Younger Sons of Knights of the Bath.
Younger Sons of Knights Bachelors.
Gentlemen entitled to bear arms.
Clergymen, Barristers at Law, Officers in the Navy and crimes are personal.
Army, who are all Gentlemen by profession.

ARTICLE OF UNION REGARDING PRECEDENCY. wife of the younger son of a marquess. Also, the wife of any

Wives of Knights of the Garter.
Wives of Bannerets of each kind.

Wives of Knights of the Bath.
Wives of Knights Bachelors.

Wives of the eldest Sons of the younger Sons of Peers.
Wives of the eldest Sons of Baronets.
Daughters of Baronets.

Wives of the eldest Sons of Knights of the Garter.
Daughters of Knights of the Garter.
Wives of the eldest Sons of Bannerets.
Daughters of Bannerets.

Wives of the eldest Sons of Knights of the Bath.
Daughters of Knights of the Bath.

Wives of the eldest sons of Knights Bachelors.

Daughters of Knights Bachelors.
Wives of the younger Sons of Baronets.
Daughters of Knights.

Wives of the Esquires of the King's Body.
Wives of the Esquires of Knights of the Bath.
Wives of Esquires by Creation.

Wives of Esquires by Office.

Wives of the younger Sons of Knights of the Garter.
Wives of the younger Sons of Bannerets.
Wives of the younger Sons of Knights of the Bath.
Wives of the younger Sons of Knights Bachelors.
Wives of Gentlemen.
Daughters of Esquires.
Daughters of Gentlemen.
Wives of Citizens.
Wives of Burgesses, &c.

ROYAL ARMS, BADGES, &c.

OF ENGLAND.

FROM EGBERT, THE FIRST SAXON KING, TO HIS PRESENT
MAJESTY GEORGE THE FOURTH.

SAXON LINE

978 Eres:352, az a cross patonce betw, four martlets,

800 FORENT, the fist King of England, before that 1916 EDMUND IRONSID55, (son of Ethebred, az, a cross period called Bazm” AL. 3 cross patence or

PANTSH LINE.

CANETS (80n of Sean, King of Denmark" or, a cross gå; in the first and fourth quarters, semée of beirts gr. two boas pass, reard. a.; second and tài Ca 1 200 TAND, DE, SEzpecting a battle11 r.: 100 1a escutcheon of presence, az. three

CWIS A.

1996 Hare17, seevad son if Cavite, sumaned Harefoot er, va a cross patre ga a hon pass, curd. HARICANUTS, (ester brother to Barnes. The sune aus is Canor; though some authors assign La raven por.

NORMAN LINE.

1066 WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, gu. two lions pass. 1199 JOHN. The same arms.
guard. or. Much controversy has arisen as to the
bearings in these arms, which some maintain are
improperly called lions. In support of their being
such, Sandford, in his Genealogical History, b. i,
p. 24, notes the story of John, the monk of Har-
monstier, in Tourain, an author of the time; who
relates, that when Henry I. chose Geoffrey Planta-
genet, son of Foulk, Earl of Anjou, Tourain, and
Main, to be his son-in-law, by marrying him to
his only daughter and heir, Maud the Empress,
and made him a Knight; after bathing and other
solemnities, (pedes ejus salutaribus in superficie
Leonculos aureos habentibus muniuntur) boots, em-
broidered with golden lyons, were drawn on his
legs; and also, that (Clypeus Leoncules aureos
imaginarios habens collo ejus suspenditur) a shield,
with lyons of gold therein, was hung about his
neck. Favine, lib. iii, p. 577, 578, and 579. A
proof that this bearing was, at that early period,
termed lions.

1087 WILLIAM II. surnamed Rufus, [second son of Wil-
liam the Conqueror.] The same arms.

1100 HENRY I. [third son of William the Conqueror.] The same arms.

ever since been continued by succeeding sovereigns, as the motto of the royal arms of England. But before his elevation to the throne of England, when Earl of Mortagne, in Normandy, he bore only two lions. 1216 HENRY III. The same arms. 1272 EDWARD I. The same arms. 1307 EDWARD II. The same arms. 1327 EDWARD III. assumed the title of King of France, in right of his mother Isabel, daughter of Philip IV. King of France, the three sons of Philip, (Lewis, Philip, and Charles, successively Kings of France) dying without issue. Arms, quarterly; first and fourth, France, viz. az. semée of fleursde-lis or; second and third, England, gu. three lions pass. guard. or.-Crest, on a chapeau, a lion pass. guard. crowned, or. Edward III. was the first English monarch who bore a crest, which was afterwards continued by succeeding sovereigns to Edward VI. inclusive, upon their great seals. This monarch instituted the order of the Garter, which has been generally borne round the royal arms by succeeding monarchs; though it was not introduced upon the great seal till the time of Henry VIII. Badges, clouds ar. from which descend rays; and a trunk or stump of a tree, eradicated and couped, or.

