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." We have said before that it was
at the battle of Creçy he assumed the three
ostrich feathers and coronet, which he had taken
from John of Bohemia, with the motto "Ich
Dien," as we yet have them. Richard the
Second had a white hart and a white falcon,
also two angels for the supporters of his shield,
which he laid on a white hart collared and
chained, in memory of his mother's device, the
white hind; and which was not unlike the white
hart issuing from a tower, of the Irish badge.
He was fond of this device; for, in the ninth
year of his reign, we find him pawning certain
jewels, "à la guyse de cerfs blancs," and in the
twenty-second he had, as one of the items of
his wardrobe, a sword-belt and sheath of red
velvet, embroidered with white harts crowned,
and with rosemary branches. Another favourite
device was a sun in his splendour, from his
father's badge; another, a white falcon, which
forty knights and forty esquires bore at a
certain tournament; and another was the planta
genista, the broom, with the opened pods of
which—the seeds escaping—his robe in the
monumental effigy at Westminster Abbey is
strewn.

Henry the Fourth, the first of the House of
Lancaster, bore the same coat of arms, with a
difference: he reduced the fleur-de-lys, which
had been semé or scattered, to five; and his
supporters were an antelope and a swan, both
of which came from the Bohuns by his wife.
He bore this same swan and antelope
embroidered on blue and green velvet, when he
entered the lists against Mowbray, Duke of
Norfolk, who, on his side, and in allusion to
his name, bore the mulberry-tree. Henry also
bore a fox-tail "dependent proper;"
emblematic of the old saying, " if the lion's skinne
were too short, piece it with a fox's tail"—
add craft to courage. The red nose he
inherited from his grandfather, and the double
SS was also his device. Henry the Fifth still
further reduced the fleur-de-lys on his shield
to three, in imitation of the French king; he
ensigned the arms of England with an imperial
crown, and took for his supporters a lion and an
antelope. On his tomb in Westminster Abbey
an antelope and a swan are chained to a beacon;
one of his favourite devices; meaning either
that he would be a light to guide his people
unto all good and honour, or else in token of
his many hard wars with France, "his sudden
and hot alarms." He too affected the fox's
tail; for he gave Walter Hungerford the castle
and barony of Homet in Normandy, on
condition that he and his heirs should pay the king
suit and service at the "Castle of Roan,"
bringing him one lance with a fox's tail
dependent. Another of his badges was a
fleur-de-lys crowned, and his motto was "Ung sans
plus." Henry the Sixth chose a panther, semé
of roundlets of all colours, from the Beauforts;
and two white ostrich feathers in saltire. His
motto was "Dieu et mon Droit;" his supporters
two antelopes, afterwards two angels; his
colours were white and blue; and his distinctive
badge the red rose of Lancaster.

Edward the Third, the first of the House of
York, quartered like his predecessors, but chose
a lion and a black bull " armed or" for his
supporters. His first badge was a black dragon,
gold clawed, and his device was a falcon on a
fetter-lock, the fetter-lock open. This was in
allusion to the device of his great-grandfather,
Edmund of Langley, first Duke of York, "who,
after the king his father had endowed him with
the castle of Fotheringhay, which he new built
in form and fashion of a fetter-lock, assumed to
himself his father's falcon, and placed it on a
fetter-lock, implying thereby that he was locked
up from the hope and possibility of the kingdom.
Upon a time, finding his sons beholding this
device set upon a window, asked what was
Latin for a fetter-lock, whereupon the father
said, 'If you cannot tell me I will tell you:
Hic, hæc, hoc, et taceatis,' revealing to them
his meaning, and advising them to be silent and
quiet, as God knoweth what may come to pass.
This his great-grandchild, Edward the Fourth,
reported, and bore it, and commanded that his
younger son, royal Duke of York, should use the
device of a fetter-lock, but opened, as Roger
Wall, a herald of that time, reporteth." He
wore the white rose, being the badge of Mortimer,
Earl of March, in whose right he had the
earldom also; but after the battle of Mortimer's
Cross, where he saw three suns in one, he added
golden rays to the rose.

Richard the Third had two boars for his
supporters, and on the day of his coronation
thirteen thousand pigs were worked on fustian, and
borne by his faction. The old distich—
        The rat, the cat, and Lovel the dog,
        Ruled all England under the hog,
meant this device, no more, said the defendants,
solemnly ignoring well-fitting caps. Edward
the Fourth had the lion and the bull for his
supporters, a white rose " in soliel," and a pyramid
of feathers coming out of a crown for his
badges, and his colours were murrey and blue.

Henry the Seventh, the first of the great line
of Tudor, kept to the old shield, but changed
the supporter to the red dragon of Cadwallader,
and a white greyhound. In the twenty-third
year of his reign he ordered that a standard,
bearing a red dragon, should be placed in
Westminster Abbey. It was to be of red sarcenet
embroidered with gold, its tongue was to be
continually moving, and its eyes were to be of
sapphires. The greyhound he got from the
Nevilles, his wife's grandmother's family. Among
other badges, he bore the dun cow, in allusion
to Guy, Earl of Warwick, from whom he had
descended through the Beauchamps. He bore
the crowned portcullis of Somerset, and the
roses of the rival houses parti pale, that is, split
down the middle, one half red and the other
white; afterwards the white rose was set within
the red, as we bear it to the present day. As