[273] Witness the French Revolution, a period at which these distinctions of gentry were temporarily abolished, as if, forsooth, bends and fesses and lions-rampant had conduced to the previous misgovernment of the nation! From the blow which heraldry received in France during that bloody struggle it has never recovered; although, from some recent movements, it appears evident that heraldric honours will, ere long, receive that attention which they deserve in every antient and well-constituted state in Christendom. [274] The expense of the N.W. corner was defrayed by Dugdale, then Norroy. [275] Noble. [276] The present heraldic establishment of Scotland consists of Lyon, king of arms; six heralds, Albany, Rothsay, Snowdoun, Marchmont, Yla, and Ross; and six pursuivants, Unicorn, Kintire, Bute, Dingwall, Ormond and Carrick. The Scottish College, as Noble observes, has not been much distinguished for literature; there is, however, one example, a name familiar to the readers of Marmion: "Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lord Lyon king at arms," who was author of 'The Dreme,' 'The Complaynt,' and other politico-moral poems; also of 'The Three Estates,' a satirical piece of great humour; his most popular work was 'The History of Squire Meldrum,' which "is considered as the last poem that in any degree partakes of the character of the metrical romance." The principal functionary for Ireland is styled Ulster, king of arms: under him are two heralds, Cork and Dublin, and one pursuivant, Athlone. [277] Hist. Coll. Arms, p. 352. [278] Ibid. p. 372. [279] Noble, p. 372. [280] Noble. [281] Dallaway. [282] It was printed in 1654 by Sir Edward Bysshe, Garter. [283] That portion of the original edition which relates to arms is reprinted in the Appendix to Dallaway. [284] Or, by corruption, Barnes. [285] Bale, de Script. Brit. viij. 33. [286] It is worthy of remark, as sustaining the claim of Dame Julyan to the authorship of the heraldric portion of the Boke, that at the end of the treatise on arms there is a passage in which evident recurrence is made to her former and undisputed essays. Speaking of the necessity of attending to precise rules in the study of heraldry she adds in conclusion, "Nee ye may not overryn swyftly the forsayd rules, bot dyligently have theym in yowr mind, and be not to full of consaitis. For he that will hunt ij haris in oon howre, or oon while oon, another while another, lightly he losys both." [287] Here the good Dame contradicts her own assertion; vide p. 36. [288] Vide pp. 108, 109, 116, 117, &c. &c. [289] Armorie of Honour, fo. 56. [290] The heraldric term for a _cat_; vide p. 252, ante. [291] The nails are omitted.