At the first, either a single Feather was borne, the quill generally
transfixing an escroll, as in No. 394, from the monument of Prince
ARTHUR TUDOR, in Worcester Cathedral; or, two Feathers were placed side
by side, as they also appear upon the same monument. In Seals, or when
marshalled with a Shield of Arms, two Feathers are seen to have been
placed after the manner of Supporters, one on each side of the
composition: in such examples the tips of the Feathers droop severally
to the dexter and sinister: in all the early examples also the Feathers
droop in the same manner, or they incline slightly towards the
spectator. Three Feathers were first grouped together by ARTHUR TUDOR,
PRINCE OF WALES, eldest son of HENRY VII., as in Nos. 395 and 396, from
Peterborough Cathedral; or with an escroll, as in No. 397, from a
miserere in the fine and interesting church at Ludlow. The plume of
three Feathers appears to have been encircled with a coronet, for the
first time, by Prince EDWARD, afterwards EDWARD VI., but who never was
PRINCE OF WALES: No. 398, carved very boldly over the entrance gateway
to the Deanery at Peterborough, is a good early example. In No. 399 I
give a representation of another early plume of three Ostrich Feathers,
as they are carved, with an escroll in place of a coronet, upon the
Chantry of Abbot RAMRYGE in the Abbey Church at St. Albans: and again,
in No. 400, from the head of a window near the east end of the choir, on
the south side, in Exeter Cathedral, the three Feathers are charged upon
a Shield _per pale azure and gules_, and this Shield is on a roundle.
[Illustration: No. 397.--In Ludlow Church.]
[Illustration: No. 398.--The Deanery, Peterborough.]
[Illustration: No. 399.--In the Abbey Church of St. Alban.]
[Illustration: No. 400.--In Exeter Cathedral.]
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