of the last. B two, C three, leopards' heads, Preigns dlaine 
tires fort. The original grant of this standard is in existence. 

Goldingham:. An oyster-dredge (Fig. 211). 




Fig. 211. — Goldingham. 



Gold well, Bishop of Norwich. " His name-device, a golden 
well or fountain. In the church of Chart Magna, Kent," is 



1 Gifford of Chillington (Burke). 
Crest— Tiger's head couped, full-faced, 
spotted various, flames issuing from his 
mouth proper ; granted 1513. A demi 
archer bearded and couped at the knees, 
in armour, proper from his middle, a 
short coat perly gules. At his middle 



a quiver of arrows, or, in his hand a 
how and arrow drawn to the head or; 
granted 1523. ("Prenez haleme long 
fort.") Three stirrups with leathers or, 
two and one (Chillington). Three lions 
passant argent (Buckingham). 



296 HISTOBIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

" The anchor argent, gorged in the arm with a coronet, a cable 
through the ring, and fretted in a true lover's knot with the ends 
pendant or, is the badge of the Lord Admiral of England, as he is 
commander-in-chief over all the king's naval forces, — of the fleet in 
England, Wales and Ireland, Normandy, Gascony and Aquitaine. 
The Earl of Southampton, admiral in the reign of Henry VIII, used 
the badge of an anchor ; so likewise did James Bothwell, Duke of 
Orkney, hereditary Lord High Admiral of Scotland, 1567, as his official 
badge. Edward Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, Lord High Admiral 1556 ; 
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 1619, used the anchor; and 
James, Duke of York, brother to Charles II., placed his arms on the 
anchor enriched by a coronet. The Capells used it as a badge. 1 

Eoljambe. A man's leg couped at the thigh sable, spurred or — 
foul-jambe (Fig. 209). On the standard of Sir 
Godfrey Folejamb, of Walton, in the county of 
Derby, 1520. Motto, Demoures ferme. Present 
motto, Soyez ferme. Sir Godfrey was high sheriff of 
Derby ; he directs in his will that " his carcass " shall 
be buried in the Chapel of St. George, at Chesterfield, 
his sword and helmet, with the crest and his coat 
of arms, to be hanged over his tomb, and there 
remain for over. 

Foktescue. This family, influential both in 
England and Ireland, deduces its origin from Sir 

tig. 209.— Foljambe. o ' o 

Bichard le Forte, a gallant soldier in the army of 
the Conqueror, who is said to have protected his royal master at the 
battle of Hastings, by bearing a stout shield before him. From 
this circumstance, the French word " Escue," a shield, was added to 
the original name of Forte, and thus gave Fortescue f the punning 
motto, Forte scutum salus diccum, " A strong shield is a leader's safe- 
guard." Mayster John Fortescu, in the time of Henry "VIII., bore on 
his standard, vert, an heraldic tiger (the present crest) passant argent, 
maned and tufted or, with four antique shields, each charged with the 
word " fort," and four mullets pierced sable. Je pense loyalement. 

Fowler, Sir Bichard. An owl argent, ducally gorged or. 

Framlingham, James de Debenham, armiger, Suffolk. Bed. A 
leopard's head ; motto, Pour me aprendre. 

1 Lower. 2 Burke, ' British Commoners.' 




AND WAR-CRIES. 299 

Geey. Baron Grey of Codnor, Co. Derby. Henry, Lord 
Grey of Codnor, temp. Edward IV., had a tress passant through 
a ciown of gold, within the compass of the tress, a grey (or badger), 
silver. 

Geey. Barons Grey of Groby ; Marquess of Dorset ; Duke of 
Suffolk. 

Sir John Grey, second Baron, but never summoned to Parliament, 
fell at the battle of St. Alban's, fighting on the Lancastrian side. His 
widow subsequently married King Edward IV., who says : 

" Brother of Gloster, at St. Albans' field 
This lady's husband. Sir John Grey, was slain, 
His lands then seiz'd on by the conqueror. 
Her suit is now, to repossess those lands ; 
Which we in justice cannot well deny, 
Because in quarrel of the house of York 
This worthy gentleman did lose his life." 

King Henry VI, 3rd Part, Act iii., sc. 2. 

And Gloucester later addresses Queen Elizabeth : 

" You, and your husband Grey, 
Were factious for the house of Lancaster ; — 
And, Rivers, so were you : — was not your husband 
In Margaret's battle at Saint Album's slain ?" 

King Richard III., Act i., sc. 3. 

Sir John Grey's son, Thomas, was created Marquess of Dorset, E.G., 
1475. Queen Margaret says to him : 

" Peace, Master Marquis, you are malapert ; 
Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current." 

King Richard III., Act i., sc. 3. 

The Lord Marquys Dorset, his son, commander-in-chief of the 
army in Spain, " that honest and good man," as Henry VIII. styled 
him, had for standard, argent and gules, an unicorn erect or, sur- 
rounded by rays of the sun, with three sprigs of pinks, B two, C six 
pinks. A ma puissance. 

Sir Thomas Grey, temp. Edward IV., had for badge a scaling- 
ladder, silver, the present crest of the Greys. 

Geey. Created Barons and Viscounts L'Isle, by Edward IV. 
A silver lion, full faced, crowned gold, armed azure. 

Geey. Edmund, fourth Lord Grey of ltuthyn. A ragged staff 



298 



HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Granville. 



the altar-tomb of William Goldwell and his wife. Betwixt every 
word of the epitaph is the figure of a well, and of James, Bishop of 
Norwich, who appears to have repaired the church. In a window in 
the south chapel of the church is a picture of the Bishop, and in every 
quarry a golden well or fountain, his rebus, or name-device ; date 1477. 
Graham, David. On the top and each side of the shield of Sir 
John, Lord of Abercorn, 1320, in the seal, is a boar's head couped 
erect. 

A. clarion or (Fig. 212), borne by the family from 
the thirteenth century ; it is also called an organ- 
rest or suffiue ; l the earliest example is to be found 
in the encaustic tiles of Neath Abbey, Glamorgan, 
and in the seal of that foundation. The Granvilles 
were Lords of Neath. The badge is probably a 
rebus of the De Clairs, 2 Earls of Gloucester, Lords 
of Glamorgan, under whom the Granvilles held the 
Lordship of Neath. 

Geesham. A grasshopper. The vane of the 
Royal Exchange is surmounted by a grasshopper, 
all that was saved when the building was burnt. A 
grasshopper was the sign of Sir Thomas Gresham's 
banking-house in Lombard Street. It was a frequent sign among 
grocers, out of compliment to Sir Thomas ; but it was a mistake, for he 
was a member of the Mercers', not the Grocers', company. A grass- 
hopper is on the seals of James Gresham, dated 1449. Motto, 
Fortune amie. 

Pennant says : " The shop of the great Sir Thomas Gresham 
stood in this (Lombard) street ; it is now occupied by Messrs. Martin, 
bankers, who are still in possession of the original sign of that illus- 
trious person — the grasshopper. Were it mine, that honourable 
memorial of so great a predecessor should certainly be placed in the 
most ostentatious situation I could find." 3 

Grey. Baron Grey, Wilton, Co. Hereford. Crest, a falcon 
sitting upon a glove. He holds the Manor of Eaton by service of 
keeping one gerfalcon of the king's. 




Fig. 212.— Granville. 



1 The Granville arms are three soufflues 
or, organ rests or. 

2 A French clarion, from Latin cUtrus, 



clair. " Parceque le son de clarion est 
fort clair." — Landais. 
3 ' Account of London.' 



AND WAR-CRIES. 301 

John de Haryngton, of Haverington, temp. Edward III., bore 
sable, a fret argent, called the Harrington knot. 1 

Hastings. The maunch, or sleeve, of Hastings is of all antiquity 
(Fig. 215). Churchyard, describing the tomb of John de Hastings, in 
the Church of St. Mary, Abergavenny, says, 

" He was a man of fame. 
His shield of blaeke he bares on brest, 
A white crowe plain thereon ; 
A ragged sleeve in top, and crest, 
All wrought in goodly stone." 

Worthines of Wales. 

And in the ' Siege of Caerlaverock,' John de Hastings is described : 

" Bsou avoit fort et legier 
E baniere de oevre pareille. 
De or fin o la manche vermeille." 

Drayton, too, says : 

" A lady's sleeve high-spirited Hastings bore." 

Baron's Wars. 

A black bull's head erased, about the neck a golden crown, 
(Fig. 2 1 6), is another of the Hastings cognisances. 





Fig. 215.— Hastings. Fig. 216. -Hastings. 

The Hungerford badge, of a sickle and a golden sheaf connected 
by a knot (Fig. 220), also devolved upon the Hastings family. When 
the Hungerford estates were granted by King Edward IV. to " the 
dangerous, unsuspected Hastings," to which Clarence refers, in ' King 

1 M. Gre^son's ' Fragments relative 1817. The same fret is borne by Audley, 
to the Duchy of Lancaster,' London, Vernon, Maltravers, and others. 



300 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

in bend sable. He was in high favour with Edward IV., who 
made him Lord Treasurer of England, and in 1465, Earl of 
Kent. 

Geeystock. Barons Greystock, Co. Cumberland. A chaplet 
gules (part of their arms). 

Guildfoed. The trunk of a tree couped and raguled or, or a 
ragged staff inflamed (Fig. 213). 




Fig. 213.— Guildfovd. 

Gtjldbfoed (Sir Henry Gulford, Kt.). His standard is argent 
and sable. Nine 1 ragged staffs inflamed, all charged with a mullet 
sable. His motto was, Loyalte na peur. 

On the monument of Sir John Gage, 1556, and his wife Philippa, 
daughter of Sir J. Guldeford, her feet recline on a burning branch. 

Gulfoed, Maystbe. His motto was, Loialment je sers. 

That of Sir E. Gylford, A servir jusques au dernier. 

"In Kent, my liege, the Guilfords are in arms." 

King Bichard III., Act iv., sc. 4. 

Haeleston. On a wreath, a buck's head, four ciphers represent- 
ing a quatrefoil voided. B, one, C, two ciphers. Eegard et sovieii. 
Haelwyn, Sie John, temp. Edward IV. A black 
Saracen's head, couped. 

Haeeington. The Harrington family derive their 
name from the seaport town of Haverington or 
Herrington, Cumberland. From the time of King 
Edward III. they have borne a fret argent, called 
Fig. 2i4.— Harrington, the " Harrington knot " — allusive arms, intended to 
represent a fishing-net (Fig. 214). Motto, Noilo fir mo, "With a 
firm knot." 

1 Marl. Mtf., 40:>2. 




AND WAR-CKIES. 303 

Holland, Duke of Exeter and Lord High Admiral of England, 
KG. (-\- 1446), is designated in the satirical verses before quoted by 
bis badge in the last capacity : 

" The firy Cressett hath lost its lyght, 
Therefore England may make gret mone." 

Holland, Wylliam, of Weare, Co. Devon. His standard bas A, out 
of a ducal coronet a plume of feathers disposed in the form of a cone, and 
on the sinister on a wreath issuant out of flames a cubit arm embowed, 
grasping an eagle's claw erased or. B ducal coronet and feathers, 
C the arm. 

Homfray. Homme vrai. Motto, L'homme vrai aime son fays. 

Hoeslev. A horse's head couped or, bridle gules. 

Howard, Duke of Norfolk. The blanch lion of the Mowbrays 
(Fig. 219), descended to the Howards through the Lady Margaret 




Fig, 219.— Howard. 

Mowbray, whose son, Sir John Howard, succeeded to her inheritance, 
and was created first Duke of Norfolk in 1483, since which period it 
has ever sbone pre-eminent as the ensign of Norfolk. 

" For who, in field or foray slack, 
Saw the blanch lion e'er fall back?" 

Sir W. Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel. 

The banner was foremost at Bosworth Field, when the " Jockey 
of Norfolk " fell slain with his royal master. Sir John Beaumont, 
in his poem, describes the youthful Surrey's encounter with Talbot, 
after the death of his father : 

" And now the earl beholds his father's fall, 
Whose death, like horrid darkness, frighted all. 
Some gave themselves to capture, others fly ; 
But this young lion casts his generous eye 



302 



HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 




Fig. 21 1. 
Sir Ralph Hast- 
ings. 



Bichard III,' when he compliments Hastings on the patriotic senti- 
ment that " England is safe, if true within herself," adding, 

" For this one speech Lord Hastings well deserves 
To have the heir of the Lord Hungerford." 

King Henry VI., 3rd Part, Act iv., sc. 1. 

On the banner of the Lord Hastings (1520) was the bull's head 
erect, sable, ducally gorged and armed or, and tbree re- 
presentations of the Hungerford badge, a sickle erect 
argent, handle or, and a garb of the last connected by a 
knot. B three sickles, interlaced with the badge as 
before. C badge as in A. Motto, La maintiendray. 
A purse is also another Hastings badge. 
To Sir Ealph Hastings, temp. Edward IV., is given a 
chanfron silver, with three ostrich feathers (Fig. 217). 

Haunsakt, Masteb Wyllm Haunsaet de, South 
Kelsey (Lyncoll), Falcon, &c. Three wreaths or and sable 
thereon, three cubit arms erect, sleeves per pale or and 
azure, cuffs gules, hands purpure holding a mullet argent. B one, 
C two arms. Pour lien conduyre, 

Heneage. A knot (Fig. 218), with the motto, 
"Fast, though untied," is given (Harl. MS., 
No. 5857), to Sir Thomas Heneage, Vice-Chan- 
cellor to Queen Elizabeth. From its heart shape, 
and the motto, it was probably a personal device. 

Hepbuen, James, Earl of Bothwell, husband 
to Queen Mary Stuart. On his seal is his shield, 
surmounting an anchor, as badge of his office 
of Lord High Admiral of Scotland. Motto, 
Keip tryst. 1 
Hebon. A heron's head erect, argent, ducally collared or. 
John Heron, Chevalyer Tresorier de la Chambre du Boy. A falcon 
preying on a partridge, &c, with three heron's heads erased argent, 
beaked and ducally gorged or. B one, and C three, herons' heads. 

Heydon. A talbot's head argent, semee of hurts. Arms, a 
chevron between three herons argent. 

Hileeton. A dragon's head couped sable. 
Hilleesdon, of Memlane, Devon. On an ermine a squirrel sejant, 
cracking a nut. B and C same. 

1 Laing. 




Fig. 218.— Heneage Knot. 



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305 



banded gules. They also bore a golden sickle, taken from the arms 
of the Peverells (azure three garbs, or) (Fig. 220), whose coheiress 




Fig. 220.— Hungerford. 

married "Walter, Lord Hungerford (-(- 1449). The mottoes, Time 
trieth truth, and Et Dieu mon appui, are at Farleigh Castle, Wilts, 
their ancient seat. 

Eobert, Lord Hungerford, was beheaded in the reign of 
Edward IV., for being in arms to restore Henry VI. 

" Brave Boucher and his friend stout Hungerford, whose hopes 
On Henry long had lain." 

Drayton, Polyolbion. 

His second son, Sir Walter Hungerford, joined the standard 
of the Earl of Eichmond, and sbared in the victory of Bosworth 
Field. 

The standard of Sir John Hungerford, 1520, A and D, out of a 
ducal coronet or, a garb of the last charged with a mullet between two 
sickles erect argent, handle gules, banded or, with three similar sickles, 
each charged on the blade with a mullet. B, three like sickles 
interlaced round a mullet ; C, ditto between two erect, each charged 
as in A. 

Three sickles and three sheaves within the garter are on one of 
the principal bosses in the cloisters of St. Stephen's, Westminster, 



80 ± HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

On Mowbray's lion, painted on his shield, 
And with that king of beasts repines to yield. 
' The field,' saith he, ' in which the lion stands 
Is blood, and blood I offer to the hands 
Of daring foes ; but never shall my flight 
Dye black my lion, which as yet is white." 

Sir J. Beaumont, Bosworth Field. 

Again, at Flodden Field, the Earl of Surrey (afterwards Duke of 
Norfolk) gave as a badge to his retainers to wear on their left arm 
the white lion, " the beast which he before bare as his proper ensign," 
trampling upon the lion of Scotland and tearing it with its claws. 1 
To the Lord Surrey belonged the honour of that day, in token 
whereof King Henry VIII. granted him as arms of augmentation, in 
the white bend of his arms, an escutcheon or, charged with a demi- 
lion, pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double 
tressure; the last for Scotland, the arrow because the body of 
James IV. was found pierced by several arrows. To this Drayton 
makes Lord Surrey allude : 

■' If Scotland's coat no mark of fame can lend, 
That lion, placed in our bright silver bend, 
Which as a trophy beautifies our shield, 
Since Scotland's blood discoloured Flodden Field, 
When the proud Cheviot did our ensign bear 
As a rich jewel in a lady's hair." 

Drayton, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, to the Fair Geraldine. 

On the standard of the Lord Howard, 1520, is the motto, Tous 
jours loyal. 

Sir Thomas Howard, temp. Edward IV., had for badge the shaped 
helmet called " salade." 

By the marriage of Mary Fitzalan, heiress and daughter of Henry, 
18th Earl of Arundel (+ 1579), to Thomas Howard, Duke of Nor- 
folk, the Fitzalan and Maltravers (see Arundel) badges passed to the 
house of Howard, and their son Philip was summoned to Parliament 
in 1 580, as Earl of Arundel. 

Howgan, Matstee. Or and sable, a cockatrice gules, between 
four martlets countercbanged. B two, C four martlets. 

Htogerfoed. The Lords Hungerford used a golden sheaf, 

1 Holinshed, 



AND WAK-CKIES. 307 

striking illustration, and from that period the shamrock became the 
national badge of Ireland. 

The harp first appears on the Irish pieces of Henry VIII. in 
1530. The groat of Elizabeth has three harps. Henry VIII. is 
said to have given his daughter three harps as a distinguishing mark 
for her proficiency in music. 1 

In the Harl. MS., No. 304, it is stated : " The armes of Yrland is 
gules, iij old harpes gold, stringed argent, deux and ung. The armes 
of Yrland gules, a castell argent, a hart issuing out of the gat in his 
prop, color, horned gold. The armes of Yrland after the description 
of strangers is pty. pale gules and argent, in the gules an armed 
arme with the poldron ar. holding a sword in the gantlet, garnished 
gold, in the silver a demy splayed egle, sable, membred gules." 

Chalmers 2 says that a commission was appointed in the reign 
of Edward IV. to inquire into the arms of Ireland, and reported 
them to be three crowns in pale. The coat of augmentation 
granted by Eichard II. to Eobert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, with the 
titles of Duke of Ireland and Marquis of Dublin (he died 1390, and 
never went to Ireland) was azure, three crowns or, with a bordure 
argent. 

Islip, John, Abbot of Westminster (-}-1510). " He was," says 
Weever, " eminently concerned in the building of 
Henry VII.'s Chapel." He was a man of great 
authority and special trust with the king, and was 
buried in the chapel which bears the name of Bishop 
Islip's chantry. On the frieze is the quadruple device 

for his name: fw.»»i^bu»p isi, P . 

1. An eye with the slip of a tree. 

2. A man sliding from the boughs and exclaiming, "J slip" 
(Fig. 221). 

3. A hand cutting off one of the boughs of the 
same tree, and again re-echoing, " I slip " (Fig. 222). ^^ 

4. The letter I placed beside the slip, thus again 
producing the name Islip. Fig. 222.— Bishop is«p, 

Kebyll. On a wreath, an elephant's head bendy or and vert, and 
with the ear and trunk gules. 

Kennedy, Earl of Cassilis, Marquess of Ailsa. Badge, a dolphin 

1 Walker's ' History of the Irish Bards." 2 ' Caledonia,' vol. i. 

x 2 





306 HISTOBIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

being the badge of Walter, Lord Hungerford, K.G-., who was beheaded 
by Henry VIII., with Cromwell, Earl of Essex, in 1541. 

These badges, as before mentioned, passed by marriage to the 
Hastings family. 

Hussby, Baron Hussey, of Sleford, Co. Lincoln. Sir Jobn 
Hussey, Kt., was at the battle of Stoke, against the Earl of Lincoln, 
and made by Henry VIII. chief butler of England; 1534 created 
baron, but being afterwards engaged in the insurrection when dif- 
ferences of religion broke out, he was teheaded at Lincoln. A hind 
current argent, ducally gorged and chained or; the crest of the 
present family. 

Ichyngham, Mayster. Gold, on a wreath argent and azure, a 
demi-dragon yert with three hawk's lures per fess azure and argent, 
B two and C four, hawks' lures. 

Ingelby of Eipley Castle. Boar's head erased argent, couped 
or, snout and tusks or. Their present crest. Motto, Le droit le 
desmontre. 

Ingelfeld, Sib Thomas. A, an eagle displayed and crest of Ingel- 
feld on a wreath, a cubit arm ermine habited per pale azure and gules, 
cuff or, hands proper grasping a branch vert. B and C, same crest. 

Ieeland. 

" Where'er we pass 
A triple grass 
Shoots up with dew-drops streaming ; 
As softly green 
As emerald seen 
Through purest crystal gleaming. 
Oh, the shamrock ! the green immortal shamrock ! 
Chosen leaf 
Of bard and chief, , 
Old Erin's native shamrock." 

Moore, Irish Melodies. 

One day while preaching at Tara, St. Patrick was at a loss 
how to explain to his hearers the doctrine of the Trinity, when, 
seeing a shamrock peeping forth from the green turf upon which he 
stood, he gathered it, and showing it to them, exclaimed, " Do you 
not see in this simple little wild flower how three leaves are united on 
one stalk ? and will you not then believe what I tell you from the 
sacred volume, that there are indeed three Persons, and yet but one 
God ?" His audience without difficulty understood this simple yet 



AND WAR-CRIES. 309 

Parr. His standard was semee of human hearts, with the motto, Dieu 
et mon fiance. His beast a wy vern. 

Lee, Bobeet of Quaeendon. An eagle pecking a falcon's leg. 
To bee occupied. 

Leicestee, Earls of, Beaumont or Bellomont. Arms, gules, a 
cinquefoil ermine pierced at the field (Fig. 224). 




fig. 2^4.— Leicesltr. 

Leigh. So various are the ramifications of this widespread 
family, that " as many Leighs as fleas " has grown into a proverb 
in Cheshire. 

A cinquefoil ermine is on the seal of Bobert Beaumont (surnamed 
Fitzparnel, from his mother Petronil) who died 1204, when his great 
inheritance was divided between his sisters. Simon de Montfort, 
husband of Amicia, was created Earl of Leicester, and Saier de Quincy, 
the husband of Margaret, Earl of Winchester. 

In Glover's Boll (Henry III. 1216—72) the arms of Eobert de 
Quincy, son of Saier, are, De goules, ung quintefoii de hermyn. 

L'Esteange. Barons Strange of Knokyn. Le Strange, L'Estrange, 
in Latin records called Extraneo, because they were strangers, brought 
hither by Henry II., 1148. 

The tomb of John, eighth and last baron, is at Hillingdon ; by the 
marriage of his daughter Joanne (by whom the monument is erected) 
to Sir George Stanley, the barony was conveyed to the Derby 
family. 

" Hunstanton is to be remembered," says Camden, " in this regards, 
if there were nothing else, for that it hath been the habitation of the 
familie of Le Strange, knights by degree ever since that in the reigne 
of Edward the Second, John Baron le Strange of Knocking gave the 
same unto Hamon, his younger brother." 



308 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

nouant, azure. At the Eglinton tournament, the Earl of Cassilis bore 
his family cognisance on his helmet and housings, and, when armed 
for the tilt, was distinguished as the Knight of the Dolphin. 1 

Kent. See Grey. 

Kektch, Sie John, of Blakedon, Devon. On a wreath, a lion's 
head erased argent, and three of the same without the wreath, B two 
and C three, lions as last, Ever to be trew. 

Knot. See Bourchier, Bjwen, Harrington, Heneage, Lacy, 
Savoy, Stafford, Wake and Ormond. 

Kyngelley, Sib, Edwaed. A wolf's head erased paly, sable and 
or, ducally gorged or, in its mouth a broken spear point or, B and C 
the same. 

Kyngston. A goat current argent, armed or, 

Lacy. Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, was an eminent warrior, 
and fought in the Welsh wars under King Edward I. 2 He died at 
his house in London, called Lincoln's Inn. The "Lacy knot" 
(Fig. 223) is taken from a sculptured shield on the ruins of Whalley 




Fig. 223.— Lacy Knot. 

Abbey, Lancashire, built by Earl Henry de Lacy, in 1296 ; a rebus 
of the name of Lacy ; French, laeet — knot. Motto, Firm and Fast. 
There is also (Harl. MS. 2064) a drawing of the seal of Eobert de 
Laci who died 1193, and one of the seal of Boger who died 1211, 
in Ormerod's 'History of Cheshire,'— all slight variations of the 
above. The square is placed in an angular position in the first 
and last. 

Langeoed, Sie Nicholas. Temp. Edw. IV. Two wings, silver. 

Latimer, John Neville, Lord, first husband of Queen Katherine 

1 Mnuie, ' Heraldry of Fish.' - Pennant. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 311 

office, changed the spelling of his name to Lockhart, to intimate he 
was entrusted with one of the keys of the padlock affixed to the box 
containing the treasure. At the same time he added a human heart, 
within the bar of a padlock, to his armorial bearings, with the motto, 
Corda serrata fero. 1 

Lovel. A bird's wing erased argent, the bone embrued gules. 

Pennant, in his ' Journey from Chester,' mentions that over the west 
door of Hadley Church, Middlesex, is the date 1498, and the sculpture 
of a rose and a wing. The same under the upper window of Enfield, 
and on the gateway opposite the Curtain in Shoreditch. Sir Thomas 
lived at Enfield, where he died 1524. He was a great benefactor to 
the Priory of Holywell, London, where he built a chapel, in which he 
is buried. In most of the glass windows was painted — 

" At the nunnes of Holywel, 
Pray for the soul of Sir Thomas Lovel." 

Sir T. Lovel was Knight of the Garter. He is mentioned by 
Shakspeare. 

Messenger. Sir Thomas Lovel, and Lord Marquis Dorset, 
'Tis said, my liege, in Yorkshire are in arms. 

King Richard III., Act iv., so. 4. 

Lovelles, de Noeff. A squirrel sejant gules, holding a nut, or. 
Lucy. A lucie or pike in bend sinister, azure. 

Slender. That they give the dozen luces in their coat. 
Shallow. It is an old coat. 

Merry Wives of Windsor, Act i., sc. 2. 

Ltjmlet, Earl of Scarborough. A green poppinjay or parrot. 

" Oh, mon, gang na further ! Let me digest the knowledge I ha 
gained, for I did na ken Adam's name was Lumley," exclaimed King 
James I. when wearied with Bishop James's prolix account of the 
Lumley pedigree, on his Majesty's visit to Lumley Castle, Durham, 
in 1603. 

McPhekson, Grant. Touch not the cat but a glove. 

Maltha vers. See Aeundel. 

MArNWAEiNG. Sir John Mainwaring de Pevyr, Cheshire. Arms, 

1 Douglas, ' Barony of Scotland.' 



310 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

The L'Estrange badge is two hands conjoined in pale, the upper 
one or, the other gules * (Fig. 225). Motto, Sans changer ma verite 




Fig. 225. - L'Estrange. 

The above badge, beneath a sprig of columbine flowers and the 
same motto, is ascribed to the Earl of Derby, derived from Strange. 

The Stanley motto now used is a portion of the Strange motto. 

Leslie. Motto, Grip fast, as said Bartholomew Leslie to 
Margaret of Scotland, as she clung to his girdle when he saved her 
from drowning. 

Lindsay. Motto, Astra castra, nomen lumen, " Stars my canopy, 
Providence my light." The present motto of the Earl of Crawford. 

" Nor sun nor moon they need, nor day nor night, 
God is their temple, and the Lamb their light." 

Bishop Heber, Palestine. 

Lisle. Of this surname were several families, springing originally 
from two, which had derived the designation, the one from the Isle of 
Ely, the other from the Isle of Wight. 

Lisle. Blue, a hart lodged or, armed, ducally gorged and 
chained or, within a circular wreath, white and gold, set round with 
lilies, some full blown and others in the bud. In the dexter chief and 
sinister base, a lily slipped. B two, C four, &c. En Ion heure puisse. 

Lookhaet of Lee (Lanarkshire). 

A human heart within a fetter-lock. Corda serratafero, " Locked 
hearts I bear." Corda serrata pando, " I lay open locked hearts," so 
written formerly. 2 

Sir Simon de Locard, being one of those who was deputed with Sir 
James Douglas to carry over the heart of Bobert Bruce to the Holy 
Land, in order to perpetuate the remembrance of so honourable an 

1 The " hand-in-hand," with the motto, Billaine, 1624, bookseller and printer, 
A la bonne foi, was the sign of Pierre Rue St. Jacques, Paris. 

2 Burke. 




AND WAR-CBIES. 313 

Margaret, sole heiress of the Mores, married Sir T. Molyneux, in 
whose family Loseley remains. 

. Loseley was visited, in 1603, by James I. and his queen. 
Mortimer, 1 Edmund, Earl of March (-j- 1424), had for crest, 
on his seal, out of a ducal coronet proper, a plume of 
feathers, azure (Fig. 226). A white wolf. A single rose 
per pale argent and gules. 2 

Mowbray. Their arms were gules, a lion rampant 
argent ; hence blanch lion, their pursuivant of arms in 
the reign of King Edward IV. The mulberry was the 
chosen device of the Mowbrays. Thomas de Mowbray, „ 

* " ' Fig. 226.-Mortimer. 

first Duke of Norfolk, the fated rival of Henry of Lan- 
caster, is described at the combat at Coventry as entering the lists, his 
horse barded with crimson velvet, richly embroidered with lions of silver 
and mulberry trees, the rebus of Mowbray, his surname. 3 The blanch 
lion appears on the helmet placed over his tomb at St. Mark's, Venice. 
Napier. Motto, Beady, aye ready, — from Thirlestane. 4 

" His ready lances Thirlestane brave 
Arrayed beneath a banner bright, 
The treasured fleur-de-lis he claims 
To wreathe his shield, since royal James, 
Encamped by Fala's mossy wave, 
The proud distinction grateful gave, 

For faith 'midst feudal jars ; 
What time save Thirlestane alone, 
Of Scotland's stubborn barons none 

Would march to southern wars ; 
And hence, in fair remembrance worn 
Yon sheaf of spears his crest has borne ; 
Hence his high motto shines revealed, 
'Ready, aye ready,' for the field." 

Sin W. Scott. 

Naufont. Three hooked spikes or, one erect, the others in saltier, 
banded together. 

Nbvill. Barons Nevill of Baby, Earls of Westmoreland. The 
dun bull and the silver saltier were the badges of tbe great 

1 Eandle Holmes, Harl. MS. 2035. Eobert Scott, who assumed the desig- 

2 Written in the issue rate of Ed- nation of Thirlestane, married Eliza- 
ward III., " De Mortuo Mali ;" and in the beth, daughter and heiress of Margaret, 
same, Beauchamp is styled "De Bello Baroness Napier; and their son inherited 
Campo." the barony on the death of his grand- 

3 Sandford. mother, in 1706, and' assumed the name 

4 Sir William Scott, a descendant of- of Napier. 



312 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

an ass's head erased sable, haltered argent (present crest), and a scythe 
argent. B and C, ass's head and scythe, A la confueion des ennemis. 

Mandeville, Earls of Essex, bore arms, gules, a swan argent, 
ducally collared and chained or, which their descendants, the Bohuns 
(see), wore as a badge. 1 

Manners. A peacock in pride, or and argent, and bouget of Bos. 
The unicorn supporters were also the " beast " of Bos. 

Manners, Sie Bobekt. Married Eleanor, heiress of Lord Bos, of 
Hamlake. The motto of their son George, Lord Bos, was, Pour, 
y joarvenir. His son Thomas was created Earl of Rutland, 1525. 

Makney. A wing erect and erased argent. 

Massingbeed, Sir Thomas, of Gunby, Co. Lincoln. A lion's 
head, &c. (present crest), two arrows in saltire. 

Matjleteeee, Sie John. A white greyhound running, gules, 
collared and ringed or (their present arms). 

Melton. A snake erect and nowed or. 

Mere. A galley of three masts at anchor sable. 

Montfoed, Sie Simon. Temp. Edward IV. Fleur-de-lis gules. 

Montgomeey, Sie Thomas, E.G. A belt or, girdle sable, the 
inside or, with cords and tassels of the same. 

Montjoy. A wolf statant, sable. 

Montoegueil. Among the standards of 1520, is that of "Poole 
Montaguull." On a wreath, an eagle holding in his claw a fish with 
an unintelligible bearing. The whole scratched and written over " as 
a provid trator atented of high treeson." 

Moedaunt. Mayster John Mordant. On a wreath a Moor's head, 
with three eagles' heads erased, argent, ducally gorged gules, and 
charged with three estoiles sable, holding in the beak a cinquefoil 
argent, slipped vert. B and C, in each two eagles' heads as in A ; 
Lucem tuam da nobis, " Give thy light to us." 

Moee. At Loseley, near Guildford, built by Sir William More, 
on the cornice of the drawing-room ceiling is introduced the mulberry 
tree (Morus), with the mottoes, Morus tarde moriens, " The mulberry 
tree slow in dying," — and Morum cite moriturum, " The mulberry tree 
soon about to perish ;" also the moor-cock and moor-hen. 

Arms, argent, cross and five martlets sable. 

Lord Chancellor Mores wife was a More of Loseley; circ. 1592. 

1 Lansdowne MS., 882. 



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315 



And again : 

" Now spred thy ancyent, Westmoreland, 
Tlie dun bull faine would we spye ; 
And thou, th' Erie of Northumberland, 
Now rayse thy half moone up on hye. 

" But the dun bull is fled and gone, 

And the halfe moone vanished away : 
The Brles, though they were brave and bold, 
Against soe many could not stay." 

The Rising of the North. 

Bishop Percy quotes another ballad : 

" Sette me up my faire Dun Bull 
With the Golden Homes, hee beares soe hye." 

Two other badges belong to the Nevills, a sable galley (Fig. 227), 




Fig. 227— Nevill. 



with sails furled, in allusion to their Norman ancestor who held the 
office of Admiral, from whom probably they also derive the buoy 
(Fig. 228). 




Fig. 228.— Nevill. 



The epithet of this family is, " The noble Nevills." On a ceiling at 
Brancepeth, the stronghold of the Nevills in time of war, as Eaby was 



314 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

family of Nevill, which with the Percys divided the supremacy of the 
north. 

Nevill, Bobert, one of the barons of Henry III., is described : 

" Upon his surcoat valiant Neville bore 
A silver saltire upon martial red." 

Drayton, Baron's War. 

Ealph, the great and first Earl of Westmoreland, elevated to the 
earldom by King Eichard II., is buried with his two wives at Staindrop 
Church, Durham, and under his head is a helmet bearing a bull's bead, 
and on his surcoat is the saltier. 1 His second wife was Joan, daughter 
of John of Gaunt; and he joined his brother-in-law, Bolingbroke, 
when he landed at Eavenspur. 

