. Peeps at heraldry . us explain the termaugmentation used above. By augmentation is meant any addition granted forsome special reason, to a coat of to one, William Compton, whowas about Henry VIII. and in greatfavour with him, the King actuallygranted permission to add a lionpassant guardant, taken out of his ownroyal device, to his paternal arms, asan honourable augmentation. u Inrememberance whereof, says Sir William Dugdale, the said Compton at his death bequeathed to theking a little chest of ivory, whereof the lock was gilt,with a chessboard under, and a pair of tables upon it.
. Peeps at heraldry . us explain the termaugmentation used above. By augmentation is meant any addition granted forsome special reason, to a coat of to one, William Compton, whowas about Henry VIII. and in greatfavour with him, the King actuallygranted permission to add a lionpassant guardant, taken out of his ownroyal device, to his paternal arms, asan honourable augmentation. u Inrememberance whereof, says Sir William Dugdale, the said Compton at his death bequeathed to theking a little chest of ivory, whereof the lock was gilt,with a chessboard under, and a pair of tables upon it. The arms of Sir Atwel-King Lake show a curiousaugmentation—viz., a dexter arm embowed—bent—issuing from the sinister side of the shield, holding inthe hand a sword erect, thereto affixed a banner, bearinga cross between sixteen escutcheons, etc. These sixteen * In blazoning the bee, Guillim cannot resist reminding hisreader of the old saw : The calf, the goose, and the bee,The world is ruled by these three.* ss. Fig. 46. Peeps at Heraldry escutcheons were given to the original bearer of thesearms, Dr. Edward Lake, a devoted adherent of Charles I.,to commemorate the sixteen wounds that Lake receivedat the Battle of Naseby. Lord Nelson was granted a very pictorial augmenta-tion of honour. Waves or the sea, from which apalm-tree issues between a disabled ship on the dexterand a battery in ruins on the sinister. Nelson hadalso a crest of an u honourable augmentation/ which hebore in addition to that of his family. A naval crownwith the chelengk, or plume of triumph, presented tohim by the Grand Sultan, Selim III. The augmentation of honour granted to the greatDuke of Wellington took the shape of the Union Jackcharged upon an inescutcheon, which was superimposedupon his own shield. CHAPTER VIII animal charges (continued) Fish occur rarely in heraldry, for although they wereconsidered typical of unfailing industry and vigilance, always swimming against the stream and never fal
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