and upwards of ten other coats, all preserving the field gules and the fess or. The Bassets, according to the Ashmolean MSS.[78] varied their coat 7 times, the Lisles 4, the Nevilles 11, and the Braoses 5. An interesting example of early differencing is cited by Sir Harris Nicolas, in his 'Roll of Carlaverok.'[79] In the early part of the fourteenth century-- Leicestershire. {Alan le Zouche bore Gules, besanté Or Barons. {William le Zouche, of Haryngworth a quarter ermine the same with {Sir William Zouche a label azure Knights. {Sir Oliver Zouche a cheveron erm. {Sir Amory Zouche a bend argent {Sir Thomas Zouche on a quarter argent, a mullet sable. Surnames in these early times were in a very unsettled state, for the younger branches of a family, acquiring new settlements by marriage and otherwise, abandoned their patronymics, and adopted new ones derived from the seignories so acquired.[80] Hence it often happens that arms are identical or similar, when the relationship is not recognized by identity of appellation. Illegitimate children generally bore the paternal ensigns differenced by certain _brizures_. Thus John de Beaufort, eldest natural son of John of Gaunt, bore _Per pale argent and azure_ [blue and white being the _colours_ of the House of Lancaster] _on a bend gules, three lions passant-guardant or_ [the royal arms of England] _in the upper part of the bend a label azure, charged with nine fleur-de-lis or_.[81] The arms borne in the usual manner were often surrounded with a bordure to indicate bastardy; of this mode of differencing several examples are furnished in the arms of existing peers descended from royalty. Some of the descendants of Henry Beaufort, third duke of Somerset, placed the Beaufort arms upon a fesse, and numerous similar instances might be adduced.