" O Westmoreland, thou art a summer bird, 
Which ever in the haunch of winter sings 
The lifting up of day." 

King Henry IV., 2nd Part, Act iv., sc. 4. 

His sons were, Ealph, second Earl ; Eichard, Earl of Salisbury, 
father of Eichard, Earl of Warwick, " the king maker ;" William, Lord 
Fauconberg ; and Edward, Lord Bergavenny. Being thus, in feudal 
power as well as in antiquity, perhaps the most illustrious house 
in the peerage. 

Charles, sixth Earl, joined the Earl of Northumberland in the 
great insurrection, 1569, called " the Eising of the North," brought 
about by a negotiation between some of the Scottish and English 
nobility to effect a marriage between Mary Queen of Scots, then a 
prisoner in England, and the Duke of Norfolk. The affair coming to 
Queen Elizabeth's knowledge, Northumberland was executed at York. 
Westmoreland escaped to Scotland, and subsequently to the Nether- 
lands, where he lived to an advanced age " meanly and miserably," 
and his immense possessions in York and Durham became forfeited to 
the crown. 

The Westmoreland banner is often described in ballads relative to 
this insurrection : 

" Lord Westmoreland his ancyent raysde, 
The dun bull, he rays'd on hye, 
And three dogs, with golden collars, 
Were there set out most royallye." 

Bising of the North Countrie. 



Stothard, ' Mouumental Effigies.' 



AND WAE-CEIES. 317 

Ogle. A slip of oak with golden acorns (Fig. 230). The upper 
half of a rose argent, rayonnated helow (Fig. 231). 





Fig. 230.— Ogle. Fig. 231.— Ogle. 

These badges are now used by the Duke of Portland, eldest coheir 
of the barony of Ogle. They were painted on the hatchment of the 
late Duke. 

O'Neill. Arms, chief or, charged with a sinister hand, couped 
and erect gules. Lamh derg Eirin, " The red hand of Ireland." 

"In an ancient expedition of some adventurers in Ireland, their 
leader declared that whoever first touched the shore should possess the 
territory which he reached. O'Neill, from whom descend the princes 
of Ulster, bent upon obtaining the reward, and seeing another boat 
likely to land, cut his hand off, and threw it on the coast. Hence the 
traditionary origin of the motto. The " Eed Hand " was adopted by 
James I. as the badge, on instituting the Order of Baronet. The 
design of the institution being the colonization of the province of 
Ulster, in Ireland, the arms of the province were deemed the most 
appropriate insignia.' x 

Oemond. Earl of Ormond. Temp. Edward. IV. A pair of key- 
thongs. 

Oreell. A lion's head, erased argent, semee of torteaux, ducally 
gorged gules. 

Oevell. A man's head in profile proper, helmeted or, the visor up. 

Owgnae. A cockatrice or, legged, combed, and wattled gules. 

Oxeokd. See Veee. 

Paee. Baron Parr of Kendal. Their badges are derived from 
Eos of Kendal, by the marriage of Elizabeth, heiress of De Eos, 
Baron Kendal, in 1383, to Sir William de Parr. 

1 Sir B. Burke. 



316 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

their festive hall in time of peace, is the motto, Moys, or Mens Droyte, 
and Ouje tiensferme, the ancient motto of the family, replaced in 
later times by the punning Ne vile velis, " Incline to nothing base," 
" Form no mean wish," which was altered by the Fanes to Ne vilefano, 
" Bring nothing base to the temple." 

Nevill, Lord Bergavenny (now Abergavenny). Two staples 
interlaced, the one gold, the other silver (Fig. 229). Also a fret gold, 
derived from the Le Despeneers. 




Fig. 229.— Abergavenny. 

On an old monument in Mereworth, Kent, is the Abergavenny 
shield with quarterings, having on one side the badge of the staple, on 
the other the fret. 

The standard of Sir George Neville, Lord Bergavenny, the 
companion in arms of Henry YIIT. in his French wars, is semee of 
double staples, with the motto, Tenir promesse vient de noblesse. 

Lord Abergavenny bears at the end of the chain of the bulls which 
support his arms, two gold staples. He also has on the right of his 
escutcheon a red rose, placed there by Bichard Nevill, Earl of Warwick, 
" the king maker," in token of his adherence to the house of Lancaster. 
On the left side, Lord Abergavenny has the badge of a golden 
portcullis, to show his descent from the house of Beaufort. 

Nevtll, Earl of Warwick. See Warwick. 

Nevill, Baron Fauconberg. See Fauconberg. 

Nevill, Barons Latimer. See Latimer. 

Newport. Sir Thomas Newport, Baley of the Egle. Bed, a stag 
trippant or, ducally gorged and tired of the last, with three vine 
branches argent, in B and C one, and in D three branches. 
Esperance me grandement conforte. 

Norfolk. See Howard. 

Norton. Three swords, two in saltier, the hilts downwards, the 
other in pale, the hilt upwards or. 

Norys. Sir Walter Norys. Temp. Edw. IV. A raven's head 
erased, the present crest of the family. 



AND WAE-CEIES. 319 

related (see De la Warre). This buckle of a belt was sometimes used 
by his descendants as a seal manual ; and at others, on each side of a 
cage — emblem of the captivity of the King of France. 





Fig. 233.— Pelham. Fig. 234.— Pelliam. 

" No badge," says Lower, " has been of more various applications 
than the Pelham buckle. It occurs on the ecclesiastical buildings of 
which the family were either the founders or benefactors, on the archi- 
tectural ornament of their mansions, on their ancient seals, as the sign 
of an inn, and among the more humble uses to which the buckle has 
been applied, may be mentioned the decoration of the cast-iron 
chimney-backs in the farmhouses on the estate, the embellishments of 
milestones, and even the marking of sheep. Throughout the whole of 
eastern Sussex, over which the Pelham influence extends, there is no 
household word more familiar than the Pelham buckle." l 

Pembroke, Earl of. A draught-horse (distinguished by having 
collar and traces) gules. A green dragon. 2 

Percy, Earls of Northumberland. When Agnes de Percy, 3 
heiress and descendant of Algernons, or " "William with the Whiskers," 
consented to marry Josceline of Louvain, the brother of Queen Adeliza, 
it was only on the proud condition that he should adopt either her 
name or her arms. Josceline chose the former, took the name of 
Percy, and the blue lion of Brabant is first among the 892 quarterings 
of the Percy shield. 

The ancient badge of the Percys is the Crescent, the origin of 

1 This badge is also used by the Duke of Newcastle. 

2 H. MS. 5910. 

3 This family is descended from the Danish chieftain Geoffrey : 

" Brave Golred, who to Normandy 
With vent'rous Rollo came ; 
And from his Norman castles soon 
Assumed the Percy name." 

The village of Percy is near Villedieu-les-Poeles, in the department of La Manche. 




318 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

A maiden's head, full faced, vested ermine and or, her hair of the 
last, and her temples surrounded by a wreath of red and white roses. 

A maiden's head was the badge of Sir William Parre, KG., one 
of the strong adherents of King Edward IV. 
The same, issuing from a red and white rose, 
was the badge of his grand-daughter, Queen 
Katherine Parr. See England. 
A tuft of daisies (Fig. 232). 

, „ Sir "William Parr was brought to court by his 

sister, when he soon rose to high title and honours. 
King Henry VIII. called him " his integrity," and King Edward VI. 
"his honest uncle." Espousing the cause of Lady Jane Grey, he 
was committed to the Tower, deprived of his honours, and sentence 
passed upon him ; but Queen Elizabeth, when she ascended the throne, 
revived the title of Marquis of Northampton, and re-invested him with 
the Order of the Garter. He died in 1571. 

Paston. Syr Wyllm Paston, de Paston, Norfolk. Or, on a wreath or 
and azure, a griffin sejant, wings elevated or, in the beat a circular chain 
of the last, with three like chains, B one, C two. Sije pense. 

Paulet. See Poynings. 

Peche, Sir John, Kt. The most splendid among the knights of 
the Court of King Henry VIII., at whose coronation he was captain 
of the King's body-guard, a corps so expensively dressed as to cause it 
to be of short duration. Sir John was among the gallant train at the 
Field of the Cloth of Gold, and tradition records the visit of his royal 
master to his seat at Lullingstone in Kent. His remains repose in the 
church. On the spandrils of the tomb and on the monument itself 
are the rebus of his name — peaches inscribed with the letter E. His 
motto, Prest a /aire, and his arms encircled by a wreath of peaches. 1 

The same badge is upon his standard. 

Pelham:. A buckle. This family, now represented by the Earl 
of Chichester, bear, as a quartering, gales, two demi-belts pale ways, 
the buckles in chief argent, an augmentation granted to the family in 
the seventeenth century, but they had long borne the buckle (Fig. 233) 
as a badge, and occasionally as a crest, together with a cage (Fig. 234) 
in commemoration of the capture of John, King of France, at Poictiers, 
by Sir John de Pelham, conjointly with Sir Roger la Warr, as already 

1 Stothai'd. 



AND WAE-OEIES. 321 

of nature, King Bichard would lose both life and crown." He hinted 
at the secret disaffection of Percy. 1 

The standard of Henry, fifth Earl (-j- 1527), who lived in great 
state and splendour, as his ' Household Book ' attests, is thus given 
in the MS. at the Herald's College : 

" Comes Northumberland — Three stripes, russet, or, and tawny. 
A. A lion passant azure, in chief the badge of Poynings (see), 
a key, ducally crowned or, between the badges of the Percies, the 
crescent arg. and the shacklebolts in base, the crescent, as before, 
between the shacklebolts, and the badge of Bryan (see) a bugle horn, 
unstringed azure, garnished or. B. The badge of Fitzpain. A falchion 
sheathed sa. garnished or, pomel and hilt of the last. C. Two crescents 
and two shacklebolts." 

This banner is accompanied by eleven smaller, of one com- 
partment : 

Algeenons. Lion and crescent. 
Beyan. Bugle horn, as above. 
Peecy, Crescent. 
Fitzpayn. Falchion, as above. 
Peecy. Crescent. 

,, Within the horns of a crescent argent a pair of shackle- 
bolts or. 
„ Pair of shacklebolts argent. 

„ Leopard statant semee of torteaux and hurts and crowned or. 
„ Crescent. 
Poynings. Unicorn and key. 

„ Boar statant argent and crescent. 

In the ' Lamente of Henrye Percye ' (sixth Earl), the admirer 6f 
Queen Anne Boleyn, he is made to say : 

" Pale is the crescent of my hope." 

P. R. Suktees. 

In the ballad recounting the great insurrection, which cost the 
Earl of Northumberland his head (see Nevill), it says : 

".Earl Percy there his ancyent spred 
The half-moon shining all sne faire." 

The Rising of (lie North {Percy Reliques). 



Strickland's ' Queens of England.' 



320 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

which is thus given in an old vellum pedigree of the time of 
Henry VII., in the possession of the family : 

" Gernons, fyrst named Brutys bloud of Troye, 
Which valiantly fyghtynge in the land of Perse, 
At pointe terrible ayance the miscreants on nyght 
An hevyuly mystery was schewyd hym, old bookys reherse ; 
In hys scheld did schyne a mone veryfying her lyglit, 
Which to all the ooste gave a perfytte fryglit, 
To vaynquys his enemys, and to deth them persue; 
And therefore the Perses the cressant doth renew." 

Be that as it may, wherever the Percy arms were carried the Crescent 
appears, as a few examples will show. 

In the " Baron's War," Kichard de Percy, one of the feudal lords 
who extorted the Great Charter from King John, and one of the 
twenty-five guardians chosen to see it observed, is thus alluded to : 

" The noble Piercy, in this dreedful clay, 
With a bright cresent in his guidon came." 

Drayton, Baron's War. 

At Chevy Chase, the famous battle of Otterbourne, fought by the 
renowned Harry Hotspur, when Earl Douglas was slain : 

" The whyte lyon on the Ynglysh parte, 
Forsoth as I your sayne, 
The lucetts, 1 and the cressawnts both, 
The Scots fought them again." 

Battle of Otterbourne. 

Again, at Towton, when Henry Percy, third Earl, fell while 
leading the van of the Lancastrians, 1461 : 

" Upon the Yorkists part there flew the ireful bear, 
On the Lancastrian side, the crescent waving there ; 
The Southern on this side, for York or Warwick cry, 
' A Percy for the right,' the northern men reply." 

Drayton, Potyolbion. 

On the morning preceding the battle of Bosworth, Eichard III. 
left Leicester by the south gate, at the head of his cavalry. A poor 
old blind man, who had been a wheelwright, sat begging near the 
bridge. As the king approached, he cried out that "If the moon 
changed that day, which had changed once that morning in the course 

1 Three lucies or pikes, assumed by settled all his estates on the Earl, on 
Hotspur's father, first Earl, on liis mar- condition the Lucy arms should be for 
riage with the heiress of Lord Lucy, who ever quartered with those of Percy. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 323 

on either a lion's jamb erased or. grasping a cinquefoil as before. 
B and C lion's jamb. 

Pole. William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, the favourite of 
Queen Margaret of Anjou, for many years possessed almost absolute 
power, till affairs becoming disastrous both at home and abroad, 
popular clamour rose loudly against him. He was charged with the 
loss of Anjou and Normandy, of causing the death of the good Duke 
of Gloucester, and various other offences, for which he was impeached, 
and though restored to favour, subsequently banished. He embarked 
at Ipswich, but was boarded by the captain of a ship of war, and 
brought round to Dover Roads, where he was beheaded. 

" They cut his head off on the cock-bout side.'' 

Drayton, Miseries of Queen Margaret. 

His badge was an ape's clog argent and the chain or. It is so 
given in the Ashmole MS. 1121; and in some satirical 
verses, written about 1447, he is thus designated — 

" The whyte lion 1 is leyde to slepe 
Thoroug the envy of the Ape clogge." 

In some other satirical verses of the same reign (circa 
1449), he is called "Jack Napes with his Clog." A leopard's Fig. 236.-Poie 
face (Fig. 236), from his arms, was another of his badges. 

Pomeroy. A golden fir cone. " One of the noblest families of 
these parts," 2 dating their pedigree from the Conqueror, Henry de la 
Pomeroy, during the captivity of Richard I., got possession of St. 
Michael's Mount, and reduced it to the service of John. Upon 
Eichard's return the garrison surrendered to the king, and Henry de 
la Pomeroy, despairing of pardon, leaped his horse from the cliff and 
perished. 

About five miles from Totness is the ruined castle of Berry 
Pomeroy. 

Poole, William, in Wherhall, Chestershyr. Stag's head caboshed. 
Two griffins' heads erased azure, ducally gorged, beaks and ears or. 
B and C griffins' heads. A vostre peril. 

Polle. A griffin's head erased azure, ducally gorged or. 

Potkyn. A stag's head erased, sable. 

1 Alluding to John Mowbray, third Duke of Norfolk. 
2 Camden. 

y2 




3<22 HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

And again : 

" The minstrels of thy noble house, 
All clad in robes of blue, 
With, their silver crescents on their arms, 
Attired in order due." 

Hermit of Warlcworih. 

The silver crescent, as now borne, has, within the two horns, two 
fetterlocks, the cognisance of the House of York, the part within the 
horns sable and gules (Fig. 235). This York badge is sometimes styled 
a double manacle, or shacklebolt. 




Fig. 235.— Percy. 

The Percy motto is, Esperance en Dieu, or Esperance ma 
eonforte. 1 

Henry, fourth Earl, had Esperance ma eonforte inscribed oyer the 
great gateway at Alnwick. 

On the ceiling of "Wressil Chapel is Esperance en Dieu ma 
eonforte. 

In a window of the church of St. John, at Beverley, is a figure 
with a coat of arms, of a Percy kneeling, with Esperance, and under 
the lady's picture, ma eonforte. On a tomb in the same church and 
in several places are Esperance ma eonforte and Esperance. 

Esperance was pursuivant to the Earls of Northumberland. 

Phyllip. Thomas F. Phyllypp, at Blederyke, Wales. Gold, a 
lion statant sable, collared and chained or, with three magpies proper. 
B and 0, in each a magpie. 

Piebpoint, Sir William. A Hon passant, sable, grasping in 
the dexter paw a cinquefoil or, with two wreaths in chief, and 

1 The word eonforte, says Meyrick, implies exhortation or excitement —a rallying 
appeal. 



AND WAE-OEIES. 



325 




The water 



Batcliffe. Sir John Katcliffe, time of Edward IV., bore for his 
badge a gardebras, or garbraille, silver. The representation of it is 
interesting (Fig. 238), as showing the fan-like form 
of the elbow-piece towards the end of the fifteenth 
century, and of the buckles and straps which 
fastened it. 

The standard of Robert Batcliffe, his son, 
cieated Viscount Fitz- Walter and Earl of Sussex 
by King Henry VIII.. had a golden estoille, or 
star, and two garbrailles silver, buckles gold. 
Motto, Je garderay. Fig. 23s.— Ratciiffe. 

" Where is the starre, the hope of Sussex' name ? 
Henry Fitz-Walter, 1 that bright shining beam." 

Richmond. See Fitzkoy. 

Richmond. See Plantagenet. 

Bos, or Eoos. A silver water bouget (Fig. 239). 
bougets are given as their arms in the ' Siege of 
Caerlaverock:' 

" Guillemes de Eos assemblans, 
I fu rouge a tiois bouz blano." 

Fig. 239— Eo^. 

These arms, though derived by marriage from the Trusbuts, are 
popularly known as the " coat of De Bos." 

The water bouget consists of two pouches of leather united and 
strung across a stick, used for the conveyance of water, a custom dating 
from the Crusades. In the torrid plains of Palestine, the expediency 
of carrying water in leathern bags readily suggested itself ; and the 
service of carrying them was of greater importance than at first 
appears, without taking into consideration that one mode of distressing 
the Christian army was that of poisoning the wells and other reser- 
voirs of water. To this Tasso alludes : 

''Ma pur la sete e il pessmio di malt 
PiTche di Giudea l'iniqna donna 
Con vtneni e con surehi aspri e moi-tuli 
Piii del'infemo stvge e d'acheronte, 
Torbido feoe e livido, ogni f 'nte." 

Gerusahmme Liberate/, Canto xii. 




Second Earl of Sussex. 




1 



3SM HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Poxnings. A key erect, argent, crowned or (Fig. 237). This 
badge appears to have been a?sumed by the family at a very early 
period. 

On a seal of Sir Michael Poynings, knight, date 33 Edward III., 
is introduced outs'de the shield, a key erect crowned, and 
a dragon's head between two wings. 

The standard of Sir Edward PoyniDgs, 1520, is drawn 
gules, an unicorn courant argent, armed and unguled or, with 
five keys, wards downwards, argent, each ensigned with a 
ducal coronet or. B two, C three keys. Motto, Loyal 
et n apaotir. 

Fiff. 237. 

poyiiii.gs. The same badge was subsequently used by the Paulet 

family in allusion to their descent. 

In a MS. in the College of Arms (L 14) is a cord lied in a circle, 
in the centre of which is suspended a key crowned, and the writer 
adds, "thisladgebelongeth to the Marquess of Winchester, leing the 
badge of Lord Poynings, in whose right he beareth it." 1 

In the church of Basing (Hants) are the tombs of the Paulets, 
Dukes of Bolton, with the key suspended by a knotted cord. Basing 
Castle passed from the Poynings to the Paulets, and was rebuilt by 
Sir William Paulet, created Marquis of Winchester by Edward VI., 
who, " being made of a willow and not of an oak," retained the Lord 
Trtasurership during four reigns — from Henry VIII. to Queen 
Elizabeth. It was here he received the Queen, in 1560, so sump- 
tuously — she exclaimed, "By my troth, if my Lord Treasurer were 
but a young man, I could find it in my heart to have him for a 
husband before any man in England." Basing House, called 
" Loyalty," from the Paulet motto, which John, filth Marquis, 
engraved with a diamond upon every window, is celebrated for the 
four years' siege it sustained against the Parliamentary army. " If the 
king," wrote the Marquis, "had no more ground in England than 
Basing Hall, I would hold out to the last extremity." 

Dryden refers to him as— 

" He who in impious times undaunted stood, 
And midst rebellion durst be just and good.' 



1 The Efirls of Northumberland have alto used the UDicoru and the keys with 
reference to their descent from this family, through whom they also derive the Bryan 
badge. 




AND WAB-CBIES. 327 

Scales. An escallop shell, silver (Fig. 242). Arms, gales, six 
escallop sheik, three, two, and one. 

At the siege of Caerlaverock, the handsome and 

amiable Eobert de Scales bore red with shells of 

silver — 

" Robert de Scales bel et gent, 
Le eut rouge a coquilles de argent." 

The title was conveyed by marriage to Anthony 
Widville, brother of Edward IV.'s queen, afterwards second Earl 
of Kivers. As Gloucester says to the king — 

" And yet, methinks, your grace hath not done well, 
To give the heir and daughter of Lord Scales 
Unto the brother of your loving bride." 

King Henry VI., 3rd t'art, Act iv., sc. 1. 

Lord Scales had a pursuivant of arms, called " Scales," attached to 
his household. He acquired great fame by Irs tournament at Smith- 
field with Anthony of Burgundy (see) ; but his sister's marriage with 
the king, and his own signal valour, caused his enemies never to cease 
pursuing him, until he fell one of the first victims of Eichard III., 
who caused him and his nephew, Sir Eichard Grey, to be beheaded at 
Pomfret Castle, without the form of a trial, 1483. 

The name of Scales was originally written Eschallers and Scalers, 
and " the seal of Hugh de Scales, attached to a grant of several 
churches to the monks of Lewes, is an armed man, standing on his 
left foot, and putting his right on the step of a ladder, with his hands 
on the same, as if he were climbing." 

The Scales family resided for many years in great splendour at 
Middleton Castle, near Lynn, Norfolk. 

Scotland. About 1010, in the reign of Malcolm I., the Danes 
invaded Scotland, made a descent on Aberdeenshire, and landed at 
Buchan-ness, intending to storm Stains Castle, a fortress of some im- 
portance. Midnight was the time selected for the attack, and as their 
presence was unknown and unlooked for, they expected to succeed 
without much trouble in gaining possession of the castle. The Danes 
advanced slowly and silently, and to prevent the possibility of their 
footsteps being heard, they took off their shoes. They reached the 
place, and their labours were well-nigh over, for they had only to 



326 



HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



' Mobt of thirst tbey mourned, and most complain 
For Juda's tyrant had strong poison shed 
(Poison that breeds more -woe and deadly pain 
Than Acheron or Stygian waters bring) 
In every fountain, cistern, well, and sprint;." 

Faibfax's Translation. 




Bussel, John, Bishop of Rochester, 1476 ; Lincoln, 1480 ; and 
Lord High Chancellor of Eichard III. At Buckden Palace, on the 
dormers of the dining-room, is a hawk, inscribed, Je suis le Ruscelay. 1 
Byce ap Thomas. See Fitz-Uryan. 

Sacheverell. A hawk's lure, with golden strings. Motto, 
Trowthe byndithe me. 

St. John. A pair of golden hames (Fig. 240) (the collar by which 
a horse draws a waggon) is used as a hadge by this family, 
in memory of "William de Saint John, who came to 
England with "William the Conqueror, under whom he 
held the office of Master of the Baggage Waggons. 

The two eagles which form the supporters of the Earl 

of Bolingbroke, are each charged on the breast with the 

golden hames. 

St. Leger. A pair of barnacles 2 (Fig. 241), erect gules, ringed 

This badge was on the standard, in 1520, of Sir 

Arthur St. Leger, of Ulcomb, Kent; and the 

barnacles are on the stall-plate of Sir Anthony 

St. Leger, in St. George's Chapel, "Windsor. 

The same device, only silver instead of red, is 
the badge of Sir Henry "Wyatt, county Kent. 

The founder of the family, written Sancto Leode- 
gario, Sentliger, and Sellinger, was Sir Bobert Sent 
Legere, according to tradition, the person who sup- 
ported William the Conqueror with his arm when 
Fig. 24i.— st. Leger. he landed. 

Ulcomb, Kent, is an ancient manor of the family. 



and laced, or. 




1 Camden's ' Britannia.' 

2 The barnacles, or horse twitch, is used 
to put on horses when they will not stiind 
quietly to be shod, being tied to their 
noses with a cord ; hence barnacles, nose- 
squeezers, — i.e., spectacles. St. Louis, 



says Menestrier, to preserve the memory 
of his captivity among the Saracens, made 
use, as a device, of the instrument where- 
with the barbarians fasten the legs of 
their prisoners. It is on his money. 
Joinville calls it Barnacles. 




AND WAR- CRIES. 329 

Maclean. Blackberry heath. 

Macleod. Bed whortle berries. 

Macnaghlan. Azalea procumhens, " Lusan Albanach." 

Macneill. Sea-ware. 

Macpheeson. Boxwood. 

Macguaetie. Blackthorn. 

Menzies. Ash. 

Monbo. Eagle's feathers. 

Bobeetson. Fern or brakens. 

Eose. Briar rose. 

Boss. The Uva ursi plant. Bilberry. 

Soeope. Barons Scrope of Bolton, Earls of Sunderland. A 
golden crab (Fig. 243). 

The Lord Scrope in the time of Edward IV. 
had a Cornish chough for his badge ; and eleven 
of the same birds are on the banner of his suc- 
cessor in the reign of Henry VIII. Mottoes, Devant 
si je peu —Autre que die. ^ig.TT^Scrope. 

Sedley. A goat's head erased, lozengy or and 
gules, armed azure, holding in the mouth a sprig of ivy, vert. 

Semee, Sie J., Kt. Peacock's head between two wings, with four 
leopards' heads or. B two, and C three, leopards' heads. 

Senhouse, of Nether Hall, county Cumberland. A crimson rose. 

Setvans, Sie Bobeet de. The name is derived from the ancient 
cognisance of the family — seven vans, or baskets, used for winnowing 
com (Fig. 244). Our Saviour is prefigured as coming with his " fan 
in his hand" to purge his wheat from the chaff. 1 Shakspeare says — 

" Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan, 
Puffing at all, winnows the light away." 

Troilus and Cressida, Act i., sc. 2. 

The motto of the family was, Dissipdbo inimicos regis mei ut paleam, 
" The enemies of my king I will disperse like chaff."" 

This badge is on the brass monument 3 of Sir Bobert de Setvans, 

1 "I will sift the house of Israel among 2 Another motto for the winnowing 

all nations, like as corn is sifted in a fan : Inania pello, " I reject what is 

sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall foolish." 

upon the earth." — Amos ix. 9. 3 Waller, ' Monumental Brasses.' 



328 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

swim the moat and place their scaling-ladders, and the castle was 
theirs ; when, in another moment, a cry from the invaders themselves 
awakens the inmates to a sense of their danger, the guards fly to their 
posts, the soldiers mount arms and pursue the Danes. This sudden 
change had arisen from a simple cause. It appeared that the moat, 
instead of being filled with water, was dried up and overgrown with 
thistles, which, piercing the unprotected feet of the Danes, caused 
them to forget their cautious silence, and to utter the cry which had 
alarmed the sleeping inmates of the castle. Thus was the thistle the 
means of preserving Scotland, and was thenceforth adopted as her 
national emblem. 

" E'en then a wish, I mind its power — 
A wish that to my latest hour 

Shall strongly heave my breast — ■ 
That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, 
Some useful plan or beuk could make, 

Or sing a saug at least. 
The rough-burr thistle spreading wide 

Amang the bearded bear, 
I turn'd my weeder-clips aside, 

An' spar'd the f-ymbol dear.'' 

Btjbns. 

Scottish Clans. Their badges are as follow :' 

Buchanan. Birch. 

Cameron. Oak. 

Campbell. Myrtle. 

Chisholm. Alder. 

Forbes. Broom. 

Grant. Cranberry heath. 

Lamond. Crab apple-tree. 

Macdonell. Heath. 

Macdugald. Cypr« ss. 

Macparlane. Cloudberry bush. 

Macgregor. Pine. 

Mackay. Bulrush. 

Mackenzie. Deer grass (Lycopodium). 

Maclachlan. Mountain ash. 

1 After 1745 it became penal to carry badges, and some families actually suffered 
the penalties ol the " Disarming " Act. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 331 

of Lancaster with Blanche of Artois, widow of the King of Navarre, 
and wife of Edmund Crouchback, first Earl of Lancaster. Here 
were born the four children of Catherine Swinford, who were all 
surnamed " De Beaufort," in consequence of their birth in the patri- 
monial castle of the Lan casters ; and from that circumstance they 
bore a portcullis for their family cognisance. 

The Beauforts espoused the Lancastrian cause. Edmund, first 
Duke of Somerset, fell at St. Alban's, 1458. Of his three sons, 
Henry, second duke, was beheaded after Hexham, 1460 ; John was 
slain at Tewkesbury, 1471 ; and his brother Edmund, third duke, 
was beheaded after the same battle. It is of him that King Edward 
says — 

" For Somerset, off with his guilty head." 

King Henry VI., 3rd Part, Act v., sc. 5. 

And Gloucester addresses him— 

" Two of thy name, both Dukes of Somerset, 
Have suld their lives uuto the house of York ; 
And thou si. alt be the third, if this sword hold." 

King Henry VI., 3rd Part, Act v., sc. 1. 

And, again, King Edward refers to them — 

" The dukes of Somerset, t ! reefold renowned, 
For tiusty and undoubted champions." 

King Henry VI., 3rd Part, Act v., sc. 7. 

Sir Charles Somerset, from whom the present Dukes of Beaufort 
descend, was created Earl of Worcester and Lord Chamberlain for 
life to King Henry VIII. 1 He bore on his standards, in addition to 
the portcullis, the following badges : 

A Moorish female's head (Fig. 246), three-quarter face, hair 
dishevelled, and ring through the ear. 

A cubit arm issuing out of a red rose, for Lancaster, the hand 
grasping a golden arrow (Fig. 2-17). Motto, Faire le dot/. 

Also a bearing, which looks like the machine used for confining 
horses when shod; and a panther "inflamed " (Fig. 248). 

1 He married the heiress of William, merit in that barony, 1501, and three 
Earl of Huntingdon, Lord Herbert of years afterwards created Earl of Wor- 
Raglan, and was summoned to Parlia- cester. 



330 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

in the chancel of Chartham Church, Kent; died 1806. He was a 
warrior in the time of King Edward I., was with the army at Caer- 
laverock, and had estates in Kent. His figure is cross-legged, in 




Fig. 244. — Setvans. 

mail armour, three winnowing vans are on his shield, and seven on 
the surcoat and culettes. 

Seymoob. Crest, a phoenix in flames proper. Motto, A Vami 
jid'ele pour jamais. The family now use, Foy pour devoir. This 
motto, time of Henry VIII., was used by Thomas, second son of 
Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk, whose daughter Francis 
married Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, son of the Protector 
Somerset. 

The present arms are, two wings conjoined in lure, tips down- 
wards or, similar to those on the seal of Eoger de St. Maur, borne for 
the manor of Pentro, Monmouth, from penna, a wing. 
Sharp. A wolf's head. 

Shelley. A golden whelk-shell (Eig. 245), from their arms, on a 
fess engrailed blue, four whelks or. 

In the chancel of Clapham Church, Sussex, is the brass 
of John Shelley, 1550, and his wife; they are both kneel- 
ing on cushions at a desk ; he is clad in armour. Whelk- 
shells are on his surcoat and on the gown of the lady. 
Sheffield. A golden wheatsheaf, from their arms. 
Skeffington. Sir William Skeffmgton, temp. Henry 
VIII., bore on his banner, with a mermaid, the present 
crest of the family, a golden tun transfixed with five silver arrows. 
Motto, Loialte maintient amor. 

Somerset, Earls and Dukes of Beaufort. Badge, a golden 
portcullis. 

The lordship and castle of Beaufort, in Anjou, came to the house 




AND WAE-CEIES. 333 

known badge is the " Stafford knot " (Fig. 249), suggested probably 
by the crossing of the two S's. It is to be seen on the Stafford monu- 
ment in St. Edmund s Chapel, Westminster Abbey, and is adopted by 
the present Duke of Sutherland. 




Fig 249— Stafford Knot. 

On this monument, raised to John Paul Howard, Earl of Stafford 
(died 1762), among the eighteen badges stained in the marble, is 
one, azure, two barbel addorsed, and between them a fleur-de-lis in 
chief, and another in base or, composed, apparently, from the charges 
in the arms of Anjou and those of Bar, the house of Stafford descend- 
ing by ten different marriages from the rojal blood of England and 
France. 

The Duke of Buckingham, when giving livery of the " knots of 
Stafford," boasted that he had as many of them as Bichard Nevill, 
Earl of Warwick, had formerly of "ragged stavts." 

A cart-wheel, generally represented with flames issuing from the 
end of the spokes, is another of the Stafford badges. Humphrey, 
first Duke of Buckingham, is designated by this badge — 

" The carte nathe is spokeles 
For the counseill that he gaff" 

{Satirical Verses, cire. 1449), 

when offended by the removal of his brothers, the chancellor and 
treasurer, he persuaded King Henry VI. to receive the Duke of 
York with kindness. 

His grandson Henry, second Duke, "the deep revolving wily 
Buckingham," was the chief means of bringing Bichard III. to the 
crown ; but found too late that tyrants throw down the ladder by 
which they ascend to greatness : T 

" The first was I that helped thee to the crown, 
The last was I that felt thy tyranny." 

King Richard III., Act v., so. 3, 

1 Weever. 



332 



HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



In the Harleian MS., 1073, besides the above five badges, are 
given an antelope, a dragon issuing from a castle, and a flower- 
pot with red and white pinks. Underneath is written, " These eight 
badges belong to Somerset, and are of all antiquity." 





Fig. 246.— Somerset. 



Fig. 24V.— Somerset. 



The motto of Cardinal Beau'brt, in Winchester Cathedral, is, In 
Domine confido. . 




Fig. 248.— Somerset. 

Southampton. See Fitzwilliam. 

Southwell. A cinquefoil gules, charged with six annulets or. 

Sothwoeth. A bull's head erased sable, armed or. 

Speke. Espek of Normandy. A porcupine argent, the quills 
tipped sable— present crest of the family. 

The chantry of St. George in Exeter Cathedral, founded 1518, 
by Sir John Speke of White Lackington, Somers.t, is decorated with 
the porcupine. 

We hear, in the time of Henry If., of Eichard Le Espek, " and 
for many centuries," says Lysons, " they have been men of note in 
Somerset and Devon." 

Stafford. > Barons Stafford, Dukes of Buckingham. Their well- 



AND WAR-CRIES. 



