of the following memoranda. The statements which will occur have been derived from authentic sources; and although a complete enumeration of all the devices which have been used is impossible, sufficient has, it is presumed, been recovered to render this and the other papers of the series acceptable to many of our readers. By adopting the arrangement of an Heraldic Ordinary, and adding an index of names and charges, reference may easily be made to either.

A few words will, perhaps, be expected on the hereditary right which may exist to use the Badges of families that are now extinct in the male line; and also on the question, whether the male descendants of such families as undoubtedly bore them, the Howards, Talbots, Clintons, Wyndhams, &c., have a right to bear them. This, however, is a subject which we believe the Herald's College has never been called upon to determine; and which it is impossible to illustrate by precedents, for none appear to be recorded. We are inclined to consider that Badges were wholly independent of the laws or officers of arms; and that they were no more deemed to form part of the armorial ensigns, than a merchant's, or a swan-mark, though in some modern instance, the Kings of Arms have authorised noblemen to use the Badges of families which they represented, by a formal grant. But this circumstance has no influence on our view of the question; and if mere conjecture can be allowed, when nothing positive is known, we would say, that the representation of a family conveyed the right to use its Badges; and that there is no Law of Arms, we speak not of the power to enforce it provided such existed, which would prevent any nobleman or gentleman adopting to-morrow whatever Badge his taste might suggest, much less to interfere with his continuing those of a house which he represents.

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That so beautiful an appendage of rank to fortune should not be more general would be surprising, were it not the ridiculous fashion of the day to allow butlers, valets, and other menials, to dress precisely like their masters; and thus the aristocracy of this country set an example in their own establishments of that levelling system of which, with indescribable inconsistency, they affect to disapprove. Let noblemen affix to the coat of their gentlemen," as, in utter prostitution of the word, they are called, a conspicuous badge of servitude, and those pampered spaniels will speedily leave off their airs and their vices, and remember that they are servants. Another effect would be produced, which is by no means unimportant: the general adoption of embroidered badges, by families of distinction, would give employment to a much greater number of industrious people than might at first be imagined; and hence, at the same time that

they increased the splendour of their equipage, they would do infinite good to a large portion of the most useful class of the community.

AGACELLA. An animal so called is said, in the Harleian MS. 216. fol. 255, to have been the dexter supporter of Geo. Broke, Lord Cobham. It appears to have been the same as our heraldic antelope; and in that instance was blazoned, "Sable, horned, tusked, and armed gold."

ALANT, or ALAUNT.

Chaucer, speaking of this animal, says,

"About his char there wenten white alauns
Twenty and mo, as gret as any stere,
To hunten at the leon or the dere,

And folwed him with mosel fast ybound,
Colered with gold and torrettes filed round.”

But the best description of it occurs in the "Master of the Game," where a whole chapter is devoted to the subject:

They that bee gentele schul bee made and schape lyke a hounde evene of all thinges, safe of the hede, whiche shulde bee grete and shorte, and though ther bee alauntz of all hues, the verrey hue of the good alauntz, and that is moste comyne, shulde be white with a blake spotte about the eeres; small, then, and white stondynge eeres and sharpe above 1."

The Alant Argent, with a spiked collar and chain Or, was the ancient supporter of the Fynnes, Lords Dacre of the South. Over the principal entrance of Hurstmonceux Castle, Sussex, is sculptured an Alant sejant, collared and chained, supporting a banner of Fynnes; round the staff of which is a scroll, inscribed, le Roy le veut. The same animal was used as a supporter by their successors in the title, the Lennards. The supporters of the Fynnes Lords Say and Sele were the same animals, and they are still retained by the present barons. John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, in his will, bequeaths to his son Henry, Duke of Hereford, " mon grand lit de drap d'or, le champ piers overez des arbres d'or et juxte chescun arbre un alant liez a mesme l'arbre."

The Harleian MS. 810. gives an achievement of the family of "Bolles," (the first quarter Azure, three boars' heads Argent, in bowls or cups Or,) supported on the sinister by an Alant of a light brown colour, with a collar Gules, spiked Argent, and vested in a close jacket Azure, laced and edged Or.

ALDER.-The Alder is the badge of the clan of Chisholm in Scot

land.

