No. 35--Egg-shaped may be regarded very much as a variation of No. 32, some artists considering it more graceful and better adapted to hold the arms and leave less of the field vacant. The shield of Edward the Black Prince, preserved at Canterbury, and already noticed at p. 30, was of this shape. He died 1376 (Bolton's _Elements_, p. 67). But there is a large number of such seals as may be described egg-shaped, with hollowed-out sides, and frequently framed in scrolls; these are classed as cardioid Nos. 42 and 43, the outlines having been altered by scroll work, although sometimes the scrolls are omitted. These occur in _Divi Britannici_, by Sir Winston Churchill, 1675; In monuments of 1684, &c., in Blomefield's _Norfolk_; And of 1699, _Miscell. Genealogica et Heraldica_ for December, 1884, p. 185; Again in 1715, _Herald and Genealogist_, vol. ii, p. 230; and they are constantly to be found in monumental tablets. Very frequently the bases of shields with hollowed-out sides are turned either to dexter or sinister, as noticed in seals throughout the eighteenth century; and in some later Jacobean, and in Chippendale book-plates say from 1720 to nearly the end of the century. [Illustration: Seal of Bartlett of Marldon and Exeter, co. Devon (_Miscell. Genealogica et Heraldica_ for June, 1887).] [Illustration: Seal of Michael Grazebrooke of Audnam: born 1723, died 1766 (_Miscell. Gen. et Heraldica_ for 1878).] [Illustration: Seal of Joseph Palmer, King's Messenger: born 1683, died 1759 (_Miscell. Genealogica et Heraldica_, second series, vol. i, p. 86).] [Illustration: Seal of Joseph Siket to his will, 1758 (_Herald and Genealogist_, vol. iii, p. 316; also vol. vi, p. 211.)] No. 36--French shields, so constantly represented in French heraldry, appear also in English grants of arms, 1557, 1561, 1582, 1612. This is just an ordinary square shield, No. 7, with a pointed French base. This shield, however, may be found at much earlier dates--see remarks on Simon de Montacute's seal to the Baron's letter, 1301, on p. 22; also the very curious brass formerly in St. Nicholas' Church, Lynn, to Thomas Waterdeyn, Mayor of Lynn in 1397 and 1404. This shows two shields, No. 36, which bear his merchant's mark, and stand on either side of a tree. He was alive in 1410 (see engraving, _Archæologia_, vol. xxxix, p. 505). * * * * * No. 39.--This curious Italian shield occurs in Gerard Leigh's _Accedens of Armoury_, 1562. Also with curious scroll-work, dated 1589, in a timber house at Norwich, engraved, _Archæologia_, vol. xvi, p. 194. In the Great Seal of Charles I., 1640, Sandford's _Genealogical History_, p. 516. In the halfpenny of Charles II., 1660. In the halfpenny of James II., 1685.