335 



fourscore years of age, and his lady as old, and that, being without 
hope of a family, heaven did send them an heir most miraculously. 
For an eagle had her nest in Tarlestowe Wood, in which were three 




Fig.'250.— Stanley. 

fair birds that were ready to fly ; and one day she brought to them a 
goodly boy, " swaddled and clad in a mantle of red," the news of 
which reaching Lord Latham, he rode with all speed to the wood, 
and found the babe preserved, by God's grace ; and causing it to be 
fetched down, he brought it to his lady at Latham, where they took 




Fig. 251. -Stanley 



it as their own, and " thanked God for all." The child was appa- 
rently unchristened, for salt was bound round its neck in a linen 
cloth. They had it baptised, therefore, by the name of Oskell, and 
made it their heir after them. " From whence the child came," saith 



334 HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Nor was his son Edward, third Duke, " the bounteous Bucking- 
ham, the mirror of courtesy," more fortunate. Bestored by the 
favour of Henry VII., he fell through the machinations of Wolsey, 
and was beheaded for high treason. Among other offences, he was 
accused of having consulted a wizard concerning the succession ; and 
his having caused his motto, Doresenavant, "Henceforward," to be 
carved over the great gate of his house at Thornbury, Gloucestershire, 
was construed as implying his intention of seizing the crown. 1 All 
will remember his last speech in Shakspeare's 'King Eichard III.' 
When the Emperor Charles V. heard of his death, he is reported to 
have said that " a butcher's dog had torn down the finest buck in 
England." 2 

At the meeting of Henry VIII. and Maximilian before Therouenne, 
1515, the Duke of Buckingham appeared with the badges of the 
Bohuns, as heir-general to Eleanor Bohun, whose estates Eichard III. 
had refused to restore to his father. He was attired " in purple satin, 
his apparel and his bard, full of antelopes and swans of fine gold 
bullion, and full of spangles." 

The antelopes still remain on the gates of Maxstoke Castle, War- 
wickshire, with the burning nave, or wheel, of his ancestors ; and a 
swan collared and chained is at this time the arms of the town of 
Buckingham. 

In the stained glass of Nettleshed Court, Kent, the cart-wheel is 
surrounded by a fold formed of Stafford knots. 

Henry Stafford, created Earl of Wiltshire by King Henry VIII., 
bore on his banner the Bohun swan, semee of Stafford knots, with the 
motto, Humble et loyal. 

Standish. An owl argent, holding in its claw a rat sable. 

Stanley. An eagle's leg, erased or, with the motto, Sans changer 
ma verite (Fig. 250). Also — 

" The eagle and the swaddled ehylde" (Fig. 251). 

The earliest authority for the well-known legend which gave rise 
to the Stanley crest, is a metrical poem written by Thomas Stanley, 
Bishop of Man, 1510-70, two centuries after the supposed incident. 
He states that Lord Latham, dwelling in Latham Hall, was a man of 

1 Montagu. 2 Camden. 



AND WAB-CRIES. 337 

emblematical of a halter, was hung over his tomb, as a memorial of his 
crime," where it remained until about the year 1775. 

Stkangeways. The badge on the standard of "Mayster Gilys 
Strangways," in 1520, is a boar's head issuing out of a ducal coronet. 
Motto, Espoure me comforte. 

Stjdeley. Baron of Sudeley. A lizard, tail nowed, vertically, 
ducally gorged or, and chained to a beacon of the last, inflamed 
proper. 

Sutton, Barons Dudley. Edward Sutton, sixth Baron Dudley, 
from whom descends the present Lord Ward, had for his badge a 
window-grating, formed of four perpendicular and three transverse 
bars, gold (Fig. 253). 




Fig. 253.— Sutton. 

Sir Edward Sutton, eighth Baron, must be the one alluded to in 
the distich of Queen Elizabeth, of four Northamptonshire knights — 

" Gervase ' the Gentle, Stanhop the Stout, 
Mareham the Lyon, and Sutton the Lout." 

Swynarton. Thomas Swynarton of Swynarton, Staffordshire, 
1520, bore on his standard, on a mount vert covered with daisies, a 
boar argent, collar azure, charged with five bezants, holding in his 
mouth a pomeis (pomme), snout, -ears, and hoofs gules, tusks and 
bristles or, between four tufts of daisies argent. In B two, C and D 
two, tufts of daisies. Motto, Avanturey et marches avant. 

Talbot. A chanfron or, adorned with three feathers, was the 
badge of the great Earl of Shrewsbury, the " Scourge of France :" 

" Our Talbot, to the French so terrible in war, 
That with Ms very name their babes they used to scare." 

Dkatton, PolyolMon. 



1 Sir Gervase Clifton. 



386 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

the bishop, " the truth no man can slow, neither where nor what 
place it was fetched from ; but the foundling grew to manhood, and 
became the father of Isabella Latham, with whom Sir John Stanley 
fell in lore, and within a short time stole her away. Sir Oskell was 
a good man, and a tender father ; he forgave the young people ; and 
having honourably lived, he godly made his end, leaving his property 
to Sir John Stanley and the fair Isabella." 

" A most ancient and distinguished bearing, the Eagle and the 
Child," says the author of ' Waverley.' 1 

This badge was conspicuous at Flodden Field, when, says the 
ballad, King James of Scotland 

" Was prostrate, 
By the helpe of th' eagle with her swaddled chylde," 

the overthrow of the Scottish army being mainly attributed to Sir 
Edward Stanley, who commanded the rearguard of the English 
army. 

The eagle's leg was used as a badge by Thomas Lord Stanley, 
stepfather of King Henry VII., whom he crowned on the field of 
Bosworth ; and it was also on the standard, with the eagle and child, 
of his grandson, the second Earl of Derby, in 1520. 

Stapylton. Sir Bryan Stapylton. Gules and or, a talbot passant, 
the ear split and bleeding. Motto, Mieuxje sera. 

Stourton, Baron. A golden sledge (Fig. 252) was the badge of 
William, sixth Baron Stourton. His son and successor, Charles, 




Fig. 252.— Stourton. 

having been concerned in the murder of two persons of the name of 
Hartgill, was tried in Westminster Hall, and condemned to be hanged 
with four of his accomplices. The sentence was carried into effect at 
Salisbury, in 1557, Lord Stourton being executed with a halter of silk. 
He was buried in the cathedral, and " a twisted wire, with a noose, 

1 There used to be an old inn at Cambridge, opposite St. John's, called " The Eagle 
and Child." 



AND WAB- OKIES. 339 

Tiptofte, Earls of Worcester. A silver tent, argent, fringed with 
gold (Fig. 254). 




Fig. 254.— Tiptofte. 

John, second Baron, created Earl of Worcester, was a literary 
man, and a staunch Yorkist. He was obliged to conceal himself, 
upon the temporary restoration of King Henry VI. by the Earl of 
Warwick ; but, being discovered in the upper branches of a tree, was 
conveyed to London, and beheaded on Tower Hill in 1470. 

Toft, so called from a town of that name. Koger de Toft lived in 
1230. Arms, argent, three text T's. 

Toftes. A snail issuing from its shell. 

Jone, widow of Eobert Toft of Toft, married John Leycester of 
Tabley (temp. Eichard II). 

Totjchet. See Atjdley. 

Teacet, Baeons of Baenstaple. " All the Traceys have the 
wind in their faces." The family being said to have never prospered 
after the murder of Becket. 

Tracey hid himself for a fortnight after the deed in Crookham 
cavern, west of Ilfracombe, and was supplied with food by his daughter. 
He was banished to the Woollacombe sands to "make bundles and 
wisps of the same," and lived for many years afterwards. 

Teelawny, Sie Jonathan, one of the seven bishops sent to the 
Tower by James II., in whose cause the Cornish miners were ready 
to march to London, to the burden of their song — 

" And shall they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen ? 
A nd shall Trelawney die ? 
Here's twenty thousand Cornish men 
Will know the reason why." 

The bishop's pastoral staff is preserved in the church of St. Martin, 
East Looe. 

z2 



338 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

" The Talbot, so much fear'd abroad, 
That with his name the mothers still their babes.'' 

King Henry VI, 1st Part, Act ii., sc. 3. 

" The cry of Talbot serves me for a sword," 

King Henry VI, 1st Part, Act 2, sc. 1. 

His " beast " the silver running hound, or talbot — 

" And he is bounden 1 that our dor should kepe — 
That is'Talbot, our good dogge." 

Satirical Verses, 1447. 

Talbot's great reputation was acquired during the Eegency of the 

Duke of Bedford. He was, however, defeated and taken prisoner at 

Patay, in 1429, by the Maid of Orleans. 

At the age of eighty, he was killed (with his son, Lord Lisle) 

before Chastillon, 1453, after having won not less than forty pitched 

battles. 

" Where is the great Alcides of the field, 
Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury ? 
Created, for his rare success in arms, 
Great Earl of Washford, Waterford, and Valence." 

Henry VI., 1st Part. Act v., sc. 1. 



His remains repose at Whitchurch, in Shropshire. He wears the 
mantle of the garter, and his feet repose on a couchant talbot. 

On his sword was inscribed, Sum Talboti pro vinoere inimicos 
nieos, " I am Talbot's for to conquer my enemies." 

Sir Humphrey Talbot, temp. Edward IV., had for badge a running 
hound silver, charged on the shoulder with a mullet. 

Sir Eobert Talbot of Kymes, his contemporary, had a white bull. 

The standard of the Earl of Shrewsbury, 1520, was, gules and 
sable, a talbot pa?sant argent, with four chanfrons, each adorned with 
three feathers or, B one C two, chanfrons. 

Temmes, Rous de Nore. A crescent or, within the horns an 
eagle displayed argent. 

Tey. Two hooked spikes in saltire, the sinister azure, the dexter 
passing through the other, or. 

Throckmorton. On a wreath ermine, argent and gules, an 
elephant's head couped sable, ears and tusks or, between four crescents 
or, B and C, two crescents. 

1 Or perhaps silenced by the grant, 1446, of the Earldom of Waterford. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 



341 



Tyeell. On the standard of Thomas Tyrell, of Gypping, in 
Suffolk, is a triangular fret or (Fig. 255). Motto, Tout four le 
mievlx. 




Fig. 255.— Tyrell. 

Vatjghan. A child's head couped at the shoulders proper, crined 
or, round the neck, a snake azure. 

Sir Hugh Yaughan de Lytylton. A griffin passant, double 
queued, &c., three fishes' heads erased, and erect or, each ingrillant 
of a spear head argent, B and C, two fishes' heads. 

In ' King Richard III.,' the Duchess of York asks the messenger — 

" What is thy news ? 
Mess. Lord Rivers, and Lord Grey, are sent to Pomfret, 
With them Sir Thomas Vaughan, prisoners." 

Act ii., so. 4. 

Yatjx. A griffin's head erased, sable. 

Yeee, Earl of Oxford (a title retained in the family for five 
hundred and sixty-seven years), Marquis of Dublin, Duke of Ireland. 
A mullet 1 of five points, argent (Fig. 256). 





Fig. 256.— Vere. 

A long-neck silver bottle, with a 
the hereditary office of Lord High 

1 Much dispute has arisen respecting 
this bearing. Those who consider it as 
the rowel of a spur derive it from the 
French "molette," but the spur was 
never of five points before Charles I., nor 
of sis before Henry VI.; previously it 



Fig. 257.— Vere. 

blue cord (Fig. 257) : in allusion to 
Chamberlain, conferred by Henry I. 

was furnished with a " rouelle," or little 
wheel sometimes serrated. Guillim says 
others derive it from the five-fingered 
star-fish. Mullets are on the groats of 
Henry IV., V., and VI. ; i.e., between 
a.d. 1399 and 1461. 



340 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Tkevilian. A Cornish crow, or chough. 1 

" The Cornysche chawgh offt with hia trayne 
Hath made our egull blynde " 

{Satirical Verses, 1417), 

alludes to John Trevilian, ancestor of the present Baronet. The 
Commons, in 1451, prayed for his removal for life from the presence 
of King Henry VI., he being said to " have often blinded the king." 

Tkopbnell. In several parts of their house at Chatfield, built in 
the time of Henry VI., their arms are accompanied by an ox-yoke, 
the family badge, and the motto, Le joug tire tellement, " The yoke 
draws well," or " The yoke sits lightly :" expressive either of the 
tenure under which the estate is held, or of their devotion to 
agricultural pursuits. 

Tktjsbuts, Barons of "Wartre, in Holderness, bore, " Trois boutz 
d'eau," three bouts or bougets of water, thereby symbolising both 
their family name and their baronial estate. On the marriage of 
Everard De Eos (circ. 1186), with Boysia, the great heiress of William 
Trusbuts, the husband took the arms of his bride's family. See Bos. 

Teussbll, Sib William. Black ass's head, with, about the neck, 
a crown of gold. 

Tudok. Their arms were gules, a chevron between three helmets 
argent. In the funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth of York, 
daughter of Edward IV., queen of Henry VII., the body was preceded 
by four banners, and followed by a fifth charged with the head of a 
warrior armed with a helmet — probably a badge derived from the 
above arms. 

" By our great Merlin was it not foretold 
(Amongst his holy prophecies enroll'd) 
When first he did of Tudor's name divine, 
That Mngs and queens should follow in our line ? 
And that the helm (the Tudor's ancient crest) 
Should with the golden flow'r-de-luce be drest ? 
As that the leek (our country's chief renown) 
Should grow with roses in the English crown ? 
As Charles his' daughter, you the lily wear ; 
As Henry's queen, the blushing rose you bear." 

Drayton, Beroical Epistle, Owen l^udor to Queen Catherine. 



' The crows and choughs that wing the midnight air." 

King Lear, Act iv., so. 6. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 343 

The blue boar is an ancient cognisance of the family. Kobert de 
Vere, Duke of Ireland, the favourite of Eichard II., is designated by 
the poet Grower by his badge of the boar. 

Towards the end of the street of St, Mary-Axe stood the mansion 
of Eichard Vere, eleventh Earl of Oxford, in the time of Henry Y. 
A tradesman's token exists " At the Bleu Boore without Bishopsgate." 
And Stowe speaks of John de Vere, sixteenth Earl, riding into the 
city '' to his house by London stone, with eighty gentlemen in a livery 
of Beading tawny, and chains of gold about their necks, before him, 
and one hundred tall yoenien in the like livery to follow him, without 
chaines, but all having his cognisance of the Blew Bore embroydered 
on their left shoulder." 

In the Church of Framlingham, Suffolk, is the monument of 
Frances de Vere, wife of Henry, Earl of Surrey. Her feet repose 
upon a blue boar. The Vere motto, Vero nil verius, " Nothing truer 
than truth (Vere)," is said to have been pronounced by Queen Elizabeth, 
in commendation of the loyalty of the family. 

Staunch Lancastrians, the Veres adhered with unswerving loyalty 
to the Eed Eose, and the consequences were exile and death. At one 
time, John de Vere, twelfth Earl, was a common mendicant abroad, 
and his countess a poor workwoman earning her bread by her needle. 
The earl was at length captured, and, with his son, beheaded. John, 
the yomger son, his successor, thus allude3 to their death : 

" Call him my king, by whose injurious doom 
My elder brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere. 
Was done to death ? and more so, my father, 
Even in the downfall of his mellow years, 
When nature brought him to the door of death ? 
No, Warwick, no ; while life upholds this arm, 
This arm upholds the house of Lancaster." 

King Henry VI., 3rd Part, Act iii., sc. 3. 

Veeney. Mayster Bauff, of Pendeley, in Hertfordshire, 1520, 
bore on his standard ermine, a demi phoenix in flames proper, in the 
sinister chief corner clouds, and issuant therefrom rays of the sun. 
In the dexter chief and sinister base a mullet or, fimbriated gules, B 
two, C four, mullets. 

Vebnon, Syr Henry Vernon. On a wreath a boar's head erased, 
between four frets sable, in B one, two, frets. 



342 



HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Fig. 258 is given (Harl. MS., 1073) as " a badge of the Vere 
family from all antiquity." It is difficult to say what it is intended to 
represent. 

A chair (Fig. 259) is another of their badges, and a blue boar. 





Fig. 258.— Vere. 



Fig. 259.— Vt-re. 



The legend of the star of Vere is thus given by Leland : " In the 
year of our Lord 1098, Corborant, Admiral to the Soudan of Perce 
(Persia), was fought with at Antioch, and discomfited by the Chris- 
tianes. The night cumming on yn the chace of this battile, and waxing 
dark, the Christianes being four miles from Antioche, God willing the 
saufte (safety) of the Christianes, shewed a white star, or molette, of 
five pointes, on the Christian hoste, which to every mannes sighte did 
lighte, and arrest upon the standard of Albry de Yere, there shyning 
excessively." 

Hence the mullet was adopted as a badge of the De Yeres. It 
proved fatal to the Lancastrian cause at the Battle of Barnet, 1471, 
when " The Erie of Oxford's men had a starre with streames booth 
before and behind on their lyverys." King Edward's men had the 
sun. The Earl of Warwick's men, by reason of the mist, mistook 
Oxford's badge for that of King Edward, and charged among them. 
They, not knowing the cause of the error, cried out, " Treason ! 
treason ! We are all betrayed." Hereupon, the Earl of Oxford fled, 
the Yorkists gained the battle, and Warwick was slain. 1 Drayton 
thus relates the circumstance : 

" The envious mist so much deceived their sight, 
That where eight hundred men, which valiant Oxford brought, 
Wore comets on their coats, great Warwick's force, which thought 
They had King Edward's been, which so with suns were drest, 
First made their shot at them, who, by their friends distrest, 
Constrained were to fly, being scatter'd here and there." 

Battte of Barnet (Polyolhion). 



1 Baker's ' Chronicle.' 



AND WAR-CKIES. 315 

"Pendragon, like his father Jove, 

Was fed with milk of goat ; 
And like him made a noble shield 

Of she-goat's shaggy coat ; 
On top of burnish'd helmet he 

Did wear a crest of leeks, 
And onions' heads, whose dreadful nod 

Drew tears down hostile cheeks." 

St. George for England (Percy Beliquee). J. Grubb, 1697. 

Wallop. Sir John Wallop, a distinguished admiral in the time 
of Henry VIII., bore for his badge a black mermaid with golden hair. 
A mermaid is the present Portsmouth crest. 

Wakwick, Earls of. The title of Warwick has been borne succes- 
sively by the families of Newburgh, Beauchamp, Nevill, Plantagenet, 
and Dudley. 

The bear and ragged staff (Fig 261) belonged to the Saxon lords 




Fig. 261.— Warwick. 

of Warwick, and was adopted by the Newburghs, first lords after the 
Conquest. It is a combination of two badges of that ancient line 
which sprang, according to family tradition, from Arthgal, one of the 
knights of the Bound Table. Arsh or Narsh, in the British language, 
is said to signify a bear— hence this ensign was adopted as a rebus or 
play upon his name. 

" Arthgal, the first Earl of Wai-wiuk, in the days of 
King Arture, and was one of the Round Table. This 
Arthgal took a bere in his arms, for that, in 
Britisch, soundeth a bere in English." 

Leland's Collectanea. 

Morvidus, another earl of the same family, a man of wonderful 
valour, slew a giant with a young tree torn up by the roots, and hastily 



344 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

ViLLtERS. John Villers de Brokesby, Leicester. On a wreath ermine 
a buck's head erased, and three cocks gules, winged or. B and C a 
cock. 

Vipont. The town of Appleby was given by King John to 
John de Veteri Ponte, or Vipont, as a reward for good services. 

In the roll of Henry III., John de Vipount is blazoned " de goules 
a six faux rondlets d'or," not as rings, but as voided roundels. 

In the roll of the time of Edward III., "Monsire de Vipointe 
porte d'or a vj annulettes gules." The Vipontes (Yieux pont) may 
have assumed the six, VI., round spots, painted to symbolise their 
name, in conformity with the fashion of the time. 

Bobert de Vipont, who died in 1267, left two daughters co- 
heiresses; from Isabel, who married Boger Clifford, the annulets 
descended to that family (see). 

Wabburton. Mayster Warburton, de Warburton, in Cheshire. 
On a wreath a Saracen's head, &c, between four cormorants' heads 
erased sable. B two, C three, cormorants' heads (present arms), Je 
vouldroie avoir. 

Waeeham. George Warham de Malsanger, county Salop. A demi 
goat. B and C the same. Motto, A Vayde de Dieu. 

Wake. The Wake and Ormond kaot is a W intersecting two O's 
(Fig 260). It is now borne by the family as a crest. 




Fig. 260.— Wake and Onnond Knot. 

Walcot, of Bitterley, Shropshire. " Jobn Walcot playing at chess 
with King Henry, he gave him the check-mate with the rooke, where- 
upon the king changed his coat of arms, which was the cross with 
fleur-de-lis, and gave him the rooke for a remembrance." Arms, 
argent, a chevron between three chess rooks, ermine. 

Wales. 1 Badges : A golden castle. 2 A cock gules, crowned ermine. 3 

" Cadwallader and all his goats." 

King Henry V., Act v., sc. 4. 

1 See England, Objure I. ! Hai-1. MS. 1471. 3 Ibid. 304. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 347 

jupon charged -with cross crosslets ; the Beauchamp arms, the plate of 
his elbow, and scabbard of his sword, are decorated with ragged staves ; 
his feet rest upon a bear, and the monument is profusely decorated 
with the family badge. 



Fig. 262.— Morvidus, Earl of Warwick. 



His son Eichard, fifth Earl, — the very personification of Chaucer's 
true knight, who 

" loved chivalrie, 
Truth and honour, freedom and curtesie," — 



was sent on an embassy to the Council of Constance. In a tilting 
match which took place before the Emperor Sigismund and his 
Empress, a German knight challenged Earl Eichard " for his Lady's 
sake," and was killed in the encounter. The Empress was so struck 
with the earl's prowess, that she " toke the earl's livery, a bere, from a 
knyghte's shuldre, and fer gret love and favour she sett hit on her 
shuldre ; then Erie Eichard made oone of perle and precious stones, 
and offered her that, and she gladly and lovyngly received hit." 

On the death of the Duke of Bedford, Earl Eichard was appointed 
Lieutenant-General of France, and embarked for that country. Being 
overtaken by a tempest, he caused himself to be attired in the tabard 
of his arms, his wife and son to be lashed together to the mast of the 
vessel, that if their bodies were found, they might be all interred with 



346 HISTOBIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

trimmed of its boughs. In memory of this exploit, his successors bore 
as their cognisance a silver staff on a shield sable, Fig. 262 is from 
the Lansdowne MS. 882. Of the valiant Earl Sir Guy, who 

" did quell that monstrous cow, 
The passengers that us'd from Dunsmore to affright " 

(PolyoTbiori), 

the adventures are fully related in ' The Legend of Sir Guy,' published 
in the ' Percy Reliques :' 

" On Dunsmore Heath, I also slewe 
A monstrous wyld and crueil beast, 
Call'd the Dan-cow of Dunsmore Heath ; 
Which manye people had opprest. 

" Some of her bones in Warwicke yett . 
Still for a monument doe lye ; 
And there expos'd to lookers' viewe, 
As wonderous strange, they may espye." 

The Legend of Sir Guy (Percy Iieliques). 

" The noble Earl of Warwick, that was call'd Sir Guy, 
The infidels and pagans stoutlie did defie ; 
He slew the giant Brandimore ; and after was the death 
Of that most ghastly dun cow, the divile of Dunsmore Heath." 

St. George for England {Percy Heliqu.es). 



And 



again : 



" At once she kickt and pusht at Guy, 
But all that would not fright him, 
Who wav'd his winyard o'er Sir Loyn, 
As if he'd gone to knight him." 

Ibid. 

By marriage, the earldom of Warwick devolved upon the 
Beauchamp family — " Bold Beauchamps," as they were styled : 

" That brave and godlike brood of Beauchamps, which so long, 
Them Earls of Warwick held ; so hardy, great, and strong, 
That after, of that name it to an adage grew, 
If any man avent'rous hapt to shew, 
Bold Beauchamp men him term'd, if none so bold as he." 

Drayton, Polyolbion. 

Thomas de Beauchamp, fourth Earl, who died in 1406, bequeathed 
to his son Eichard " a bed of silk, embroidered with bears ;" likewise 
the harness with "ragged staves." His effigy on the monument 
erected to him and his wife in St. Mary's Church, Warwick, has the 



AND WAE-CEIES. 349 

Warwick Lane, in whose house there was often six oxen eaten at a 
breakfast, and " every taverne was fule of his meate, for hee that had 
any acquaintance in that house might hare there so much of sodden 
and rost meet as he could pricke and carry upon a long dagger." 

Shakspeare constantly designates him by his cognisance. In the 
2nd Part of ' King Henry VI.,' Act v., sc. 1, the Duke of York says : 

" Call hither to the stake my two brave bears, 
That, "with th'e very shaking of their chains, 
They may astonish these fell lurking curs ; 
Bid Salisbury and Warwick come to me. 

Enter Warwick and Salisbury. 

Clifford. 

" Are these thy bears ? we'll bait thy bears to death, 
And manacle the bearward in their chains, 
If thou dar'st bring them to the baiting place. 

RlCHARD PLANTAGENET. 

" Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening cur 
Run hack and bite, because he was withheld ; 
Who, being suffer d with the bear's fell paw, 
Hath clapp'd his tail between his legs, and cry'd : 
And such a piece of service will you do, 
If you appear yourselves to match Lord Warwick." 

And again : 

Clifford. 

" Might I but know thee by thy household badge. 

Warwick. 

" Now by my father's badge, old Nevil's crest, 
The rampant bear chained to the ragged staff, 
This day I'll lift aloft my burgonet 

***** 

Even to affright thee with a view thereof." 
Clifford. 

" And from thy burgonet I'll rend thy bear, 
And tread it under foot with all contempt, 
Despight the bearward that protects the bear," 

Drayton makes Queen Margaret exclaim : 

" Who will muzzle that unruly bear, 
Whose presence strikes our people's hearts with fear?" 

Queen Margaret to Suffolk. 



348 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

the honour that belonged to their house. He died at Eouen, in 1439, 
having, by his will, directed that his body should be brought to 
England, and interred in the stately monument appointed by him to 
be built in the Church of St. Mary, Warwick. This magnificent tomb 
rivals in splendour that of King Henry VII. In his epitaph, bears and 
ragged staves are introduced as stops. 

In an account given by Dugdale of Earl Eichard with William 
Seburgh, " citizen and payntour of London," are charged — 

" cccc pencels bete with the raggide staffe of silver, and a gyton 
for the shippe of vii yerde3 long, powdrid full of raggid staves. 

"xviij standardes of worsted, entertailed with the bere and a 
cheyne. 

" Grete stremour for the shippe, xl yerdes length, and viij yerdes 
in brede, with a grete bere and gryfon holding a raggid staffe, powdrid 
full of raggid staves." 

On the death of Earl Eichard's granddaughter, the honours of 
the illustrious house of Beauchamp devolved upon the Lady Anne 
Beauchamp, wife of Eichard, Earl of Salisbury, who was subsequently 
created Earl of Warwick, 1442 : the " stout Earl," as he was styled — 

" Proud setter up and puller down of kings." 

King Henry VI, 3rd Part, Act iii., sc. 3. 

" The greatest and best of our old Norman chivalry, kinglier in pride, 
in state, in possessions, and in renown, than the king himself." 

" Who liv'd king, but I could dig his grave, 
And who durst smile, when Warwick bent his brow ? " 

King Henry VI, 3rd Part, Act v., sc. 2. 

First attached to the house of York, he was made Captain-General 
of Calais, where Gomines reports he was so popular, that every one 
wore his badge, no man esteeming himself gallant whose head was not 
adorned with his ragged staff, nor no door frequented that had not his 
white cross painted thereon. 

In Akerman's ' Tradesmen's Tokens ' we find the " Bare and raged 
stafe " in Lambeth, Southwark, Turnstile Alley, and Kent Street. 

Warwick Lane, near St. Paul's, took its name from the house of 
the Beauchamps, which fell to Eichard Neville. Stowe mentions his 
coming into London, in 1458, with 600 men, all in red jackets 
embroidered with ragged staves before and behind, and was lodged in 



AND WAR-CRIES. 351 

side a white bear and two pearls hanging, a lion ramping, with a white 
muzzled bear at his feet." 

" The ragged staves," says Miss Strickland, " are also audaciously 
introduced with true love-knots of pearls and diamonds, in a head- 
dress he presented to his royal mistress, in the twenty-second year of 
her reign." 

Mrs. Sigourney, the American poetess, thus alludes to Warwick in 
his stately castle : 

"In yon lofty hall, 
Hung round with ancient armour, interspersed 
With branching antlers of the hunted stag, 
Fancy depictureth a warrior-shade, 
The swarth king-maker, he who hore so high 
His golden coronet, and on his shield 
' The bear and ragged staff.' At his rough grasp 
The warring roses quaked, and, like the foam 
That crests the wave one moment, and the next 
Dies at its feet, alternate rose and sank 
The crowned heads of York and Lancaster." 

Warwickshire Coonty bas the bear for badge : 

" Stout Warwickshire, her ancient badge the bear." 

Drayton. 
And again : 

" Quoth warlike Warwickshire, I'll bind the sturdy bears." 

Ibid. 

Water Bailiff of the River Thames has a silver oar, as 
Conservator of the Elver Thames ; as has also the Mayor of 
Southampton. 

Welche. On a gorged or and azure, a goat's head, ermine azure, 
armed or. At the end of each horn a hawk's bell of the last, the neck 
charged with three bezants. 

Wells. A bucket with chains, in allusion to the name. Lionel, 
Lord Welles, a staunch Lancastrian, fell at the battle of Towton : 

" Lord Dudley and Lord Wells, both warlike wights." 

Drayton, Polyolbion. 

Wentworth. Sir Eichard Wentworthe, of Netyllstede, in Suffolk ; 
his standard, 1520, was a griffin statant, with three covered cups, and 
annulets. B and C, in each the cup between two annulets. 

In the Harl. MS., 4632, a silver flagon, with a napkin round the 
handle, is given as the badge of this family. 



350 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

And in other of his poems, she reproaches Warwick for his adherence 
to the house of York : 

" That valour thou on Edward dids't bestow, 
O had'st thou shew'd for him thou here dost see, 
Our damask roses had adorned thy crest, 
And with their wreaths thy ragged staves been drest." 

Miseries of Queen Margaret. 

When resentful of the injuries he had received from King Edward, 
Warwick joined the Lancastrians, a numerous army flew to his standard, 
every one was proud of wearing his cognisance, the bear and ragged 
staff, in his cap, some of gold enamelled, others of silver, and those 
who could not afford the precious metals, cut them out of white silk 
or cloth. 1 But, as Drayton says, 

" Fortune to his end, this mighty Warwick brings, 
This puissant setter up, and plucker down of kings; 
He who those battles won with so much blood and cost, 
At Barnet's fatal field both blood and fortune lost.'' 

PotyoTbion. 

The earldom of Warwick was revived by King Edward YL, in 
favour of John Dudley, afterwards Duke of Northumberland, father of 
Lord Guildford Dudley, and of Eobert, Earl of Leicester, the ill-fated 
favourite of Queen Elizabeth. The title devolved on his elder brother 
Ambrose, but Leicester adopted the Warwick cognisance. 2 

The brethren of Leicester's Hospital at Warwick, founded by the 
earl, wear gowns of blue cloth, with the bear and ragged staff 
embroidered on the left sleeve, without which they are enjoined not 
to appear in the public streets ; and in the church of Kenilworth the 
well-known cognisance is observable. 

Leicester's new year's gift, in 1574, to Queen Elizabeth was a fan 
of white feathers set in a handle of gold and precious stones, " on each 

1 Stowe. of the enemies of the earl, and friends 

2 In Warwickshire there is a proverb to the freedom of the Dutch, wrote under 

that " The bear wants a tail and cannot his crest eet up in public places, Ursa 

be a lion," which Fuller explains thus : caret cauda, non queat esse lea — 

when Eobert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 

^ c ,-, T r, .. j . " The bear, he never can prevail 

was Governor or the- Low Countries, dis- , r ,. ... » ,.^„ 

' io lion it for want of tail, 

using his own coat of the green lion with 

two tails, he signed all instruments with This proverb is applied to those who, 

the bear and ragged staff. Being sus- not content with their own condition, 

pected of an ambitious design of making aspire to what is above their worth to 

himself absolute over the Low Countries deserve, or power to achieve. — Bohn's 

(as the lion is the king of beasts), some Proverbs. 



AND WAK-CBIES. 353 

Henry VIII., took the rudder of a ship for his cognisance, and it is 
painted on the glass windows of Ids house at Broke, Wiltshire. 

Sir Henry Willoughby (of Nollings). On a wreath or and gules, 
an owl argent, ducally crowned or. 

Sir Henry Willoughby. A, a griffin passant argent, between five 
water bougets, also argent. B two, C four, water bougets. Sanse 
changer. 

The Lord Willoughby. Argent and gules. A moor's head (without 
neck) full faced, the tongue hanging out, and ducally crowned, with two 
smaller heads. B two and C three ditto. Verite est sens pere (peur). 

Lord Willoughby, temp. Elizabeth, had a griffin and an owl, 
crowned, on his standard. Motto, Apprendre et tenir. 

Wiltshiee, Earl of. See Stafford. 

Wingfield. Two wings displayed, argent, united by a cord in 
fret or. 

Sir John Wingfield's brass, St. Mary's, Letheringham, Suffolk. On 
his jupon are his arms, argent, on a bend, gules, between three cotises 
sable, three pairs of wings joined in leure of the field. 

Wodehouse. A golden club. Motto, Frappes fort. 

Woodstock. A stem of oak, leaved and fruited, or. 

The mother of Archbishop Bourchier was the daughter, and at 
length sole heir, of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, and 
this badge appears to have been adopted in allusion to this descent. 

Wyatt. A pair of horse barnacles argent, ringed and corded or. 

Wyndesore, Sir Andrew. An unicorn between two stags, heads 
couped, all argent. B, like stags' heads, C one ditto. 

Teo, of Heampton, in Devon. On an ermine argent a peacock. 
B and C ditto. 

Zouche, Lord. An ass's head and a silver falcon (the present sup- 
porters). John Zouche, of Codnor, county Derby, time of Henry YI1L, 
bore it on his standard, with the motto, Grace serra le lien venu. 
His son's motto was, Virtute non vi, " By virtue (valour), not 
force." 

A rudder sable, tiller and stays or, is another of the Zouche badges. 
Motto, Feare God, and love. 

Philippe, Countess of March, bequeaths to her son Edmond " un 
lit de bleu taffeta embroudez des asnes merchez en l'espaule ove une 
rose." 



352 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Whig (The) badge was a brass fusee, about two inches long, worn 
at the waistcoat breast. 

The former badge of the Orange party was a little pewter 
warming-pan. 

Widville, Elizabeth, married, first, Lord Grey of Groby, who fell 
at the second battle of Barnet, fighting on the Lancastrian side ; and 
secondly, King Edward IV. She bore a pink. 

Williams. Sir John Williams, created by Queen Mary Lord 
Williams of Thame, bore as his badge an eel-basket (Fig. 263), or eel- 




Fig. 263.— Williams. 



pot, such as are used in the Thames, in token of his office of chief 
supervisor of the swans in that river and other waters in England, 
except in the Duchy of Lancaster. His motto was, A tons venant. 
Willoughby. A buckle (Fig. 264) ; a wheel (Fig. 265). 





Fig. 264.— Willougliby. Fig. 265— Willoughby. 

