[44] Hist. Poet. i, 302.
[45] The second book of Upton’s treatise, written in the fifteenth century, is entitled ‘Of Veterans, now called Heralds.’
[46] Nicolas’ Karlaverok, p. 4.
[47] Nicolas’ Karlaverok, p. 44. The charge here blazoned, a cross patée, is, in fact, a cross patonce.
[48] Ibid., Notes, p. 368.
[49] Waterhouse’s Discourse, p. 77.
[50] Let it not be understood from this remark that I mean in the slightest degree to advocate war as a means of acquiring national greatness. The war which Edward waged against France was totally unjustifiable; and the desolating civil wars which followed the misgovernment of his pusillanimous grandson Richard, were (as many of our subsequent wars have been) a disgrace to the very name of England.
[51] Strutt’s Roy. and Eccl. Antiq.
[52] Holinshed.
[53] The engraving above is from Royal MS., 14 E. iii. Brit. Mus.