A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

1. ("Atque hic exultans--insigne decorum."--Lib. ii. lines 386-392.)

"ChorÃ¦bus, with youthful hopes beguil'd, Swol'n with success, and of a daring mind, This new invention fatally design'd. 'My friends,' said he, 'since fortune shows the way, 'Tis fit we should the auspicious guide obey. For what has she these Grecian arms bestowed, But their destruction, and the Trojans' good? Then change we shields, and their devices bear: Let fraud supply the want of force in war. They find us arms.'--This said, himself he dress'd In dead Androgeos' spoils, his upper vest, His painted buckler, and his plumy crest."

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Chapter 1 Ch.1
INTRODUCTION ix Ch.2
INTRODUCTION Ch.3
CHAPTER I Ch.4
1. _Tydeus._ Ch.5
2. _Capaneus._ Ch.6
3. _Eteoclus._ Ch.7
4. _Hippomedon._ Ch.8
5. _Parthenopæus._ Ch.9
6. _Amphiaraus._ Ch.10
7. _Polynices._ Ch.11
1. ("Atque hic exultans--insigne decorum."--Lib. ii. lines 386-392.) Ch.12
2. ("Post hos insignem--serpentibus hydram."--Lib. vii. lines 655-658.) Ch.13
3. ("Sequitur pulcherrimus Astur--insigne paternæ."--Lib. x. lines Ch.14
1. _Cilo_, § 171. Ch.15
2. _Calliope_, § 74. Ch.16
1. ("Tum redire paulatim--in sedes referunt."--Cap. 28.) Ch.17
CHAPTER II Ch.18
CHAPTER III Ch.19
CHAPTER IV Ch.20
6. bendy of six, a canton...."[5] Ch.21
6. paly of six within a bordure; 7. bendy of six, a canton; 8. or, a Ch.22
CHAPTER V Ch.23
CHAPTER VI Ch.24
1150. This tomb was formerly in the cathedral of Le Mans, and is now in the Ch.25
CHAPTER VII Ch.26
CHAPTER VIII Ch.27
CHAPTER IX Ch.28
1265. (From MS. Cott., Nero, D. 1.)] Ch.29
introduction of charges in its angles, led naturally to the arms of the Ch.30
CHAPTER X Ch.31
CHAPTER XI Ch.32
CHAPTER XII Ch.33
CHAPTER XIII Ch.34
CHAPTER XIV Ch.35
CHAPTER XV Ch.36
CHAPTER XVI Ch.37
CHAPTER XVII Ch.38
CHAPTER XVIII Ch.39
1232. Garbs therefrom became identified with the Earldom of Chester, and Ch.40
CHAPTER XIX Ch.41
247. The mention of stones brings one to the kindred subject of Ch.42
CHAPTER XX Ch.43
1615. The introduction of the open full-faced helmet as indicative of Ch.44
CHAPTER XXI Ch.45
CHAPTER XXII Ch.46
CHAPTER XXIII Ch.47
CHAPTER XXIV Ch.48
1. Sir William Latimer, Lord Latimer, K.G., c. 1361-1381. Arms: gules a Ch.49
2. Sir Bermond Arnaud de Presac, Soudan de la Tran, K.G., 1380-_post_ 1384. Ch.50
3. Sir Simon Felbrigge, K.G., 1397-1442. Arms: or, a lion rampant gules. Ch.51
4. Sir Reginald Cobham, Lord Cobham, K.G., 1352-1361. Arms: gules, on a Ch.52
5. Sir Edward Cherleton, Lord Cherleton of Powis, K.G., 1406-7 to 1420-1. Ch.53
6. Sir Hertong von Clux, K.G., 1421-1445 or 6. Arms: argent, a vine branch Ch.54
7. Sir Miles Stapleton, K.G. (Founder Knight, died 1364). Arms: argent, a Ch.55
8. Sir Walter Hungerford, Lord Hungerford and Heytesbury, K.G., 1421-1449. Ch.56
9. Sir Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford, 1429-1460. Arms: or, a chevron Ch.57
10. Sir John Grey of Ruthin, K.G., 1436-1439. Arms: quarterly, 1 and 4, Ch.58
11. Sir Richard Nevill, Earl of Salisbury, K.G., 1436-1460. Arms: Ch.59