Sir John de Willoughby, one of the heroes of Cressy, bore on each 
side of his seal one of the above badges — the buckle derived from his 
wife Joan, one of the coheiresses of Sir Thomas Eocelyn, who bore 
gules, crossilly, three buckles argent, on his arms ; the mill-sail from 
the Beks, of Eresby, whose arms were gules, a mill-sail, argent. In 
the ' Satirical Poem ' (circ. 1447) so often quoted, Lord Willoughby is 
accused of indolence : 

" Our Mylle-saylle 'will not bowte, 
Hit hath so long goon emptye." 

Lord Willoughby de Broke, Lord High Admiral and favourite of 



AND WAB-CKIES. 



355 



In the Harl. MS., No. 2165, a crest is given to St. Edward — viz., 
out of a ducal coronet or, a hand erect, proper, holding a gem ring of 




Fig. 266.— Edward the Confessor. 

the first, jewelled sapphire (Fig. 266)— evidently in allusion to the 
legend of the heavenly ring presented by a pilgrim to St. Edward. 1 

William Bufus. A young eagle gazing at the sun. Motto, 
Perfero, " I endure it ;" " to signify," says Guillim, " he was not in 
the least degenerated from his puissant father, the Conqueror." 

Stephen op Blois is said to have borne a sagittary as his badge, 
because he ascended the throne when the sun was in the sign of 



(azure, a saltire argent), and St. Patrick 
(argent, a saltire gules), form the Union 
Jack of Great Britain. 

1 Havering-atte-Bower, in Essex, is to 
called have ring, from a ring presented 
here to a pilgrim by King Edward the 
Confessor, at the consecration of the 
church. The legend is, that St. John 
the Evangelist, to whom the church is 
dedicated, appeared as " a fair old man," 
and as his alms of the king, received from 
his Majesty a gold ring, the only pos- 
session he had at the time to bestow, 
and which was returned to him some 
years after by two pilgrims, who had 
received it when travelling in the Holy 
Land from the same old man, together 
with this injunction, "Say ye unto 
Edward your king, that I greet him well 



by that token, that he gave me this ring 
with his own hands, and at the hallow- 
ing of my church, which ring ye shall 
deliver to him again, and say ye to him 
that he dispose of his goods, for within 
six months he shall be in the joy of 
heaven with me, when he shall have his 
reward for his chastity and good living." 

The whole story is wrought in basso 
relievo, in St. Edward's Chapel, West- 
minster Abbey, where the ring is said to 
have been deposited. 

Havering-atte-Bower, or at the Bower, 
derived its name from its ancient palace 
or bower, a favourite retreat of some of 
the Saxon kings, especially of St. Edward 
the Confessor, who found this wooded 
solitude congenial to his retired habits 
and devotional spirit. 

2 a 2 



354 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



BADGES OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND. 

Aethue, the mythic King of Britain in the sixth century. The 
arms assigned to him are azure, three crowns proper. The Knights 
of the Bath 1 were anciently distinguished by an escutcheon upon the 
left shoulder of azure silk, charged with three crowns, and over this 
escutcheon the motto, Trois en un. King Arthur's shield now forms 
the centre of the star of the Bath. 

St. Edwaed the Confessoe. St. Edward was always a favourite 
saint with the English monarchs. Henry II. removed the body of the 
Confessor into a feretery prepared for it, and Henry III. erected in his 
chapel in Westminster Abbey a stately feretery of pure gold. He 
always swore by St. Edward, and gave his name to his eldest son, who 
here offered up at his shrine the Scottish regalia and the coronation 
chair from Scone. Richard II. impaled the Confessor's arms with his 
own, as may be seen by the banner of the king on the monumental 
brass of Sir Simon de Felbrig, bis standard-bearer, at Felbrig, in 
Norfolk. Henry V. removed St. Edward's body, and deposited it on 
the south side of the shrine. Solemn processions were made here 
after the victory of Agincourt ; and it was on his knees, before this 
shrine that Henry V. was seized with the apoplectic fit of which he 
died. Bicbard III. and his wife, previous to their coronation, walked 
barefoot from Westminster Hall to make their offering at the shrine. 2 

Arms were invented for Edward the Confessor in the time of 
Edward I. The Anglo-Norman heralds were probably guided in their 
choice by a coin of that monarch, upon the reverse of which appears a 
plain cross, with four birds, one in each angle. The arms, as then 
blazoned, are azure, a cross flory between five martlets, or, and formed 
the standard of St. Edward as usually displayed by the English 
monarchs down to the fifteenth century. 3 

1 They were sometimes styled, Knights land. The red cross on a silver shield of 
of the Crown. — Hume. St. George, eo well described by Spenser — 

2 Dart, ' Hist, of Westminster Abbey,' " 0n his brest a bioodfe cross be bore, 

London, 1818. 7 T he ie ™ r ™^, b T, C * ° f his , dyin B L °'; d - 

, „, „, „. ^ 1 , Upon his shield the like was also scored ' 

3 St. George, St. Edmund (King of (Faerie Queene, i. l, 2), 
East Anglia and Martyr), and St. Ed- U the badge of the Order of the Garter, 
ward are the three patron saints of Eng- and with the shields of St. Andrew 



AND WAE-CEIES. 



357 



" On twelfeday at night came into the hall, a mount called the 
Rich Mount, the mount was set full of rich flowers of silk, and 
especially full of Broom, slips full of cods, the branches were green 
sattin and the flowers flat gold of damask, which signified Plantagenet, 
on the top stood a goodlie beacon giving a light." 1 

Henry II., Fitz-Empress. The Broom plant (Fig. 269). An 
escarbuncle or 2 for Anjou. 3 A genet passant between two slips of 
broom, 4 "II portait ung Genett entre deux plantes de Geneste,"— 
evidently a play on the words. A sword and an olive-branch crossed. 
Motto, Utrumque, 5 " Either one or the other." 




Fig. 269.— Henry II. 



Richard I. A star, probably that of Bethlehem, issuing from 
between the horns of a crescent 6 (Fig. 270), assumed by him in token 
of his victories over the Turks, and symbolical of the triumph of 




Fig. 2*0.— Richard 1. 



Christianity over Mohammedanism. A mailed arm holding a shivered 
lance. Motto, Labor viris oonvenit, 7 " Labour suits (or is fitting for) 



1 Holinsbed. 

2 Sir George Mackenzie, in Harl. MS., 
3740. 

3 " The arms of the ancient Earles of 
Anjou were a scarbunkle (that is, a 
golden buckle of a military scarff or belt 
set -with precious stones), not a carbuncle 
or more precious ruby, for the terme is 
absurd if considered."— Bvck, Life of 
King Ricliard III., 1U47. 



4 " Edward IV. granted this device to 
Ms natural son, Arthur Plantagenet, 
created Viscount Lisle by Henry VIII. ; 
he bore crest party per pale, a cat between 
two broomsticks blossomed proper." — 
Harl. MS., 6085, by Sir W. Segar. 

5 Sir K. Cotton, in Hearne's 'Anti- 
quarian Discourse.' 

6 First Great Seal. 

7 Sir Eobert Cotton. 



356 



HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Sagittarius ; or, by others, because lie gained a battle by the aid of 
his archers 1 (Fig. 267). 




Fig. 267.— Stephen. 



Ostrich feathers, in plume (Fig. 268), were sometimes the device 
of King Stephen, with this motto, Vi nulla invertitur ordo, " By no 
force is their fashion altered ;" alluding to the fall or fold of the feather, 




. Fig. 268.— Stephen. 

which, howsoever the wind may shake it, it cannot disorder it; as 
likewise is the condition of kings and kingdoms well established. 2 

Piantagenet. This house had the well-known badge of the 
broom plant (planta genista), supposed to have been derived from 
their ancestor, Foulke, Count of Anjou, who bore a branch of the 
broom in his helmet, either by way of penance or in sign of humility. 
Be that as it may, the broom was a favourite badge of his descendants, 
and was introduced during the pageants of Henry "VIII. 

1 His arras are described as gules, blazoned half men, half lions. — Nicholas 
three Sagittarii. These Sagittarii are "Upton (circ. 1440), De Militari officio. 

2 Gvtillim. 



AND WAB-CKIES. 359 

d'Angleterre porte goules, trois leopards d'or ;" and as early as 1235, 
the Emperor, Frederick II., sent three leopards to Henry III. in 
token of his armorial bearings. 1 In the " Eoll of Karlaverok," the 
banner of Edward I. is said to contain " three leopards courant of fine 
gold, set on red, fierce, haughty and cruel." 

Edward III., Edward the Black Prince, and BichardlL, distinctly 
speak of their crest of the leopard. Chandos Herald, about the same 
time, refers to " les lepars." In the sixth year of Henry IV., Lobard, 
Lubard, Libard, and its herald, was sent to divers princes in Germany ; 
and in the reign of Henry V. Nicholas Serby was Leopard Herald ; 
in short, there is plenty of evidence to show that what were called 
lions originally, became heraldically leopards by change of position at 
least as early as Bichard I., and were afterwards again termed lions. 

Before his accession, as Earl of Poitou, Bichard had borne lions ; 
for in an ancient poem, William de la Barr, a French knight, exclaims, 
" Behold, the Count of Poitou challenges ns to the field ! See, he calls 
us to the combat : I know the grinning lions in his shield." 

John. A star between the horns of a crescent. This badge is 
upon his pennies struck in Ireland, and also in the sculptures over 
the throne in St. Patrick's Cathedral, which was erected during his 
lordship in Ireland. 2 The city of Drogheda, whose corporation 
received its charter from John, has for crest, on a wreath, a crescent 
and star argent, with the motto, Deus prmsidium mercatura decus, 
" God is our safeguard, and merchandise our glory." 

Henry III., of Winchester,, bore the badge of the star and 
crescent. 3 He had the following motto painted on the wall of his 
chamber, Qui non dat quod habet, non aceipet ille quod optat ; or, as 
it is sometimes given, Ke ne dune, he ne tine, ne pret he desire, 4 " " he 
who give3 not what he has takes not what he desires." 3 

Edwaed I. A rose or, stalked proper f the first English monarch 
who assumed this badge. 

1 To these were assigned quarters in 4 Walpole. 

the town, and formed the origin of the s Henry III. has a robe of violet velvet, 

Tower menagerie. embroidered with his coat of arms — three 

2 John, in his twelfth year, was made golden leopards— both before and be- 
Lord of Ireland, and sent over to that hind ; and Eleonora, daughter of Edward 
country, where he continued during the I., wears furred gloves, having the arms 
reigu of Bichard I. He first added of England wrought upon the thumb. — 
Dominus Bilerniie to the royal titles. Eot. Claus. 36, Henry III. 

3 Great fleul. " Harl. MS., 301. 



358 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

men." 1 A sun on two anchors (Fig. 271). Motto, Christo duee, 
" Christ my leader." 




The 
as a bad; 




Fig. 271. — Richard I. 

pheon, or barbed fishing-spear (Fig. 272), was considered 
;e of royalty as early as this reign, and under the denomination 
of " broad-E " (either a corruption of bread-arrow, or 
an abbreviation of Eex) is the royal mark affixed to 
the naval stores in the dockyards. 

On the second great seal of Eichard I. is the first 

representation of the three lions or leopards, 2 which 

Lave from that time descended to us as the royal 

arms of England. 

roll of Henry the Third's time, the first entry is, " Le Eoy 



1 Guillhn. 

2 The reason why the animals in the 
regal escutcheons are sometimes called 
lions, and at others leopards, appears to 
be tills : that the early heralds when 
they represented a lion, always made it 
rampant ; when the animal was passant 
or regardant they called it a leopard : 
a lion was therefore always rampant, 
showing but one eye and one ear. Now 
a glance at the armorial bearings of our 
early Norman sovereigns will show the 
reason for their being so differently 
blazoned by both French and English 
heralds at different periods. 

Eichard I. is spoken of by a contem- 



porary poet as bearing a lion, and on bis 
first seal we have an undoubted lion 
represented rampant, and in profile, show- 
ing but one eye and one ear. On his 
second seal the animals are represented 
passant and full-faced, and would there- 
fore be blazoned leopards, and conse- 
quently, from that period, we continually 
find them so called, until, by the will 
either of the king or of the officers of 
arms, the royal animal regained his 
name towards the close of the fifteenth 
century, and the arms of England 
have ever since been blazoned, " gules, 
three lions passant, regardant or.'' — 
J. R. Planche, Poursuivant of Arms. 



AND WAR-CBIES. 361 

an ostrich feather silver, its pen gold 1 — a falcon proper — a griffin 
(this last he used as a private seal) 2 — an eagle 3 — a lion proper, armed 
azure, langued gules, 4 — and a white swan. 

Edward III. made use of several mottoes, many of these are now 
obscure, such as — " It is es it is," which he had emhroidered upon a 
white linen doublet. He placed on his groats the motto, Posui Deum 
adiutorum ineum, ' ' I have put Grod as my helper," which was used 
by Henry the V. and VI, Edward the IV. and V., Henry VII., Mary, 
and Elizabeth. 

According to Eitson, the English language was not known at the 
court of the Anglo-Norman kings, until the reign of Edward III., and 
that monarch first used the vernacular English dialect in a motto, 
which was displayed upon his shield and wrought upon his surcoat at 
a celebrated tournament held at Canterbury, 1349. The legend which 
gave the device of a white swan on the king's buckler ran thus : 

" Hay, hay, the wythe swan, 
By Gtodes soule I am thy man." 

His standard, as given by Sir Charles Barker, 5 is the Lion of 
England in a field seme of rising suns and crowns. Motto, Dieu et 
mon droit. On his third great seal we find, for the first time, the 
lion statant guardant, as it still continues. Edward III. first quartered 
the arms of France, seme of fleurs-de-lis. In 1365, Charles V. of 
France reduced the number to three, upon which Henry IV. changed 
them in his coat to the same number. 

" Tu vedi ben quella bandieia grande, 
Ch' insieme pon le fiordiligi e i pardi." 

Orlando Furioso, Canto x., st. 77. 

" Yon ensign view, where waving in the wind, 
Appear the fleur-de-lys and leopards join'd." 

Hoole's Translation. 

The Black Prince bore " a sunne arysing out of the clowdes, be- 
tokening that although his noble courage and princely valour had 
hitherto been hid and obscured from the world, now he was arysing 
to glory and honnor in France." 

1 Harl. MS., 301. 2 Kymer. 3 Had. MS., 304. 

1 Harl. MS., 304. s Hail. BIS., 4632. 



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HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



On the reverse of his private seal, used for his possessions beyond 
the Tweed, is the device of a bear standing against a tree. 

Edward II., of Caernarvon. A hexagonal castle, from which 
rises a tower of the same form, 1 in allusion to his descent, through his 
mother Eleanor, from the house of Castile. 

Edward III., of Windsor. A stock of a tree, couped and eradicated 
or, with two sprigs issuing therefrom vert, signifying his flourishing 
issue. 2 Eays proper descending from a cloud, 3 his peculiar badge 
(Fig. 273). King Henry VIII. had forty of these clouds wrought of 
gold and silver and silk, having in the middle the Saxon letter E, 
provided for him on several of his garments, as having been the 





Fig. 273.— Edward III. Fig. 214.— Edward HI. 

peculiar badge of King Edward III. 4 A sword erect on a chapeau, 
the blade enfiled with three open crowns 5 (Fig. 274). This emblem 
was probably assigned to Edward at some later period, either in allusion 
to the three great victories of bis reign — Cressy, Neville's Cross, and 
Poitiers, or to the kingdoms of England, France, and of the Romans, — 
the latter crown having been offered to him by the Electors. 6 In the 
second seal of King Edward, on each side of the throne, is a fleur- 
de-lis, as a badge of his maternal descent. He also had a blue boar 7 — 

7 Among the badges borne by Eichard, 
Duke of York, father of Edward IV., we 
find, "The badges that he beareth by 
King Edward III., is a blue boar, with 
his tusks and his cleis and his members 
of gold." 



1 Second Great Seal. 

2 Harl. MS., 1073. 

3 Camden, ' Remains.' 

4 Ashmole. 

5 Harl. MS., 1471. 

6 Williment, ' Regal Heraldry,' passim. 



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363 



Eichard II., of Bordeaux. His ordinary badge was the white 
hart couchant on a mount under a tree proper, gorged, with a crown, 
and chained or (Fig. 275). This device he appears to have derived from 
the cognisance of his mother, Joan, the Fair 
Maid of Kent, heiress of Edmund of Wood- 
stock, Earl of Kent, 1 son of Edward I., which 
was a white hind. Eichard first assumed at 
a joust held at Smithfield, in the fourteenth 
year of his reign, 2 the stump of a tree. This 
perhaps also alluded to his maternal descent, 
being a rebus of the name of Woodstock. It 
was also one of the badges of his grandfather. 
The string moulding carved beneath the win- 
dows throughout the interior of Westminster 
Hall is studded along its entire extent with 
the helm, crown and crest of Eichard II. 
alternately with the white hart lodged. Among 
the few friends that attended this unfortunate prince after his capture 
by the Earl of Northumberland, was '' Jenico d'Artois, a Gascoigne, 
that still wore the cognisance or device of his master, King Eichard, — 
that is to say, a white hart, and would put it from him, neither for 
persuasion nor threats, by reason whereof, when the Duke of Hereford 
understood it he caused him to be committed to prison within the 
castle of Chester. This man was the last (as saith mine author) which 




Fig. 275.— Eichard II. From 
devices on tomb of Dnlce of 
Norfolk, St. Mark's, Venice. 



Kail of Warwick ; and therefore before 
all people, lie cried : ' A King Henry ! 
A King and Prince Edward !' and weared 
an ostrich feather — Prince Edward's 
livery. And after this he was suffered 
to pass the city, and so held his way 
southward ; and no man let him nor hurt 
him." — Wamocth's Chroh. p. 14. 

1 Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, 
Richard's half-brolher, continued his 
mother's device of the hind. It is cu- 
rious that a badge given for Ireland 
(Harl. MS. 1073), resembles closely that 
of King Richard, being a white hart 
issuing from the portal of a golden castle, 
triple towered. King Richard impaled 



the arms of Edward the Confessor with 
his own, according to Froissart, to please 
the Irish, "who loved and dredde him 
(Edward) muche more than any other 
King of Euglande; ' when " it were said 
the Irishmen were well-pleased, and the 
sooner they enclyned to him.'' 

2 "There issued forth of the Tower, 
about the third hour of the day, sixty 
coursers, apparelled for the jousts, and 
upon every one an esquire of honour 
riding a soft pace. Then came forth 
sixty ladies of honour, mounted upon 
palfrees, and every lady led a knight 
with a chain of gold. Those knights 
which were of the king's party had their 



362 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

The long cherished and popular belief is, that the crest and motto 

of the Black Prince were won by him at Cressy : 

" There lay the trophie of our chivalry, 

Plumed of his ostridge feathers, which the Prince 
Tooke as the ensign of his victory, 

Which he did after weare, and ever since 
The Prince of Wales doth that achievement heare, 
Which Edward first did win by conquest there." 

Aleyn. 

" From the Bohemian crown the plume he wears, 
Which after for his crest he did preserve, 
To his father's use, with this fit word — ■' I serve.' " 

BtN Jonson, Masque 

But this tradition is unsupported by history, for the crest of the blind 
King John of Bohemia was not a plume of ostrich feathers, but the 
wings of a vulture expanded. On the other hand, an ostrich feather 
silver, its pen gold, was one of the badges of King Edward III., and 
was adopted, with some slight difference, not only by the Black Prince, 
but by all his sons and their descendants. 

The Black Prince used sometimes three feathers, sometimes one, 
argent ; his brother, John of Gaunt, three or one, ermine, the stems 
and labels or, on a sal>le ground. A single feather was worn by their 
younger brother, Thomas of Gloucester, and by their nephews, Edward 
Duke of York, and Bichard, Duke of Cambridge. 

More likely, then, the tradition that Edward first adopted his crest 
at the battle of Poitiers, joining to the family badge the old English 
word, Io den (Thejn), " I serve," in accordance with the words of the 
Apostle, " The heir, while he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant." 
The feathers are placed separately upon his tomb in Canterbury 
Cathedral. 

The feather badge was used by Bit-hard II., and by Henry IV., both 
before and after he came to the throne. It was worn by Henry V. ; 
by his brother Humphrey, the good Duke of Gloucester, and all the 
members of the Beaufort branch. Henry YI. bore two feathers in 
saltire; three, or one, was adopted as a cognisance by his eon, Prince 
Edward, and was worn as such by Warwick at the battle of Barnet. 1 

1 " When Edward IV. landed at to Clarence. He said to the mnyor and 

Eavenspur, he gained admittance to aldermen, that he never would claim no 

York under false pretences that he came title, nor take upon hande to be King of 

merely to claim his hereditary right to England, nor would have done afore 

the duchy of York, which had been given that time, but by the exciting of the 



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365 



The device of Anne of Bohemia 1 — the ." good Queen Anne " — was 
an ostrich with a nail in its beak. On the robe 
of her effigy on her tomb in Westminster, we 
find a knot resembling the letter A (Fig. 277). 

Henry IV., of Bolingbroke or Lancaster. A 
white antelope, 2 ducally gorged and chained, and 
a swan, with similar adornment. A swan. 3 A 
fox's tail dependent (Fig. 278); following, says Fig. 2».-Anne of Bohemia. 
Camden, Lysander's advice, "if the lyon's skin were too short, to 
piece it out with a fox's tail case," — add cunning to courage. 4 A 






Fig. 2*8— Henry IV. 

red rose. 5 A stock of a tree. 
(Fig. 279). 

1 Camden, ' Remains.' 

2 The antelopes and the swans were 
both derived from the Bohuns {see, and 
Stafford). The red rose from Edmund of 
Lancaster, whose daughter and heiress 
was Henry's mother. 

The bauner of Henry IV. (Harl. MS. 
4632) has a swan and a large rose, the field 
seme of fox-tails, stocks of trees and roses. 

3 " While Duke of Hereford, in expecta- 
tion of combat with the Duke of Norfolk, 
he came to the barriers of the lystes, 
mounted on a white courser, barbed, with 
blewe and grene velvet, embroidered 
sumptouslie with swanes and antelopes 
of goldsmith's worke." — Hall, Chronicle. 

The swan was not new, as a royal 
device, for we find it used by Edward III., 
aud Thomas of Woodstock, Edward's 
sixth son, adopted the swan for his cogni- 
sance, — hence Gower calls him, Vox 
dementis cygni, " Voice of the gentle 



Fig. 279.— Henry IV. 

Three ostrich feathers. 6 Collar of SS " 



swan." The rebus of his surname is 
represented by a stock of wood. — Sand- 
ford. 

* Harl. MS., 1073. 

s Ibid. 2076, by Randle Holmes. 

6 Used also by his grandson, John, 
Duke of Bedford, Regent of France. 
See Bedford. 

7 The SS, a cognisance of Henry IV., 
in whose reign it formed the ornament of 
a collar. On the ceiling of the canopy of 
his tomb, his arms and those of bis queen 
are surmounted by collars of SS. The 
word Soverayne is added, to which the 
SS may probably refer, as this was a 
favourite motto of Henry, which he wore 
when Earl of Derby, and continued after 
his accession. "Uu collier de SS de 
l'ordre du roy d Angleterre, et il a xxvi. 
SS qui sont emaillees du mot, A ma Vie," 
is in the inventory of the keeper of the 
jewels of the Duke of Brittany, 1414-25. 



364 



HISTOEIO DEVICES, BADGES, 



wore that device, and showed well thereby his constant heart towards 
his master." 1 The sun in splendour. Of this device we have a good 
representation on the mainsail of the vessel in which he returned from 
Ireland, in an illumination to a MS.* history of Kichard by a gentleman 
of his own suite (Fig. 276). In a poem by Grower, Eichard is 
designated by this badge. 




Fig. 276.— Richard II. 

The sun issuing from a cloud, the badge of his father and grand- 
father, occurs embroidered upon the robe of his monumental effigy in 
Westminster Abbey. And upon the same monument his robe is 
ornamented with the pods of the plantagenista or peascod shells, the 
cods open and the peas out. 3 

Eichard wore two harts as supporters, and is the first king whose 
supporters are authenticated. His standard has the hart with suns. 4 



armour and apparel garnished with 
white harts, and crowns of gold round 
the harts' necks." — Ekoissart. 

In the same year Henry, then Earl 
of Derby, ordered the sleeves of his coat 
to be embroidered with harts of the king's 
bearing. 

" John of (Jaunt, in his will, gives to 
his daughter, the Queen of Portugal, 



mon meilleur cerf d'or ; and the Duchess 
of York, in her will, proved 1392, devises 
to the king mon cerf de perle. Edward 
IV. reassumed the white hart chained.'' 
— Austis. 

1 Holinshed. 

2 Harl. MS., 1319. 

3 Dart, ' Hist, of Westminster Abbey.' 

4 Harl. MS., 4632. 



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In a statute of Henry IV.. 1430, we find — " Que Monseigneur le 
Prince poura donner sa honorable liverie del eigne a, ses seigneurs et 
a ses meignalx gentilx." 

Henry's antelope appears at his interview with King Charles at 
Melun, 1 and it was the badge specially selected for his funeral pro- 
cession. For the conveyance of Henry's body to England, " his coursers 
were trapped with trappings of party colours, one side was blewe 
velvet embroidered in antelopes, drawing in milles (mills), the top side 
was greene velvet embroidered with antelopes sitting on stires, with 
long flours springing between the homes." 2 

The cresset with burning fire was the badge of the Admiralty. 3 

" A potte of erthe, in whicli he hath 
A light brenning in a cresset." 

Gowek. 

With respect to this badge of the cresset or beacon, we are told by 
one writer, 4 that he took it " as signifying his sudden and hott alarms 
in France ;" and by another, 5 that it was taken " to show that he 
would be a light and guide to his people, to follow him in all virtue 
and honour." 

With reference to the fox's tail, when Henry Y. made his solemn 
entry into Rouen, a page carried behind him, in guise of a banner, a 
fox's tail attached, 6 and when he was presented to Katherine, who, 
with her mother, was enthroned in the church of Notre Dame, he was 
attired in a magnificent suit of burnished armour ; but, instead of a 
plume, he wore in his helmet a fox's tail ornamented with precious 
stones. 7 

Henry likewise bestowed upon Walter Hungerford the barony and 



passed to look upon him. Queen Mar- bvoidered with two devices; the one was 

garet displayed peculiar tact in adopting an antelope drawing in a horse mill, the 

for her boy the well-remembered device other was an antelope sitting in an high 

of his renowned ancestor, Edward III., stage, with a branch of olife in his mouth, 

whose name he bore. So well were her And the tente was replenished and decked 

impassioned pleadings in his behalf with this poysie — After busie laboure 

seconded by the loveliness and becoming commith victorious reste." — Hall. 

behaviour of the princely child, that ten 2 ' Antiquarian Repertory.' 

thousand men wore his livery at the 3 Harl. MS., 304. 

Battle of Bloreheath. J Ibid., 3740. 

1 "The King of England had a large s Ibid., 1073. 

tent of blue velvet and green, richly em- G Menestrier. 
7 Strickland's ' Queens of England.' 



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HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Upon her tomb in Canterbury Cathedral, Henry's second wife, Joan 
of Navarre, had an ermine collared and chained, with the motto, A 

temperance, evidently assumed as 
widow of John de Montfort, Duke 
of Brittany. 

Henry's supporters are said to 
have been, on the dexter, a white 
antelope, ducally collared, chained, 
and armed or ; and on the sinister, by 
a swan argent. He had a pursuivant 
named Antelope. 

Henry V., of Monmouth. A swan, 
gorged with a crown and chain. An 
antelope, adorned in the same manner. 
The beacon or cresset 1 or, inflamed 
proper. The figure of these three 
badges united is from the cornice of 
King Henry's chantry, in West- 
minster Abbey (Fig. 280). 

He had also a fleur-de-lis crowned, 
and a fox's tail. 

On his seal, before his accession, 
he had a swan holding an ostrich 
feather in its beak, placed on each 
side of the escutcheon ; and it would 
appear that, as Prince of Wales, he 
bestowed collars of swans upon his 
favourites. 2 

] A kind of portable beacon, made of wire 
in the shape of an inverted cone, and filled 
with match or rope steeped in pitch, tallow, 
resin, and other inflammable matters. One 
man carried it upon a pole, another attended 
with a boy to supply a light. — Lowek, 
Entjlish Surnames. 
2 It ia related later of Queen Margaret of Anjou that she took the ting in 
progress through the counties of Warwick, Stafford, and Cheshire, under the pretence 
of benefiting his health by change of air and sylvan sports. But her real object was 
to display in that district the beauty and engaging manners of their son, the young 
Prince of Wales, then in his sixth year, a child of singular promise, for whom she 
engaged the favour of all the noblest gentlemen in these loyal counties, by causing 
him to distribute little silver swans, as his badge, wherever he came, and to all who 




AND WAE-CEIES. 369 

the knights and warriors all wore garlands of daisies in the lists, out 
of compliment to the royal bride of fifteen. 

On her arrival in England all the nobility and chivalry of England 
wore her emblem flower, the daisy, on their caps and bonnets of 
estate. Drayton alludes to this picturesque compliment in the following 
couplet — 

" Of either sex, who doth not now delight, 
To wear the daisy for Queen Marguerite?" 

King Henry, in compliment to his lovely and beloved consort, caused 
the daisy to be enamelled and engraved on his plate j 1 and in a mag- 
nificent illuminated MS. volume presented to her by Talbot, Earl of 
Shrewsbury, 2 the title-page is redolent of Margaret's emblem flower. 
Daisies are seen growing in the garden of the palace : daisies with their 
little red buttons are arranged in profusion upon the title-page : daisies 
swarm in clusters round her armorial bearings, and flourish in every 
corner of the illuminated pages of the volume. The Kirtle of Olympus, 
the Macedonian queen, is also powdered with Margaret's emblem 
flower, the daisy. 3 

The motto of " Anjou's heroine " was, Humble et loiale. After her 
reverses, Drayton makes her exclaim : 

" My daisy flow'r, which erst perfum'd the air, 
"Which for my favour princes deign'd to wear, 
Now on the dust lies trodden on the ground, 
And with York's garland's ev'ry one is crown'd." 
Drayton, Queen Margaret to William de la Pool, Dulte of Suffolk. 

The Eoses. " The fatal colours of our striving houses." According 

to historic tradition, those fatal badges of the contending houses of 

York and Lancaster, " the pale and purple rose," were first chosen 

during the momentous dispute, about 1450, between Somerset and the 

Earl of Warwick, in the Temple Gardens, when Somerset, to collect 

the suffrages of the by-standers, plucked a red rose and Warwick a 

white rose, and each called upon every man present to declare his 

party by taking a rose of the colour chosen by him whose cause he 

favoured. 

1 Among the records of the royal 3 Miss Strickland, 

jewels, we find these entries : " Item, one " The daise, a flour white and ride, 
saltcellar of gold and cover enamelled Iu French called la belle Margarete. 

with the arms of the king, and the A commendable floure and mo,te in minde! 

„ floure and gracious of excellence ! 

flowers called Marguerites. amiable Ma ,. garlte , of natife killd ., 

z British Museum, King's MSS. Chaiicee. 

2 B 



3G8 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

castle of Hornet, in Normandy, to hold by homage and service to find 
the king and his heirs at the " Castle of Eoan " one lance, with a fox's 
tail hanging to it. 1 

The King's poesie, TJne sans plus, was " flourished upon leech 
damaske " at Queen Katherine's coronation. 

"After the victory of Agincourt, Henry V. assumed the motto, 
Non nobis Domine. 

" Oh God, tliy arm was here ! 
And not to us, but to thy arm alone 
Ascribe we all." 

King Henry V., Act iv., sc. 7. 

Henry VI., of Windsor. A panther passant, gardant, argent, 
spotted with many colours, with vapour issuing from his mouth and 
ears. 2 One of the supporters of the present Duke of Beaufort. Two 
feathers in saltire, the sinister argent, surmounted of the dexter or 
(Fig. 281). 




Fig. 281.— Henry VI. 

At the coronation feast of Henry VI. was introduced second 
course, " a fry tour garnished with a leopard's head, and ij ostryche 
feders." 

An antelope, generally collared and chained. Motto, for the first 
time, Dieu et mon droit. 

On his banner 3 were antelopes and roses. Three open crowns in 
pale on a cross pommete, resembling the badge of Edward III. are on 
the Irish silver money of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Kichard III. 4 

Margaret op Anjou chose the daisy flower as her emblem. 5 At 
a tournament proclaimed at Nancy, on the occasion of her marriage, 

1 Camden, ' Britannia.' 5 Drayton's ' Chronicle.' Stowe like- 

2 Harl. MS., 6085. wise says, " her badge was the daisy 

3 I6kZ.,.4«32. * Simon, p. 22. flower." 



AND WAR-CRIES. 371 

YOBK. 

"Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose, 
With whose sweet smell the air shall be perfum'd ; 
And in my standard bear the arms of York, 
To grapple with the house of Lancaster." 

King Henry VI., 2nd Part, Act i., sc. 1. 

In the scene where Henry puts on a red rose, he says : 

" I see no reason, if I wear this rose, 
That any one should therefore be suspicious 
I more incline to Somerset than York." 

lhid , 1st Part, Act iv., sc. 1. 

And after the king's exit, York, in answer to Warwick, says : 

" I like it not 
In that he wears the badge of Somerset." 

Mr. Planche inclines to derive the rose originally from Eleanor of 
Provence, Queen of Henry III. The tomb of her second son, Edmund 
Crouchback, Lord of Lancaster, was covered with red roses. To 
Edmund's children, Thomas and Henry, descended the county of 
Provence from their grandmother. Henry's son, the first Duke of 
Lancaster, has on his seal a branch of roses beside his crest, and on 
the death of Maud, his eldest daughter, the rights on Provence de- 
volved on John of Gaunt, who had married Blanche, the younger 
sister, and were claimed by him. He bequeathed to St. Paul's cathedral 
his bed "powdered with roses," and though the 4th, 5th, and 6th 
Henrys may have displayed their antelopes and swans, the rose of 
Provence may have been retained by the Beauforts in token of their 
descent from Queen Eleanor. 

The House of York. The falcon and fetterlock ; the white rose 
en soleil. The falcon and fetterlock was the badge of Edmund 
Langley, Duke of York ; his father, Edward III., having given him 
Fotheringay, Edmund rebuilt the castle and the keep in the form of a 
fetterlock, and assumed his father's falcon, and placed it on a fetterlock ; 
thereby implying that he was locked up from all hope and possibility 
of the kingdom. It is related, that Edmund on one occasion asked 
his sons, whom he saw looking at his device which he had set up in a 
window, what was the Latin for fetterlock ; whereat, when the young 
gentlemen studied, the father said, " Well, if you cannot tell me, I 
will you : Hie, heee et hoe taeeatis," " May you hold your tongue in 

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370 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Richard Plantagenet. 
" Let him, that is a true-born gentleman, 
And stands upon the honour of his birth, 
If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, 
From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. 

Somerset. 
" Let him that is no coward, nor no flatterer, 
But dare maintain the party of the truth, 
Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me. 

Warwick. 
" I love no colours ; and, without all colour 
Of base insinuating flattery, 
I pluck this white rose, with Plantagenet. 