ALTAR.-Queen Mary is said, by Sir Robert Cotton, in Hearne's

Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xcvii. part i. p. 312.

Antiq. Discourses, vol. i. p. 112, to have used as one of her devices an Altar, thereon a sword erect; the motto, "Aræ et regni custodia."

ANCHOR.-"The Anchor," Randle Holmes says, in the Harleian MS. 2035, "Argent, gorged in the arm, with a coronet, and a cable through the ring, and fretted in true love's knot, with the ends pendant Or, is the badge of the Lorde Admirall of England; as he is commander in chiefe over all the King's navell forces." William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton, Lord High Admiral in the reign of Henry the Eighth, used the badge of an Anchor. It still remains sculptured on the ceiling of the vestibule or porch, in the ruins of Coudray, which was built by him. James Hepburn, Duke of Orkney, hereditary Lord High Admiral of Scotland in 1567, but who was afterwards attainted, bore behind his shield an Anchor Azure, the stock and ring Or, as his official badge. Edward Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, Lord High Admiral in 1556, used the Anchor as the badge of his office, the stem and flukes Argent, the ring and stock Or, the cable Azure. George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, who was appointed Lord High Admiral on the 30th January, 1619, likewise used an Anchor, with the cable entwined, all Or. James Duke of York, brother to King Charles II., placed his arms on an Anchor, encircled by his coronet. It is represented in Morgan's "Sphere of Gentry" as the achievement of the Lord High Admiral. The Capells, ancestors of the Earl of Essex, anciently used for their badge an Anchor Gules, bezanteê, the ring Or, the cord of the first. The device of the Lords Gray in Scotland was an Anchor, with the word "Fast."

ANGEL.-Angels were sometimes represented as supporting the shield of King Richard II., and in one instance those of King Henry VI. Regal Heraldry," p. 36. They have been generally used as supporters by the Kings of France. Menestrier, in "La devise du Roy justifiée," says, that they were first adopted by King Philip the Sixth; and Richard II. perhaps used them in consequence of his pretended title to the kingdom of France.

ANNULET. The Cliffords used for their badge an Annulet Or, evidently derived from the arms of Vipont, which were Gules, Six Annulets 3.2.1.Or. We find it introduced round the shield of Robert Baron de Clifford, on his seal to the Baron's letter to the Pope in 1301 he was the son of Roger de Clifford, by Isabella, daughter and coheiress of Robert de Vipont. The use of the badge was continued by the family, as it again occurs on the standard of Henry Lord de Clifford, temp. Hen. VIII.

The MS. No. 1121. in the Ashmolean Museum informs us that Edward Lord Despencer, who died 4 Edw. III., used an Annulet per pale Or and Argent as his badge; and the same MS. attributes to Sir Alan Boxhul, K. G. the badge of an Annulet, or rather, from the manner in which it is represented, a hoop Or.

ANTELOPE.-A white Antelope ducally gorged, chained, and armed Or, was used as a badge by Henry Duke of Hereford, and

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also when King. It was most probably derived from the Bohuns. King Henry V. certainly used the same animal as a supporter. "History of the Battle of Agincourt," and "Regal Heraldry," p. 33. The supporters of the arms of King Henry VI. were two Antelopes, as may still be seen in the hall windows at Ockwells, Berkshire. That animal was also the dexter supporter of Edward, Prince of Wales, his son. On the Seal of John Holland, Duke of Exeter, temp. Ric. II., his supporters are two Antelopes, collared and lined. That of Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, 17 Hen. VI., contains two Antelopes supporting the shield; and on the stall plate of Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, his shield is supported. by two heraldic Antelopes. On the west side of the tower of the church, at Earls Colne, the arms of the Earl of Oxford, impaling Trussel, are supported by two Antelopes; and the same animal is sculptured over the west window of Castle Hedingham church, in that county, with the badge of Vere. The colour was Argent, crowned, &c. Ór. An Antelope was the sinister supporter of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. The same animal Sable, armed Or, was the sinister supporter of John Plantagenet Duke of Bedford. The Parkers, Lords Morley and Monteagle, sometimes used two Antelopes Argent, armed, ducally collared, and chained Or, for their supporters. An Antelope Argent, armed Or, was occasionally used as a supporter by the Barons Ogle; and the Barons of Hilton's arms were supported by two of these animals. The Harleian MS. 1939. attributes to Lord Stourton as supporters two Antelopes Sable, armed Or. The arms of John Rosendalle, Baron de Brinsannock, in Wales, are supported by two Antelopes Or, each charged with a crescent Azure. Harl. MSS. 1971. fol. 64 b.

