. Heraldry, historical and popular . f a numerous tun, to represent the terminal syllable ton, was in greatfavour; see Tun, in Chap. IX.; thus at Winchester, in theChantry of Bishop Laxgton, 1500, a musical note calleda long is inserted into a tun, for Langton; a vine and a tun, forhis See, Winton; and a hen sitting on a tun, for his Prior,Hunton. In No. 628, drawn from the panelling of the Chan-try of Bishop Oldham, 1519, in Exeter Cathedral, theowl with the label in its beak charged with the letters dom,forms what was held to be a Eebus of the Bishops name—Oicl-dom, Old-
. Heraldry, historical and popular . f a numerous tun, to represent the terminal syllable ton, was in greatfavour; see Tun, in Chap. IX.; thus at Winchester, in theChantry of Bishop Laxgton, 1500, a musical note calleda long is inserted into a tun, for Langton; a vine and a tun, forhis See, Winton; and a hen sitting on a tun, for his Prior,Hunton. In No. 628, drawn from the panelling of the Chan-try of Bishop Oldham, 1519, in Exeter Cathedral, theowl with the label in its beak charged with the letters dom,forms what was held to be a Eebus of the Bishops name—Oicl-dom, Old-ham. About the same period, in the sculjDturesof Norwich Cathedral, Bishop Walter Lyhart has his Eebusmany times repeated; it is a stag or hart lying dmcn in aconventional representation of icater: this is carrying theprinciple of the Eebus about as far as it can be carried. 124 MISCELLANEOUS NAMES AND TITLES. Another curious and characteristic example of a Rehus occursCAtll *^^ monument of Sir .Toh\ Pkche, at LuUingstone, Kent, V. No. 628.—Kebus of Bishop Oldham, Exeter Cathedral. 1522, and also in the stained glass of the chapel in whichthis monument is preserved: the shield of arms of Sir JohnPeche (az., a lion rampt. queue fourcliee erm., crowned or), is sur-rounded by branches of a peach-tree, each peach being charged tciththe letter £ ; also the crest, a lions head crowned, stands upon atoreaih of peach-branches fruited, the peaches charged as before. SeeStothard. In Westminster Abbey, Abbot Islips Chapel gives two formsof his Rebus ; one, a human Eye, and a small branch or Slip of a tree; the other, a man in the act of falling from a tree,and exclaiming, I slip. Such heraldic puns are distin-guished as Canting Heraldry. This system extends to mottoes,as in the well-known instance of the Vernons, whose motto is Ver non semper viret. This Canting Heraldry, which was carried to so strange an excess in the sixteenth century, had a prevailing influence un- } der a m
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