. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times . 167 arms of the kingdom ; Alfred added thereto four martlets, and Edwardthe Confessor made them five, by the addition of one at the base point;and as to the arms in question, it seems that they were borne byErkenwyne, the first of the East Saxon kings, and his successors. The arms of France and England in a quarterly bearing, the deviceof Edward III. who imitated therein the quartering of the arms ofCastil
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times . 167 arms of the kingdom ; Alfred added thereto four martlets, and Edwardthe Confessor made them five, by the addition of one at the base point;and as to the arms in question, it seems that they were borne byErkenwyne, the first of the East Saxon kings, and his successors. The arms of France and England in a quarterly bearing, the deviceof Edward III. who imitated therein the quartering of the arms ofCastile and Leon, was also the bearing of his successors, as kings ofEngland, and were Sem/e Fleur de Lys; that is to say, the field sownor powdered with fleurs de lys*, until Charles VI. of France reducedthem to three, when our Henry V. did the like: Camdens Remains,293. and so they continued. It is now time to enquire after the true appellation of those warlikeweapons that compose the East Saxon device; and upon consulting theauthors undermentioned, I find that that curv^ed weapon, which I havecalled a sabre or falchion, was anciently termed a Sach^ and there canbe little doubt, but that
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