EXAMPLES OF BADGES, such as are distinctive, and consequently of the class that I have first described. The Badges of PERCY are a _silver crescent_ and a _double manacle_: of HOWARD, a _white lion_: PELHAM, _a buckle_: DOUGLAS, a _red heart_: SCROPE, a _Cornish chough_: CLINTON, a _golden mullet_: TALBOT, a _hound_: BOHUN, a _white swan_: HUNGERFORD, a _sickle_: PEVEREL, a _garb_: STOURTON, a _golden “drag” or sledge_. The various “Knots,” described and illustrated in Chapter X., Nos. 219, 235, 263, 270, 274, 304, and 313, are Badges. The _bear and ragged staff_ of the BEAUCHAMPS, and, after them, of the NEVILLES and DUDLEYS, I have already noticed. Seals frequently have Badges introduced upon them, in very early times, by themselves, the Badge in each case constituting the device of the Seal (see p. 193). The Secretum or private Seal of ROBERT BRUCE, Earl of CARRICK, the father of the King, appended to the homage-deed extorted by EDWARD I. from the Scottish nobles, is a good example, No. 390: this is another of Mr. Laing’s beautiful woodcuts. Badges also constantly appear upon Seals in association with Shields of arms. Thus, a Seal of one of the BERKELEYS, A.D. 1430, has a mermaid on each side of an armorial shield. Two other examples of this kind I have already given: No. 318, the Seal of JOAN DE BARRE, which is charged with the _castle_ and _lion_ of Castile and Leon, as Badges: and No. 321, the Seal of OLIVER DE BOHUN, charged, about the Shield, with the Bohun _Swan_. On his Seal, No. 391, Sir WALTER DE HUNGERFORD, K.G., Lord of HEYTESBURY and HOMET (the latter a Norman barony), displays his own Badge, the _sickle_, in happy alliance with the _garb_ of Peverel (borne by him in right of his wife, CATHERINE, daughter and co-heir of THOMAS PEVEREL), to form his Crest. The Crest, it will be observed, in No. 391, is _a garb between two sickles_. The Shield of Hungerford only--_sa. two bars arg., and in chief three plates_, is also placed between _two sickles_. Two banners, denoting important alliances, complete the Heraldry of this remarkable composition: the banner to the dexter, for Heytesbury, bears--_per pale indented gu. and vert., a chevron or_; and that to the sinister, for Hussy--_barry of six erm. and gu._ Lord HUNGERFORD died in 1449, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Sir ROBERT DE HUNGERFORD. The Seal of this Sir Robert, used by him during the lifetime of his father, precisely the same in its heraldic composition as his father’s Seal, is remarkable from having _each of its four sickles differenced with an ermine-spot upon the blade_, to mark Cadency; and also, with the same motive, it shows that a label of three points was charged upon the Shield, and upon each of the two banners; No. 392. [Illustration: No. 392.--Seal of Sir Robert de Hungerford: before A.D. 1449.]