History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . hebadge of the Lancastrians, as opposedto the white rose of York. The redrose of Lancaster was blessed by thePrimate of England when he anointedHenry IV. with the holy oil from thesacred ampulla. He also had for cog- Standartl of Henry IV., of Bolingbroke nizanCCS the antclopC aud the silvcr and Lancaster. g^^.^j^g ^f ^Y\q Dq Bohuus. The St
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . hebadge of the Lancastrians, as opposedto the white rose of York. The redrose of Lancaster was blessed by thePrimate of England when he anointedHenry IV. with the holy oil from thesacred ampulla. He also had for cog- Standartl of Henry IV., of Bolingbroke nizanCCS the antclopC aud the silvcr and Lancaster. g^^.^j^g ^f ^Y\q Dq Bohuus. The Stand- ard of Henry IV. of England had a swan and a large rose, the fieldsemee of foxtails, stocks of trees, and red roses, per fesse argent andazure, the livery colors of the Lancastrians having at the head the redcross of St. George on a white field. Henry V, 1413-1422, had for devices an antelope or, armed, crowned,spotted, and horned with gold, a red rose, and a silver swan. His sup-porters were a lion and antelope, — an antelope argent being substi-tuted for the wdiite hart, as a companion to the lion of Aquetain. Hisstandard, exhibiting the antelope gorged with a crown and a goldenchain pendant, was carried at the battle of Agincourt, in 132 THE SYMBOLS, STANDARDS, AM) liANNKKS NVlien Ileiiiy V. entered the lists against Mowbray, Uuke of Nor-folk, his caparisons were embroidered with the antelope and swan;Henrys antelope appeared also at his interview A\iih King Charles atMelun. The king of England had a large tente of bhie velvet and green,richly embroidered with two devices: the one was an antelope draw-ing in a horse mill; the other was an antelope sitting on a high stagewith a branch of olife in his mouth, and the tente was replenished anddecked with this poysie: — ^^ After husie laboure commith victorious reste.^ He also used, at times, a beacon or cresset, a fleur-de-lis crowned,and a foxs tail. When Henry V. made his entry into Ilouen, a pagecarried behind
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