The prevalence of the allusive quality in early arms may be assumed to have been even more general than is now apparent, since so many of the original echoes and allusions have become obscured or altogether lost in the lapse of time, and through the changes that have taken place since the accession of HENRY III. in the French language and in our own also. The use of the Latin language, again, in the Middle Ages led, at later periods, to translations of names; French names, too, were translated in the same manner into English equivalents: and, at other times, the sound of a Latin or a French (Anglo-Norman) name was transferred to an English representative having a somewhat similar sound, without the slightest reference to the original signification. Who, for example, in the name of MONTAGU now recognises instinctively the original allusion to a _mountain_ with its _sharply_ peaked crests, and so discerns the probable allusive origin of the _sharp_ triple points of the devices on the old Montacute shield, No. 20? It is easy to see how much must have been unconsciously done, by such changes in names and their associations, to obliterate what once was clear, significant, and expressive. I must be content here to give, simply by way of explanatory illustration, a very few examples of allusive arms; and, in so doing, it may be well for me to observe that the early Heralds of our country always employed the French language as it was spoken in their own times in England as well as in France. In the time of HENRY III., G. de Lucy has for his arms _three lucies_--fish now known as pike: Robert Quency has a _quintefueil_--a flower of five leaves: Thos. Corbett has _two corbeaux_--ravens: A. de Swyneburne has “_trois testes de senglier_”--three heads of the wild boar, or _swine_: (E. 2), Sir R. de Eschales has _six escallops_--_shells_: Sir G. de Trompintoun, of Trumpington, near Cambridge, has _two trompes_--trumpets: Sir J. Bordoun has _three bourdons_--pilgrim’s staves: Sir G. Rossel has _three roses_: and Sir O. Heron has the same number of _herons_. So also, for the Spanish provinces Castile and Leon, a _castle_ and a _lion_: for Falconer, a _falcon_: Butler, _cups_: Forester, _bugle-horns_: Arundel, _hirondelles_--swallows: Wingfield, _wings_: Shelley, _shells_: Pigot, _pick-axes_: Leveson, _leaves_: and Martel, _martels_--hammers. The _Broom-plant_ with its seed-pods, in Latin _Planta genista_, No. 21, gave its name to the PLANTAGENET Dynasty. I shall hereafter add several other curious examples of devices of this class, when treating of _Badges_, _Rebuses_, and _Mottoes_. [Illustration: No. 20.--Shield of Montacute.] [Illustration: No. 21.--Planta Genista.] [Illustration: No. 22.--WILLIAM I.] [Illustration: No. 23.--Saxon Princes.]