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QUADRUPEDS.] 699 Mathew of Castell-y-Mynach : argent, a lion rampant regardant sable (fig. 87;. Evcringham : gules, a lion rampant vair, crowned or. Havering: argent, a lion rampant queue furchde gules, gorged azure (fig. 88). Capel: gules, a lion rampant between three cross ciosslets, fitchy, or. In allusion to which Lord Capel is described at the siege of Colchester : "There lion-like undaunted Capel stood, Beset with crosses in a field of blood." Sir Simon de Felbrigge, K.G. : or, a lion saliant gules (fig. 89). Fitz Payne : gules, three lions passant in pale argent, debruised by a bendlet azure (rig. 90). Fig. 90. Fig. 91. The lion statant is more usually seen on a crest, and is that of Percy and Talbot. Tynte of Cef n Mably : gules, a lion couchant between six cross crosslcts, argent, 3 and 3. Ayleworth of Essex : gules, a lion dormant or. Longspce, earl of Salisbury.: azure, six lioncels rampant or, 3,2,1 (fig. 91). Edniond, earl of Lancaster : a Incorporate lion issuing from three parts of tho escutcheon, united at the head, gardant in the fess point, or, armed and langued azure (fig. 92). A Scottish seal of Chalmers, 1449; bears a demi-lion issuant from a fess, in base a fleur-de-lys. Markham : azure, on a chief or a demi-lion rampant issuant gules (fig. 93). Sir Henry Eame, K.G. : or, out of the middle of a fess a lion rampant naissant gules, armed azure (fig. 94). Wyndham : argent, a chevron between three lions heads erased or (fig. 95. Kewdigate : gules, three lions jambs erased argent (fig. 9(i). Pinchbeke : sable, three lions tails erased erect argent (fig. 97). Fig. 93. Fig. 94 Fig. 95. The Leopard, that is, the real spotted animal, is seen now and then in coats of arms, but is of much later introduction than the lion, which is often called by that name. Thus Sir Reginald de Punstun- ville is blazoned as bearing "gules, two leopards passant de- bruised of a baton ; " these most certainly were lions. A coat of Astley was however, gules, a leopard rampant argent, in that case a real leopard. He is often called a pard. Cantelupe : azure, three pards heads jessant fleurs-de-lys or (fig. 98). AVentworth : sable, a chevron between three pa"ds faces or. Hubard of Ipsiey, who held under Cantelupe : sable, three pards heads jessant fleurs-de-lys argent. The heraldic Tiger is neither a common nor an early bearing. To the body of the wolf he adds the tail of a lion, and he is studded with tufts of hair. The supporters of Hastings, earls of Huntingdon, are two man-tigers affronte s. Lone of Ellow bears azure, a tiger passant or. Hunloke of Wingerworth : azure, a fess between three heraldic tigers heads erased or. The Wolf, when saliant, is said to be " ravissant." Lovett of Astwell : gules, three wolves passant sable, in pale. The wolf, the boar, the hart, and the hare were the four heraldic beasts of venery. Dame Juliana Berners says " Four maner beastys of venery there are: The first of the-n is the hert, the second the hare, The boar is one of them, the wolf, and not one moe." Fig. 97 Fig. 98. Fig. 99. Fig. 100. The Boar is the only beast besides the lion borne in the roll of Henry III., where Adam de Swyneburne bears " de goules, a trois testes de sanglier d argent " (fig. 99), a bearing which, however, the family have long laid aside for "per fess gules and argent, two cmquefoils counter changed," a coat derived from Umfraville. The hure or teste de sanglier is a common crest. The "glory of the tusky boar" is in his tusks, "dente timetur aper." He is also borne whole. Gilpin : or, a boar sable. The boar was the cognizance of Richard III., with a thorn bush " The bristly boar In infant gore T . Wallows beneatli the thoray shade." It is the crest of most of the clan Camnbell. The Bear is also a beast of heraldry. Beresford : argent, a bear rampant sable, muzzled, collared, and chained or Fitz Ursc : or, a bear passant sable. The Fox. Williams : argent, two foxes saliant countcr-saliant in saltire, gules, the dexter surmounting the sinister (fig. 100). The Cat-a-Mountain, musion, or wild cat, was long preserved in Kockingham forest, the country of Catesby, the