Fig. 391.—From Barthelemy.
Fig. 392.—British (Channel Islands). From Barthelemy.
The Three Holy Children on the reverse of Fig. 391—a Byzantine coin—are presumably the offspring of St. Michael alias Nichol on the obverse: the arms of Cornwall consist of fifteen golden balls called besants; the county motto is One and All. Of St. Nicholas of Tolentino who became a friar at the age of eleven, we are told that a star rested over his altar and preceded him when he walked, and he is represented in Art with a lily in his hand—the symbol of his pure life—and a star over his head: that Nicolette was identified with the Little Star or Stella Maris is clear from Troubadour chansons, such as the following from that small classic Aucassin and Nicolette—
Little Star I gaze upon,
Sweetly drawing to the moon,
In such golden haunt is set
Love, and bright-haired Nicolette.
God hath taken from our war