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
A _Lion_ for Marche; and a _Bull_ for Clare.
_Two Lions_, Argent.
The _Lion_ and the _White Hart_ of Richard II.
_Cognizances._--The _White Rose_.
The _Fetter-Lock_.
The _Sun_ after the Battle of Mortimer's Cross, when three _Suns_
were seen, which immediately conjoined.
The Rose is in the centre.
EDWARD V.
The _Lion_ and a _Hinde_, Argent.
_Cognizance._--The Rose and the Falcon in a Fetter-Lock.
RICHARD III.
Two _Boars_.
A White Boar.
"The Cat, the Rat, and Lovel the Dog,
Rule all England under the _Hog_."
_i. e._ Sir William Catesby, Sir Richard Ratcliff, and Lord Lovel,
creatures of King Richard. One Collingborne was executed for this
poetry[173].
[173] Leigh's Choice Observations.
_Cognizance._--The Rose.
HENRY VII.
_Red Dragon_ (for Cadwallader), Dexter.
A _Greyhound_, Argent, accolled Gules, Sinister, for Nevile.
_Cognizances._--The _White Rose_ united to the _Red_.
A Portcullis for Beaufort.
A Hawthorn Bush with the Crown in it.
Richard's Crown was found in a Hawthorn Bush after the Battle of
Bosworth[174].
[174] Leigh's Choice Observations, p. 151.
HENRY VIII.
The _Red Dragon_ and _Greyhound_.
Afterwards, the _Lion_ Dexter; the _Dragon_ Sinister.
_Cognizances._--A Red Rose.
A Fleur de Lis.
A Portcullis.
An Archer (Green) drawing his Arrow to the Head; with "Cui adhæreo
præest." taken at the interview between him and Francis I.
EDWARD VI.
The Lion and Red Dragon.
_Cognizance._--He bore the device of Prince of Wales, though never
created.
QUEEN MARY.
An Eagle and Lion.--These are the Supporters in the Coat of
Philip and Mary, impaled, over the chimney in the Hall of Trinity
College, Oxford, as of the year 1554, put up 1772, when Lord North,
afterwards Earl of Guilford, became Chancellor[175].
[175] Churchill, in his Divi Britannici, gives a Lion and a Griffin.
_Cognizance._--When Princess, the White and Red Rose for York and
Lancaster, with a Pomegranate for Spain.--When Queen, Time winged,
drawing Truth out of a Pit; with "Veritas Temporis Filia."
_Queen Elizabeth._
A Lion and Red Dragon.
_Cognizance._--A Sieve, without a motto.
The words Video; Taceo. Semper Eadem[176].
[176] Vide Camden's Remains.
JAMES I.
The Lion (for England), and the Unicorn (for Scotland).
_Cognizances._--A Rose; a Fleur de Lis; a Harp (for Ireland); a
Greyhound current.
REGAL TITLES.
"HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY THE KING OF FRANCE."
Stowe says that Charlemagne, being chosen Emperor, A.D. 800, on
account of his great zeal for the good of Christendom, was the first
King of France that attributed to himself (I rather think received
from the Pope) the Style and Title of _The Most Christian King of
France_; and from him his Successors have continued it[177].
[177] Chronicle, p. 693.
HIS SACRED MAJESTY THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN.
First given to (or rather assumed by) King James I.[178]--GRACE was
the old Title.--MAJESTY succeeded to it at the latter end of the
Reign of Henry VIII.[179]
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