1135 STEPHEN, said to have borne the same arms. And 1377
also, gu. three bodies of three lions pass. the necks
with men's bodies, or, in form of the sign Sagitta-
rius. By others, gu. a Sagittarius or. King Ste-
phen is said to have adopted this bearing from
the great assistance afforded him by the archers,
and having entered the kingdom when the sun
was in the sign Sagittarius. But on the great
seal, the shield is plain, without any device, as
may be seen in Sandford's Genealogical History.

SAXON LINE RESTORED.

1154 HENRY II. gu. two lions pass. guard. or; but after
his marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaine, this king
added a third lion, (the arms of Aquitaine being,
gu. a lion or.) On the great seal, no arms appear;
only the concave side of the shield being shown.
1189 RICHARD I. Before the crusade, this monarch's
great seal shows but one half of the shield, the
dexter side, with a liou ramp. sinister, from which
it is inferred that he bore two lions combatant. 1399
After the expedition to the Holy Land, another
great seal bears three lions; which, from this
time, became the hereditary bearing of his suc-
cessors, Kings of England. [From this crusade,
may be dated the origin of arms in this kingdom,
which by degrees became hereditary, but not fully
established until the latter end of the reign of
Henry III.] Motto, Dieu et mon droit. This mo-
narch having defeated the French at Gisors, in the
department of Eure, and late province of Nor-
mandy, A.D. 1198, and the king's parole on that
day having been Dieu et mon droit, God and my
right; his majesty adopted it, in memory of the
victory, as the royal motto, and it has almost

RICHARD II. [son of Edward the Black Prince] used the same arms as his grandfather Edward III. upon his great seal; but having chosen St. Edward the Confessor as his patron, he impaled the arms of the Confessor (az. a cross patonce betw. four martlets, or,) with the arms of France and England quarterly. Richard II. was the first of the English monarchs who used supporters, which were two angels, and beneath the shield a white hart couchant, gorged with a gold coronet, and chained under a tree-a device from the arms of his mother, Joan, Countess of Kent, and which he used as a badge. This king likewise used other badges; viz. a peascod branch, with the cods open, but the peas out; also, the sun in splendour, and the eradicated tree, couped, or. In some instances, the arms of England were placed in the first quarter.

LINE OF LANCASTER.

HENRY IV. This monarch seems to have usurped the great seal of his predecessor, Richard II. with his throne, merely erasing the name of Richard, and substituting his own; bearing the same arms, and sometimes England in the first quarter. The supporters assigned to him, which are somewhat doubtful, are, on the dexter side, a swan, gorged and lined; and on the sinister, an antelope, gorged and lined as the dexter. Badge, the rose gu. ensigned with a crown. He was the last king who bore semée of fleurs-de-lis for France. He used the tail of the fox as a badge or device, following, as Camden remarks, the advice of Lisander, "If the lion's skin were too short, to piece it out with a fox's case." See Camden's Remains, p. 215.

1413 Howay V. The arms of France having been altered

by the French King, limiting the number of fleursde la to three; this monarch likewise reduced thom, still retaining France in the first and fourth quarters, and England in the second and third. When Prince of Wales, his supporters were two swans, each holding in the beak an ostrich feather and scroll; but upon ascending the throne, was the first English monarch who took for the dexter 1509 supporter, a lion ramp. guard, crowned or; the sinister supporter being an antelope, as borne by his predecessor, Henry IV. The badges of this king seem to have been, a beacon or, from which flames, of fire issue, ppr.; and also, the red rose, ensigned with the crown. 1422 HENRY VI. France and England, quarterly. Supporters, two antelopes ar. accolled with coronets, attired and chained or; as appears over the gate of Eton College; though, a tiger ramp. guard. or, semee of roundles, alternately sa. gu. az. and vert, with fire issuing from the mouth and ears, sometimes occur as the sinister supporter. His badge or device, was, two feathers, in saltier, ar.; and he likewise used the rose as a royal badge.

