. Heraldry, historical and popular . KNOTS AND MOTTOES. 285 The Stafford Knot is repeated again and again, in associationwith no less than eighteen Badges of the House of Stafford(which descends by no less than ten different marriages from theEoyal Blood of both England and France,) upon Ihe curiousmarble mural slab in the Chapel of St. Edmund in WestminsterAbbey—the memorial of John Paul Howard, Earl of Stafford,who died in ihe year 1762. The Bourcliier Knot I have shown (p. 115,) to have been usedto decorate the mantlings of one nobleman of the Bourchierfamily; upon the monument of another B
. Heraldry, historical and popular . KNOTS AND MOTTOES. 285 The Stafford Knot is repeated again and again, in associationwith no less than eighteen Badges of the House of Stafford(which descends by no less than ten different marriages from theEoyal Blood of both England and France,) upon Ihe curiousmarble mural slab in the Chapel of St. Edmund in WestminsterAbbey—the memorial of John Paul Howard, Earl of Stafford,who died in ihe year 1762. The Bourcliier Knot I have shown (p. 115,) to have been usedto decorate the mantlings of one nobleman of the Bourchierfamily; upon the monument of another Bourchier at West-minster, this same Knot is several times repeated, engraved inbrass, and attached to a coiidiere—the piece of armour that wasused to protect the elbow joint, in the panoply of the second halfof the thirteenth century. No. o No. 695.—Bourcbier-Knot and Coiidiere, or Elbow-guard: Brass in Chapel, Westminster Abbey, to Sir HvMriiKEY BovRcmEn, killedat Barnet 1471.
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