. Heraldry, historical and popular . No. 688. No. 689. Princes: the feather golden, with its pen er^nine, is the Duke of Lan-caster s : and the feather tchite, having its pen compony, is the DuJce ofSonmsets. It must be added, that the Ostrich Feathers fre-quently appear on Seals of an official or corporate character, s 2 2G0 BADGES, CRESTS, SUPTORTERS, which were in some way connected either directly or indirectlywith the Crown. The three Ostrich Feathers, now so happily familiar to xis,as they are grouped together within the circlet of a princelycoronet, and borne by our own Prince of Wales,
. Heraldry, historical and popular . No. 688. No. 689. Princes: the feather golden, with its pen er^nine, is the Duke of Lan-caster s : and the feather tchite, having its pen compony, is the DuJce ofSonmsets. It must be added, that the Ostrich Feathers fre-quently appear on Seals of an official or corporate character, s 2 2G0 BADGES, CRESTS, SUPTORTERS, which were in some way connected either directly or indirectlywith the Crown. The three Ostrich Feathers, now so happily familiar to xis,as they are grouped together within the circlet of a princelycoronet, and borne by our own Prince of Wales, do not dateback earlier than the era of the Stuarts. In the Monumentof Abbot Eamrydge, at St. Albans, three Ostrich Feathersappear iinited in a single scroll,; and they arc also representedprecisely after the same manner in the equally splendid monu-ment of Prince Arthur Tudor, in AVorcester Cathedral; Ko686, PI. LXXVI. Single scrolled feathers are also displayedupon the Worcester monument, and they give the first indicationof thei
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