HENRY I.: _A Flower of eight foils._
STEPHEN: _A Flower of seven foils: a Sagittarius._
HENRY II.: _The Planta-genista: an Escarbuncle: a Sword and
Olive-Branch._
RICHARD I.: _A Star of thirteen rays and a Crescent: a Star issuing from
a Crescent: a Mailed Arm grasping a broken Lance, with the
Motto--“Christo Duce.”_
JOHN and HENRY III.: _A Star issuing from a Crescent._
EDWARD I.: _An heraldic Rose or, stalked ppr._
EDWARD II.: _A Castle of Castile._
EDWARD III.: _A Fleur de lys: a Sword: a Falcon: a Gryphon: the Stock of
a Tree: Rays issuing from a Cloud._
RICHARD II.: _A White Hart lodged: the Stock of a Tree: A White Falcon:
the Sun in splendour: the Sun clouded._
HENRY IV.: _The Cypher SS: a crowned Eagle: an Eagle displayed: a White
Swan: A Red Rose: a Columbine Flower: A Fox’s Tail: a crowned Panther:
the Stock of a Tree: a Crescent._ His QUEEN, JOAN OF NAVARRE: _An
Ermine_, or _Gennet_.
HENRY V.: _A Fire-beacon: a White Swan gorged and chained: a chained
Antelope._
HENRY VI.: _Two Ostrich Feathers in Saltire: a chained Antelope:
a Panther._
EDWARD IV.: _A White Rose en Soleil: a White Wolf and White Lion:
a White Hart: a Black Dragon and Black Bull: a Falcon and Fetter-lock:
the Sun in splendour._
HENRY VII.: _A Rose of York and Lancaster, a Portcullis and a Fleur de
lys, all of them crowned: a Red Dragon: a White Greyhound: a Hawthorn
Bush and Crown, with the cypher_ H.R.
HENRY VIII.: The same, without the Hawthorn Bush, and with a _White
Cock_. His QUEENS: CATHERINE OF ARAGON--_A Rose, Pomegranate, and Sheaf
of Arrows._ ANNE BOLEYN--_A Crowned Falcon, holding a Sceptre._ JANE
SEYMOUR--_A Phœnix rising from a Castle, between Two Tudor Roses._
CATHERINE PARR--_A Maiden’s Head crowned, rising from a large Tudor
Rose._
EDWARD VI.: _A Tudor Rose: the Sun in splendour._
MARY: _A Tudor Rose impaling a Pomegranate_--also _impaling a Sheaf of
Arrows, ensigned with a Crown, and surrounded with rays: a Pomegranate._
ELIZABETH: _A Tudor Rose_ with the motto, “_Rosa sine Spinâ_” (a Rose
without a Thorn): _a Crowned Falcon and Sceptre._ She used as her own
motto--“_Semper Eadem_” (Always the same).
JAMES I.: _A Thistle: a Thistle and Rose dimidiated and crowned_, No.
308, with the motto--“_Beati Pacifici_” (Blessed are the peacemakers).
CHARLES I., CHARLES II., JAMES II.: The same Badge as JAMES I., without
his motto.
ANNE: _A Rose-Branch and a Thistle growing from one branch._
From this time distinctive personal Badges ceased to be borne by English
Sovereigns. But various badges have become stereotyped and now form a
constituent part of the Royal Arms, and will be found recited later in
Chapter XVIII.
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