. Heraldry, historical and popular . impaled shields the armsof this Prince occupy the customary dexter half of theescutcheon: he also used seals bearing his own arms withoutany impalement. Henry Bolingbroke. afterwards Henry IV., during his fatherslifetime bore England differenced with a label of Lancaster; but,on the death of John of Ghent, he assumed the arms his fatherhad borne, and those arms he sometimes impaled with the coatof the Confessor. On one of his seals, certainly engraved andused between Feb. 3, and September 30, 1399, (the dates of hisfathers death and his own accession), Henr

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. Heraldry, historical and popular . impaled shields the armsof this Prince occupy the customary dexter half of theescutcheon: he also used seals bearing his own arms withoutany impalement. Henry Bolingbroke. afterwards Henry IV., during his fatherslifetime bore England differenced with a label of Lancaster; but,on the death of John of Ghent, he assumed the arms his fatherhad borne, and those arms he sometimes impaled with the coatof the Confessor. On one of his seals, certainly engraved andused between Feb. 3, and September 30, 1399, (the dates of hisfathers death and his own accession), Henry bears the Confessordifferenced with a label of three points, impaling France andEngland quarterly with a label of five points of Brittany, impalingLancaster, and this impaled coat impaling De BoJiun, for Mary deBohun, his first wife, who died 1394. The annexed 347, shows this remarkable aggroupment. In the original AIARSIIAlrL-ING. W Ritn.\iu)ii - .\.N.\r-:oKHoiii:.\iiA HiCHARn ii isarhi. .>t fraxck |j|)-W. ioi. mNRY IV - .Ki^XoF-XAVARRE HFINRY VII IZ ..f YORK .lU

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