first of the well- known trio " The cat, the rat, and Lovel our dog." Catesby, however, bore argent, two lions passant gardant sable, crowned or. Keate : argent, three mountain cats passant in pale sable. The musion was the emblem of Burgundy and the amis of an im prisoned cat were fabled to have been granted by Childebert to a knight who made prisoner Gundemar of Burgundy. In the following dialogue from Feme s Glory of Gcnerositic the reader will recognize an amusing passage in Quentin Durward. " Parartis, the herald. Therefore, I pray you, begin and tell your sovereign what coat armour this knight beareth? " Torquatus, a knight. Methinks lie beareth sable, a musion passant gardant or, oppressed with a fret gules of eight-parts, nayles argent, (fig. 101). " Columel, a ploughman. Jezu, Zir! call you this arms? now by my vaye, c'had thought arms should not have been of such trifling things. Why, this is even the cat in the milk-house window. Full ill will her dayri thrive giffe she put zutche a vermin beast in trust to keep it." The Dog. The mastiff or talbot supports the shield of the earls of Shrewsbury. " The talbot ever true and faithful to the crown." In the fine brass of Sir Brian Stapletonat Ingham, 1432, the knight rests his foot upon a dog whose collar is marked " Jakke." Burton of Falde : azure, a fess between three talbots heads erased or. JIauleverer of Allerton Mauleverer : gules, three greyhounds or levricrs currant in pale argent. The alaund or hunting dog was in great request. Those of Henry VIII. bore his arms and badges on their collars. Fienes, Lord Dacre, used it as a supporter. The Stag and Hart were old, though not of the earliest bearings. The stag appears in the roll of Edward II. When in motion he is trippa nt ; when lying down he is lodged. His antlers are his " attires ; " a pair of attires attached to a fragment of the skull bone forms "a massacre." The head is usually borne full-faced, when it is said to be cabossed or cabaged. Green of Green s Xorton : azure, three bucks trippant or. Bullstrnde of linllstrode : sable, a stag s head cabossed argent, attired or, and between the attires a cross patde fitchy of the third, transfixed through the nostrils by an arrow of the last, barbed and feathered of the second. This is called a stag of St Hubert (fig. 102). The kingdom of iirtemberg : or, three attires of a stag barwise in pale sable. Cocks : sable, a chevron between three massacres argent. Roper : per fess, azure and or, a pale and three roebucks heads coitntcrchanged. John Trie who, temp. Edward II., was son and heir of Alicia de Hertley, boro " a hart s head cabossed." Fig. 101. Fig. 102. Fig. 103. The stag s head was the emblem and armorial bearing of the M Kenzies, whose chief, the lord of Kintail, was called by the High landers " Caberfaigh " " Proud chief of Kintail, Let the stag in thy standard bound wild in tl.e gale. The heraldic Antelope, or agacella, somewhat resembles a tiger, but has horns and hoof s. Brooke, Lord Cobham, had for a dexter supporter an agacella, horned, tusked, and armed or. The Elephant. Elphinston : gules, an elephant passant argent, tusked < r. Saunders of Welford : per chevron, sable and argent, three elephants heads erased counterclianged. The Hull, or buffler, in his wild state was a formidable animal, and is used heraldically, though more frequently as a crest, supporter, or cognizance, than in arms " Mightiest of all the beasts of chase That roamed in woody Caledon." Front de Boeuf, a real Norman name, probably bore no arms, though Scott appropriately gives him the bull s head. The head cabaged was a Welsh bearing ; and when the horns and hoofs are noticed, he is said to be armed or corned and ungued. The bull s head is the crest of Hastings and Nevill, and the pied bull a well- known cognizance. Skeffington : argent, three bulls heads erased sable, armed or (fig. 103). The Calf. Le Vele. of Tortworth and St Fagans in Glamorganshire : argent, on a bend saUc three calves or. Calvcrley : argent, on a fess gules three calves or. The Horse, the support of the equestrian order, does not appear

in early coats of arms, although the winged horse was a cognizance