Dallaway, Porny, and other modern writers condemn this species of bearings, as of recent origin, and unworthy of a place amongst the classical devices of antient heraldry. Porny places them in the category of Assumptive Arms--"such as are taken up by the caprice or fancy of upstarts, though of never so mean extraction." This notion, with whomsoever it originated, is decidedly erroneous, for such charges are found not only in the arms of distinguished nobles and knights in the very earliest days of hereditary armory, but occur also in those of several of the sovereign states of Europe. According to some authors the LIS in the royal arms of France are a play upon the name of Louis, antiently spelt _Loys_. The arms of Spain exhibit, quarterly, a castle and a lion--a pun upon the names of the united provinces of Castile and Leon; and after the conquest of Granada by Ferdinand and Isabella, a _pomegranate_ was added in the base of the escocheon. As to canting charges in the arms of subjects, we may observe that, in the earliest Roll of Arms extant, that of the time of Henry III,[153] at least nine such occur. To prove this assertion, as well as to give the reader a sample of antient blazon, I shall quote them: Reinold de Moun--de goules ov ung _manche_ d'argent. Nicholas de Moeles--d'argent a deux barres de goules, a trois _molets_ en le cheif goules. Geoffrey de Lucy--de goules a trois _lucies_ d'or. Roger de Merley--barree d'argent et de goulz, a la bordur d'azure, et _merlots_ d'or en le bordur. Hugh de Ferrers--_Vairre_, de argent et d'azur. Robert Quency--de Goules ung _quintefueil_ de hermyne. Thomas Corbett--d'or deux _corbeaux_ noir. Adam de Swyneburne--de goules a trois testes de _Senglier_ d'argent. Odinel Heron--d'azur a trois _herons_ d'argent. In another Roll, made temp. Edw. II., armes parlantes are still more abundant. Sire Peres Corbeht--de or, a ij _corbils_ de sable. Sire Robert de Eschales--de goules, a vj _eschalops_ de argent. _Suthsex and Suthreye_: Sire Johan Heringaud--de azure, crusule de or a vj _harengs_ (herrings) de or. _Kent_: Sire Robert de Sevens, de azure, a iij _vans_ de or. Sire Aumori de Lucy, de azure, crusule de or, a iij _lucys_ de or. _Barkschire_: Sire Adam Martel, de sable, a iij _martels_ de argent. Sire William Videlou, de argent, a iij testes de _lou_, de goules. _Bokinghamschire_: Sire Rauf de Cheyndut, de azure, a un _cheyne_ de or, a un label de goules. Sire Johan LE LOU, de argent a ij barres de goules, en le chef iij testes de _lou_ de goules. _Estsex_: Sire Johan Passeleu, bende de or e de azure, a un quarter de argent, e un _lu_pard _pass_-aunt de goules. Sire Johan Heroun, de azure a iij _herouns_ de argent. _Suthfolk_: Sire Guy Ferre, de goules, a un _fer_-de-molin de argent, e un bastoun de azure.