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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[July 14. 1855. 



allusion to the (right) supporter of his shield, as- 

 sumed by him as according to Sandford^, from the 

 (supposed) ensign of Cadwallader^, from whom he 

 derived himself in a male line ; but a French^ and* 

 also a Dutch ^ author intimate that this denomina- 

 tion was taken from the banner" ascribed to St. 

 George, who in the legend is feigned to have killed 

 one. As the dragon was anciently the standard ^ 

 or banner of our kings, the authors quoted in the 

 margin (see notes below) may be consulted, and 

 the reader is left to his own judgment whether 

 Dragons * Pursuivant^ sent hither by the King of 

 Scotland in 12 Hen. VI., and then remitted to the 

 Duke of Burgundy, was an officer of this kingdom. 

 Henry VII. created an officer by this title the day 

 before his coronation^, immediately after he had 

 made the Knights of the Bath ; and on the 25 th 

 April, in his first year^°, grants to Rouge 



Dracone Eegium Anglorum clypeum sustinente ab Hen- 

 rico VII. institutus." 



2 Geneal. History, p. 464. 



3 Dr. Watts, in iiis Gloss, to M. Paris, v. Draco, saith 

 it was in his time the standard which he himself saw in 

 the expedition against the Scots in 1639. 



* Mbreau des Armoiries de ffrance, pp. 300, 301. "Le 

 Dragon une des Supports d'armes d'Angleterre, et h, cause 

 de la baniere du Dragon, que les Rois ont parmy leur En- 

 seignes k I'honneur de Sainct George, Patron des Cheva- 

 liers du bleu Jartier, et qui tua le Dragon." 



* Rouck der Nederlan. 



6 M. Paris, Battle of Lewis, " prsecedente eum (Regem) 

 signo Regio (indicium mortis pretendente) quod Draconem 

 vocavit." 



Spelm. Aspilogia, p. 17. 

 Dufresne, Gloss., voce Draco. 



7 Hoveden, p. 397.*^ n. 10. Richard I. being in the 

 Holy Land, " tradidit Draconem suum Petro de Pratellis 

 ad portandum contra calumniam Rob. Trussebut," &c. 



Claus. 28 Henry III. n. 7. " 17 Junii mandatum est 

 Edro fil Odonis — quod habere faciat unum Draconem in 

 modum unius vexilli de quodam rubro sanulo, qui ubiq; 

 sit de auro extencellatns, cujus lingua sit facta tanquam 

 ignis comburens, et continufe appareat, moveatur et ejus 

 oculi flant de Saphiris vel de aliis lapidibus eidem conve- 

 nientibus, et ilium ponat in ecclia beati Petri Westm con- 

 tra Adventum Regis ibidem." 



8 Henri, &c., at Tres, &c., que a Dragance pursevant 

 nadgairs envoier de nfe tres ch et tres ame Cousin le Roy 

 de' Escoce avec certeins Ires de credence a nous et a mesme 

 nre counsaill facez avoir cynge marcs, &c., VI. ifeverer 

 Pan douszisme (Hen. VI.). 



9 MS. Ant. h Wood in Mus. Ashm., 33, p. 23., H. V., 

 penes me p. 312 ''.... created Rouge Dragon by King 

 Henry VII., immediately as he had made the Knights of 

 the Bath. MS. Wriothesley, Garter penes Dom. Jos. 

 Jekyll Mil. Mag. Rotulorum, in the ceremonial of the 

 creation of the Duke of Buckingham and others to be 

 Knights of the Bath ; the king created a Pursuivant and 

 named him Rouge Dragon. 



10 Pat. 1 Henry VII. p. 3. in 13. " Rex omnibus ad 

 quos Salutem, Sciatis quod nos in consideratione veri et 

 fidelis servitij quod delectus serviens noster Rouge Dragon 

 nobis impendit et sic inposterum impendere intendit, de- 

 dimus et concessimus ei quandam annuitatem sive an- 

 nualem redditum decem librarum sterlingorum habend' 

 et percipiend' annuatim a festo Sancti Michaelis Arch- 

 angel! ultimo preterite pro termino vitse suae ad Recep- 



No. 298.] 



