Tripp, of the Howard stock, has borne since
the time of Henry the Fifth, both the name of
Tripp and a scaling-ladder in bend, for his coat
armour. "This atchievement was given unto
my Lord Howard's fifth son at the siege of
Bullogne. King Harry the Fifth being there,
asked how they took the town and castle?
Howard answered, 'I tripp'd up the walls.'
Saith his majesty, 'Tripp shall be thy name, no
longer Howard,' and honoured him with the
scaling-ladder for his bend." The Lloyds of
Milfield, Cardigan, have three scaling-ladders
and a bloody spear for their charges. They are
the descendants of Kadivor ap Dynewal, who,
in the time of Henry the Second, recaptured
the castle of Cardigan from the Earl of Clare
by scalade, for which he was enriched by Rhys,
prince of South Wales, and given this coat.

Sometimes coat armour follows an office, not
a race; as in the arms of the lord of the
Manor of Stoke-Lyne, Oxon, which have ever a
hawk as one of the supporters, no matter what
the family arms may be. This came about
through Charles the First, who, when he held
his parliament at Oxford, received some slight
service from the lord of Stoke-Lyne Manor,
for which he offered to knight him; but the
gentleman refused, craving permission, instead,
to place his family arms on the breast of a
hawk, which was granted in perpetuity to the
lord, whoever he may be. And sometimes
coats and supporters evidence successful
resistance to royalty itself, as with the
Bulstrodes of Bulstrode, Bucks, vho have, as their
cognisance, a bull's head erased, in memory
of the gallant stand made against the Norman
gentleman whom William the Conqueror sent
with a body of men to take what was
afterwards the Bulstrode estate from its lawful
Saxon owner. The lawful Saxon owner
resisted, and his friends, the neighbouring Saxons,
helped, specially the ancestors of the Penns
and Hampdens. Having no horses, they
mounted the farm bulls, and rode out against
the dismayed besiegers, and so terrified them
that they turned and fled. When the king
heard of this, he sent for the victorious rebel,
under a safe-conduct, to court; whither he and
his seven sons came, mounted on bulls as in
their famous sally; and royalty was so delighted
thereat, that he gave him his estate in peace,
and added the name of Bulstrode for a perpetual
remembrance of his feat.

Many of our family arms are meant as the
most excruciating puns. Thus, the Botreux'
"gryphon" of Cornwall gave up their fine old
coat, a blue gryphon on a golden field, for three
toads; because botru is Cornish for a toad. The
Shelleys bear whelk-shells, and the Falconers
falcons; Godolphin has a dolphin embowed for
his crest; and Dolphinley, and Dolphinton, and
the Brownes of Dolfinton in Lanarkshire, all
have dolphins in some form or other. So have
the Ffrenches of Castlefrench; and so has the
Earl of Cassilis, who, at the Eglintoun tournament,
appeared as the Knight of the Dolphin
according to his crest; but these are not puns.
Whalley Abbey in Lancashire had three whales,
each with a crosier in his mouth; the Lucys
have a pike or luce; Lord Comyn a gerb, or
sheaf of barley or cummin; Corbet shows a raven,
a corbean, or corbie; the Arundels figure
themselves in swallows (hirondelles); Heiz has a
hedgehog (herisson); Brooke and Gray have the
badger, the " brock" or " grey" in some
counties; the Mowbrays bear the mulberry as their
cognisance; the Gobions or Gobyons have
everywhere gudgeons, or goujons; and the Gorges,
gurges or whirlpools—found in the Russell
arms by their descent from the Gorges. The
Lorraines make an anagram of themselves in
the alerion—an heraldic eagle without beak
or feet; Sir Fisher Tench of Low Leyton has
tench for his surname, and a dolphin for Fisher;
the Breames of Essex have golden breams; three
chub-fish typify Chobbe, as Lord Dormer shows
on his arms by right of being a Chobbe by
descent; the Roaches, or Roches, have roach; the
Fishers of Staffordshire have a kingfisher for
both coat and crest; Nicholas Breakspeare
(Pope Adrian the Fourth) bore a broken spear;
and our own divine Williams had a silver spear
on a sable ground.

"Non bos in lingua"—I have no bull upon
my tongue—I will take no bribe, alluding to the
Greek didrachm, which had a bull as its impress,
was the motto of a barrister; was he Irish?
Dr. Cox Macro of Cambridge was fitted with
the motto "Cocks may crow;" a tobacconist
took "Quid rides?" and the Company of
Wiredrawers have "Amicitiam trahit amor"—
"Love draws friendship." The Gurneys take the
gurnard; but in Cornwall, where the gurnard
is known as the tub fish, the Tubbes adopt it
for themselves. The Troutbecks, from that sweet
valley by Windermere,bear three trout "fretted,"
and their crest is a head on a wreath of trout;
while Otterbournes, Sprats, Herrings, Mackerells,
Whitings, Soles, and Turbots, Talbots,
Weares, Griffins, and every other name under
heaven which can be emblemised in beast, fish,
or thing, finds its likeness in the annals of the
"canting" or punning arms.

The Highmores, of Highmoor, Cumberland,
bear "argent a cross-bow erect between four
moorcocks sable, their legs, beaks, and combs
gules." The Middlemores, of the same family,
bear the cross-bow and three moorcocks; and
the Lowmores, still the same family, have the
cross-bow and only two moorcocks.

Lord Stourton has six fountains on a bend in
his coat of arms, meaning the river Stour, which
rises from six fountains or springs. The bend
is his park paling. So the Humes of Ninewells,
the same family as David, the historian, bear a
silver lion rampant, with nine wells or springs
set round the bordure.

"Strike, Dakyns! the devil's in the Hempe!"
is the inexplicable motto of the Dakyns family
of Derbyshire; while the Martins of Dorsetshire
had for a crest an ape, with this motto:
"He who looks at Martin's ape, Martin's ape
shall look at him."

The crest of the Dudleys of Northamptonshire