No. 303.— Arms of Shakespeare.
Spur. Not common as an heraldic charge. Before about 1320 the spur had a single point, and was known as the “pryck-spur”; about that time appeared a “rouelle-spur” of simple form; in the middle of the fifteenth century spurs of extravagant length were introduced.
SS., Collar of. See Collar, and [No. 231].
Stafford-knot. No. 304.
Stall-plate. A plate bearing the arms of a knight and placed in his stall. The stall-plates of the Knights of the Garter and the Bath are severally placed in the Chapels of St. George and of Henry VII., at Windsor and Westminster. The earliest plates now in existence at Windsor, though many of them bear arms of an earlier date, were executed about 1430.
| No. 304.— Stafford Knot. | No. 305.— Stapleton Badge. |
Standard. A long narrow flag, introduced for the purpose of heraldic display, in the time of Edward III., but not in general use till a later period. Standards generally had the Cross of St. George next the staff, to which succeeded the badge or badges and the motto of the owner. See [Chapter XVII.]
Staple. Borne by Stapleton: No. 305 represents a badge formed of two staples.
Statant. Standing.
Star. See Estoile and Mullet; also a knightly decoration.