It is convenient to take Nos. 23 and 24 Stuart, together with 25 and 26 the Georgian. No. 23, the annexed seal of Robert Greysbrooke of Middleton, is appended to his will, dated 1st September, 1668, and printed _Miscell. Genealogica et Heraldica_ for 1878. [Illustration] It appears very constantly in seals from about 1610 to 1694. The shape is used in Sir Peter Leycester's _Historical Antiquities of Cheshire_, published in 1673. Again in Sylvanus Morgan's _Sphere of Gentry_, published 1661. No. 24 appears in stone carving at Penshurst Place, Kent, showing the arms of Edward VI., 1547. The side points are curled round, and the centre one is capped with a fillet and half globe: an improvement by the stone cutter (Willement's _Regal Heraldry_), see No. 77. It is found in the seals and in the crown-pieces of the Commonwealth, dated 1650. Taking then the Georgian No. 25--In Willement's _Regal Heraldry_, the arms of Henrietta Maria, the wife of Chas. I., 1625, are reproduced in this shape. It becomes very frequent 1783-92, and up to 1806 in monuments and book-plates--see page 56. The shield is used in a work published at Worcester 1795, _Historical Anecdotes of Heraldry and Chivalry_. Very many of the bulky seals so common during the last thirty years of the eighteenth century display coats of arms on shields of this shape, which seems to have been much used about this date. The Liverpool halfpenny, 1791, see No. 78; the Leeds halfpenny, 1791; and the Cronebane halfpenny, 1789; and no doubt many other copper tokens show No. 25. No. 26 is figured by Randle Holme (_Academy of Armoury_, 1688), who took it from Sylvanus Morgan's _Sphere of Gentry_, 1661. He explains it is from old and decayed monuments. It is really adapted from ancient shields, which were used by the Amazons, and they are constantly represented with such shields and with double-headed battle axes on Greek coins (see _Petiti de Amazonibus Dissertatio_, 1687, p. 180, &c.) The only change noticeable in these shields is that the Stuart, which extended down to certainly as late as 1694, have perpendicular sides,--with an occasional exception, as that quoted 1625,--while in the Georgian the sides are always more or less bulged out. * * * * * Nos. 27, 28, 29, and 30, with which may conveniently be taken the tops, designated "eared couped." No. 27--This shape occurs in Brussels tapestry, dated 1610. The sides are more hollowed-out, and the ears more projected (Jacquemart's _History of Furniture_, p. 102, English translation). Very frequently in ledger tombs, 1718, 1749, 1750, and in 1680 (see _Miscell. Genealogica et Heraldica_, November, 1884, p. 172). In a MS. dated 1710; Also in the Radcliffe book-plate, _circa_ 1720, engraved in Mr. Rylands' _Notes on Book-Plates_, 1889, p. 30. No. 28--The arms of Caroline of Brandenburg, wife of George II., 1727, are given on this shield in Willement's _Regal Heraldry_.