Suffolk. 
" I pluck this red rose, with young Somerset." 

King Henry VI, 1st Part, Act ii , sc. i.' 

This was the prologue to the great national tragedy which ended in 
the extinction of the royal line and name of Plantagenet, called, from 
their badges, the " War of the Eoses." 

" This brawl to-day, 
Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, 
Shall send, between the red rose and the white, 
A thousand souls to death and deadly night." 

King Henry VI, 1st Part, Act ii., so. i. 

But the roses were only renewed. Both Edward I. and his brother, 
Edmund Crouchback of Lancaster, wore the red rose, which was taken 
by John of Gaunt on his marriage with Blanche, the heiress of 
Lancaster. 

"When John of Gaunt adopted the red rose, his younger brother, 
Edmund Langley, Duke of York, 2 assumed the white, derived from 
the castle of Clifford, which he transmitted to his descendants, the 
house of York. 

1 Shakspeare, in his spirited version of Plantagenet." Suffolk, who had been 

the scene, errs in his chronology, by dead some months when the red dispute 

placing it prior to the marriage of the occurred, is made to exclaim, " I pluck 

King and Margaret of Anjou. He also this red rose with young Somerset." — 

uses a poetical licence in representing Strickland's Queens. 
Richard, Duke of York, as the leading z Was born at a royal manor called 

character engaged in this dispute, while King's Langley, adjacent to Berkhamp- 

Warwick, merely acting as his second, stead, 
says, " I pluck this white rose with 



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373 



As if tliey vow'd some league iuviolable : 
Now are they but one lamp, one light, one sun. 
In this the heaven figures some event. 



Edwaed. 

" 'Tis wondrous strange, the like yet never heard of. 
I think, it cites us, brother, to the field ; 
That we, the sons of brave Plantagenet, 
Each one already blazing by our meeds, 
Should, notwithstanding, join our lights together, 
And over-shine the earth, as this the world. 
Whate'er it bodes, henceforward will I bear 
Upon my target three fair shiuing suns." 

King Henry VI., 3rd Part, Act ii., sc. 1. 

All historians of that period concur in mentioning this phenomenon, 
which, though unusual in this country, is not of unfrequent occurrence 
in the Alps, Andes, and Greenland. 

The rose en soleil appears in the Irish groats of Edward IV., a rose 
in the centre, and a sun filling the whole area of the inner circle. 

Edward IV., " the Kose of Eouen." 1 The falcon and fetterlock 





Fig. 282.— Edward IV. 



Fig. 283.— Edward IV. 



(Fig. 282) ; white rose ; white rose en soleil (Fig. 283) ; white lion 
of the earldom of March : 2 black dragon, of the earldom of Ulster ; 3 



1 Edward IV., bom at Eouen, 1441-2. 
When in his twentieth year, he presented 
himself before the citizens of London, 
and claimed the crown. The popular 
songs hailed him as " the Eose of Rouen." 
One of his coronation songs commences 
with this allusion : 
" Now is the Eose of Eouen grown to great honour, 

Therefore sing we every one y-blessed be that 
flower. 

I warn ye every one that ye shall understarfd, 

There sprang a rose in Roueu that spread to 
England : 



Had not the Eose of Kouen been, all England 

had been dour, 
Y-blessed be the time God ever spread that 

flower." 

Queens of England, vol. ii., p. 323. 

" Edward IV. was a man of no great 
forecast, but very valiant, and the beauti- 
fullest prince that lived in his time." — 
Philippe de Comines. 

2 Lion, argent, his tail cowed. 

3 Armed with gold claws. 



372 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

everything," — as advising them to be silent and quiet, and therewithal 
said, " Yet God knows what may come to pass hereafter." That his 
great-grandson, King Edward IV., reported, when he commanded that 
his younger son, Eichard Duke of York, should use this device with 
the fetterlock opened." 1 

The father of Edward IV., Eichard, third Duke of York, used 
the device of the falcon and fetterlock, with the motto, Hie hsec hoc 
taceatis, from whom it descended to Edward IV. and his sons. 

The houses of the Petty Canons at the west end of St. George's 
Chapel, Windsor, were built by Edward IV. in the form of a fetter- 
lock. 2 

John of Gaunt bore on the side of his shield, two falcons, with 
horse fetters or fetterlocks in their bills and standing upon them ; 
meaning that, " he would break the lock of subjection, and make way 
to the crown for his son Henry of Derby." 3 

The white rose en soleil. The white rose was first used by 
Edmund Langley ; Edward IV. placed it en soleil in commemoration 
of his victory at the battle of Mortimer's Cross, 1471, when, " Before 
the battel, it is said, the sun appeared to the Earl of March (afterwards 
king, by the name of Edward IV.) like three suns, and suddenly it 
joyned altogether in one ; for which cause some imagine that he gave 
the sun in its full brightness for his badge or cognisance." 4 

" Three suns were seen that instant to appear, 
Whiche soone again shut up themselves in one, 
Keady to buckle as the armies were, 
Which this brave duke took to himself alone, 
His drooping hopes which somewhat seemed to cheere, 
By his mishaps, neere lately overthrowne. 
So that thereby encouraging his men, 
Once more he sets the white rose up again." 

Dkayton, Miseries of Queen Margarite. 

Edward. 
" Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns ? 

Eichard. 

" Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun ; 
Not separated with the racking clouds, 
But sever'd in a pale clear-shining sky. 
See, see ! they join, embrace, and seem to kiss, 



Sandford. s Ashmole. * Sandford. 

1 Sir Edward Baker, ' Chronicle,' p. 197. 



AND WAR-CEIES. 375 

he had found among the badges of the house of York. The latter he 
selected for his own personal device, and it was that by which he was 
generally designated, as we know by the doggrel which is said to have 
caused its composer " to be shortened by the head and four quarters :" 

" The Ratte, the Cat, and Lovell our dogge, 
Eule all England under the Hogge, — " 

meaning by the hog, the dreadful wild boar, which was the king's 
cognisance. But Collingbourne was one of the most seditious of the 




Fig. 285.— Richard III. 

disaffected, and held correspondence with Eichmond, and deserved his 
fate : 

" When I meant the king by name of Hog, 
I only alluded to his badge the Boar." 1 

Queen Margaret calls Eichard a " rooting hog," and Hastings 
says : 

" To fly the boar before the boar pursues, 
Were to incense the boar to follow us, 
And make pursuit, when he did mean no chase. 
Go, bid thy master rise and come to me; 
And we will both together to the Tower, 
Where, he shall see, the boar will use us kindly.'' 

King Eichard III., Act iii., sc. 2. 

Again, Hastings to Stanley : 

" Come on, come on, where is your boar-spearman ? 
Fear you the boar, and go so unprovided ?" 

On the occasion of Eichard's second coronation at York, 2 Piers 
Courteis, keeper of his wardrobe, was ordered by him to furnish, 
among other things, " four standards of sarcenet with boars, thirteen 
thousand quinysans (cognisances) of fustian with boars." 

Eichard bestowed upon Queen's College, Cambridge, a seal whereon 

1 Complaint of Collingbourne in Sack- 2 He had before been crowned at 

ville's Mirror for Magistrates. Westminster. 



374 



HISTOBIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



black bull of Clare ; l white hart and sun of Eichard II. ; white hind 
of the Fair Maid of Kent; white wolf for Mortimer, or Lord of 
Mortymer. 2 

Edward's favourite badge was a collar of suns and ro3es with the 
white lion of March hanging from it. He is thus represented in the 
Eons Boll. His motto, Modus d ordo, " Method and order." 3 

Edwakd V. Falcon and fetterlock ; a hind (from the Fair Maid 
of Kent). 4 

Eichard III. A rose and sun, either sspirately, or the former 
within the latter ; the falcon with the maiden's head, holding a rose 
(Fig. 284) for Oonyngsburgh ; a white boar of silver, tusks and 




Fig. 284.— Blchurd III. 

bristles of gold (Fig. 285). Supporters, two white boars armed, 
unguled, and bristled or. His banner, 5 the white boar and suns. 

The device of a boar was used by Eichard before he was king. 
When Duke of Gloucester, he had a pursuivant named Blanch Sanglier. 
His cognisance was, a rose supported on the dexter side by a bull, a 
badge of the house of Glare, and on the sinister by a boar, which boar 



1 A bull, sable, his horns, hoofs, and 
members, or ; Noil- taureau was the pur- 
suivant to the Duke of Clarence. 

Ralph Neslynden held £10 per annum, 
by letters patent, under the Great Seal of 
Edward IV., " for the goad and agree- 
able service which he did to us in berying 
and holdying of our standard of the 
Blak Bulle in the batayl of Shirborn." — 
Rolls of Parliament. 

s Landsdown, MS., 870. 

3 Supporters, a lion rampant, argent 
(for the earldom of March). A bull and 

s Hail. 



a lion. A lion argent, and a white hart 
attired, unguled, ducally gorged and 
chained, or. A MS. has the arms en- 
circled by the Garter, the earliest instance 
noticed. Crest, upon a chapeau gules, 
turned up white (placed upon a royal 
helmet), a lion passant, gardant, or, 
having a fleur-de-lis of the last standing 
upon his back; supporters, two lions 
argent. Motto, Dieu el mon droit. 

4 His shield was supported on the 
right with the lion of March, and on the 
left with a hind argent.— Sandford. 
MS., 4632. 



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377 



His signet when Duke of Gloucester, as Lord High Admiral of 
England, represents the admiral's ship, and on the forecastle stands a 
beacon, and under it an anchor. 

The badge of Queen Anne was the bear and ragged staff of her 
family. 

The House op Tudor. The hawthorn bush. The Tudor rose. 1 
The portcullis or, nailed azure, armed and chained; the fleur-de-lis. 
Supporters, a red dragon, and white greyhound. 

A hawthorn bush fruited and ensigned with the royal crown 
proper, between the letters H. E. or (Fig. 286), was a favourite device 




Fig. 286.— Henry VU. 

of the Tudor kings, 2 assumed from Eichard's crown being found in a 
bush after the battle. A steep hill served to cbeck a bit the pursuit of 
the victors, and further carnage of the vanquished. Henry paused on 
its summit, and there received from his father-in-law that diadem which 
bad cost Eichard his life. During the heat of the conflict, and 
shortly before the monarch's death, the crown which surmounted his 
helmet was cleft from it. Falling to the ground, it was picked up 
by a soldier, and concealed in a hawthorn bush in the adjoining wood. 3 
There it was accidentally discovered by Sir Eeginald Bray, who, 



1 " The rose of snow, 
Twin'd with her blushing foe." 

Ghat's Bard. 

2 At the meeting on the Field of the 
Cloth of Gold, Holinshed says were set 
up "two trees of much honour, the one 
called Aubespine, that is to saie, the 



Hawthorn in English for Henry, and the 
other the Framboister, which in English 
signifieth the raspberrie, after the signi- 
fication of the French." 

3 " They hewed the crown of gold 
from his head with dowtfull dents." — 
Harl. MS., 542. 



376 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

was engraved his cognisance, the boar. 1 Nor was " the bristled boar " 
wanting at the battle of Bosworth : 2 

" The last of that long war 
Kntitled by the name of York and Lancaster." 

Drayton . 

Gorgeously attired in splendid armour, and rendered still more 
conspicuous by the royal diadem which (as in the instance of Henry V. 
at Aginconrt) surmounted his helmet, Eichard rode upon a milk-white 
charger superbly caparisoned, attended by his body guards, displaying 
the banner of England, and innumerable pennons glittering with the 
silver boar. 

" Not one foot will I fly so long as breath bides within my breast ; 
for by Him who shaped both sea and land, this day shall end my 
battles or my life. I will die king of England !" J 

All his friends and followers were numbered with the dead ; his 
standard-bearer alone remained ; and he waved the royal banner on 
high until both his legs " were cut him from, yet to the ground he 
would not let it go," 4 till life was quite extinct. 5 

Kichard's body was placed across his war steed, " like a hogue calf," 
the head and arms hanging on the one side of the horse, and the 
legs on the other side, 6 and was thus disposed behind his pursuivant 
at arms, Blanc Sanglier, he wearing the silver boar upon his coat, and 
carried back to Leicester in trophy of the morning's victory. 

The motto of Bichard III. was Loyaute me lie, " Loyalty bindeth 
me." 

1 The night before Bosworth, he slept this most people understood to imply 
at the chief inn at Leicester, the " Silvery " that the archer in the fight who should 
Boar," but on his death the victorious shoot the first arrow should gain the day 
army compelled the owner of the inn to on his side." The Earl of Eichmond, 
pull down the emblem of Eichard, and bending his march forward from the city 
substitute the blue boar of Oxford for of Hereford, first passed the Arrow, a 
the white boar (Nichols, vol. il, p. 381). small stream which takes its name from 
The inn was pulled down in 1836, but the rapidity of its current, about the 
the adjoining thoroughfare still retains distance of a mile from the town of 
the name of Blue Boar Lane. "The Leominster; and was said accordingly 
proud bragging white boar, which was to have fulfilled the prophecy. — History 
his badge, was violently rased and pulled of Leominster. 

down, from every sign and place where it 3 Harl. MSS., 542. 4 Ibid. 

might be spied" (Grafton, p. 255). 5 Eedmore Plain, better known as 

2 It was foretold, that in the first Bosworth Field, from its vicinity to the 
battle, whoever happened to shoot the market town of that name. 

arrow first, should have the victory ; e Grafton, p. 234. 



AND WAR-CKIES. 379 

Edward III. erected at the battle of Cressy a standard of red silk, 
with lilies of gold. 

The dun cow, in token of his descent from Guy, Earl of Warwick, 1 
who had slain 

" A monstrous wyld and cruelle beast, 
Called the dun cow of Dunsmore heath." 

A greyhound argent, collared or, the collar charged with a rose, 
gules (Lancaster). Henry's device was, two hands united, holding a 
caduceus. Motto, Fide et consilio, " By faith and counsel." Motto, 
Dieu et mon droit. 

Elizabeth of York, his wife. At her funeral, the cloth of majesty 
was inscribed with her motto, Humble and reverence. 2 Henry's 
supporters were two greyhounds, or a dragon and a greyhound. 

Prince Arthur bore two antelopes. 

Hbnby VIII. The hereditary devices of the portcullis or, the 
fleur-de-lis or, and the red rose argent. The greyhound and the 
red dragon. A flame of fire. 3 An armed leg, couped at the thigh, 
the foot passing through three crowns of gold. 4 

The lion and the antelope are also among the king's "beasts" 
which ornament the summit of his tent on the Field of the Cloth of 
Gold, 5 when, 

" Those suns of glory, those two lights of men, 
Met in the vale of Arde." 

King Henry VIII., Act i., sc. 1. 

On the valance was inscribed, Dieu et mon droit, and Semper vivat 
in eterno, " Let him ever live in eternity." 

At the same pageant Henry took for his device an English archer 
in a green coat, drawing his arrow to the head, with this inscription, 
Cui adhereo prwest, " He to whom I adhere, prevails," — referring to 
the importance of his alliance to either of the contending monarchs. 
At the same festivities 6 Henry had on the housings of his charger 

1 By the Beauforts, through the Beau- 2 Sandford, p. 440. 

champs of Holt. After the battle of 3 Hurl. MSS., 1440, 2035. 

Boswnrth Field, Henry went in state to 4 Harl. MS., 1470. This may allude 

St. Paul's, where he offered three stand- to his having trodden under foot the triple 

aids, in one was the image of St. George, crown of the Roman Pontiff. Henry was 

on the other a " red fierce dragon beaten the first monarch who, on his great seal, 

upon green and white sarsenet (the livery encircled his escutcheon witli the garter, 

colours of the House of Tudor), on the — Ashmole, 157. 

third was painted a dun cow upon yellow ■ Camden, ' Remains,' 116. 

tartan" (Hall). The dun cow is still " Holinshed. 
..no nf the badges of the Guards 




373 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADQES, 

seizing the precious relic, presented it to Lord Stanley, that nobleman 
placed it on Eichmond's head, and hailed him monarch of England. 
The eminence whereon this occurred still retains the name of " Crown 
Hill." To this circumstance may be attributed the emphatic ad- 
monition of Sir Thomas Wyndham to his son, " not to desert the 
crown, though it hung on a bush." 

The red and white roses, "the blended roses bought so dear," 1 
were worn variously united, sometimes per pale, sometimes quarterly, 
but generally one within the other, a white rose charged upon a red 
one. Also the roses separately, often crowned, sometimes irradiated. 
On the marriage of Henry VII. and Elizabeth 
of York, of Cardinal Bouchier, who officiated, 
Fuller says : " His hand held that sweet 
posie, wherein the white and red roses were 
first tied together." 

The portcullis (Fig. 287) was a badge in 
allusion to his descent from John of Beaufort, 
son of John of Gaunt. Henry added the 
p\ g 2»7.-Heniy vn. motto, Altera securitas, " A second security," 

— implying that as a portcullis is an addi- 
tional defence to a gate, so his descent from the Beaufort family 
afforded him an additional title to the crown. 

Heney VII. Besides the above, he assumed as badges the red 
dragon of Cadwallader — " Bed dragon, dreadful." Henry claimed an 
uninterrupted descent from the aboriginal princes of Britain, Arthur 
and "Other, Caradoc, Halstan, Pendragon, &c. Bis grandfather, Owen 
Tudor, bore a dragon as his device, in proof of his direct descent 
from Cadwallader, the last British prince and first king of "Wales 
(a.d. 678), the dragon being the device of that ancient monarch, 
and was consequently carried by Henry at Bosworth Field. It must, 
however, be borne in mind that the dragon was the customary 
standard of the kings of England. It was borne in the battle 
between Canute and Edmund Ironsides. It is figured in the Bayeux 
tapestry. It was carried before Henry III. at the battle of Lewes : 

" The king schewed forth his scheld his Dragon full austere." 2 
Edward I,, when in Wales, fought under the dragon, and 

1 Sir W. Scott. = Peter Langtoffe. 



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381 



proper, before him a bunch of flowers with both red and white roses 
issuing from the stump (Fig. 289), with the vain-glorious motto, 
Mihi et mea, " To me and mine," — implying that by her was to be 
continued the royal line. 




Fig. 289. — Ann Bullen. 

Anne oe Gleves. At her meeting 1 with Henry, her footmen 
had embroidered, in goldsmith's work, the black lion of Juliers, and 
the escarbuncle of Cleves. 

Her wedding-ring was inscribed, God send me wel to kepe. 2 

Katherine Howard. Henry VIII. granted her arms of aug- 
mentation, as he had to Anne Bullen and to Jane Seymour. 

Katherine Park. Henry granted as badge a maiden's head, 
royally crowned proper, crined and vested or, 3 conjoined to a part of 
a triple rose, red, white and red (Fig. 290). He also gave her 
augmentation to her arms. 4 

1 Hall. 2 Ibid. 

3 See Badges, Park, for Katherine's VIII.'s Queen, and some others of the 
family arms. English sovereigns, are copied from 

4 The woodcut of the badges of Henry Willement's comprehensive work. 



380 HISTOBIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

waves of gold laid on russet velvet, " which waves signified the lord- 
ship of the narrow seas." 

His supporters were — the red dragon and white greyhound of his 
family ; red dragon and a lion gardant or, sometimes crowned for his 
dexter ; a greyhound argent, and a lion or. Eandle Holmes 1 also gives 
as sinister supporters — a bull argent, crowned, horned and hoofed or ; 
a cock argent, combed, wattled, and legged or, in his beak a slip of 
broom-flowers, leaved vert. 

In a portrait of Henry VIII., by Holbein, a cock, with the pome- 
granate and rose are introduced. The cock was one of the badges for 
Wales. 

Boscc sine spina is on a three-halfpenny piece of Henry VIII. 

Katherine of Abagon. The pomegranate burst open, conjoined 
with the Tudor rose 2 (Fig. 288). A sheaf of arrows — a rebus of 
Aragon. 3 




Fig. 288. — Katherine of Aragon. 

On an achievement of Katherine is the motto of her father, 
Ferdinand the Catholic, Tanto monta. See Spain. 

Anne Bullbn. A stump of a tree couped and erased or, thereon 
a falcon argent, 4 crowned with the royal crown, and holding a sceptre 

1 Eandle Holmes, in Harl. MSS., 2035, grand banquet given at Westminster in 
2076. the first year of his reign as wearing a 

2 " A plant of pomegranates in honour suite of " shorte garments, little beneath 
of the Queen Katherine, being her the points of blue velvet and crymosine, 
device," with a bush of red and white with long sleeves, all cut and lyned with 
roses to represent Henry and his two cloth of gold, and the outer parts of the 
sisters, were placed in the garden-arti- garments powdered with castles and 
ficial, which made part of a pageant at sheafs of arrowes (the badge of his 
Greenwich. Queen Katherine) of fyne dokett (ducat) 

3 Hall describes Henry VIII. at a gold." 

* The Bullen crest. 



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383 



By persuasion of the Eomish clergy, when she came to the throne, 
she "bore a winged lion, drawing Truth out of a pit, with the motto, 
Veritas temporis filia, " Truth the daughter of time." This motto is 
on her English groats, half groats, and pennies, more or less con- 




Fig. 292.— Maty. 



tracted, struck before her marriage with Philip, and on the Irish 
shillings. After her marriage with Philip II., Mary bore his arms 
impaled with her own ; : motto, Dieu et mon droit, or as above. A 
sword erected upon an altar ; motto, Pro ara et regni custodies,, " For 
the altar and defence of the kingdom." 

Elizabeth. A rose crowned, England, a fleur-de-lis crowned, 
France, and a harp or, stringed, argent, ensigned with the crown 
royal, for Ireland. 2 A rose, with the motto, Rosa sine spina, " Eose 
without the thorn ;" or, Mutilans rosa sine spina, " Bright-red rose 
without the thorn," is on some of her coins. Semper eadem, some- 
times with the phoenix, was her favourite motto. 



1 Mary's supporters were, a lion gar- 
dant, crowned, and a greyhound, or some- 
times a dragon when alone; but when 
impaled with King Philip's arms, an 



eagle dexter and a lion sinister. 

2 Elizabeth's supporters were the same 
as Edward VI.— a lion and greyhound. 
Motto, Dieu et mon droit. 



382 



HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Jane Seymour. Motto, Bound to obey and serve} 
The badge, Fig. 291, is emblazoned upon a grant of lands made 
to her by Henry in the possession of the Duke of Somerset, whose 
crest, a phoenix or, in flames, issuing from a ducal coronet, forms part 



of the badge. 



See Mandruccio, Ckistofoeo. 





Fig. 290.- Katherine Parr. 



Fig. 291. — Jane Seymour. 



Edward YI. and his sisters, used on a mount vert, a cannon on 
its carriage or, fired proper, with the ladle and sponge placed saltire- 
wise in the base of the hill argent, stands, gold. 2 This badge appears 
on a portrait of Queen Elizabeth, by Luca de Heere, with the falcon of 
her mother. The sun-shining ; 3 motto, Idem per diversa, " The same 
in diverse circumstances." Edward bore the Prince's feathers passing 
through a ducal coronet, rayonnated. Supporters, a lion gardant or, 
and dragon gules. 

Mary. One of her devices seems to be an impalement of those 
of her parents. It may be described as the dexter half of a double 
rose (gules upon argent), barbed and seeded proper, impaled with a 
semicircle, per pale, vert and azure, therein a sheaf of arrows or, 
armed and feathered of the second and vert together, with a tasselled 
cord (forming a knot) of the first. The whole rayonnant and en- 
signed, with a royal crown, without arches, proper (Fig. 292). 

Mary used when princess, the roses and pomegranate knit to- 
gether, as borne by her mother, showing her descent from Lancaster, 
York, and Spain. 4 Also the pomegranate alone. 

1 MS., Lib. Herald's Coll. 2 Hail. MS., 2035. => Sir K. Cotton. 

1 Sandford. 



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385 



In Scol land grows a warlike flower, 
Too rough to bloom in lady's bower ; 
His crest when. high the soldier bears, 
And spurs his courser on the spears, 
there it blossoms — there it blows — 
The thistle's grown above the rose !" 

Allan Cunningham. 

James I. His motto, Beati paeifici, " Blessed are the peaceful," 
which, says Selden, well expressed his natural disposition. This 
monarch " was pictured going easily down a pair of stairs, and upon 
every step was written, ' Peace, peace, peace.' " 

His great seal for Scotland bears, for legend, Deus judicium tuum 
rege da, " Oh God, give the King Thy judgment." On some of his coins 
he placed the divided thistle and the rose (Fig. 293) j the legend, Fecit 
eos m gentem unam, " He made them into one people," — sometimes 
Semper eadem} On his English crowns of his first year, the motto 




Kig. 293. — James I. 

was, Exurgat Deus, dissipentur inimica, *' Let God arise, and let His 
enemies he scattered." 2 On his sixpences of the second coinage, 
Tueatur unita Deus, " May God preserve them united." In 1605, 
the shillings struck at the Tower and sent to Ireland had on the 
reverse this legend, Henricus rosas, regna Jacobus, " Henry united 
the roses, and James the kingdoms." 3 



1 July 10, 1607. Is an order to the 
embroiderer, for the surnamed liveries of 
the Guard, for " embroidering 248 coats 
of red cloth with roses and crowns im- 
perial," " 72 yards of crimson satin for 



red roses," and " 38 yards of white satin 
of Bruges for the white roses." — Veil 
Becords, p. 67. 

2 Psalm lxviii. 

3 Simon. 

2 o 



384 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

" Ho ! strike the flagstaff deep, sir knight : . . . . 

. . . . ye breezes waft her wide, 
Our glorious ' Semper eadem ' — the banner of our pride." 

Macaclay, Spanish Armada. 

Elizabeth used her mother's badge of the falcon, with the crown 
and sceptre; and at a pageant at Norwich, 1578, it was exhibited as 
" her own badge," and is on the iron railing which surrounds her 
monument in Westminster Abbey. 

Camden says her devices were numerous ; " she most curiously 
used that of a sieve." 

Video, " I see ;" Taceo, " I am silent ;" Vivat prudentia regnam, 
" Let the kingdom live by prudence," were among her mottoes. 

She placed upon her medals and tokens the device of a phoenix, 
Sola phoenix omnia wiundi, " The sole phoenix of the whole world;" 
and on the other side, ffi Anglise gloria, " And the glory of England," 
with her portrait full-faced. 

Her portrait, by Zoffany, at Hatfield, shows her love of allegory 
and devices. The lining of her robe is worked with eyes and ears, 
and on her left sleeve is embroidered a serpent, all to imply wisdom 
and vigilance. In the other hand is a rainbow, with this flattering 
motto, Non sine sole iris, " No rainbow without the sun." l 

House of Stuart. The roses, both united (one within the other) 
and separate, for England. The other Stuart badges (now almost 
always crowned) were— The fleur-de-lis ; a thistle, slipped and leaved ; 
a rose and thistle impaled ; the harp ; and a lion rampant gules (the 
Scottish lion). 2 

" The ruddy lion ramps in gold." 

Scott. 

" Full white, the Bourbon lily blows, 
And fairer haughty England's rose ; 
Nor shall unsung the symbol smile, 
Green Ireland ! of thy haughty isle. 



1 Pennant's ' Journey from Chester to maiden queen. — Ibid., p. 411. 

London.' At Hatfield is another portrait ' The supporters, borne by James I. 

of Elizabeth, in which a spotted ermine, and his successor, are those which now 

with a crown on its head and collar support the royal escutcheon. Two uni- 

round its neck, is represented running corns were the supporters of Scotland, 

up her arm ; being an emblem of purity, Charles I., Charles II., and James II. 

is placed here as a compliment to the used Dieu et mon droit. 



AND WAK-CKIES. 387 

On the reverse of Queen Anne's coronation medal is, a heart crowned 
amidst oaken foliage, surrounded by the legend, " Entirely English," 
from her speech, on the first opening of Parliament, which she thus 
concluded : " As I know my own heart to be entirely English, I can 
very sincerely assure you there is not anything you can expect or 
desire from me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness and 
prosperity of England, and you shall always find me a strict and 
religious observer of my word." 

Geoegb I. His motto, used by the House of Hanover immediately 
before his accession, Nee mens inferiora sorti, " Nor is my mind 
inferior to my lot," evidently referring to the throne of England. 
He resumed the old motto, Dieu et mon droit. 

The present royal badges, as settled at the Union, 1801, are: 
A white rose within a red — England. A thistle — Scotland. A harp 
or, stringed or, and a trefoil vert— Ireland. Upon a mount vert, a 
dragon passant, wings expanded and endorsed gules, for Wales. 



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386 HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Queen Anne bore, as one of the supporters of her arms, one of the 
savage men wreathed with ivy and bearing clubs, of Denmark, since 
designated and adopted for an inn sign-board as " The Green Man." 

Charles I., and his two sons, used for motto on the great seal for 
Scotland, Justicia et Veritas, " Justice and truth." 

On the pieces struck to commemorate his coronation at Holyrood, 
1633, was placed a great thistle, with many stalks and heads. Blotto, 
Hinc nostra crevere rosse, " Hence grew our roses," signifying that 
his right to the crown of England had arisen from the thistle of 
Scotland. 

Cromwell, 1 on his coins, had the motto, Hoe nisi peritans mihi 2 
adamant niea, " I perish, unless these stick to me," — the motto of 
Duke Alexander de' Medici. 

Charles II. On his Irish pieces, Oblectat et reparat, " It delights 
and procures." 

James II., while Duke of York, bore for his badge as Lord High 
Admiral, an anchor argent, the ring and cable or. 

William and Mary. On their seal for Scotland, the motto, 
Favente Deo, " God favouring." Under the royal arms, instead of 
Dieu et mon droit, was, "And I will maintain it," or Je main- 
tiendray, the motto of the House of Orange. 

• In a portrait, in which he is represented in the robes of the garter, 
on the edge of his mantle was inscribed, Veniendo restituit rem, " He 
restored things by coming." 

The " herse " of Queen Mary, which was erected in Westminster 
Abbey, bore several of the mottoes of her regal predecessors : Dieu et 
mon droit — Semper eadem — Beati pacifici — Vivat prudentia regnam. 

Anne, adopted, by a royal Act, the motto of Queen Elizabeth, 
Semper eadem. On her second great seal, a rose and a thistle are 
represented springing from the same stem, to which was sometimes 
added, Concordes, "Agreeing." 

1 The arms assumed by the two Crom- gardant, argent, fur Cromwell. Sup- 
wells, as Lords Protectees of EDgland, on porters, a lion gardant crowned, and a 
their great seal, were quarterly I. and IV. dragon. The money of (he Common- 
argent, a cross gules (cress of St. George) wealth has two shields united, the one 
for England ; II. azure, a saltier argent bears the cross of England, the other the 
(the arms of St. Andrew for Scotland; harp of Ireland. 

III. or, a harp gules (the arms of St. William and Mary — the arms of 

Patrick) for Ireland ; and or, an es- Nassau in an escutcheon over those of 

cutcheon, saltier sable, a lion rampant, England. 2 Simon. 



389 



Part III.— WAR-CRIES. 



" The Lauder, rolling to the Tweed, 
Resounds the ensenzie." 

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. 

" Leadis li a demande : 
' Qu'elle enseigne crierons-nous 
Quant volrons ralier a vous, 
Que nostre gent soit oonneue ?' " 

Roman de Florimont, MS., Bib. Imperiale. 

" Our slogan is their lykewake dirge, 
Our moat the grave where they shall lie." 

Lay of the Last Minstrel. 

" The blyssyd and holy martyr Saynt George is patron of this realme of Englande, 
and the crye of men of warre." — Golden Legend, 1500. 

" To every erle and knyghte the word is gyven, 
And cries a guerre and slughones shake the vaulted heaven." 

Chatterton, Battle of Hastings. 

The wah-cry, eri de guerre of the French, the slogan 1 or ensenzie 
of the Scotch, is of the remotest antiquity, " The sword of the Lord 
and of Gideon," — the battle-cry of the Israelites when engaging the 
hosts of Midian in the Valley of Jezreel — is perhaps the earliest record 
of the use of the war-cry which, now little used among civilized 
nations, still finds its representation in the war-whoop of the savage. 

Each nation usually invoked its patron saint ; but in war, each 
party had its separate cry. The " droit de banniere et de cry de 

1 Slogan, Slugan, Slughorne, Sloggans, Ensenzies. 

" And heard the slogan's deadly yell." 

Lay of the Last Minstrel. 



AND WAE-CEIES. 391 

and Navarete, toot his slughorn from the province, " St. George, 
Guyenne !" 

" Dieu et mon droit," was probably a war-cry long before it was 
adopted as a royal motto, for Eicbard I. is recorded to have said, " Not 
me, but God and our right bave vanquished France at Gisors." 

The gain of the battle of Cressy was attributed to the especial 
invocation of St. George, in remembrance of which King Edward III. 
founded his chapel within the castle of Windsor. 

King Edward was also wont to invoke St. Edward in any great 
strait. Walsingham gives an instance at the skirmish, in 1349, at 
Calais, when tbe king in great wrath and grief drew out his sword 
and most passionately called out, " Ha ! St. Edward — ha ! St. George," 
wbich his soldiers hearing, ran presently to him, and rushing violently 
upon the enemy, put most of them to the sword. 

So Shakspeare gives it as the cry of each chief at the battle of 
Eosworth Field : 

" Sound, drums and trumpets, boldly and cheerfully, 
God and St. George ! Richmond and victory !" 

King Richard III., Act v., sc. 3. 

And King Eichard says : 

" Advance our standards, sit upon our foes ; 
Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, 
Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons !" 

Ibid. 

And Prince Edward exclaims, before Tewkesbury's fatal fight : 

" Then strike up, drums, — God and Saint George for us !" 

King Henry VI., 3rd Part, Act ii., sc. 1. 

As the old ballad runs : 

" St. George, he was for England, St. Denis was for France ; 
Sing, Honi soit qui mal y pense." 

Ballad of St. George for England. 

" The Frenchmen shout forth ' Notre Dame,' 
Thus calling on our Lady's name, 
To which the highest host reply, 
' St. George ! St. George !' their battle cry." 

Poem of the Fourteenth Century, Battle of Poitiers. 

There is little doubt, the National Antbem is founded upon the 
watchword and countersign ordered through the royal navy by King 
Henry the Eighth's Lord Admiral, in 1545 : " Tbe watchwords in the 



390 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

guerre," were conjointly the attributes of nobility. Of Sir Simon de 
Felbrigge, for instance, it is said, lie was a gentleman " de nom, d'armes 1 
et de cry." 

"Percy, Percy!" was the rallyiDg-cry at Otterbourne ; and the 
cry of " A Warwick, a Warwick ! " decided the fate of Banbury 
Field. 3 

So widely did the practice prevail in England, that, in 1495, an 
Act of Parliament was passed forbidding all these cries as productive 
of discord, and enjoining all noblemen and their retainers thence- 
forth to call only on St. George and the King. 