Dragon during life a salary of ten pounds yearly, 

 which is entered 1^ as paid to him in the succeeding 

 years, and in the sixth year he (being mis- 

 entered'^ by the title of a herald) attended on the 

 ambassadors of Bretagne ; and in the ninth year 

 Rouge Dragon hath the annuity" granted him 

 which Faucon enjoyed before he was promoted to 

 be a herald, which was paid him in that ^* and in 

 the two following years, and in the eleventh year 

 he had been sent into foreign parts.^^ G. 



R. D. seeks for information on the subject of 

 the Red Dragon, which can be given in a few 

 words. The Red Dragon is essentially Welsh. It 

 was the banner of Cadwaladyr, King of Britain ; 

 and it led the Welsh to victory under Henry VII. 

 at the battle of Bosworth ; in honour of which, 

 that monarch created the heraldic office of Rouge 

 Dragon, still existing in the Heralds' College, and 

 which it was intended should always be filled by 



tam Scaccarij nostri per manus Thesaurarij et Camerari- 

 orum ejusdem pro tempore existentium ad festa PaschiB 

 et St. Michaelis Archangeli per equates portiones, aliquo 

 statute acta ordinatione provisione vel restrictione in 

 contrarium factis nonobstantibus. In cujus, etc. teste 

 Rege apud Eborum 25 die Aprilis. Per breve de privato 

 sigillo et de data," &c. 



11 Lib. Computat. in Off. Pel, P. 1 Henry VII., Rouge- 

 dragon pursevant de feodo stio. 



Ibm. M. 2 Henry VII. Rougedrago pursivant de an- 

 nuitate sua xl. 



Ibm. M. 3 Henry VII. Rougedragon pursevant de x 

 libri annuls. 



Ibm. M. 4 Henry VII. Rougedragon pursuivant de 

 annuitate x' per annum. 



Ibm. P. 5 Henry VII. Rougedragon pursuivant super 

 annuitate sua x'. 



Ibm. P. 6 Henry VII. Rougedragon pursuivant de cert» 

 suo annuo, &c. 



12 Ibm. 6 Henry VII. Rougedragon Heraldo pro cus- 

 tubus et expensis suis in consimili casu 6s. 8rf., i. e. pro 

 attendentia super ambassiatores BritanniiB nuper ve- 

 nientes a Rege Romanorum. 



'3 Priv. Sigil. deliberat Cancellario 18 Januarij 9 

 Henrj' VII. Rex Servienti nostro Rougedragon x libr, 

 durante vita quas fFawcon nuper unus pursuivandorum 

 nostrorum et jam unus Heraldorum nostrorum nuper 

 habuit, etc. In Capilla Rotulorum Pat, 9 Henry VII. p. 

 unica 18 Januarij. 



14 Priv. Sig. in libro in Off. Pell M. 9 Henry VII. 

 Rougedragon pursevant pro termino vitse su£e per annum 

 x". 



Lib. Comp. P. 10 Henry VII. Rougedrago pursuev* de 

 annuitate sua x". 



Ibm. P. 11 Henry VII. Rougedragon pursev' de annui- 

 tate sua 7l\ 



li Signet in Off. Pell " Right Trusty and Welbeloved, 

 We grete you well, Forsomoche as We, for certain great 

 causes and considerations us moving, send at this tyme 

 our welbeloved servant Rowgedragoon, oon of our Pursui- 

 vants in our espetial message into the parties beyond the 

 Sea, Ye pay him all suche somes of money as been 

 growen dueunto hym by reason of his fee at this fest of 

 Estre last passed," &c. 24 April. 11 Henry VIL 



Lib. Comput. P. 11 Henry VII. Pro arreragijs feodi 

 Rougedragon missi versus partes transmarinas, &c. 



