[122] Mallet (Northern Antiquities, ch. ix) says, "The thick misshapen walls winding round a rude fortress, on the summit of a rock, were often called by a name signifying SERPENT or DRAGON. Women of distinction were commonly placed in such castles for security. Thence the romancers invented so many fables, concerning princesses of great beauty guarded by dragons and afterwards delivered by young heroes, who could not achieve their rescue till they had overcome those terrible guards." [123] Anon, Parag. [124] Brydson's Summary View. [125] Probably, also, by frightening their horses, to throw their ranks into confusion. [126] By an oversight in the drawing some small vestiges of wings have been omitted. [127] Barons' War, p. 168. [128] 'Sir Degore.' Warton's Hist. Poet., p. 180, ibid. [129] Barons' War, p. 169. [130] "Regius locus fuit inter _draconem_ et standardum." [131] Barnes's Hist. Edw. III. [132] Vide Promptorium Parvulorum, Camd. Soc. voc. _griffown_. Leigh's Accedens, &c. [133] Æn. iii, 212, &c. [134] Vide Vignette at the head of this Chapter for Maundevile's representation of an Ipotayne. [135] Kitto's Pictorial Bible, Job xxxix. [136] Vide Congregational Mag. 1842 or 43. [137] Kitto, ut sup. [138] "What reason," asks Morgan, "can be given why the three brothers, Warren, Gourney, and Mortimer, should every one bear a severall coat, and derive (hand down) their sirnames to posterity, all of them yet retaining the metal and colour of or and azure, the one _checky_, the other _pally_, and the other _barry_?" Armilogia, p. 41. [139] Huge. [140] Accedens, fol. 194 et seq. [141] Heralds. [142] Accedens, fol. 7. [143] Sphere, Nobility Native, p. 101. [144] Ibid. [145] Bibl. Herald, p. 168. [146] Accedens, fol. 90. [147] Ib. fol. 92. [148] Accedens, fol. 98. [149] Display, p. 230. [150] Ibid. p. 203. [151] Ibid. p. 215. [152] These seem originally to have been arms of office. Their "character was strictly emblematical, and their import obvious, consisting, as they generally did, of a representation of the various official implements or ensigns." "Little doubt can be entertained but that much of our personal heraldry is derived from such a source." (Woodham's Application of Heraldry to the Illustration of Collegiate Antiquities, p. 79.) [153] Between 1240 and 1245. (LXIV in Coll. Arm.) [154] Chaffinch. [155] Sphere of Gentry. [156] Vide cut at the head of the present chapter. [157] Vide English Surnames, p. 72, second edit. [158] Gibbon, Bluemantle pursuivant, who flourished subsequently to Camden, made a collection of "Allusive Arms" containing some thousands of such coats. His MS. is in the College of Arms. [159] Vide the Chapter of Rebuses, appended to my 'English Surnames,' second edit. p. 261.