The cries, " Crom-a-boo" and " Butler-a-boo," are especially prohi- 
bited. " Abo," from an early period was the cry of the Irish. " Laundarg 
Abo ! — the Bloody Hand !— strike for O'Neil !" were the battle cries 
of the wild followers of the rebel Shan O'Neil, when he defied the 
forces of Elizabeth f and "Abo" now appears an adjunct to the mottoes 
of many of the nobles of Ireland, conjoined with the name of the chief 
fortresses of their family, as the " Crom-a-boo" 4 of the house of Lein- 
ster, the " Shanet-a-boo" of the Earls of Desmond, the " Butler-a-boo," 
and many others. The calling the name of Macgregor was legally 
annulled in Scotland. The war-cry was sometimes granted by special 
favour of the sovereign. We read that at the battle of Fornova, 
Charles Till., seeing his army in danger, addressed himself to the 
Seigneur de Montoison, 5 who commanded the rear-guard, crying, " Ala 
recousse, Montoison !" which so animated this brave lord, that he made 
a furious charge, which decided the fate of the day. King Charles 
thanked all the brave men for their timely aid, and especially the 
Dauphinese knight, to whom he granted the cry de guerre, " A la 
recousse, Montoison," in perpetual remembrance of his bravery. 6 

The usual war-cry of the Kings of England was - " Montjoie," 7 
" Notre Dame," " St. George." 

At the siege of Jaffa, the watchword of Bichard I. was, " Guyenne 
au Boi dAngleterre ;" and the Black Prince, at the battle of Poitiers 

1 " And if no gentleman, why, then no * Crom Castle, county Limerick, for- 

arms." — Taming of the Shrew, ii. 1. roerly belonging to the Fitzgeralds. 
Q At Stamford — 5 Philihert de Clairmont. 

" Wells for 'Warwick' cry, and for the rightful ° 1>e Coste - Eloges des Daujins de 

crown, Viennois. 
The other call 'a York,' to beat the rebels » For an explanation of the term, 

down."-DnAYTo N . Montjoie, see Devices, Gtjeldres, Dukes 

3 Froutle. of. 



AND WAR CRIES. 393 

of Verneuil, when fighting in the mine against the defenders of the 
town ; and the Constable .Bourbon was killed at the siege of Eome, 
when giving the signal for the assault ; his last words were, " Bourbon 
marche devant." 

Bar Bar au riehe due. 

Bretagne .... Saint Yves, Saint Malo ! 

. Au feu, au feu. 
Burgundy . . . Chastillon au noble Duo. 

. Montjoie, Notre-Dame, Bourgogne. 

. Bourgngne, Bourgogne. 

Philip the Bold cried, " Moult me tarde;" and after the battle of 

Eosbec, so satisfied was he with the people of Dijon, that he granted 

many privileges to the city, and among others, that of bearing his 

arms and using his " cri." As this motto was inscribed in this way 



I i e i on their standards, many in reading saw only the two 



|me] 

words, Moult-tarde ; hence the sobriquet of "Moutardes de Dijon," 
Moult being the old French for "beaucoup" — much. See Burgundy, 
Philip the Bold. 

M. le Boux de Lincy doubts the truth of this etymology, as 
" moutarde de Dijon" is mentioned in a song of the eleventh 
century, showing the city was already famous for its mustard, the 
name recalling its pungent quality, Mout, much —arde, burns. " II 
n'est moutarde qu' a Dijon," is a proverb of the fifteenth century. 
Champagne . . . Passavant x le meillor. 
Thibaut (Count of) . Passavant la Thiebaud. 
„ „ . Chartres efc Passavant. 

Flanders .... Arras. 

„ (Counts of) . Flandres au lion. 2 

Foix Bearne, Notre Dame Bearne. 

Guienne . • • Ghiienne au puissant due. 

Normandy ■ • • Diex aye Dam Diex aye, — i.e ., Dieu nous 

aide, le Seigneur Dieu nous aide. 
Bouen .... Kouen. 

' One of the Counts of Chartres, in a successors, the Counts of Champagne 

combat between him and Richard, the and Brie, bore on their seals the motto, 

first Duke of Normandy, used as a war- " Passavant le meillor." 

cry " Passavant,"— a cry which became z Alluding to the lion on their 

hereditary in the family, and many of his standard. 



392 HISTOBIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

night shalbe thus — ' God save King Henrye ;' th' other shal answer, 
' And long to reign overus.' " 

Thomas Norton concludes his singular address to the rebels of the 
North, in 1549, " God save our Queene Elizabeth and confound her 
enemies." 

The Puritans brought in Scripture words ; and the war cry of the 
tribes revolted from David, " To your tents, Israel," l was adopted 
by the Eepublicans of the seventeenth century. 

At the battle of Hylton-on-the-Wear, in 1644, the field- word of 
the Scots was, " The Lord of Hosts is with us ;" that of the Marquis 
of Northampton, " Now or never." 

Cromwell's watchword or war-cry at Dunbar was, '■ The Lord of 
Hosts." This motto is on the first English military medal, a.d. 1651 
or 1652. 

The cry of Scotland was, " St. Andrew" — " Hellicourt en Ponthieu." 

" Uppon Sent Andrewe lowde cane they erye, 
And thrysse they schowte on hyght, 
And syne marked them one owr Ynglysshe men, 
As I have told yow ryght. 

Ballad of Otterbourne. 

" And cry — ' St. Andrew and our right.' " 

Marmion. 

The war-cry of " Alban ! Alban !" was used at the battle of the 
Standard, 1138, by the Celtic portion of the army of the King of 
Scotland. 

The Kings of France, called " Montjoye, Saint Denys !" 
" Clisson, assura sa Majeste du gain de la bataille, le roi lui 
repondit : ' Connestable, Dieu le veeulle, nous irons done avant au 
nom de Dieu et de Sainct Denis.' " 2 

The great vassals of the French crown had each their own cry : 

Anjou St. Maurice. 

. Bailie, Eallie. 
. Montjoie, Anjou. 3 
Artois . Montjoie au blanc epervier. 

Auvergne .... Clermont au dauphin d'Auvergne. 
Bourbon .... Nostre-Dame, Nostre-Dame, Bourbon, 

Bourbon. 
Louis, Duke of Bourbon, was recognised by his cry at the siege 

1 1 Kings xii. It!. 3 " Bene, 'II crie Montjoye- Anjou car 

: Vulson de la Colombicrc. tel est sa plaisir.' " 



AND WAE-CEIES. 



395 



Florence 



Gigli. 
Marzocco. 



" Marzocco," the war-cry of Florence, was the name given to the 
Florentine lion, which is still to be seen upon some of her ancient 
gates. A stone figure of the lion was set up in all places subject to 
her sway, and the name shouted as a battle cry by her armies/ The 
name is said to be derived from the Hebrew Mare, form or appear- 
ance, and Seiahhal, a great lion. 

Italy : 

Medici .... Palle. 

Milan .... Milan, au vaillant Dae. 

Two Sicilies . . Bene d'Anjou — Montjoie d'Anjou. 

Venice .... Marco. 



Great Britain and Ireland. 
Berwick .... A Berwick ! a Berwick ! 
Bothwell .... Both well! Both well ! 

" Bothwell ! Bothwell ! cried bold." — Flodden Field. 



Bourke 
Bowes 
Bruce . 



Gabriagh-a-boo. 

A Bowes ! a Bourke ! 

The Bruce ! the Bruce ! 



" The Brace ! the Bruce ! to well-known cry, 
His native rocks and woods reply. 
The Bruce ! the Brace ! in that dread word, 
The knell of hundred deaths was heard." — The Lord of the Isles. 



Bulmer . . . . 
Butler . . . . 
Colquhoun 
Craig Elachie 
Darnley . . . . 
Derby . . . . 
Desmond . . . . 
Douglas .... 
(Earl Selkirk) 
Drummond 



A Bulmer ! a Bulmer ! 

Butler-a-boo. 

Cnock Elachan. 

Stand sure. 

Jamais arriere Darnley. See Atjbigny. 

Lancestre au Comte Derby. 

Shanet-a-boo. 

Douglas, Saint Grilles. 

Jamais arriere. 

Gang Warily. See Badges. 



1 The Torre del Marzocco, at Leghorn, upon it as a weathercock.— Muebay's 
derives its name from the lion placed Handbook of Northern Italy. 



394 HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

At the battle of Hastings, at the outset, the Saxons cried, " Holy 
Crosse, God Almighty !— Holy Crosse, God Almighty!" And the 
Normans cried, " Nostre Dame, Dieu ay nous ade," — Our Lady and 
God help us. But during the fight, the Saxons cried, "Oucgt, 
oucgt," — Out, out ! 

So, in the Eoman de Eou : 

" Francois erie ' Montjoye,' et Normans ' Dexaie,' 
Flamans crie ' Aras,' and Angevin 'Eallie,' 
Et li quens Thiebaut, ' Chartres et Passavant ' crie." 

Order of the Saint Esprit, Au droit desir, au droit d£sir. 
Armenia (Lusignan) . Ermenie, au Noble Eoy. 
Austria (Empire) . . A dextre et a, senestre, — i.e., exhorting to 

strike right and left. 1 
„ Emperor Otho Borne. 
„ Hungary . . Notre Dame, a la recousse. 
Belgium : 

Brabant (Dukes of) . Louvain au riche due. 
„ „ . Louvain, Louvain. 

„ „ . Limbourg, Limbourg. 

„ „ . Limbourg, a celui qui 1' a conquis. 

Douay .... Douay. 
Enghien (Lords of) . Enghien. 
Ghent (Insurgents 

of) ... . Gand, Gand, Les chaperons blancs. 
Gueldres (Dukes of) Gueldres. 

Duke Adolphus fell at Tournay, 1477, uttering his war-cry. 

Hainault . . . Notre Dame, Haynaut. 

. Hajnaut, au noble comte. 
. Haynaut, Haynaut. 
Bohemia .... Christos, Christos. 

. Prague, Prague. 
Italy : 
Bentivoglio (Lords 

of) ... . Serra. See Bentivoglio. 
Church .... Notre Dame, Saint Pierre. 
„ .... Saint Pierre. 
1 Menestrier. 



AND WAK-CEIES. 397 

Mac Kenzie . . . Tulloch Ard. 
Monmouth (Duke of). Soho. 

Soto Square, begun in the time of Charles II., was the residence 
of the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth, after whom it was called 
Monmouth Square, and subsequently King's Square. On his death, 
his admirers changed the name to " Soho," the word of the day at 
the field of Sedgmoor. 1 

Montford (Simon de) . Toulouse, Toulouse Montjoie. 
Napier .... Sans tache — Eeady, aye ready. 

Northern Counties. The blazon and word of the Northern 
Counties was— Snaffle, Spur, and Spear. 

" The lands that over Ouse to Berwick forth do btar, 
Have for their blazon had, the snaffle, spur, and spear." 

Drayton, PolyoUnoii, Song 33. 

In the ' Lay of the Last Ministrel,' William of Deloraine, addressing 
the body of Richard, the Dark Musgrave, says : 

" Yet rest thee God, for well I know, 
I ne'er shall find a nobler foe ! 
In all the northern counties here, 
Whose word is snaffle, spur, and spear. 

Canto v., st. 29. 

" Forth to the Field," was a cry used in the fourteenth and fifteenth 
century by the lords of the north, and was used at Flodden Field : 

" Now they that lately would have staid, 
With foremost cried, ' Forth to the Field.' " 

Percy Percy ! Percy ! 

„ A Percy ! a Percy ! 

„ Esperance, Percy. 

„ Thousands for a Percy. 

No war-cries are more household words than those of Percy. 

" Percy ! Percy !" was the rallying cry at Otterbourne, — at that 
fray where " every man myght full well knowe were the Whyte 
Lyon, the Lucettes, and the Cressaunts both." 
Drayton, describing the battle, says : 

" When Henry Hotspur so with his high deeds inflamed 
Doth second him again, and through such dangers press, 
That Douglas' valiant deeds be made to seem the less, 
As still the people cried, ' A Percy, Esperance.' " 

1 Pennant. 



396 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

Felbrigge (Sir Simon de) Sanz juver. 

Fenwick .... A Fenwyke ! a Fenwyke ! a Fenwyke ! 

The house of Percy ever ranked the Fenwicks among the most 
valiant of its retainers, and in Border warfare the banner of the 
gorged phoenix in the burning flame, always appeared with that of 
the silver crescent. See Badges, Fenwick. 

"We saw come marching over the knowes, 
Five hundred Fenwicks in a flock ; 
With jack and spier, and howes all bent, 
And warlike weapons at their will." 

The Raid of Hie Reihwire. 

The ancient epithet of the family is, " The fierce Fenwicks " — 
" The fearless Fenwicks." 

" Proud Wallington was wounded sair, 
Albeit he be a Fenwick fierce." 

Gage Courage, sans peur. 

Gordon .... Gordon — Bydand. 

" The Border slogan rent the sky ! 
A Home ! a Gordon was the cry." 

Marmion. 

Gough Faugh-a-Bollagh (Clear the way). 

Grant .... Craig Ellachie, or Crag Ailichie. 

Halliday of Annandale A Holy Day. 

Hamilton .... Through. 

Hay Spare nought. 

Hill Avancez. 

Home A Home, a Home. 

" And shouting still a Home ! a Home !" 

Lay of the Last Minstrel. 

„ of Wedderburn Bemember. 

Innes Betraist. 

Johnston, Warden of the Marches. Light thieves all; i.e., 

" Alight from your horses and surrender " — their old war-cry 

and motto. The family now use for motto, Numquam non 

paratus, " Never not ready." 

Ker Jedart's here. 

Mac Farlane . . . Loch Sloy 

Mac Gregor . . . Ard 1 Callichie, or Challuh. 

1 Ard, Mountain. 



AND WAE-CEIES. 399 

"And Stanley stout they all did cry ; 
Out went anon the grey-goose wing, 
And amongst the Scots did fluttering fly. 
And though the Scots at Stanley's name 
Were 'stonished sore, yet stout they stood." 

Ballad of the BattU of Flodden Field. 

In this battle the Scots did not yield until their monarch lay dead 
with eight to ten thousand men on the field : 

" Flodden's fatal field, 
When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, 
And broken was her shield !" — Scott . 

Talbot . . . . A Talbot ! a Talbot ! 

" His soldiers spying his undaunted spirit, 
' A Talbot, a Talbot !' cried out amain, 
And rush'd into the bowels of the battle." 

King Henry VI., 1st Part. 

ThirlwaU A Thirlwall ! a Thirlwall ! a Thirlwall ! 

Tynedale .... A Tindall ! a TindaU ! 
.... Tynedall to it ! 

" The raise the slogan with ane shout — 
' Fy, Tindaill to it, Jedburgh's here !' 
I trow he was not half sae stout, 

But anis his stomach was asteir, 
Wi' gun and genzie, bow and speir, 
Men might see mony a cracked crown." 

Raid of the Bedswire. 

Warwick .... A Warwick ! a Warwick ! 



France and other Countries of Europe. 
Ailly (Picardy) . The same. 

" Ailly, Mailly, Crequy, 
Tel nom, telles armes, tel cry." 

These three families have " armes parlantes," and their war-cry was 
their own names. 

Alleman .... Eobur. 

.... Place, place a madame. 

Motto, Gare la queue des Allemands. During the thirteenth and 
fourteenth centuries, the mountainous region between the Isere and 



398 HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

At Shrewsbury, the cry of Hotspur's army was, " Esperance 
Percy," while that of the king was "St. George." Shakspeare 
makes him exclaim : 

" Now, — ' Esperance ! Percy !' and set on ! 
Sound all the lofty instruments of war, 
And by that music let us all embrace ; 
For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall 
A second time do such a courtesy." 

King Henry IV., 1st Part, Act v., sc. 2. 

Again, when he chooses his horse, he says : 

" That roan shall be my throne ; 

Well, I will back him straight : ' Esperance ! ' 
Bid Butler lead him forth into the park." 

Ibid., Act ii., sc. 3. 

In this fight, one of the leaders of the " conspiracy of the three Henrys," 
as Bolingbroke's rebellion was termed, was slain ; he finishes his dying 
speech thus : 

" AdJ, therefore, this to ' Esperance,' my word, 
Who sheddeth blood shall not escape the sword." 

Mirror for Magistrates, 1574. 

" Thousands for a Percy," was the cry (1536) when Captain Ashe 
of the Pilgrimage of Grace waylaid Sir Thomas Percy and persuaded 
him to join him, for which he was hanged at Tyburn. 

Queensbury . . . Forward. 

Eokeby .... A Eokeby ! a Eokeby ! 

Scott Mount for Branksome. 

Seton (Earl of Morton) Set-on. 

Shafto .... A Shaftoe ! a Shaftoe ! 

At the "Raid of the Bedswire" — a hostile meeting between the 
English and Scotch wardens, in 1575, — one of the war-cries of the 
former was, " A Schaftan and a Fenwick." The Scots had the honour 
of the day. 

'* Young Henry Schaftun, he is hurt, 
A souldier shot him with a bow." 

Stanley .... Stanley! Stanley! 
This slogan was raised at the battle of Flodden Field by tho fol- 
lowers of the stout Stanley (Sir Edward Stanley), and when Lord Surrey 
was sorely pressed by the Scots, this gallant warrior came forward. 

" Now trebly thundering swelled the gale, 
And — Stanley I was the cry." — Marmion. 



AND WAR-CRIES. 



401 



Bacquehem 
Bailloncourt 
Barbanson 
Barville . 
Baudet 
Baudoul . 
Baufremetz 
Bauffremont 



Neufville. 

Landas. 

Barbanson. 

Dieu a nous. 

Oambraisis. 

Jauce. 

Wavrin. 

Bauffremont. 



Motto, Dieu ayde au premier Chrestien. 

Epithet, " Les bons barons." 

" Bicho de Chalon, noble de Vienne, 
Fier de Neufchatel, preux de Vergy ; 
Et la maison de Beaufreniont 
D'ofi sont sortis lea bons barons." 



Bar . . . 

Bazoches . 
Beaumanoir . 
Beaumont 
Beaujeu. Motto, 
Beauveau . 
Beauvoir . 
Bellecombe 
Belleforiere 
Beranger . 



. Au feu ! Au feu ! 
. Chatillon. 

. Bois ton sang, Beaumanoir. 
. Beaumont ! Beaumont ! 
A tout venant leaujeu. 
. Beauveau. 
. Wallincourt. 
. Bellecombe. 
. Bernemicourt. 
. Gare la queue des Berangers. 



There is a common saying in Dauphine : 

" Arces, Varces, Granges, et Commiers, 
Tel les regarde qui ne les ose toucher, 
Mais guare la queue des Allemans and des Berengers." 

The Beranger used to cry the names of the principal estates belonging 
to each branch of the family. 

Berghes (Saint Win- 



noc) 
Berlaimont 
Berniere . 
Bertrincourt . 
Bethune Sully 
Beverne . 
Binch . 



Berghes, a, Madame de Chasteaubrun. 

Berlaimont. 

Ah! Fuge! 

Boulogne. 

Bethune. 

Beverne. 

Binch. 

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400 HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 

the Drac was the domain of an immense number of lords, who all 
bore the name of Alleman. Never was there so large a family, and 
all grouped round their chiefs with the most jealous care. They 
maintained a perfect equality, intermarried, judged their own quarrels, 
and, on every occasion, assisted each other. Ill betide the imprudent 
neighbour who offended the humblest of the Allemans. On the 
complaint of the injured party, a family council assembled, war was 
voted by acclamation, and the warrior bands marched forth to punish 
the aggressor. From the ardour with which this family avenged the 
slightest offence, arose the proverb, " Faire une querelle d' Alleman ;" 
i.e., founded upon nothing, which was said in Dauphine to those who 
engaged in a difficult enterprise, warning them to beware of the 
consequences. 



Amboise . 


. Amboise. 


Amerval . 


. Boulogne 


Anglure . 


. Saladin. 


33 


. Damas. 


Antoing . 


. Bury. 


Arces . 


. Arces. 



Motto, Le hois (or Le tronc) est vert et les feuillts sont arces 
(burned) ; meaning, there was still strength and vigour in their house, 
though the name implied a thing consumed. Antoine dArces, styled 
Le Chevalier Blanc, was one of the most celebrated' knights-errant of 
his time. James IV. of Scotland was much attached to him, and 
made him sleep in his room. He was assassinated through envy, in 
the reign of James V. 
Asnois. 

" Le sire d' Asnois 
Est la fleur du Nivernois." 

Aspremont . . . Aspremont. 

Aubergeon. 
Motto, Maille a maille se fait Vaubergeon — that is, as the mailed 
hauberk is composed of small rings joined together, and the making 
of it is the work of time and patience, so this proverb implies that 
patience and perseverance accomplish every thing. 

Auxerre (town) . . Notre Dame dAuxerre. 
Aymeris . . . . Ligne. 



AND WAR-CRIES 



403 



Chalons. Epithet, "Eiche de Chalon." 
Chapel de la Pacherie . Murat. 
Charny .... Charny ! Charny ! 
Chastelet .... Priny ! Priny ! 
Chateaubriant . . . Chateaubriant. 

Motto, Mori sang teint les bannieres de France. 



Chateauneuf-Eandon 
Chateauvillain 
Chatte or Chaste 
Chastillon . 
Chauvigny 
Chartres . 
Chef du Bois . 
Clermont . 
Coetmen . 
Commiers . 
Cordes-Watripont 
Coucy . 



Chateauneuf ! 

Chateauvillain a l'arbre d'or. 

Chatte. 

Chastillon. 

Chevaliers pleuvent, Jerusalem ! 

Chartres, Passavant. 

Penhoiiet. 

Clermont. 

Hary avant. 

Commiers. 

Cul a Cul. 

Notre Dame an Seigneur de Coucy. 

Coucy a la merveille. 

Place a la banniere. 



Motto, " Je ne suis roi, ne due, 
Prince ne oomte aussi ; 
Je suis le sire de Coucy " — 

taken, it is said, by Enguerraud III., Sire de Coucy, when the 
great vassals, having entered into a league against the throne, during 
the minority of Louis IX., offered the crown to De Coucy, who 
refused it. The eventful history of his nephew Eaoul and the Dame 
de Fayel is well known. 

Coyeghem. . . . Courtrai. 

Cramailles .... An guet. 

Crequy .... Nul ne s'y frotte. See Ailly. 
;) A Crequy, Crequy le grand Baron. 



" Cre'qui haut baron, 
Crequi haut renom." 

Jean de CbJquy (-f- 1473). One of the most skilful of the generals 
of Charles the Bold, and one of the first twenty-four Knights of the 
Golden Fleece. See Devices, Ce^quy. 

2 d 2 



402 



HISTOKIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Blacas (Provence) 
Blamont . 
Blanquemaille 
Blecourt . 
Blondel . . 
Boiseon . 
Boubers, (Abbeville) 
Bouille de Chabriol 



Bournonville 
Bousies 



Boussois . 
Bouton de Chamilly 
Braine 
Bressieu . 
Briancon (Lords of 

Varces) . 
Buigny de Brailly 



Vaillance de Blacas. 

Blamont. 

Tournay. 

Cambraisis. 

Gonnelieu. 

Talbia. 

Abbeville. 

Le Cbarriol. 

" Riche Bouille 
Noble Vassy." 

. Bournonville. 

. Bousies au bon Chevalier. 

. Les Corbeaux. 

. Boussois. 

Ailleors iamais. 

Gaure. 

Bressieu. 



Varces. 

Va ferme a l'assault. 
Buigny a la prise. 
Groeninge vel, Groening velt. 



Borliot (Flanders) 

Brehan. 

" Foi de Brelian 
Mieux vaut qu'argent." 

Bury Bury. 

Buves Buves tost assis. 



Campeau . . . . 
Cantaing . . . . 
Cardevac d'Avrincourt 



Carondelet 

Carpentier de Crecy 

Castillon . 

Caumont la Force 

Cauny 

Cavecb 

Cayeux 



Escaillon denaing. 

Cambresis. 

A jamais Cardevac. 

Au ciel Beaumont. 

Mieux mourir que ternir. 

A moi, Chauldey. 

Carpentier. 

Diex el volt. 

Ferme Caumont. 

Croisilles. 

Graincourt. 

La folie. 



AND WAE-CEIES. 



405 



Garre (Counts) . . Gavres au chappelet. 

Gillon Descordes. 

Glarges .... Montigny au belier. 

GMon Au Seigneur de Gleon. 

Goderie .... Graincourt Saint-Haubert. 

Godin Hordaing le Senechal. 

Gillon yon Basseghem . Cordes ! Cordes ! 
Gillon de Goemaringhe Cordes ! Cordes ! 
Gognies .... Boussoy. 
Gouchy .... Place a la banniere. 
Goujon. 

" Jamais Goujon, fut ou poisson ou homme, ne valut rien.' 

Goyon de Matignon . Liesse a Matignon. 
Graincourt . . .St. Hubert. 
Grandson. Motto, A petite cloche grand son. 
Graville (Sires de). 

" Syre en Graville premier, 
Que roi en France." 

Grolee .... Grolee. 

Motto, Je suis Grolie. 

Guiffrey .... Boutieres. 
Guillaumanches de 
Boscage 



Guise . 
Guistelle . 
Grebert 
Hamel, du . 
Hameyde . 
Hamaricourt 
Harves 
Haspres . 
Hauchin . 
Haucourt . 
Haussy 
Hautefort . 



Guillaumanches. 

Place a la banniere. 

Guistelle. 

Haucourt. 

Escaillon Denaing. 

Hameyde. 

Hamaricourt. 

Bury. 

Wallaincourt. 

Montigny, Saint: Christophe. 

Wallaincourt. 

Haussy. 

Altus et fortis. 

Enghein. 



Hautecq . 
Hazebrook (Seigneurs 

de) Help, God, Hazebrook 



404 



HISTORIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Crombrugghe . 
Crupilly . 
Culleant (Sire de) 



Dauchy 

De l'lsle (Barons) 



Gand ! Gand. 

Sorel. 

Au peigne d'or ; 

Damas. 

Montigny Saint Christophe. 

Frayes Phalempin ; 

because they were descended from the ancient Lords and Barons of 
Phalempin, in Flanders. 

. He Dieu, aidez-moy. 
. Chievre. 

Wallincourt. 
. Dorbais. 

Motto, En tout temps du BM. 
. Montbrun. 

, Notre Dame Dugnesclin. 
, Duras. 
Boulogne. 
Grimberghes. 
, Mancicourt. 



De la Palu 
Desclabes . 
Desmaisieres . 
Dorbais 

Du Ble (Burgundy). 
DuPuy . . . 
Duguesclin. . 
Durfort de Duras . 
Dolhaim . 
Eechaute . 
Escauffours 
Espiard. 



" Qui a affaire aux Espiard 
H s'en repand, tost ou tard." 

Dijon Proverb. 

Estrepy .... Estrepy. 
Eternac .... Main droite. 

Fages Intacta. 

Faudray (Seigneurs de). Motto, J' ay Falu, Faux, et Faudray ; 
meaning that they possessed the houses of Falu, Faux, and Faudray. 



Failly . 

Feillens 

Fiennes 

Flocquette 

Flotte . 

Fressies 

Gallean 

Gamaches 

Gaucourt 

Genlis 



Uenty. 

Yaleur. 

Artois le noble. 

Griboval. 

Flotte. 

Escaillon Denaing. 

Semper magis. 

Gamaches. 

Gaucourt. 

Au guet ! au guet ! 





AND WAR-CRIES. 










Liancourt . 


. Liancourt. 


Lievin-Famay . . . Saint Aubert. 
Limoges (Count de) . Saint Lienard. 


Lignieres .... Lignieres. 
Longueval-Bucquoy . Dragon. 
Longueville . . . Hainaut. 


Lonsart 


. Cambraisis. 


Loz 


. Loz. 






Mailly . . 
Malaincourt . 


. . Mailly ! Mailly ! 
. Wallaincourt. 


Malarmey 
Malestroit . 


. Sans peur. 
. Malestroit. 


Mancicourt 


. Crevecoeur. 


Mantainard . 


. Plutot mourir. 


Marchin de Clermont 


des Dunes . 


. Marchin. 


Mathan 


. Matban. 


Maubec 


. Maubec. 


Maugiron . 
Mauny 

Mello . . . 


. Maugiron. 
. Haynault l'ancien ! 
. Mauny ! Mauny ! 
. . Mello. 


Melun. . . 


. A moy Melun. 


Motto, Tout 


ou rien contente Melun. 


Merle, de la Gr< 
Moeurs 


jrge . Or, sus, fiert ! 
. . Merlo. 

. Moeurs au comte ! 
. Cric a Molac ! 


Montafilan 
Montagu . 
Montchenu 


. Hary avant ! 
. Montagu. 
. Montchenu. 


Motto, La t 


Iroite voie. 


Montcornet 


. Montcornet. 



407 



406 



HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Heniskirke 


. 


Hemskirke. 


Hemricourt, de Grune . 


Hemricourt. 


Hertaing .... 


Dubois de Hove. 


Honnecourt . 




Oisy. 


Hostung . 




Hostung. 


Jars . 


, 


Kochechouart. 


Joinville . 


. 


Joinville. 


Juigne 


. 


Battons et abattons. 


Kerancourt 


, 


Defends toi. 


Kerautret . 


, 


Martheze. 


La Baume Montrevel. 


La Baume. 


La Baume (Comtes de 


Suze) .... 


Suze. 


Lachatre . . 


A l'attrait des bons Chevaliers 


La Croix Chevrieres . 


Guerre ! Guerre ! 


Ladouve .... 


Saint Aubert. 


Lahaye. Motto, Bonne est la haye autour du bled. 


Lalaing .... 


Croisilles. 


Lannoy .... 


Lannoy. 


La Moussaye . 


Honneur a Moussaye. 


La Pain .... 


Eh ! Dieu, aydez-moy. ! 


La Poipe .... 


La Poipe. 


La Poix de Fremin- 




ville .... 


En avant. 


Laplanche. 


Fiennes. 


La Boche-Fontenilles . 


Guyenne ! Guyenne ! 


Latour (Comte de Bou- 




logne) .... 


Latour Bertrand. 


Latour d'Auvergne . 


Latour. 


La Tremouille 


La Tremouille ! 


Lauwereyns . 


Diepenhede ! Diepenhede ! 


Le Carlier de Herly . 


Buenne vendegies. 


Le chat de Kersaii 


it. 





Motto, Mauvais chat, mauvais rat. 

Leclerc .... Bernemicourt. 

Ledoynee .... Descordes. 

Lefevre-Graintheville . A l'eclat des roses. 

Lenoncourt . . . Lenoncourt. 



AND WAR-CEIES. 409 

Plessis-Grenedan . . Plessis-Mavron. 

Pontallier .... Pontallier. ' 

Pot A la belle. 

Poissieux (Head of the) Capdorat. 

Seigneurs du Passage, of -whom (temp. Charles VII) was Imbert de 
Poissieux, sumamed Capdorat, on account of his fair hair. 

Preaux .... Cesar-Auguste. 
Prye, or Prie . . . Chants d'oiseaux ; 

parcequ'ils avoient charge" Tennemi dans une emhuscade ou ehantoient 
des oiseaux. — Menestkier. 

Pusignan .... Prosperity. 
Puy, Du. 

" N'esfc noble qua demy, 
Qui n'est de la race Du Puy." 

Quiqueran de Beaujeu Flandres. 

Quirit Va ferine a l'assaut, Quirit, a la prise ! 

Eambaulds de Samiane. Epithet, " Sagesse des." 

Babiers .... Victoria. 

Pais Eamequeu . . Pais Eamequeu. 

Eassenghien . . . Eassenghien. 

Eecourt du Sart . . Aux chatelains. 

Eeiffenberg . . . Eeiffenberg ! Beiffenberg ! 

Eenty Eenty. See Eubempre. 

Eethel Eethel. 

Eibaumont ... A moi, Eibaumont ! 
Eieux A toute heure Eieux. 



" A tout hearte telier, U tout heurte Eieux 
Tout uu." 

Eivoire .... Eomanieu. 
Eobien .... Eocq-Bihan. 

Eodes Eodes. 

Eogemont ... A moi. 
Eohan Plaisance. 

Motto, Boi ne puis 

Prince ne daigne 
Mohan je mis. 

Eosieres .... Grande joie. 



408 HISTOEIO DEVICES, BADGES, 

Monteynard . . . Monteynard. 
Montezon . . . . A la recousse Montezon. 
Montfort (Simon de) . Toulouse ! Toulouse ! 

„ „ . Montjoie! 

Montgardin . . . Montgardin. 

Montmorency . . . Dieu ayde au premier baron Chretien. 
Montigny .... Montigny. 

Monts Fortis ut mons. 

Moreton de Chabrillan Moreton ! Moreton ! 
Morhier .... Morhier de l'extrait des preux. 

Morges Morges. 

Morlaix (town). Motto, S'ils te morde, mors-les. 
Mouy .... Sechelles. 

„ Saucourt. 

Mortagne . . . Tournay. 
Neufchastel (Lords of) Espinart a l'Escosse. 

Epithet, " Fier de Neufchatel." 

Neve Worde ! Worde ! 

Noyers .... Noyers. 
Nivelles .... Tournay, 
Nemours (Due de) of the House of Savoy. 

Motto, Suivant savoye. 

Offeremont . . . Clermont. 
O'Eourke de Gousen 

(Lord of Gousen, 

Flanders) . . . Yictorious. 
Onorati .... Lihertas. 
Orville .... Hesdaing, Wallaincourt ! 
Oudart . . . Estree. 

Pantin .... Pantin, hardi, en avant ! 
Pautres. 

" Pautres, Chambea et Tisons, 
Sont d'Angoulesme les anoiennes maisons." 

Penhoet .... Penhoet. 

" Antiquite de Penhoet, Vaillance de Chastel. 
Biehesse de Kerman, Chevaleric de Eergournadec." 

Pequeny .... Boulogne. 





AND WAE-CEIES. 


Urre . 


. Urre. 


Valery 


. Valery. 


Varagne . 


. Deo juvante. 


Varax . 


. Yarax. 


Vassy . 


. Chastillon. 



411 



Epithet, " Noble Vassy." 

Vaudenay . . . . Au Brut ! au Brut ! 
Vaudray. See Faudray. 
Vendome, Count . . Chartres. 
Veranneman . . . Veranneman. 
Verger de la Boche- 

jaquelin . . . Vendee ! Bordeaux ! Vendee ! 
Vergy .... Vergy a Nostre-Dame ! 

Epithet, " Preux de Vergy." Motto, Sans varier, " Always firm 
in their fidelity to their sovereign." 



Vienne 



Saint George au puissant Due. 



Epithet, "Noble de Vienne." Motto, Tot ou tard vienne ; or, A lien 
vienne tout. 

Vervin .... Boussy a la merveille. 

Ville Estrepy. 

Villeneuve ... A tout ! 
Vilain. 

Epithet, " Vilain sans reproche." 



Villenoir . 

Villers 

Virieu 

Wallincourt . 

Waroquier 

Waudripont . 

Wavrin d'Helissard 

» » 

Wignacourt . 



A la belle. 

Villers. 

Virieu. 

Wallincourt a court ouverte. 1 

Hersin. 2 

Cul a cul, Waudripon. 

Wavrin ! Wavrin ! 

