cape of his robe ermine. These are the arms of the city of Seville, in Spain.

24. Gules, three demi-savages, or wild men argent, holding clubs over their right shoulders or; name, Basil Woodd.

BLAZONING OF PLATE XIX.

1. Party per pale indented, or and gules; name, Birmingham.

2. Party per chevron nebuly, sable and or, three panthers' heads erased counterchanged; name, Smith. 3. Party per fess dancetté, or and azure, two mullets pierced counterchanged; name, Doubleday. 4. Party per bend crenellé, or imbattled argent and gules; name, Boyle.

5. Party per bend sinister, ermine and ermines, a lion rampant or; name, Trevor.

6. Party per saltire, argent and or, four eagles in cross sable; name, Barnsdale.

7. Quarterly, per pale dove-tailed, gules and or; name, Bromley.

8. Azure, a fess wavy, argent, in chief three stars; name, Jenkinson.

9. Argent, a double tressure-flory counter-flory, over all a fess imbattled counter-imbattled gules; name, Miller.

10. Argent, on a fess raguly azure, three fleurs-de-lis or; name, Atwood.

11. Azure, two bars indented or, a chief argent; name, Stoner.

12. Or, a fess dancetté sable; name, Vavasour.

13. Argent, on a fess engrailed gules, three leopards' faces or; name, Barbon.

`14. Argent, a fess invecked, between three torteaux. 15. Azure, a fess nebuly, between three crescents ermine; name, Weld.

16. Azure, a saltire quarterly quartered, or and argent, is the arms of the episcopal see of Bath and Wells.

17. Or, a fess checky argent and azure; name, Stewart 18. Gules, a chevron counter-compony argent and sable, between three fleurs-de-lis or; name, Shirley. 19. Quarterly, first and fourth argent, a chevron gules

between three torteaux; second quarterly; first, argent, a bend gules; second, argent, a fess azure; third, argent, a chevron sable; fourth, argent, a pale vert; third, argent, a fess between three billets gules.

20. Ermine, two flanches azure, each charged with three ears of wheat couped or; name, Greby. 21. Or, a buffalo's head caboshed sable, attired argent, through the nostrils an annulet of the last, ducally crowned gules, the attire passing through the crown; is the arms of Mecklenburg.

22. Or, a buffalo's head in profile sable, armed argent, ducally crowned gules; is the arms of the barony of Rostock in Mecklenburg.

23. Gules, an arm embowed, in armour to the wrist, issuing from clouds on the sinister side, and holding between the finger and thumb a gemring all proper, round the arm at the elbow a ribbon tied azure; is the arms of the county of Schwerin in Germany.

24. Argent, a wheel of eight spokes, gules; is the arms of the Bishop of Osnaburgh.

Marshalling.

MARSHALLING Coats of arms is the art of disposing several, or more than one, of them in one escutcheon, and of distributing their parts and contingent ornaments in proper places. Coats of arms are thus marshalled on various accounts: viz. to show descent, marriage, alliance, adoption, or the gift of the sovereign.

Such coats as betoken marriage represent either a match single or hereditary. By a single match is meant the conjoining of the coat-armours of a man and woman, descended of distinct families, in one escutcheon pale-wise; the man bears his coat on the dexter side of the escutcheon, and the sinister part for the woman. See the example, Pl. xL, n. 3.

Sometimes in blazon the man and woman are called baron and femme. There are three rules to be observed in impaling the arms of husband and wife: First, the husband's arms are always to be placed on the right side as baron, and the wife's on the left as femme. Secondly, that no husband can impale his wife's arms with his own on a surcoat of arms, ensign, or banner, but may use them impaled on domestic utensils. Thirdly, that no husband impaling his wife's arms with his own can surround the shield with the order of the Garter, or with any other order.

When a man marries an heiress and has issue by her, it is in his choice whether he will still bear her coat impaled, or in an escutcheon of pretence upon his own; because he pretendeth (God giving life to such his issue) to bear the same coat of his wife to him and to his heirs.

Moreover the heir of these two inheritors shall bear the hereditary coats of his father and mother to himself and his heirs quarterly: the father's in the first and fourth, the mother's in the second and third quarters, to show that the inheritance, as well of the possessions, as of the coat-armours, are invested in them and their posterity. See Pl. XIII., n. 6. If the wife be no heir, neither her husband nor child shall have further to do with her coat, than to set up the same in their house pale-wise, to show the father's match with such a family.

Concerning the bearing of several coat-armours palewise in one escutcheon (according to Gerard Leigh), viz. the marshalling of divers femmes with one baron, he says: "If a man marry two wives, the first shall be placed on the sinister side of the chief part, and the second's coat on the base impaled with the husband.” Pl. XL., n. 5.

Arms of a man and his three wives; the first two tierced in chief with his own, and the third in base. Pl. xL., n. 6.

Arms of a man and his four wives; the two first tierced in chief, and the third and fourth in base. Pl. xL., n. 7.

Arms of a man and his five wives; his own in the middle, with his first three on the dexter side, and the fourth and fifth on the sinister. Pl.

XL., n.

8.

Arms of a man and his six wives; his own in the middle, with his first three on the dexter side, and the other three on the sinister. Pl. XL., n. 9.

Arms of a man and his seven wives; his own in the middle, with his first four on the dexter side, and the other three on the sinister. Pl. XL., n. 10.*

ARMS OF A WIDOW.

A widow is to impale the arms of her late husband on the dexter side of the paternal coat of her ancestor, upon a lozenge. Pl. xL., n. 11.

ARMS OF A MAIDEN, OR DOWAGER LADY OF QUALITY.

If a maiden, or dowager lady of quality, marry a commoner, or a nobleman inferior to her in rank, their coats of arms must be set side by side in two separate escutcheons. If the lady be privileged to retain her title and rank, she must continue her arms in a maiden or widow's escutcheon, which is a lozenge, placed on the sinister side of her husband's; the arms ornamented according to her title. See Pl. XLI., n. 16.

ARMS OF A WIDOW AND HEIRESS.

The arms of a widow, being an heiress, are to be borne on an escutcheon of pretence, over those of her late husband, in a lozenge. Pl. XL., n. 12.

* These five last rules and examples have been retained as part of the original work; but if ever they were in practice they are now discarded. The object of Heraldry is distinctness. No person save an adept in the art could tell, from such marshalling, whether they were the coats of different wives, or quarterings brought in by one heiress.-EDITOR.