12. Sir Gaston de Foix, Count de Longueville, &c., K.G., 1438-1458. Arms: Ch.60
13. Sir Walter Blount, Lord Mountjoye, K.G., 1472-1474. Arms: quarterly, 1. Ch.61
3. barry nebuly or and sable (for Blount); 4. vairé argent and gules (for Ch.62
14. Frederick, Duke of Urbino. Mantling or, lined ermine. Ch.63
1. That with ancient arms of which the grant specified the colour, Ch.64
2. That the mantling of the sovereign and Prince of Wales is of cloth Ch.65
3. That the mantling of other members of the Royal Family is of cloth Ch.66
4. That the mantlings of all other people shall be of the livery Ch.67
1. That in the cases of peers whose arms were matriculated before 1890 Ch.68
2. That the mantlings of all other arms matriculated before 1890 shall Ch.69
3. That the mantlings of peers whose arms have been matriculated since Ch.70
4. That the mantlings of all other persons whose arms have been Ch.71
CHAPTER XXV Ch.72
introduction, but it will be noticed that no wreaths appear in some of the Ch.73
CHAPTER XXVI Ch.74
1672. The official blazon of the arms is as follows: "Gules ane holy lambe Ch.75
CHAPTER XXVII Ch.76
CHAPTER XXVIII Ch.77
CHAPTER XXIX Ch.78
CHAPTER XXX Ch.79
CHAPTER XXXI Ch.80
CHAPTER XXXII Ch.81
CHAPTER XXXIII Ch.82
1. quarterly, i. and iiii., argent, on a bend azure, three bucks' heads Ch.83
4. quarterly argent and gules, in the second and third quarters a fret Ch.84
3. Robinson, because Smith, which brought in Jones and Robinson, has been Ch.85
CHAPTER XXXIV Ch.86
CHAPTER XXXV Ch.87
CHAPTER XXXVI Ch.88
CHAPTER XXXVII Ch.89
CHAPTER XXXVIII Ch.90
CHAPTER XXXIX Ch.91
3. Ireland and the arms of Hanover were placed upon an inescutcheon." This Ch.92
CHAPTER XL Ch.93
CHAPTER XLI Ch.94
CHAPTER XLII Ch.95
16. Your Mother's Mother's Mother's Mother. Ch.96
1. _Duke's Coronet_ (Ribbon of St. Patrick): Argent, a saltire gules Ch.97
2. _Lozenge_: Argent, a chief azure, over all a lion rampant gules, Ch.98
3. _Earl's Coronet_ (Ribbon of Hanoverian Guelphic Order): Quarterly Ch.99
4. _Lozenge_: Argent, a chevron gules, a double tressure flory and Ch.100
5. _Duke's Coronet_ (Garter): Quarterly, 1 and 4, barry of eight or and Ch.101
6. _Lozenge_ (surmounted by Earl's coronet): Gules, three mullets or, Ch.102
7. _Earl's Coronet_ (Garter): Quarterly of six, 1. gules, on a bend Ch.103
5. gules, three escallops argent; 6. barry of six argent and azure, Ch.104
9. _Baron's Coronet_: Per chevron engrailed gules and argent, three Ch.105
11. _Earl's Coronet_ (Ribbon of Thistle): Or, a fess chequy argent and Ch.106
12. _Lozenge_: Sable, on a cross engrailed between four eagles Ch.107
13. _Baronet's Badge_: Or, on a chief sable, three escallops of the Ch.108
15. _Shield_: Quarterly, 1 and 4, sable, a bend chequy or and gules Ch.109
3. gules, three legs armed proper, conjoined in the fess point and Ch.110
16. _Lozenge_: Quarterly, 1. or, a lion rampant gules; 2. or, a dexter Ch.111
25. As 17. Ch.112
31. _Arms_: Argent, a saltire gules. Crest: a monkey statant proper, Ch.113
2. upon a wreath of the colours, a porcupine proper; and as a further Ch.114