LINE OF YORK.

1546

1553

1400 EDWARD IV. France and England, quarterly. Sup-
porters, dexter, a liou ramp. ar. the tail passing
betw. the less, and turned over the back; (one of
the supporters of this king, as Earl of March;)
sinister, a bull: a white hart was also borne.
Badges, a falcon ar. within a fetterlock, closed,
or, as Duke of York; a dragon, sejant, sa. crowned
or, as Earl of Ulster; a bull sa. crowned and
hoofed or, for his Honour of Clare or Clarence ;
a white hart, attired, accolled with a coronet, and
chained, or, on a mount vert, which he used in
honour of King Richard II. it being his badge.
A white rose rayonné or, and the sun in splendour
or, were likewise two badges used by this king.
1483 EDWARD V. France and England, quarterly. Sup-
porters, dexter, a lion ar.; (one of the supporters
of the Earldom of March;) sinister, a hind ar.
Badges, the white rose; and the falcon within the
fetterlock, as borne by his father, Edward IV.
1483 RICHARD III. France and England, quarterly. Sup- 1558
porters, two boars ar. tusks and bristles or. The
white boar was his cognizance. Badge, the white
rose rayonné or.

THE FAMILIES UNITED.

1485 HENRY VII. France and England, quarterly. Supporters, dexter, a dragon gu.; (the ensign of Cadwallader, the last king of the Britains;) sinister, a greyhound ar. collared gu. Motto, Dieu et mon droit. Badges, a portcullis, to which he added the motto, Altera securitas; the red and white

with the diadem of King Richard, which was found after the battle, in a hawthorn-bush, he bore the hawthorn-bush with the crown in it, and the letters K. H. as a badge.

Note. From the devices of the red dragon and portcullis, this monarch created the two pursuivants of arins, called Rouge Dragon, and Portcullis.

HENRY VIII. France and England, quarterly. The supporters, in the beginning of this monarch's reign, were the same as those of his father, Henry VII.; but he afterwards discontinued the greyhound, and used the following supporters, dexter, a lion guard. and crowned, or, transposing the red dragon to the sinister. Motto, Dieu et mon droit. Badges, a red rose; the uniou roses, red and white; a fleur-de-lis or; a portcullis or: he likewise used a greyhound, current, collared, to show his descent from the royal house of York. He was the first monarch who encircled the royal arms within the garter, surmounted by the crown, upon the great seal.

EDWARD VI. Arms, supporters, motto, and badges, the same as those of his father, Henry VIII. MARY. Arms after her marriage with King Philip. Those of King Philip being, party per fesse, the chief part quarterly of four pieces; first, Castile and Leon, quarterly; second, Arragon, impaling Sicily; third, as the second; fourth, as the first. The base part of the escutcheon also quarterly of four pieces; first, Austria, modern; second, Burgundy, modern; third, Burgundy, ancient; and fourth, Brabant; over all, an inescutcheon of Flanders and Tyrole, impaled. This achievement impaling France and England, quarterly: the arms of Queen Mary encircled by the garter. Supporters, dexter, an eagle: sinister, a lion ramp. crowned or. Badges, when Princess, she used both the red and white rose and a pomegranate knit together, to show her descent from the houses of Lancaster, York, and Spain; but when she came to the throne, by persuasion of the clergy, she bore, winged Time drawing Truth out of a Pit, with Veritas temporis filia; which motto appears on her first great seal, before marriage. The rose ensigned with a royal crown, seems to have been another badge used by this queen. ELIZABETH, France and England, quarterly, encircled by the garter. Supporters, dexter, the lion ramp. guard. crowned or; sinister, the red dragon, as borne by her father, Henry VIII. Badges, the red and white roses, the fleurs de lis, and the Irish harp, ensigned by the royal crown. This queen made use of several heroical devices, but most commouly that of sieve. The badge of Ireland seems, for the first time, to have been placed on the great seal in this queen's reign.

UNION OF THE TWO CROWNS.

roses united, in allusion to the union in him of the 1603 JAMES I. Arms, supporters, mottos, and badges,

two houses of York and Lancaster. And, to com-
memorate his being crowned, in Bosworth Field,

see STEWART, in the Alphabet. On the great seal appear banners of the arms of Cadwallader,

ROYAL ARMS

OF

EMPERORS, KINGDOMS, SOVEREIGN AND INDEPENDENT STATES, PRINCIPALITIES, &c. &c.