Moins que le pas. 

Quieret. 



1 Parceque e'etaient de riches seig- roquier ;" this proverb means, I will give 
neurs qui tenaient table ouverte, you a box on the ear, the arms of Yara- 

2 " ,fe te donneray les armoiries de Va- quier being a mailed haul. — Menesteiek. 



410 



HISTOBIC DEVICES, BADGES, 



Eubempre - . . . Eubempre. 

" Rubempre, Eambures, et Renty, 
Belles armes, et piteux cry." 

Menestbier. 

Sabran. Motto, Simplesse de Sahran. 

Salvaing .... A Salvaing, le plus Grorgias. 

Motto, Que ne ferois je pour elle? 



Sancerre 



. Passavant, Notre Dame Sancerre. 

. Sassenage. 
Saucourt .... Saucourt. 
Saveuse .... Sayeuse. 
Selles .... 
Senecey (Burgundy) 

Seve 1 Justice. 

Sally Belly. 

Sillery de Genlis . . Au guet ! au guet ! 
Soyecourt .... Soyecourt. 
Saint Malo. Motto, Saint Halo au riche Duo. 
Saint-Martin d Aglie . In armis jura. 



Motto, In virtute et honore Senesce. 



Sainte-Maure . 
Saint-Severe . 
St. Paul (Count de) 
Tancques . 
Terney. 



Sainte-Maure. 

Brosse. 

Lezignem. 

Tancques ! Tancques ! 



1 Terny, Viry, Conipey, 
Sou le meillou maison du Genevey. 
Salenove e Menton 
Ne le eraignon pas d'un bouton." 



Tonduti . . 
Terrail (Bayard) 
Theys 
Tholon 
Tour Du 
Tournon 
Toustain 
Toutenoutre 
Trie et Piqueny 



Ballions nous. 
Terrail (Bayard). 
Theys. 
Sainte Jalle. 
La Pucelle. 
Au plus druz. 1 
Toustain. 
Tout en outre. 
Boulongne. 



1 Au plus e'pais et au plus gros de la mele'e. 



INDEX. 



Device 
Aaron's rod 
Adamant rock 

See Diamond. 
Aleriona . . . . 
„ on an arrow . 
Almonds . . . . 
Altar and sacrifice 

See Balance. Palm' 
Altar and star . 
Amaranth 

Anchor and dolphin . 



Motto 
Insperata floruit 
Natures non artibus opus 



217 Pope Pius II. 

202 Emp. Ferdinand II. 



196 Montmorency family 

135 Godfrey of Boulogne 

82 Comminges family 



Anchors, two 



and sun . 
and pole- 
star. 



Anemone 



Anvil 



Dereditne viam casusre deusve 
En eroissans nous amandons . 

0TPAN09EN 7 Ardenti Academy 

tree. 

Nostra latens 222 Pope Marct llus II. 

Non moritura 139 Giulia Gonzaga 

Eestinalente ^JBD^oraAdDlphiis of 

„ „ 257 Aldus Manutius 

„ „ 71 Admiral Chabot 

256 Seleucus 

„ Emperor Titus 

„ Emperor Vespasian 

Duabus 181 Cosmo de' Medici. 

His suffulta 82 Isabella da Correggio 

Je maintiendrey 209 William of Orange 

Cristo duce 358 Richard I. 

■It, n j A /Henry of Transta- 

JBuena gma 244| m J e 

„ „ , OQ1 (Philibert the Fair, 

Bella ma poco dura 231| Count of Savoy ' 

Brevis est usus 

Gloria vento discutitur ..... „ 
Perflant omnia venti . . . . „ 

Durabo" 84 Innocent Cybo 

Faites moy raison 201 Charles of Durazzo 

In quascunque formas . . .10 Infocati Academy 



„ and hammer. 
See Diamond. 
Apple-tree on a thorn . Per vincula crescit 236 Queen Mary Stuart 



412 



HISTOEIC DEVICES, BADGES, AND WAE-CEIES. 



M. le Eoux de Lincy (Proverbes Frangais) gives the following 
list of the sobriquets of the principal families in Dauphine, Provence, 
and Vaud. 



DAUPHINE. 



Parante' d'Alleman. 
Prouesse de Terrail. 
Charite d Arcea. 
Sagesse de Guiffrey. 
Loyaute" de Salveing. 



Amitie' de Beaumont. 
Berate de Granges. 
Force de Commiers. 
Mine de Theys. 
Visage dArvillars. 



PEOVENCE. 



Hospitalite et bonte d'Agoult. 
Liberalite de Ville-Neufve. 
Dissolution de Oastellane. 
Sagesse de Bambauds de Simiane. 
Fallace et malice des Barras. 
Simplesse de Sabran. 
Fidelite de Boliers. 
Constance de Vintimille. 
Te'merite et fierte de Glandevez. 
Prudence de Poutevez. 
Inconstance de Baux. 
Envieux de Candole. 
Communion de Forcalquier. 
Bicbe dAperioculos. 



Desloyaute de Beaufort. 
Gravite" dArcussia. 
Sotti3e de Grasse. 
Vaillance de Blaccas. 
Opinion de Sado. 
Prud'homie de Cabassole. 
Bonte de Castillon. 
Subtilite de Ge'rente. 
Inge'niosite' d'Auraison. 
Finesse des Grimauds. 
Grandeur des Porcellets. 
Vanite des Bonifaces. 
Vivacite d'esprit des Fourbins. 
Le'gerete de Loubieres. 



VAUD. 



Grandeur dAlinges Coudree. 
Antiquite de Blonay. 
Noblesse d'Estavaye. 
Franchise de Vilarzel. 
Hautesse du coeur de Gingins. 
Parente de Joifray. 
Pie'te de Chandieu. 
Bonte de Pesmes. 
Bichesses de Mestral-Aruffens. 
Hospitalite de dAulbonne. 
Prudence de Tavel. 
Sagesse de Signeux. 
Ge'ne'rosite de Praroman. 
Opiniatrete de Dortan. 



Amitie de Gumoens. 
Accortise de Martine. 
Politique de Ceriat. 
Ingenuite de Sacconay. 
Chicane de du Gard. 
Naivete de Mestral-Payeme. 
Gravite de Maillardoz. 
Simplicite de Boverea. 
Gaillardise de Lavigny. 
Mesnage des Loys. 
Vivacite d'esprit de Ennezel. 
Vanite' de Senarclens. 
Indifference des sperlina. 



INDEX. 



415 



Device Motto 

Ball Concussus surgo 

, Percussus elevor 



71 Admiral Chabot 
„ Carlo Orsini 



Balloting balls . . Conscientious votis 89 Emperor Rodolph II. 

,, urn . . . jEquabit nigras Candida sola dies 229 Jac. Sanazzaro 
Balsam-tree . . . TJt nihil desit ...... 81 Giovanna Colonna 

Barbican .... Nul ne s'y frote 60 Ant. de Bourgogne 

Barrel in flames . . Von guetten in besser .... 84 Francesco Cybo 

Basilisk . Im authorea 254 Simon de Tlion 

„ .... Tu nomine tantum 17 Duke of Alba 



„ .... Aut perit, aut perimit . 

„ .... Necat sine vulnere .... 

„ .... S' jo miro, jo moro 

Baton in saltier . . Dominus mihi adjutor . 

Bear Oursine le temps vendra . 

/Spero avanzar con la vigilia 
" •••-.< sonno 



254 



251 Philip II. 
43 Jean, Due de Berry 



14 Sonnachiosi Academy 

42 Order of the Bear 

„ Berne and Appenzell 

and hour-glass . Tempus et hora 212 Orsini fam., ancient 

attacking a hive Aciem accuunt aculei .... 13 Offuscati Academy 

Ch co°nmn agle ; and } 212 Ca3sarini famil y 



embracing 
column 



>Patriae saluti 74 Colonna and Orsini 

„ licking its young Natura potentior ars .... 255 Titian 

" r _ . § >Horrent commota moveii . . . 212 Orsini fam., ancient 
from nostrils . j ' 

„ sucking its paws Ipse alimenta sibi 213 Flavio Orsini 

" C °Littie lati0I10f } Siont in csdlia 214 L^lio Orsini 

„ „ ,, . Sine occasu felix 213 Felice Orsini 

Bears, two, in rain . . Serenabit 224 Bishop of Vico 

Bees 



40 Barberini family 

. Exercet sub sole laborem . . . „ Cardinal Barberini 
. Haecvirgo regnum mucrone tuetiir 153 Joan of Arc 
/Je suis petite, mais mes piqures sont\ ,g/Mouche a Miel 
"\ profondes / \ Academy 



hive of . . . 
sucking a flower 
with a stone . 



Maj estate tantum . 

Non utitur aculeo rex . 
Plus mellis quam fellis 
Pro bono malum 

Pro rege exacuunt . 

Sic vos non vobis . 



Sponte favos, segre spicula 
Labor omnibus idem . 
Mens omnibus una 
Omnibus una quies 
Omnibus idem ardor 
Ut prosim , . . . 
nON HONON . . . 



184^ 



ls - (Ferdinand, Grand 
1S0 \ Duke of Tuscany 
113 Louis XII. 

21 Ad. d'Amboise 

28 Ariosto 

Ferdinand, Grand 
Duke of Tuscany 
156 Antonio de Leyva 

40 Pope Urban VIII. 

14 



„ Unanimi Academy - 
48 Giov. Bat. Bottigella 
68 Annibal Caro 



414 INDEX. 

Device Motto Page 

Apricot tree . . . A l'Abri-cotier 73 Jacques Coiotiers 

Argus and eaduceus . Eloquium tot lumina clausit . . 236 Queen Mary Stuart 

A rivetrancr.° eand } Utamlubet 87 Emperor Eodolph I. 

Arm with spear . . Tolle moras 88 Emperor Albert II. 

j ( Anna tenenti omnia dat, qui iusta\„„r,f Charles Emmanuel 
" sword • •{ negat . J 233 { Duke of Savoy 

„ „ . . Spoliatisarmasupersunt . . . 23l{%X rf S™^' 

Armed hand issuing lirilanos ,„„/ Constable Montmo- 

from a cloud . / " \ rency. 

„ „ Toutes pour une 25 Bene" of Anjou 

Armed hand and lance . Hoc opus est 244 Peter the Cruel 

„ „ with P a l m jp u i h rum est claresoere utroque . 34 Archduke Albert 

A and d book nd ' SW ° rd '}Hic ^git, ille tuetur .... 89 Frederic the Pacific 

Armed hands, two, andL ictorianescit _ _ 87 Emperor Albert I. 

shower oi lances. ■) 

Arms, stand of. . . Conduntur non retunduntur . . 232| E ™ m ^ 1 g ^™ ert ' 

„ „ . . . Dabet Deus his quoque finem . . 237 Queen Mary Stuart 

Artillery (cannon) 221 Luca Pitti 

Arquebuse, broken . Vim vi 68 Annibal Caro 

Arrow in target . . Consequitur quodcunque petit . 85 Diane de Poitiers 

„ „ . . BAAA' "OTTflS 100 Alessandro Famese 

„ out of a bow . Sicituradastra g^Erik^Duke of Bruns- 

„ „ tomb . Sola vivit in illo 85 Diane de Poitiers 

Arrows, bunch of . . Flechas ......... 244 Q. Isabella of Castile 

See Alerions. 

Asbestos shirt . . . Semper pervicax 78 Marc Ant. Colonna 

. , , . ( Ardorem extincta testantur viverel , „ n ( Queen Catherine de 
Ashes burning. . .| flamma ) 120 { Medicis 

Atlas . . . . Maius opus 42 Cardinal Bentiyoglio 

„ Sustinet nee fatiscit .... 146 Provedditore Gritti 

, Ut quiesoat Atlas . . . . . 251 Philip II. 

. ( Al parecer de 1' Alba s' ascondanl -. _ ~ , r .,-l. 
Aurora { lasestrelias ) 17 Duke of Alba 

Awl jL'assottigliar la pih meglio anchej u Lesina Academy 

Balance (scales) . . iEqua durant semper .... 65 Louis of Tarento 

„ „ . . Omnibus eadem „ P. L. Carafa 

„ „ . . Consistam in aequo „ „ „ 

„ „ . . Eedde cuique Buum .... 142 Leonora Gonzaga 

„ „ . . „ „ .... 222 Pope Eugenius IV. 

" an Brennu d s° f } Quid nisi victia dolor • • • • 237 Queen Mary Stuart 

„ from clouds .(Qui j^icatis terram, diligite JM-WjB^ederick the Wise, 

" \ titiam / \ Count Palatine 

„ on altar . . Je nlaintiendrey pi6t^ et justice . 211 William of Orange 

„ (steelyards) . Hoe fac et vives 65 Tommaso Carafa 

See Justice. 



INDEX. 



-117 



Device Motto page 

Bullock .... Pas a pas 25 Rene of Anjou 

" amfvoke ** r n utrum< l ue paratus .... 217 Onufrio Panvinio 

Butterfly and erab . Festina leute 32 Emperor Augustus 

,. „ . Mature „ Emperor Vespasian 

,. » ■ ii >, Frellon 

„ in candle . Yo voy dietro aquel che me arde . 155 Philip de Lannoy 

Ca haudr ^ tW °.}Kdeetconsilio 87 Emperor Henry VII. 

Calais, taking of . . Veni, vidi, vieit Deus .... 31 Archduke Albert 

Caltrops .... Quocunque ferar 242 { P Arao-on'' K ™ S ^ 

Camel II me plait la trouble .... 214 Virginio Orsini 

. 158 Jean de Luxembourg 

. 47 Vitaliano Borromeo 



Nemo ad impossibile tenetur 
Non labor iste gravat . 



Candle, lighted 

Candle-stand . 

Candlestick 
See Butterfly. 

Capricorn . 



. Non suefro mas de lo que puedo 

. Non degener addam . . 

. Una sufficit in tenebris 

. Lux publica principis ignes . 

. Pidem fati, virtute sequemur . 
. Fulget Cassaris astrum 



q./Cardinal Ippolito d' 
a *\ Este 



ogo (Francesco Maria, 



Duke of Urbino 



<,,. (Isabella, Marchese di 

\ Mantua 
149 Cardinal de Lorraine 

i Cosmo de' Medici, 
Grand Duke of 
Tuscany 
89 Emperor Bodolph II. 
oj (Emperor Augustus 

" ' \ Cassar 

Chain, golden . . . AMA OPErOMENOI .... 7 Catenati Academy 

Chameleon and dolphin Mature . 100 Pope Paul III. 

Chamomile .... Fructus calcata dat amplos . . 237 Queen Mary Stuart 
See Lizard. 

Chantepleure . 

Chariot in the air . 

Chrysalis . 

Club and ball of 

Theseus. . 
Club of Hercules. 

See Cows. 
Cock and trumpet . 
Colossus, legs of 



/Rien ne m'est plus, plus ne m*est\, go (Valentine, Duchess of 

'( rien j \ Orleans 

. Victor se tollit ad auras ... 9 Eterea Academy 
. Et feci et fregi 2 ^Giambattista de la 

>His artibus 102 Ottaviano Faraese 



Curavigila H^bS^ ° f 

Ad hue stat 87 Frederic the Fair 

Column crowned 73 Colonna Family 

and ^ u ™ in S Won ceduntignibus ignes . . . 43 Cardinal Birague 
burning 



cents 
broken 



. Lumen rectis . . . . . .121 Francis II. 

. Tantum volvitur umbra ... 8 Costanti Academy 

. 78 Marcantonio Colonna 
. 71 Gab. Cesarini 
2 E 



and sun . 

between cres- j Ne totum impleat orbem 



Frangor non flectar 



416 



INDEX. 



Bible 

Bird in cage . 

„ and hawk 

Bird of Paradise 



Te vindice tuta libertas 
Mens aaqua in arduis 



Device Motto Page 

Beggar's wallet . . Jusques a porter la besace . . .211 Gueux (beggars) 

Bellerophon and dragon Hinc vigilo 251 Philip II. 

. 211 William of Orange 
.„(Marshal Bassom- 
\ pierre 
m mal me preme e me spayenta | 237 Queen M gtuarf . 
\ peggio j ^ J 

. Celestes asnulamotus . . . 288{ V ^ e ^£ 

. Negligit ima 62 Matteo di Oapoa 

. Elevor dum segregor . . . . „ 

. Meos ad sidera tollo .... 63 

. Nil mihi terra 62 

. Noil quae super terrain .... 

. Non sum terra tuus .... 

. Nostra conversatio in caelis est 

. Sdegna la terra 

. Semper sublimis 

. Superata tellus sidera donat . 

. Terram indignata fugit 



Biscia . 
Blank paper 
„ tablet 

Bailing pot 

Bombard . 
Bomb shell . 

„ exploding in 



Votis subsoribent fata seoundis 
Melior fortnna notabit . 



186 Visconti family 
100 Cardinal Parnese 
27 Cardinal Aragon 



. . Zaraachitocca ..... SO^J^ 1 * 6 of 

. Plus est en vous 54 Louis de Bruges 

. Loco et tempore 92 Alfonso, D. of Ferrara 

waterl Tout P lus grand ^ son froideuI -W Antoine dp Lalaine- 
water| E( . plua egt agpre son ardeur _ _ jlo4 Antome de .Lalaing 

Book in flames . . Eecedant vetera ^^N^ples 21 ^ ° f 

„ open 201 Alfonso, K. of Naples 



Boulting-mill . . . B piu bel nor ne ooglie 

Bow with broken string Arco per lentare, piaga non sana 

See Crossbow. Arrow. 
Box tree .... Nostra vel in tumulo . . . . 

Branch lopped off . . Hie terminus hseret . 
Branch torn from tree, 
and another shooting 



. ee ' iPrimo avulso non deficit alter 



See Oak 

Bridle Sustine et abstine 

Broncone. See Log. 

Broom flower . . . Exaltat humiles 



8 Bella Crusca Acad. 
25 Bene of Anjou 

^ng/Queen Louise de 

\ Vaudemont 
144 Claude de Gouffier 

180 Cosmo de' Medici 

jojJVulson de la Colom- 
l biere 

27 Benedetto Arbusani 



107 



Order of the Cosse de 
Genest 



Bucket. See Water- 
bucket. 

Buckles .... Distantia jungit 31 Robert d Aubigny 

Bulbous root . . . Mit zeit 195 Sforza family 

See Tulip. 

Bull of Perillus . . Ingenio experior funera digna meo 75 Prospero Colonna 



INDEX. 4iy 

Device Motto rage 

Crown, celestial, over /Vanitas vanitatum, est omnia! „„„ „ , 

globe . .\ vanitas ...... J233 Robert Stuart 

„ three . . . Aliamque moratur 238 Queen Mary Stuart 

i! » ... Manet ultima Cfelo 126 Henry in. 

• • . Valer 202( A1 S ns ? IL > King of 

n t. . , „ , I Naples 

See Pyramid. Rook. 

Crescent . . . . Los en croissant 26 Order of the Crescen 

» .... Sic illustrior crescam .... 142 Vicenzo Gonzaga 

See Moon, new. 
Crucible .... Probasti me Domine et cognovisti. 137 Francesco Gonzaga 

.... Domine probasti me .... „( 0rder of J he , Ee " 

"\ deemer, Mantua 

„ and bar of gold Donee purum 7 Ardenti Academy 

Crystal ball . . . Candor illsesus 176 Pope Clement VII. 

Cube 83 Cybo family 

Cup constellation . . Inter eclypsis exorior .... 123 Francis II. 

Cupid drawn by snails Festinate 132 Pietro G. di Geunaro 

„ at feet of Diana . Omnium victorem vici .... 85 Diane de Poitiers 

„ and wings . . Con queste 144 Curtio Gonzaga 

Cuttle fish .... Sic tua non virtus 97 Cardinal de Ferrara 

Cypres3 and laurel . . Erit altera merces 76 Marcantonio Colonna 

Daisy . . . . , Humble et loiall 369 Margaret of Anjou 

Daisies and ring . . Hors cet anel, point n'ay amour . 106 Louis IX. 

" ^cloud^ ° Ut ° f } Mauus Domini protegit me . . 163 Margaret of Austria 
„ and lily . . . Mirandum naturae opus . . . 165 Margaret of Valois 

Diamond .... Durat et lucet 64 Matliias Hunniades 

„ ring . . . Elle dure et durera .... 154 Ant. de Lalaing 

„ and feathers. Semper 170 Medici family 

„ on anvil . . Semper adamas 64 Col. Ant. Caracciolo 

Die Je passe 150 Pierre de Hagenbaeh 

„ Nusquam devius „ Chancellor Seguier 

„ Semper aliquid ,, Clem. Piccolomini 

„ Semper jactatus „ 

Dittany and goat . . Hinc vulnus, salus, et umbra . . 6(i Ferdinand Carafa 

Diver Mersa emerget 27 Luigi dAquino 

Dog asleep . . . . Quietum nemo me impune lacessit 191 Francesco Sforza 
„ and flock . . . Non dormit qui custodit ... 19 Ant. Altoviti 

Dog-collar. . . . Sauciat et defendit 215 Nicolb Orsini 

„ unfastened Sans liarne 48 Bottigella family 

Dolphin and ship . . Uber et tuber 224 { H portugal **** ^ 

See Anchors. Fortune. 

Doves Fida conjmictio 183 Giovanna of Austria 

„ and ring . . -ffiterno conjuge 252 Anne of Austria 

Dragon and castle . . Delubra ad summa .... 44 Pope Gregory XIII. 

" a Hes g eiides ° f } Ab insomni non c u s todita dracone 97 Ippolito of Este 

„ „ Servat et abstinet 73 J. B. Colbert 

„ „ TPEropET (Vigilaf) .... 45 Pope Gregory XIII. 

,, „ Yo mejor las guardare . . . . 54 Isotta Brembata 

2 E 2 



418 INDEX. 

Denim Motto Page 

Columns of Hercules . Plus oultre or Plus ultra ... 248 Emperor Charles V. 
„ and Dutch lion Concussit utramque .... 249 j f Orange ' 

" 8 chaSed 6aSle } Non ultra metas " Sie S eofMetz 

„ of Israelites . Este duces 265 B. Vitelleschi 

„ interlaced . Pietate et justicia 125 Charles IX. 

See Kock. 

„ , „ , , ,. nnn f Queen Catherine de 

Comet crowned . . Fato prudeutia major .... 12(M "» Med j cia 

Compasses .... Lahore et constantia .... 226 Plantin 

describing a| Dirigor et (Jirig0 ^ Antonio Abondanti 

oil clu .J 

Coral A corde leuconde chromate erythror 206 Cardinal Nerli 

„ Conspecta rubescunt .... 207 Cardinal Borghese 

Cordeliere .... J'ai le corps delie 114 Order of Cordeliere 

Corn, ears of . . . Quia plena 257 Pietro Tortoli 

„ ripe .... Plus reddit, plus quan acceperit . „ 

„ hand scattering . La mano fa l'opera 154 Ant. de Lalaing 

„ sheaf of . . .ftores* Paritel ren0TaD ^ Ue la "} 37 Marquis del Vasto 

„ „ ... Qui non lahorat, non manducat . 81 Philippe de Comines 

„ sheaves of . . Flavescent 102 Horace Farnese 

Cornucopias and cadu-j lg Alciato 

ceus ) 

Coulter of plough . . Longo splendescit in usu ... 85 Ludovico Domenichi 
„ „ „ „ ... „ Cardinal Gambara 

Cows of Beam 104 Foix, house of 

" an cules b ° f Hel "} Invia Tirtuti nulla est via . . . 128 Henry IV. 
Crab Forma tengo dal variato aspetto . 82 Gir. Corti 

Crawfish 207( Ren / ° f Cha l° ns > Pr - 

1, ot Orange 

Cranes flying over sea Vel cum pondere 10 Insensati Academy 

u „ Iter tutissimum „ Count C. Gamba 

° Y nest a ? 6 S / Tuta silentia merces . . . .259 Count Trinchero 
Crane with stone in foot Amat victoria curam . £9 Emperor Mathias 

„ „ . . Oflicium natura docet .... 217 Duke of Amain 

„ „ . . . Non dormit qui custodit . . . 218 

„ „ . . Nunquam decidet 

„ „ . . . Pour vaincre, il faut veiller . . „ 

,, „ Una omnibus 

„ „ . . . Ut alii dormiant 

Crequier 83 Crequy family 

Crocodile .... Crocodili laclirymte .... 137 Cardinal Gonzaga 
Crocus. See Saffron. 

Crossbow .... Ingenium superat vires . . .137 Fernando Gonsalvo 
Clw 82 Corvinus family 

» 215 Orsini, D. of Paliano 

„ eating laurel . Hinc sola salus 220 Ct. Clement Pietra 

Crows, two 183 Giovanna of Austria 



INDEX. 



421 



Device 

Egg. . . . 
Elements, four 
Elephant . 



Motto 



Discretis sua virtus adest . 



. Vi parva non invertitur 

adoring the K T , . , 

moon fNumen regemque Balutant 

„ „ Pietas Deo nos eoneiliat . 

,, „ Sic ardua peto . ... 

broken tree Dum stetit 



„ and dragon Non vos alabareis 

„ crushing flies Al mejor que puedo . 

„ throws its teeth (Lasciai di me la miglior parte a 

to hunters . \ dietro 

„ walking I 

through a flock [infestus infestis 

of sheep 
Equilateral triangle . iEquatis undique 
Ermine A ma vie 



Faces, three 
Falcon . 

„ and diamond 

„ hooded . 

„ on a hand 

„ with bird 

„ with clock 
Fame and four winds 
Feathers and crown 



. Malo mori quam foedari 



Nunquam 
Probanda 



Mens unica 

Mihi et mea 

ring Semper 

Vincior ut vici .... 
Maiora cedunt .... 
Non sibi sed Domino . 
Fal col tempo .... 
Clara ublque .... 
Qui se humiliat exaltabitur 
Sic alias devorat una . 
Alias devorat una meas 



heap of, and| M tum ^ ainii&s 
wings . .) ° 



plume of . Vi nulla invertitur ordo . 

„ three . . . Semper 

Fi"-tree, wild . . . Ingentia marmora findit caprificus 
Fir-coue on fire . . Hinc odor et fructus .... 
Fireblownbythewinds Crescit ad adversis .... 

Firmament ... In motu immotum 

Fish-hook and rod . Non capio ni capior . . . . 

Flail ..... Telura virtus facit 



Page 

239 Schweppermanu 
37 Marquis del Vasto 
63 Caracciolo family 

159 Malatesta family 
ggjRodolph, Duke of 

\ Swabia 
„Q/Caracciolo, Marquis 

\ of Vico 
,, Camillo Oaula 
„ Giust. Salimbeue 

134 Gio. Batt. Giustiniani 

,Q,JSinibaldo and Otto- 
' \ boni Fiesclii 

,,,,■, /Sisenandn, King of 

Ail \ the Goths 

220 Count Clem. Pietra 

232JI > hili' : > ert Emmanuel, 
I Duke of Savoy 

226 

113 Motto of the Order 
/Queen Anne of Bre- 
" \ tagne 
gQgjAlfonso XI., King of 
\ Castile 

(■Ferdinand I., King of 
" \ Naples 



259 Trivulzio family 
281 Ann Boleyn 
170 Pietro de' Medici 
18 Duke of Alba 
244 John I., K. of Castile 
136 Gonsalvo of Cordova 
94 Card. Ipp. d'Este 
35 Archduchess Isabella 
47 Vitaliano Borromeo 
38 Marquis del Vasto 
„ Ferdinand Gonzaga 

239 Queen Mary Stuart 

356 Stephen 
170 Lorenzo de' Medici 
61 Campo Basso 
4 Accesi Academy 
130 Q. Mary de Medicis 
98 Cardinal L. d'Este 
151 G. Horologgi 
3 3 fFrecleric, Archduke 
\ of Austria 



420 INDEX. 

Device Motto Page 

Dropping water . . Hino spes 223 Cte. Fran. Porto 

Eagle Nulla potest delere vetustas . . 99 Oesare of Bate 

,° and dart. . . A. D. S. I. T 89 Bmp. Kodolph II. 

. ,. , , _ .. .... , .„/Cardinal Francesco 

„ and olive branch Bella gerant alii 14d-( Q onza g a 

„ „ . Necfulminadesunt . . . . ^{Q-n Mary de Me- 

„ burning its fea- |Pur che ne godan gli ocelli ardanW 0urtio Gon 

thers . . . \ le piume j ° 

9R q/Francesco Maria, 
ii '■ » " " " °{ DukeofUrbino 

„ looking at the sun Erecta ferar et non connivebo . 195 Count de Montmajeur 

„ „ Aude aliquid dignum .... 220 Count Clem. Pietra 

„ „ ,, Che mi pub far di vera gloria lieta 69 Irene Castriota 

„ . ,, , , , (Caraociola, Prince of 

„ „ „ Hoc vivo, nee ultra vota volant . ,, < Torella 

,, „ „ Ni matarme, ni spaventarme . 132 Galeazzo Fregosa 

„ „ „ E di cib vivo e d'altro mi cal poco 69 

„ over cleft globe. Divisum jungam .... SS^X™^™' ^ 

„ on crescent . Commimram vel extinguam . . 89 Emp. Maximilian II. 

„ protecting its young Sub umbra alarum tuarum . . 241 Peter II. K.ofAragon 

„ Tegitvirtuteminores . . . . 129 {Q™en Mary de Me- 

„ proving its young De generis animis lux . . . . 16 |Caa e rine, Queen of 

„ „ „ Generi laudemque fidemque . . „ Pope Paul V. 

„ „ „ Mei non degenerant .... „ Gabrielli Cesarini 

- - » Nondegenero 232{^^Emmanuel, 

„ ,, „ Perfero 355 William Kufus 

„ „ „ Sic crede 16 Bernardo Accolti 

„ „ Con certa fede , 

„ „ „ Sustinuere diem „ . 

„ ,, „ Unum aspicit ,, 

„ and serpent . . Non deseret alta 226 Cardinal Richelieu 

„ killing a serpent Dimicandum 84 { C1 Denma'rk K ™ g ° f 

„ with swan . . Lacessitus— or, Sic repugnant . 138 Card. Ercole Gonzaga 

" W "i 1 gbi™ng! and } Neemetuendaiilnet • ■ • • 40 Cardinal Barberini 
,, with thunderbolt Quo jussa Jo vis ... . 228 Fr. de Saint Luc 
• • „ 253 SuUy 

" "el Mt '. all . d } Cui, l uesuum 89 Emperor Charles V. 

„ with olive . . EN KAIPfl EKATEPON ... 89 Emp. Maximilian II. 

Eclipse of sun . . . Medio occidit die 238 Queen Mary Stuart 

/Nisi cum defererit spectatoreml .„ „ „. _ 
■ ■{ nonhabet. ..... , | « Com Gio. Borgia 

„ „ . . Totum adimit quo ingrata refulget 195 Card. Ascanio Sforza 

See Cup. 
Eclipse of moon . . Ipsa sibi lumen quod invidet aufert 237 Queen Mary Stuart 

„ . . Hinc aliquando eluctabor . . . 178{ Ca jj£ e i ^ i Ippo de 



INDEX. 



423 



Device Motto Page 

Golden Fleece . . Pretium non vile laborem . . . 58/ 0rd ,f r of the Gol(ien 

\ Fleece 

„ Shield . . Allen 50 f Order of Louis of 

\ Bourbon 
See Key. 

Goose tearing up roots Deficiam aut perficiam 

Gordian Knot . . . Nodos virtute resolvo . 



38 Marquis del Vasto 
215 Mare'chal d' Andre 
/Ferdinand the 
" 1 Catholic 



12 Intronati Academy 



,, „ Tanto monta 

Gourd of salt, and ),, ,. , , , 
pestles. . . . .jMeliora latent 

Graft. See Tree. 

Grenade. See Bombshell. 

Gryphon 40 Gryphius 

/Unguibus et rostro atque all's) ori ri- -o i t> »■ 
• ■ • •{ armatus in hostem . . . . j 39 Gian-Paolo Baglrone 

i) .... „ „ „ . . 40 Otho,Ai'ch. of Austria 

Gunpowder. See Mortar. 

Hand in fire . . . Fortia facere et pati Eomanum eat 76 Muzio Colonna 

See Caduceus. 
Hare ascending hill . Ascensu levior 40 Pope Urban VHI. 

ne j. ° j-Et lepores devicti insultant leoni. 236 Queen Mary Stuart 

Harrow 



Evertitet*quat ™n™£>™° <* 



and letter Y 



. Mors sequat Omnia 
. Hoc virtutis iter 



Hat . . . 

Hearts, two 
Hedgehog . 



See Porcupine. 
Heliotrope . 



Helm. See Globe. 
Hen and chickens 



, og fFuneral of Queen 
\ Henrietta Maria 
/Chancellor Morvil- 
" \ Hers 

. A la bonne heure nous prit lapluie 134 Mare'chal Gie' 
. A vaillans occurs riens impossible 72 Jacques Cceur 

. Non solum nobis 6 Amorevole Academy 

. Non tangor inultus .... 83 Prince Butera 
. Omnis mihi vita sub armis . . „ Marshal Turenne 
. Que nul ne s'y frotte .... „ Crequy family 
, Undique tutus „ 

. Mens eadem 219 Aurelio Porcelaga 

. Solem sola sequor 130 Qu. Mary de Medicis 

. Non dormit qui custodit . . . 235J B g^,ti an j' mg ° 

„ , „ i on /Queen Catherine de 

Servatque fovetque 120| Medioig 



Heron flying above the| Altiorprncellia 77 Due de Guise 



clouds 



Hercules and Antaeus 
„ hydra 



Natura dictante feror . . . 
In sublime feror .... 

Nunc pluat 

Tutus in altis 

Superat tellus, sidera donat . 

Tu ne cede malis HI 



Marc Ant. Colonna 



9 Elevati Academy 
fCardinal Francesco 
t Gonzaga 



422 



INDEX. 



Device Motto Page 

Flame Deorsum nunquam 212 Olympia Orsini 

n n . . . . „ Claudia Bangone 

(Men doles si, ma non men caldej 265 pietro della y alle 

" \ al core I 

„ Aut eundum, aut pereundum . 262 

„ Kepetit caelum sua dona . . . „ 

„ TJnde venne ritorna . . . . „ 

„ . ,. ... „„„ CFranoesco Maria, 
Quiescatm sublime 2fa2| Duke f Urbino 

Fleur-de-lis . , . . Le terns revient 171 Lorenzo de' Medici 

„ and south|p erflantibxla auBtris 250 Emperor Charles V. 

„ „ sword Consilio firmata Dei .... 153 Joan of Arc 

„ vessel(°°f . i0 A1 ?°- i 1 Di0 ^ b in Italia \l93 Ludovico Sforza 
" " ,CDOC1 ^ d el nemici Francesi . . . . j 

„ on hillock Expecta non eludet . . . .166 Margaret of Valois 

Foolscap 10 Granelleschi Acad. 

Flower Aut faciat, aut inveniat viam . .152 Jeanne d'Albret 

Fortune on a ball . . Omnia fortuna committo . . . 84 Q. Isabella of Austria 



globe 



Volente 126 



Eliz. of Austria, Q. 