APE. The arms of Henry Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, temp. Hen. VIII., were supported on one side by an Ape proper, encircled round the loins by a ring, chained and clogged Or. An Ape passant Argent, ringed, chained, and clogged Or, is attributed to the family of Marmion in the Harleian MSS. 1453. fol. 158 b; and an Ape Or, face, hands, and feet proper, was the crest of the Lords St. John.

ARCHES.-Two Arches, supported on columns Argent, their capitals and bases Or, was a badge of the family of Denny, from whom descended Edward Lord Denny, afterwards created Earl of Norwich. ARM.-An Arm, completely armed, with a gauntlet on the hand proper, suspended by golden cords, tied above in a knot, and the ends pendant, is given in the MS. marked 1121, in the Ashmolean Museum, as the badge of Sir Thomas Borough, K. G., who was afterwards created a peer by Henry VII. Sir Robert Cotton, Hearne's Antiq. Disc. vol. i. p. 112, says, that Richard the First used for his device, " a mailed arm holding a shivered lance; the words, " Labor vires convenit." He does not, however, inform

us whence he derived his information; and the absurdity of the statement is palpable.

ARROWS-Katherine of Arragon used a sheaf of Arrows as one of her badges, which had been adopted by her father, Ferdinand II. of Spain, to commemorate the victory of Grenada, which was gained by the superiority of his archers. We find it sculptured on the tomb of her first husband, Arthur, Prince of Wales, in the Cathedral at Worcester. Queen Mary, to show her descent from Spain, used it also. The arrows Or, barbed and plumed Argent, corded Gules, and placed on a ground per pale, Vert and Azure. Regal Heraldry, pl. 19. Randle Holme in the Harleian MS. 2035, tells us that Sir John Crewe of Utkington, Knt., as forester and ranger of Delamere Forest, hath his escuchion fixed on the middle of two broad arrows in Saltire Or, feathers and pheons Argent, with his bugle pendant, underneath Sable, stringed Gules'." A bundle of Arrows Argent, within a sheaf Sable, garnished Or, the strap Gules,

was the badge of the family of Bottrell. Harleian MSS. 4632. The badge of John Smert, Garter King of Arms, temp. Edward IV., 66 was a brode arowe, head blacke armined." Anstis's Register, Vol. II. p. 355.

ASH. The Ash is the badge of the clan of Menzies in Scotland; and the Mountain Ash that of M'Lachlan.

Ass.-An Ass's head Argent, haltered Azure, was formerly the crest used by the Lords Zouche of Haringworth. The Somervilles, Lord Somerville in Scotland, bore anciently for their crest an Ass's head proper, between two wheels Argent. The motto, "Feare God, and Love." Philippa, Countess of March, bequeaths, in her will, to Edmond, her son, "un lit de bleu taffeta embroudez des asnes merchez en l'espaule ove une rose."

BADGER.-The Badger, or, as it was generally called, "a Graye," was a canting device of the Lords Grey of Codnor. In the Harleian MS. 1484. fol. 34, is the representation of a Gray proper, within a wreath of "Mayden's Haire," standing on a ducal coronet Or, as their crest. The arms of Richard Lord Grey of Codnor, in the 13th Hen. IV., as they occur on his seal to a charter in the British Museum, marked 111. C. 61, are encircled by this device.

BAGWYN.-The dexter supporter used by Carey, Lord Hunsdon, is described by early writers as a " Bagwyn." This imaginary animal was drawn somewhat similar to the heraldic antelope, but with the tail of a horse and two curved horns, which turned outwards over the ears. Lord Hunsdon's supporter was Argent, spotted of various colours, horned and hoofed Or, ducally collared and chained Azure.

A beautiful representation of the Utkington Horn will be found in Ormerod's History of Cheshire.