. Heraldry, historical and popular . heraldic Crest—the Crowned Lion ofEngland, standing upon a chapeati, No. 262. This Sovereignsometimes also bears an Eagle on his crest: but from this timethe crowned lion has continued to be the Crest of England. It isto be obsei-ved, that the marks of Eoyal Cadency were displayedas well upon Crests as upon shields. The Eoyal Lion, for ex-ample, stands upon the helm of the Black Prince gorged Avithhis silver label, No. 263, PI. XXAn. In like manner. Labelsand other Marks of Cadency appear upon the Crests of personagesof noble and knightly rank. Thus, the li
. Heraldry, historical and popular . heraldic Crest—the Crowned Lion ofEngland, standing upon a chapeati, No. 262. This Sovereignsometimes also bears an Eagle on his crest: but from this timethe crowned lion has continued to be the Crest of England. It isto be obsei-ved, that the marks of Eoyal Cadency were displayedas well upon Crests as upon shields. The Eoyal Lion, for ex-ample, stands upon the helm of the Black Prince gorged Avithhis silver label, No. 263, PI. XXAn. In like manner. Labelsand other Marks of Cadency appear upon the Crests of personagesof noble and knightly rank. Thus, the lion-crests of John Plan-tagenet, , Duke of Bedford, of George Plantagenet, ,Duke of Clarence, and of John Mowbray, , Duke of Norfolk( 1435, 1477 and 1475), as blazoned in their stall-plates, are<rorged with labels, the first having three, and the latter two fivepoints; Nos. 520 and 521, Pis. XXX. and XLL These labelsappear to be woni by the lions after the manner of bands or ,i C E £. S T S rKAPTEB XYZ. JI^ -A. Flate XTn KNOTS AND MOTTOES. 267 frills. In No. 451, PL XLI., the lion-crest of Thomas de Beau-fort, , Earl of Dorset, appears gorged with a collar com-ponee arg. and az. In some few instances the devices assumed and worn as Crests, \/are identical with those that appear in the shields of arms of thewearers; but the prevailing usage was to assume for the Crest afigure altogether difterent from the charges of the shield; anduncommonly strange, indeed, must have been the appearance ofthe figures that were frequently thus displayed by the earlyknights upon their helms. A Panache, or upright plume formedof a large cumber of feathers, generally the feathers of the cockor swan, was a favourite Crest. This is the Crest of the DeMortimers, and it is admirably blazoned on their seals. Theeffigies of Sir Eichard Pembridge, , at Hereford, Sir EgbertDE Marmiox, at Tanfield, and of Sir Thomas Arderne, at Elford,all of them about 1400, are good
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