(Eliz. 



„„fCharles, Archduke of 
\ Austria 



Charles IX. 

dolphin . Audaces fortuna jurat 

wheel . Adrastia aderit 238 Queen Mary Stuart 

236 „ „ „ 
168 Mecsenas 
c B (Philip, Duke of Bur- 
\ gundy 

/Jean sans Peur, Duke 
" \ of Burgundy 
59 Charles the Bash 



„ „ „ . Fortuna comites .... 
Frog 

Fusil Ante ferit, quam flamma micet 

„ and log of wood. Flammescit uterque 



Galley . . . 

„ (Prow of) 
Globe terrestrial 



„ and victory . 
„ „ helm . 

„ map of . 

„ terrestrial and 
celestial . 

See Firmament. 
Goat. See Dittany. 
Gold, Samnite . 

See Crucible. 
Golden Fleece 



Non dormit qui custodit 



86 Andrea Doria 

. 225 Cardinal Bichelieu 

Cum Jove 252 Philip II. 

Ponderibus librata sua . 



9fi0 /Francesco Maria, 
■ *° £ \ Duke of Urbino 



. Primus circumdedistime .... 224{ B ™ ma ™^ KiD S of 

. Beliquum datur 251 Philip II. 

. Non in tenebris 242( Ma f tin J - Kin S of 

(^ Aragon 

. Hoc opus 225 Cardinal San Giorgio 

• Tegubernatore ^FWhrcgm.. King 

. Regam patriis virtutibus orbem . 123 Francis II. 
>Unus non sufficit orbis .... 122 „ 



Samnatico mon capitur auro . . 76 Fabrizio Colonua 
Assiduitate 34 Archduke Albert 



INDEX. 425 

Device Motto rage 

Laurel on tomb . . 155 Laura of Petrarch 

„ struck . . . Sotto la fe del ciel &c 219 ( Alessaudro Piccolo- 

1, rami 
See Crow. Lions. Scourge. 

Letter A ; (two A's in i . , , , _. _ . . _ . 

circle) ) chacun son tour 150 Dukes of Guise 

,i I .... JEqua regente 226 Cardinal Mazarin 

n 't,;t.o-\ /Hoc per se nihil est, sed si mini-),,,, n -,. , , „ . 

" ° ^ mue ) ' • ■ ■ { mum addideris maximum fiat . | 149 Cardmal de Gulse 

ji ii • • ■ „ „ 132 Ottaviano Fregosa 

y 245JF er dinand * ne Ca- 

" ... | tholic 

„ .... A. I. P. Q. N. S. I. A 89 Emp. Ferdinand I. 

„ . . . . A. D. S. I. T „ Emp. Rodolph II. 

„ . . . . A. E. I. O. U 88 Frederic the Pacific 

. . . . F. E. R. T 23of 0rd . er ° f the Annul1 - 

\ ciation 

Level Firmatque, regitque .... 226 Cardmal Richelieu 

Lictor's fasces . . . Prseest prudentia bellis . . . 168 Cardinal Mazarin 

Lighthouse and ship . Cursum dirigit 254 George Taufel 

„ „ . Dat vitare, dum dat videre . . „ 

„ „ . Lux sum errantibus „ 

„ „ . Errantibus una micat . „ 

„ „ . In tutum allicit „ 

Lightning. See Thunder. 

Lily. See Fleur-de-lis. 

T . , . fNon deest generoso in pectore)„,,, (Francesco Maria, 

L 10 n and rapier . .| virtua »_ _ / |261| Duke of Urbii ; o 

„ Vigilat sacri thesauri custos . . 223 Pope Sixtus V. 

„ blue .... Solatur conscientia et finis . . 184 Prince of Melfi 

„ rising out of water Luctor et emergo 211 Zealand Province 

„ solitary . . . Cum grege non graditur . . . 223 Pope Innocent XI. 

„ with helmet . . Jovii 191 Galeazzo Maria Sforza 

See Hares. 

Lions between a laurel Ita et virtus 175 Lorenzino de' Medici 

Lioness and whelps . Unem quidem, sed leonem . . 236 Queen Mary Stuart 

Liquorice plant . . Dulce meum terra tegit . . . 234 „ „ 

Lizard and chamomile iEtemumque tenebit .... 142 Vicenzo Gonzaga 

Loadstone and pole . Sa vertu m'attire 235 Queen Mary Stuart 

Log of wood burning . Imis hserens, ad suprema . . . 182 Leonora de' Medici 



f 



In viridi teneras exurit flammal m pierQ ^ Medioi 
medullas ) 



Si in viride, quid in arido ? . . 61 Caldora family 

See Fusil, Water buckets. 

Lotus flower . . . Dum respicis erigor .... 68 Luigi Lucarini 

... Emergo lucente sole . . . .162 Cardinal Mandrucoio 

... Sic diva lux mihi 66 Ferdinand Carafa 

... Per te mergo et immergor ... 68 

Lucifer (morning star) Hac monstrante viam .... 35 Pescara, Marquis 

Lunaria, herb. See Moon. 

. ..... ... 10 fGiambattista della 

Lynx Aspicit et mspicit IM p orta 

Nullius pavet occursum ... 88 Emperor Charles IV. 



4'21 



INDEX. 



Device 
Hercules and hydra 
„ club of 
,, upon Mount 
CEta . . , 

71 II 

See Atlas. 

Holly 

Hesperides, Garden of. 
Horse-leaping circus . 

„ box for shoeing 
Houseleek .... 
House on fire . 



Motto Page 

E s' io 1' uccidi, piii forte rinasce 143 
Erit hsee quoque cognita monstris 130 



(Arso il mortal, 
\ l'eterno 



al ciel n'andra\ 



10 



214 



Curtio Gonzaga 
Louis XIII. 

Infiammati Academy 

Leone Orsini 



Qui B'y frotte s'y pique 
See Dragon. 

Unus non sufficit orbis . . . 250 

Pour dompter follie .... 229 

La virtu fa sempre yivo . . . 214 

Dov' e gran fuoco e gran fumo . 105 



59 Charles the Rash 



Hydra . 
See Hercules. 



Opes non animum 213 

Utcunque 216 



Philip II. 

Gio. F. Sanseverino 

Virginio Orsini 

Lautrec 

Felice Orsini 

Sforza Pallavicino 



Incense on coals . . Nisi ardeat 7 Ardenti Academy 

Italy and a Moor 193 Ludovieo Sforza 



Javelins, sheaf of 



Fortibus non deerunt 



63 Duke of Termoli 
Cardinal Vecchio of 



» ■ • Unitas 258|' Trent 

Justice Cuique suum 141 William Gonzaga 

Key of gold . . . Clauditur aperitusque liberis . . 7 Chiave Academy 
Kingfisher .... Nous savons bien le temps . . 210/°^°^^ Sbi " 

„ .... Ssevis tranquillus in undis . . 207 William of Orange 

,, .... Occasio omnium rerum optima est 290 
Sat cito, si sat tempestive . . . „ 
Qui volet 246 Philip the Fair 

**«*« ,i par- King of 

„ . Sic aliena 89 Emp. Maximilian II. 

transfixing his| Dub;afortuna 24lj J T e3 *• Kin S of 



Knight in the lists 
„ on horseback 



adversary 
Knot, order of . 

Knotted stick . . 

Labyrinth . 

,, ... 
See Minotaur. 
Lamb. See Paschal. 

Lance shivered 



') \ Aragon 

„ „ 201 Louis of Tarento 

Jeleuvy 55J Lo / ui ?' Du]5e of 

I. Orleans 



Fata viam invenient 



Hinc dolor, hinc lacrimse 
Labor vires convenit . 



155 Bois-Dofin de Laval 
2 ggjChristma, Queen of 
\ Sweden 



12 i/Queen Cat 
\ Medicis 



fLaqueus contritus est, et nos\ 9n9 /Ncapolitans (on the 
•\ liberati sumus / u \deathofAr 



Catherine de 

Eichard I. 
,n, 
Alfonso II.) 



Lamp. See Candlestick. 

Lances, sheaf of. See Javelins. 

Laurel and thunder . Intacta virtus 255 Count Odoftrdo Tiene 



INDEX. 427 

Device Motto Page 

Order of the Cordeliere. J'ai le corps delie 114 

„ St. Michael . Immensi tremor oceani . . . .111 

„ Annunciation 230 

See Bear. Golden Fleece. Golden Shield. 
no+,.;„k f Si sursum non efferor alis, cursul „.. ,, .,,_.. 

0stll0h { saltern pratervehor omnes . .} 3<> Marquis del Vasto 

" h f„° ™ g 6gSS i D iversa ab aliis virtute valemus . 205( Co " nt Peter of 
in sun . j \ Navarre 

„ with a nail 365 Q. Anne of Bohemia 

„ „ . . Spiritus durissima coquit . . . 167 Girol. Mattei 

Owl Sortem ne despice fati .... 2151°™^^° of 

Ox 45 Borgia family 

Palm tree .... Tuse hsec omnia 33 Anne Q. of Poland 

„ with stone . . Inclinata resurgit ^^"oTuAino* 1 ^^' D ' 

„ „ Ponderibus virtus innatus resistat 237 Queen Mary Stuart 

„ branch on altar. Pios altissima surgit in usus . . 129{ Q ^^ a ™g rgaret of 
See Cypress. Armed Hand. 

Panther .... Allicit ulterius 105 Lautrec 

„ ..... Mens sibi conscia facti .... 260 G. G. Trivulzio 

„ 158 Lucca City 

Pan's pipe 7 Arcadi Academy 

Patience .... OT'THS AIIANTA 96 Ereole of Este 

Paschal lamb . . . Ortu clarus, sine dolo .... 149 Cardinal de Guise 

„ ... Bubet agnus avis 43 Cardinal Birague 

(Badge of Knights 

" " \ Templars 

Peacock .... Est mihi cauda decus .... 229 Amadeus I. 

„ .... Leaulte' passe tout 83 Alano Cybo 

„ on globe . . Omnia vanitas 246 Joan of Castile 

„ „ . . „ 99 Barbara of Este 

Pearl Decus allatura corome . . . ■ . 163 Margaret of Austria 

„ Non sine fcenore 220 Elena Piscopia 

M Tu splendorem, tu vigorem . . 183 Giovanna of Austria 

, Uniocunctadisjunxit . . . . 129{«™» £*&*« of 

Bore divino 221 

Pegasus' . . . . Sedeshsecsoliofortior. . . . 253 {Ch™tina, Queen of 

. Si qua fata sinant 40 Toco family 

. Si te fata vocant „ Cardinal Bembo 

Pelican Aliis non sibi clemens .... 222 Pope Clement IX. 

. Pro lege, grege, et rege . . . 207 William of Orange 

„ 4. nt of Alfonso X., King of 

. Pro rege et grege 243< ~ ... 



Castile 

. Immemor ipse sui „ 

Mortuos vivificat „ 

Nee sibi parcit , 

Ut vitam habeant „ 

Pen black .... Delia mia nigra penna li fregio d'oro 30 Ariosto 



426 



INDEX. 



Device 
Manna . 

Mariner's compass 
Pole star 



Mermaid 



Metse (goals), three 



Milky way . 
Millet, branch of . 
Minerva. See Shield. 
Minotaur 
Moon, new 



Page 
, Non qusa super terram . . . 257 Cardinal Tournon 

and }Aspicit unam 103 Sinibaldo Fieschi 

, T ,. fDom Garzia de 

• Nuncaoltra „ j Toledo 

. 79 Stefano Oolonna 

. 51 John, D. of Bourbon 

. „,j (Guidobaldo II., Duke 

• **«perordrte 263 j of Ulbia0 

. Nee citra, nee ultra .... 224 Claudio Eangone 

. Monstrat iter 47 Carlo Borromeo 

. Servari et servare meum est . . 39 Marchese del Vasto 



Contemnit tuta procellus 



. In silentio et spe 216 Gons. Perez 

. Donee tutum impleat orbem . . 117 Henry II. 

. . Olim plena 217 Popes Pius II. & III. 

. Plena luna proxima . . . . „ Asc. Piccolomini 

; Sine macula „ Niccolo Piccolomini 

full .... Candida candidis 116 Q. Claude de France 

. Quum plena est aemula solis . . 118 Henry II. 

. . Luxintenebris ^Brunswick 6 * 

„ and herb Lunaria Tu mini quodcunque . 
See Crescent. 



218 Clem. Piccolomini 



Mortar with gun- 
powder . 

)> 
Mount Olympus 

,, Vesuvius 



.) 



Minima maxima fecit . 



241 Dona Teresa 



, „ . . . . „ Dom Garcias 
Nubes excedit 102 Ottaviano Farnese 



. Undique terror 150 |FrancoiV Due de 

" pa ^ a and0live Urduavirtutem 83 Pope Innocent VIII. 

Oil Oi m * • ) 

Mountain burning 22 Sieur de Chaumont 

„ sawing . . In patientia, suavitas .... 20o( Ch ^ les °/^ n -l ou ' 

\ King of Naples 

Mountjoy herb . . Sans autre guide 147 Dukes of Gueldres 

Mulberry 192 Ludovico Sforza 



Nautilus 
Number XXVII. 



. Tutas per suprema per ima 
. Vinte sete 



4 Affidati Academy 
95 Isabella of Este 



Oak Semper eadem 244/ He ° r y ., ln -> mn S of 

\ Castile 
. Tandem fit surculus arbor 



. 211 Maurice, P. of Orange 



Ni undas ni vientos 



224lA 1 fbns° III., King of 
1 Portugal 



„ and sapling . 
„ beaten by wind 

Oar naming . . . Pour un autre non 156 Andre' de Laval 

Ocean 69 Baltassar Castiglione 

Orange tree . . . Flores fructusque perennes , . lojFlonmontana 

PftllftS 'i ml ^ 
" phoenix . . JNec sorte nee fato 211 Willm. in. of Orange 

Olive. See Arm. Armed Hand. Eagle. Serpent. 



INDEX. 



429 



Device 



Page 



Pyramid four winds 
blowing 
„ ivy round 
,, on cube . 



>Frustra 13 Ostinati Academy 

Te stante virebo 148 Cardinal de Lorraine 

Sine fine 84 Lorenzo Cybo 



Quince 190 Sforza family 

(Fragrantia durant, Herculea col-\ 1nK ,-, , ,. „ , „. 
» { lectamanu J195 Conte di Santa Frore 



Eainbow 



Reeds, Rushes 



f$Q2 #EPOI HAE TAAHNHN,' 
\ Lucem ferat et serenitatem 



(Queen Catherine do 



. J iia \ Medicis 

AI'KHSKPI'NON 100 Pope Paul in. 

Flectimur non frangimur undis . 37 Marquis del Yasto 

„ „ „ . 74 Colonna family 

Besurgam 222 Pope Clement IX. 

Remora (sucking-fish) Sic frustra 48 { G Bot™elut attiSta 

„ „ . Sic parvis magna cedunt . . . „ 

Rhinoceros .... Non bvelvo sin veneer .... 179 Alessandro de' Medici 

Rings, three diamond 169 Cosmo de' Medici 

Post tenehris lucem .... 222 Pope Julius II. 

Ad hue stat 234 Mary of Lorraine 

Utrumque 233 James IV. 

In sternum commovebilitur . . 221 Pope Innocent VII. 
Conantia frangere frangunt . . 80 Vittoria Colonna 

Durabo 233 James III. 



Rock and castle 

„ crown 

„ column 

„ in sea 

„ in tempest 
Rocks, two, in sea 

See Thuader. 

Rocket ..... Ardo psra subir 227 { M Eichdieu 



Due de 



Aut sidera cursum .... 
Ardens e vexit ad aethera virtus 
Dum ardeo, extollor 



/Christina of Savoy and 
1 \ Q. Henrietta Maria 



, Poco duri pur che mi inalzi . „ 

„ Rumpor in alto „ 

Rose 211 Orsini family 

„ Suavis et aspera 213 Flavio Orsini 

„ Sic florui 82 Pope Leo XL 

Una dies aperit, conficit una die . „ F. Cornaro 

„ between two onions Per opposita 259 Conte di Trignano 

„ half opened . . {*££ tilt m ° S * ia m6n ' . tan * ^65 Louise de la Vallierc- 

Rosebush HI Charles VH. 

Saffron Conculcatum uberius .... 157J ^fVenrce^ ' 0S ° 

Pereundum melior 158 Bernardo Rota 

t Atrita melior „ 

... . . Calcata virescunt „ 

Pereundo provenit „ 

Pulchrior attrita resurgo . . . „ 

Sagittary . . . . Je deusse mourir 51 John, D. of Bourbon 

/Charles Emmanuel, 
Duke of Savoy 



Opportune 233< 



4:28 



INDEX. 



Device 
Pentalpha 

Perseus and 

meda . 
Phcebusincar. See Sun. 
Phoenix 



Motto 



Page 



„ , , 0Q f Queen Margaret of 

• Salus Ui> { Navarre 



n °">Amat victoria curam 






90 Emperor Matthias 



En ma fin git mon commencement 235 Queen Mary Stuart 



Invito funere vivat 

I was born, lived, and died free 

Nascatur ut alter . 
Non est simili illi . 
Semper eadem .... 
Sola facta solum deum sequor 
Soli phoenix omnia mundi 
Unica semper avis . 
Tit vivat .... 
Vivit post funera 



pour\ 



. De mi muerte mi vida . 

. De mort a vie 

. Et morte vitam protutit 

. Ex morte, immortalitas 

. Murio y nacio . 

. Ne pereat .... 

. O mors, ero mors tua . 

. Se necat ut vivat . 

. Truova sol nei tormenti il suo gioire 
(Vivre pour mourir, mour 

"\ vivre 

. Uror, morior, orior . 
Pine-tree struck by 1 n ~ ;„ „„„.„,. 

thunder and Kghtning/ 11 ml ° s P erar ' ■ • 
Plane, carpenter's . . Hie houd .... 

Plane-tree . . . .| Et s f eri ' eB P latani malos 
^ valentes .... 

Plutus Sedet seternumque sedebit 

Polestar .... Mas veiante ningum 

See Mariner's Compass. 

Pomegranate . . . Tut Zopyros 

„ ... Vos mentis .... 

. Audaces fortuna juvat . 

. Cominus et emiuus . 

. Decus et tutamen in armis 

. Ne volutetur 

. Qui s'y frotte s'y pique . 

. Vultos avos Troise . 



Poplar . 
Porcupine 



See Hedgehog. 
Pots of fire . 

See Boiling Pot. 
Prometheus 
Pyramid, building 
„ crown over 



D'ardant de'air 



Altiora . 
Ut ipse finiam 
Ad hoc stut . 



153 Joan of Arc 
n-o/Christina, Queen of 
/od t Sweden 
161 Jane Seymour 
116 Q. Eleanor of Austria 

161 Queen Elizabeth 
192 Bona of Savoy 
384 Queen Elizabeth 
116 Q.Eleanor of Austria 
159 Cardinal Trent 

162 Linacre 

79 Vittoria Colonna 
162 



143 Curtio Gonzaga 
55 John, D. of Burgundy 
> 14 Trasformati Academy 

127 Henry HI. 
214 

251 Philip II. 
242 Ferdinand I. 
207 'William of Orange 
112 Louis XII. 

79 Vespasian Colonna 
237 Queen Mary Stuart 

59 Nancy city 
112 Louis XII. 



26 Rene" of Anjou 

99 Cardinal LuigidEste 
222 Pope Adrian VI. 
234 James V. 



INDEX. 431 

Device Motto Page 

Ship with oars . . . Propriis nitar 141 Scipione Gonzaga 

„ and pole star. . Buena guia 201 Alfonso I. of Aragon 

See Galley. 

Sickle Sparsa et negleeta colgi . . .103 Claude Fauchet 

Sieve Donee impurum 14 Travagliati Academy 

, Ti a mi, e mi a ti 194 Beatrice d'Este 

v 384 Queen Elizabeth 

See Boltiug Mill. 
Snail. See Cupid. 

Sphinx 32 Emperor Augustus 

Squirrel .... Quo non aseendam ? . . . . 106 Nicolas Fouquet 

Stag and serpents . . Una salus 46 San Carlo Borromeo 

„ flying .... Caesar hoc mihi donavit . . . 108 Charles VI. 

,, , Cursum intendimus alia ... 53 Constable Bourbon 

- " ■ • • • prance ^{^urbon ^ "' 

„ running . . . Velocitur ad caalum 84 Alberigo Cybo 

„ swimming . . Dant animos vicis 6 Animosi Academy 

„ ,, . . Transcendum, aut moriandum . 84 Alberigo Cybo 

,, white .... Nessuu mi tocchi 142 Lucrezia Gonzaga 

Star Cara ma lontana 130 Mary de Medicis 

Stars, three . . . Ab his venit omne serenum . . 168 Cardinal Mazarin 

„ „ . Hinc ordo et copia rerum . . „ „ „ 

„ Invidiam fines virtute reliquit . . „ „ „ 

,, „ . . . . Vigilait et cuncta quiescunt . . „ „ „ 

„ heavens studded . Velocitur ut prosit 222 Pope Clement IX. 

„ of Magi . . . Monstratiter 224 jJohn^ King of Por- 

„ , Monstrant regibus astra viam . 108 John, King of France 

„ surrounded by j yi t Domine, demonstra mihi 86 Andrea Doria 
arrows ... J ' ' 

Steel and flint . . . Exilit quod deleterit .... 13 Occulti Academy 
See Fusil. 

Steelyards. See Balance. 

Stockfish 151 Iceland 

Stork and cube . . EN KTPIfl ETXAPI2TIA ... 84 Alberigo Cybo 

„ and plane-leaf . Audentius obstat 131 Vicenzo di Franchi 

„ and serpents . Post longi tsedia belli .... 136 Gonsalvo of Cordova 

„ fed by young . Antepelargium serva .... 220 Count P. Brunora 
„ feeding its young Pia mater noxia pell o . . . .131 Q. Mary de Medicis 

Style of dial . . . Non cedit umbra soli . . . .260 Gian G. Trivulzio 

Suns, Golden m Charles VI. and VII. 

Sun Candida candidis 116 Claude de France 

Idem per diversa 382 Edward VI. 

Non exoriatus exorior .... 98 Cardinal Luigi d'Este 

' Non mutuata luce 142 Ferdinand Gonzaga 

„. . ,. , ■,.,. r,A (Cardinal Prospero 

, Si tardior splendidior . . . . 74| Colonna 

„ , . , „ • „ Toa/Frederick, Duke of 

„ Solus ""leficiens 138| MaQtua ' 

among clouds. . Major ab adversis 131 Q. Mary Tie Medicis 

in his splendour . Nee pluribus impar 130 Louis XIV. 



430 INDEX. 

Dance Motto Page 

Salamander . . . Durabo 242 John K. of Aragon 

„,..,, , , 1K (Francis, when Count 

„ ... Nutnsco ll buono, stengo el reo . lis j ojf Angouleme 

„ ... Nutrisco et extinguo . . . . „ Francis I. 

„ ... TJng seul desir 116 Francis I. 

, . „„, (Thomas, Count of 

Savoy knot . . . Strmge ma mon eostiinge . . . 2dl| g avoy 

„ and two hands. En s'eloignant, elles se serrent . 163 Margaret of Parma 

Saw 41 Bentivoglio family 

See Mountain. 

Sceptres and a sword . Duo protegit unus 128 Henry IV. 

Scorpion .... Qui vivens lsedit morte medetur . 140 Luigi Gonzaga 

Scourge and laurel . Psena et premium 217 Pope Pius II. 

Seal ..... Sic quiesco 141 Luigi Gonzaga 

Seleucides (birds) . . Loco et tempore 221 C. Pietra il "Vecchio 

Serpent and anchor . Fata viam inveniant . 33J Austria 

T niM (Edward King of 

„ lance . Loco et tempore 224| p ortugal 5 

„ „ obelisk . Prudentia in adversis . . . .222 Pope Gregory XII. 

" " 0li b V r e ancll .}Eerumsapientiacustos. . . . ^{Ma^et, Duchess of 

„ „ sword . Hie ducibus 201 Robert, K. of Naples 

„ biting a lance Indarno 154 Gaspar Lanci 

„ casting its skin {^^ **?*? ° nuova s P°S lia }l51 Ascanio Salimbene 

„ „ „ Nitidus „ Antonio Isolani 

„ „ „ Paratior 231 Philip II., D. of Savoy 

„ in a fire, and star Quis separabit 221 Pope Boniface IX. 

„ in a hedge . . Sed contra audentior ito . . . 194 Ludovieo Sforza 

„ round a spade . His ducibus 134 Ipp. Girami 

„ shutting its ears Ut prudentia vivam 19 Aless. Alessandri 

Serpen^ a three,^ook-| Qu&sbrumategebat _ _ _ _ 13 Einovati Academy 

„ two, and pair/Dilexisti malitium super benig-\ ng a •„,(. 

of shears. .\ nitatem J Anosio 

See Eagle. Biscia. Stag. Stork. 

Sheep 42 Berry Province 

See Elephant. 

Shield, Golden, Order of Allen 50 Louis, D. of Bourbon 

„ of Minerva's . Eerum prudentia custos . . . 166 /Margaret, Duchess of 
„ Spartan . . Aut cum hoc, aut in hoc ... 35 Pescara, Marquis 
Ship , . . . . Omnia fortuna eomrnitto ... 86 Andrew Doria 

„ in full sail . . Velum ventis 224 { A pTtu<Sl'' **"* ° f 

„ in storm . . . Custodi dominus vigilantis . . 166 Marquis de Marignan 

„ ,, . . . Durate 145 Cardinal Granvelde 

(Quo res eumque cadunt, semper!,,.,. „ . , T . 
» ■ • •{ linea recta . ... /.}157 Prince de Ligne 

,, „ ... Tempestati parendum .... 88 Emperor Wenceslaus 

" W mast SblVered } Nlin( l uam nisi rectum .... 237 Queen Mary Stuart 



INDEX. 



433 



Deiricc Motto 

Swallow resting on stick Difessa, non diffisa 



(Non habemus liio maneutum civi-ln 
' \ tatum ) 



Page 

1 1 Insensati Academy 
239' 

Swan 117 Q. Claude de France 

, 72 Cleves, House of 

, Cum eandore canore .... 222 Pope Clement IX. 

„ Plus qu' onque mes .... 72 Duchy of Cleves 

, Unius coloris 27 Luigi d'Aquino 

See Eagle. 
g, vol ,j (Anna tenenti omnia dat qui justal„„„f' Charles Emmanuel, 
' \ nega . j A6ci \ Duke of Savoy 



cleaving rock 

Constable's 
flaming 



,, in bran 
See Armed hand 



. Aciatutpenetrat 224 |Jolm Jving of Por- 

. Aplanos 197 Const. Montmorency 

. Auctor ego audendi .... 52 Cardinal Bourbon 

. Folium ejus non defluit ...„,, ,, 

. N'espoir ny peur ,, „ „ 

. Penetrabit 52 Constable Bourbon 

. A tempo . 211 Virginio Orsini 

Balance. Sceptre. 



Temple and dove . . In deo spes mea 

„ of Di.na of (Sive bonum, sive malum, faina est 
Ephesus. . \Alterutra clarescere fama 

„ of Juno Lacinia Junoni lacing dicutum 
Terminus .... Cedo nulli ....... 

„ .... Vel Jovi cedere nescit .... 

Thistle . . . . .In utaunque fortunam .... 

„ .... Ne me toqut s, il peut .... 

„ Order of . . Esperance 

Thrush Taciturnus tni'dus 

Thunderbolts . . . Cum tiinore 



„ striking three I p ^ 
mountains J 



Thunder 



summos 
Feriunt summos . 



. Feriunt summos fulmina montes . 

. His impia terrant 

. Hoc uno Jupiter ultor .... 

. Impavidem ferient ruinss . 

. Spoliat mors mmiere nostra . 

. Versa est in cineris 

. Volitat per sa?cula nomen . 
Laurel. . Oak. Pine. 



,„<,/ Queen Elizabeth of 
\ Austria 

>141 Luigi di Gonzaga 

38 Marquis del Vasto 
90 Erasmus 

i* >» 

157 Count Lodrone 

158 Philippa of Gueldies 
50 Louis, D. of Bourbon 
13 Occulti Academy 

89 Emperor Charles V. 

142 Vespasian Gonzaga 

79 Vespasian Colonna 
89 Frederic the Pacific 
45 Francesco Borgia 
142 Vespasian Gonzaga 
Alessandro and Car- 
dinal Farncss 
, r , /Chancellor Mich, do 
iol \ l'Hopital 
lt>3 Margaret of Austria 

" ii u 

136 Gonsalvo of Cordova 



101 



'^roratell^Vhntastemporisnlia . 

Ti/.zone. See Water Buckets. 

Torch reversed . . Qui ine alit, me extiuguit . 

Tortoise and sail . . Festina lento . . . . 



. 383 Queen Mary 

. 228 Mens, do San Valicr 
. 182 Cosmo de' Medici 

2 v 



432 



INDEX. 



Device 

Sun rising . 

»» jj 

„ and Phoebus . 

„ dispelling clouds 



„ setting, and moon 
„ and moon . 
„ moon, and stars . 
„ and tree 
„ on column 
See Eagle 

Sun-dial 



Motto rage 

Nondum 247 Charles V. 

Non dum in auge 239 Duke of Seminara 

Jam illustrabit omnia . . . . 250 Philip II. 

„., (Francois, Duke of 
Fovet et discutit &&\ Anjou 

Obsisntia nubila solvet . . . 158PierredeLuxembourg 

Obstantia solvet 99 Ccsare d'Este 

Lux indeficiens 8 City of Casal Acad. 

Me tuis ornari ...... 33 Agnes, Q. of Hungary 

Jam feliciter omnia .... 252 Q. Elizabeth of Talois 

Hissuffulta 117 Q.Eleanor of Austria 

Tantum volvitur umbra ... 8 Costanti Academy 

Eclipse. Fleur-de-lis. Lucifer. 

. . -m-rfQ- Louise de Vaude- 

. Aspice ut aspiciar l&l\ mon t 

254 M. de Fienbet 

255 At Bourges 
Dial of Cardinal 



See Trivulzio. 
Sunflower . 



. Dum fugit umbra, quiesco 

. La vie est comme l'hombre, &c. 



Nee momentum sine linea 

Nulla hora sine linea . 

Non numero noras nisi serenas 



. 254 



/I 

\ Richelieu 
91 L. Priuli 
254 Dial at Venice 
JPlures labori, dulcibus quidamUgg M _ d(j Fienbet 

\ otiis ) 

(Sacra themis mores, ut pendula \ /Palais de Justice, 

"\ dirigithoras / " I Paris 

. Carpe diem 254 

. Dies mei sicut umbra' deolinaverunt 253 
. Dona prsesentis rape laetus horse . „ 
. Dubia omnibus, ultima multis . „ 

. Festina suprema 254 

. Gressus denumerat „ 

! Haste, traveller, the sun is sinking) 
low; I 

He shall return again, but never | " 
thou, 
flo vado e vengo ogni giorno, 
' \Ma tu andrai senza ritorno. 
. Memento horse novissime . 
. Pereunt et imputantur 
. Si nescio, hospes, sunt, &c. 
. Suprema haec muliis, forsantibi . 
JUmbrse transitus est tempus nos-\ 



}■ 



253 



" \ trum 

. Volat sine mora 

. Watch and pray, time steals away 



Deorsum nunquam 
Non inferiora secutus 



Swallow feeding young Concordia regni 
„ flying away . Le froid me chasse 



254 



165 Catherine of Austria 
„ Margaret of Valois 

(Frederick Henry of 
" \ Orange 
200 f Robert, King of 

\ Naples 
239 Madame de Sevigne 



INDEX. 435 

Device Motto I'age 

Wheel Sans sortir de l'orniere . . . . 258 L. La Tremoille 

See Fortune. 

Wild man . . . . ( Mit( P an ™ um a S w " a sub te ?")22 Sieur de Chaumont 
^ mine scabro J 

Willow (sorel) 240 Agnes Sore] 

Wind. See Fire. 

Wolf Sua alienaque pignora nutrit . . 82 Mathias Corvinus 

Y., Pythagorean. See Harrow. 

Yoke Suave 173 Pope Leo X. 

„ Superare ferendo „ 

See Bullock. 



434 



INDEX. 



of 



Device Motto Page 

Touchstone . . . De mi color mi valor . . . . 23o{ A ™ ad ^ y VL ' CoUnt 

„ . . . Fides hoc uao, virtusque probantur 76 Fabio Cdlonna 

„ .... Sic spectanda fides 122 Francis II. 

Tower Nisi domini frustra . . . . . 244| H ^J d ™'' Ki ° S 

,, Nomen domini 102 Bart. Farnese 

See Thunder. 

Tree grafted . . . Idem et alter 134 Ant. Borghese 

" " - • ■ .{ W ^ n r I1 A Gotwill ' (M ' QuandoIddio }„ GiulioGiovio 

„ in churchyard . Pietas revocabit ab Oreo . . . 237 Queen Mary Stuart 

„ leafless . . Gaudium meum spes est 33 j Gjl ves 

„ with trophy . . Ut casus dederit 238 Queen Mary Stuart 

Triangle .... Si volge 174 Giuliano de Medici 

. Trina non convenit orbis . . 237 Queen Mary Stuart 



Tulip 



Perficior 233 



Victor Amadeus, D. 



. Syn sus rayos, mys desmajos . 
. Languesco sole latente .... 
/Senza i suoi raggi io perdo mia\ 
"1 bellezza J 



\ of Savoy 
144 Carlo Gonzaga 



Unicorn 

,, ... 

Victory. See Globe. 
Venus (planet) 



Vine on ground 



Exaltabitur sicut uuicornis 
Veneno pello .... 



Inter omnes 



. Adhuc delapsa viresco 
. Juncta quiescam 
Virescit vulnere virtus 
„ watered with wine Mea sic mihi prosunt 
Violin Versa est in lachrvmas 



47 Vitaliano Horromeo 
20 Bart. Alviano 



. --/Cardinal Ippolito de' 

1 "\ Medici 

178 Cardinal Mazarin 

133 Gio. Gherardini 

200 Manfred 

234 Queen Mary Stuart 

237 

163 Margaret of Austria 



Water-buckets on a (Los llenos de' dolor los vazios de 

wheel . . \ speranza 

„ „ Piene di dolor vide de speranza . 

„ in a well Altera levatur 

„ Alternant pondera eundo . 

„ „ Va et Vienne 

Water-buckets and 

flaming log . 
Waterpot. See Chanlepleure. 
Weasel and toad . . Aural victoria euram 

,, eating rue . . Cautius puguat . 
Whale and musculus . Urget major* . 
Wheatslieaf. See Corn. 

Wheel 



>Humentia siccis 



238 Diego de Guzman 

„ Queen Mary Stuart 
219 Asc. Piccolomini 
65 P. L. Carafa 
„ Cardinal Joyeuse 

187 Galeazzo Visconti 

182 Francesco de' Medici 
216 Sforza Pallavicinn 
233 James V. 



,„_|Willigis, Archbishop 
\ of Mayence 



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