228 ILLUSTRATIONS OF part of the seventeenth century, appears the motto, icii dien, with a circle of rays surroiuiding a central compartment, now vacant, in which was displayed, probably, the triple plume of the Prince of Wales. This device would give rise to a con- jecture that this precious volume had passed into the posses- sion of the gallant Prince Henry, son of James I.*^ At some future occasion we hope to offer to our readers a more de- tailed description of this curious MS., and of the interesting limnings which illustrate its contents. The volume commences with instructions regarding equip- ment for the jousts of peace, illustrated by a large and very curious illumination, representing two knights in the presence of a princess of Prance, running at the barriers, and in the act of shivering their strong lances, tipped with three pointed coronals. One of them bears the cross of St. George upon his shield, and his crest is very singular, three damsels en- closed in a basket. The other knight bears a plain blue shield, and his crest is a harpy, ducally crowned and gorged. The following document was given by the late Mr. Douce, in the Archa^ologia, from a volume which once belonged to Sir John Paston, in the reign of EdAvard IV., now preserved amongst the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum^. ^ Abilment for the Justus of the pees. ^ A helme welle stuffyd, with a Crest of hys de-vijs. A peyre of platus, and xxx Gyders. A hausceinenf^ for the Bode, with slevis. A botton, with a tresse in the platis. A schelde coverid, with his devijs. A Rerebrace '^, with a rolle of ledyr well stuffid. A Maynfere, withe a ring. A rerebrasce, a moton. A vambrase, and a gaynpayne and ij brickettus. And ij dosyn tressis, and vj vamplatus. And xij Grapers*^, and xij Cornallis, and xl Speris. And a Armerer with a liamor and pynsons.
- Upon the fly-leaf are scribbled the vol. xvii. p. 291. It is also copiexl by Sir
following memorials, possibly of ancient Samuel Meyrick, in his Critical Enquiry, possessors of the book. Thomas fytz- vol. ii. p. 188. (p. 1,51'. edit. 1834.) hugh port azur, a fesse inter 3 bucketes "^ Ilaustement, Lansd. MS. Compare sable, hooped or.— Bryan Tunstalle—Tho- " Ifaiilse, the underlaying of a shooe." mas Tunstalle — Dieu Garde page. And Cotgrave. the distich, i Rerebrake, Lansd. MS. Qui a aultrui fait cc quil ne doit " xii. Grapers, explained by Sir Samuel Ce lui aduieiit (juil no vouldroit. R. P. Meyrick as denoting holders for the gripe. Lansd. MS. No. 285. f. 10. Arclueol. See note q i»fia.
