[192] Vide Judges, vii, 18.
[193] By Montjoye is supposed to be intended the national banner, on which the figure of some saint was embroidered.
[194] The motto of the royal arms, ‘Dieu et mon droit,’ is older, and is ascribed to Richard I.
[195] Guide, p. 56.
[196] The modern motto of the family is ‘Crede Biron.’
[197] ‘Per linguam bos inambulat.’ Ant. proverb.
[198] Vide ‘The Principal Historical and Allusive Arms borne by Families of the United Kingdom; collected by an Antiquary,’ quarto, Lond. 1803. Moule says, “But few copies of the work were sold, and the remaining impressions were destroyed in the fire at the printing-office, which has rendered it a particularly scarce book.” (Bibl. Herald., p. 497.) On this account I am induced to make extensive use of the volume, and to carry this chapter much beyond my original intention.
[199] Archæologia, xxix.
[200] Harl. MS. 2035.
[201] “Arthgal, the first Earl of Warwick, in the days of King Arture, and was one of the Round Table; this Arthgal took a bere in his arms, for that, in Britisch, soundeth a bere in English.” (Leland’s Collect.)