Curialia Miscellanea, or Anecdotes of Old Times: Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous: Including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, and the Manners and Customs of the Court, at an Early Period of the English HistoryPegge, Samuel
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Curialia Miscellanea, or Anecdotes of Old Times: Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous: Including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, and the Manners and Customs of the Court, at an Early Period of the English History
Pegge, Samuel
Anecdotes -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Early works to 1800; Pegge, Samuel, 1704-1796
The Duke of Norfolk has an augmentation, _viz._ an _Escocheon Or_,
in the middle of the Bend, charged with a _Demi-Lion_ Rampant,
_pierced through the Mouth with an Arrow_, within a double Tressure
counterfleur'd Gules; which was granted by King Henry VIII. for his
services at the Battle of Flodden Field[299].
[299] Nisbet's Cadencies, pp. 91, 92.
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Besides these and many other Bearings, not at this day easily,
if at all, to be accounted for, the Scots have, like ourselves,
several that are responsive to the Name. Of these I have selected
the few which follow, and have given their material Charge, without
attending to the Colours, or to the Blazonry of the whole. Thus
_Cockburn_ has a Charge of Three Cocks.
_Craw_ and _Craufurd_, Three Crows[300].
[300] This Bearing is of late introduction, as alluding to the
Name; for those of the Name anciently gave for Arms "Gules, a Fess
Ermine;" and another Branch gave "Argent, Three Stags' Heads erased
Gules." [Nisbet]. Crawfurd of Cloverhill has a still stronger
relation both to the Name and to his Seat; for to the original
Bearing he adds Three Crows; for Crest has a Garb (or Wheatsheaf);
and for Motto, "God feeds the Crows." Id. p. 57.--Like the Motto of
our Corbet, "Deus pascit Corvos."
_Fraser_, Three Frases or Cinquefoils.
_Falconer_, a Falcon.
_Forester_, Three Bugle Horns; and the Peer of that Name and Title
has for his Motto, "Blow, Hunter, thy Horn."
_Heart_, Three Men's Hearts.
_Hog_, Three Boars' Heads.
_Justice_, A Sword in Pale, supporting a Balance.
_Skene_, Three Daggers, in the Scottish Language called Skenes.
Mottoes.
The Motto of DALZIEL, Earl of CARNWARTH, now an attainted Title, is,
"I Dare;" the reason of which is given by Crawfurd, in his Peerage
of Scotland. The ancient armorial bearing of this Family was, A Man
hanging on a Gallows, though it is now only a Naked Man with his
Arms expanded. Some one of the Family having, perhaps, dropped the
Gallows and the Rope, as deeming it an ignominious Bearing.
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