HERALDIC QUERIES.
Can any of your correspondents furnish me with the names to the following coats of arms? Some are entire, others are lost, from the glass having been cut to fit the divisions. These remnants form part of the chapel and hall windows of the old Bishop's Palace (now the Deanery) at Worcester.
I. Quarterly 1 and 4. Barry of 6, azure and or, on a chief of 1st; 3 pallets between 2 gyrons of 2nd; over all an inescutcheon erm.
I. Quarterly 2 and 3. Quarterly 1 and 4 a chevron between 3 roses or cinquefoils; 2 and 3, a chevron between 3 martlets. (Colours obliterated.)
II. Sable, 3 church bells or, impaling a shield, per fess invecked (this last cut off).
III. A saltire voided between 12 cross crosslets.
IV. Quarterly 1 and 4. Arg. a chevron between 3 foxes' heads erased gu.
IV. Quarterly 2. Arg. on a bend sa., 3 dolphins or.
IV. Quarterly 3. Party per pale pily sa. and arg. impaling sa., a bordure arg.
IV. Over all a crescent for difference, and shield surrounded with following names, "Edmundus Fox secundus filius Charoli Fox, 1586." (Query, Who were these people?)
V. Imperial crown over poppy head. (Query, Whose emblem or badge?)
VI. A bull's head sa., guttée, horned, and langued, or. (Query, Whose crest or badge?)
VII. A chevron between 3 roundles, having for crest 2 lion's paws holding a roundle.
VIII. Sa. a chevron between 3 lions' faces or, crescent for difference, having for crest a griffin.
IX. Or 3 Talbot's heads proper.
X. Quarterly 1. Sa. lion rampant, or.
X. Quarterly 2. Paly of —— gu. and arg. (Cut off.)
X. Quarterly 3. Arg. a muscle ——. (Colour gone.)
X. Quarterly 4. (Cut off.)
XI. —— on a chevron between 3 lions' heads; 3 roses (colours gone), with crest. A man's head and shoulders robed with eastern crown on head.
XII. Or six fleurs-de-lis sable, 3. 2. and 1., with motto "Argrete constante."
XIII. Arg. on a chevron sa., 3 mullets of 1st between 3 lions' heads erased of 2nd.
XIV. Sa. a chevron arg. between 3 porpoises or, impaling lion rampant. (Colour gone.)
XV. Quarterly sa. and arg., a cross moline quarterly, erm. and ——. (Colour gone.)
The names to these coats of arms might enable one to trace whence the original bits came; it might be possible that the old windows of the cathedral (said to have been destroyed) served for filling up the borders of the old palace windows.
W. H. P.