But it is not alone to the worthies of sacred history that these honourable insignia are ascribed--the heroes of classical story, too, had their 'atchievements,' Hector of Troy, for example, bore, _Sable, ij lyons combatand or_.[23] Here again our great authority, Dame Julyan Berners,[24] may be cited. "Two thousand yere and xxiiij," says she, "before thyncarnation of Christe, =Cote-Armure= was made and figurid at the sege of Troye, where in gestis troianorum it tellith that the first begynnyng of the lawe of armys was; the which was effygured and begunne before any lawe in the world bot the lawe of nature, and before the X commaundementis of God." I have been favoured with the following curious extract from a MS. at the College of Arms,[25] which also refers the origin of arms to the siege of Troy. I believe it has never been printed. "=What Armes be, and where they were firste invented.= As kinges of Armes record, the begynynge of armes was fyrste founded at the great sege of Troye w{th}in the Cytie and w{th}out, for the doughtines of deades don on bothe partyes and for so mouche as thier were soo many valliaunt knights on bothe sydes w{ch} did soo great acts of Armes, and none of them myght be knowen from other, the great Lords on both p'ties by thier dyscreate advice assembled together and accorded that every man that did a great acte of armes shoulde bere upon him a marke in token of his doutye deades, that the pepoell myght have the bet{r} knowledge of him, and if it were soo that suche a man had any chylderen, it was ordeyned that they should also bere the same marke that their father did w{th} dyvers differences, that ys to saye, Theldeste as his father did w{th} a labell, the secounde w{th} a cressente, the third w{th} a molett, the fourth a marlet, the v{th} an annellet, the vj{th} a flewer delisse. And if there be anye more than sixe the rest to bere suche differences as lyketh the herauld to geve them. And when the said seige was ended y{e} lordes went fourth into dyvers landes to seke there adventures, and into England came Brute and [his] knights w{th} there markes and inhabited the land; and after, because the name of MERKES was rewde, they terned the same into ARMES, for as mouche _as that name was far fayerer_, and becausse that markes were gotten through myght of armes of men." The humour of Alexander the Great must have been somewhat of the quaintest when he assumed the arms ascribed to him by Master Gerard Leigh, to wit, _Gules a_ GOLDEN LYON SITTING IN A CHAYER and holding _a battayle-axe of silver_.[26] The 'atchievement' of Cæsar was, if we may trust the same learned armorist, _Or, an eagle displayed with two heads sable_.[27] Arms are also assigned to King Arthur, Charlemagne, Sir Guy of Warwick, and other heroes, who, though belonging to much more recent periods, still flourished long before the existence of the heraldric system, and never dreamed of such honours.