Fig. 88. Crowned rose and portcullis from King's college chapel at Cambridge.
When badges first came into use in this country is uncertain, but after the middle of the fourteenth century they abound. They are foreshadowed by the free treatment of earlier decorative heraldry, such as the little leopards on the footgear and pillows of King Henry III's gilt-latten effigy at Westminster, and the plate with its lozengy diaper of leopards on which it lies; also the lozengy diaper of castles and lions which covers the metal plate whereon lies the effigy of Queen Eleanor of Castile.
Many badges, too, originated in devices borrowed from various sources and arranged about the shield on seals, as in figs. [89] and [90], which are only two out of a number of such appended to the Barons' Letter.
Fig. 89. Seal of Robert de Clifford, with arms surrounded by rings in allusion to his mother Isabel Vipont.