Heraldry as art: An account of its development and practice, chiefly in England

by G. W. Eve

Fig. 268.

Fig. 269.

Fig. 270.

Fig. 271.

The Bouchier knot is Fig. 269, and Boutell mentions a Bouchier badge formed of the knot tied to a coudiere or elbow piece, as from a monument in Westminster Abbey.

The Dacre knot is less a knot than a badge, consisting of an escallop shell linked by a cord with a ragged staff or a billet (Fig. 270). In the same way a sickle and a garb are tied together in the badge of Lord Hastings, and are suggestive of the way in which initial letters of names were linked with each other and with badges in the splendid pageants of the sixteenth century.

The Lacey knot is shown at Fig. 271.