LILY. jr 



cut, we are told, and placed upon the great 

 altar of the church of St. Juste on the borders of 

 Castile. 



By whom, and at what period this beautiful Lily 

 was brought to this country, is beyond our re- 

 search ; but we may presume that it was amongst 

 the earliest exotics that graced the gardens of 

 England, and probably was one of the plants which 

 we gained from Palestine, by means of the early 

 Crusaders, as Chaucer notices it in armorial 

 bearings. 



Upon his crest he bare a tour, 

 And therein stiked a Lily flour. 



It was in the reign of Edward the Third that 

 the Heralds' College was first instituted in Eng- 

 land, and in eighteen years afterwards this mo- 

 narch ordered the arms of France to be quartered 

 with those of England, which continued to em- 

 blazon the British arms for four hundred and 

 forty-four years, being most graciously dispensed 

 with in the year 1802, as we have already no-. 

 ticed under the history of the Iris, or Fleur de 

 Luce, 



That a clear distinction was made between the 

 Lily and the Fleur de Luce by the Pursuivants at 

 Arms, as early as the time of Edward the Third, is 

 shown by the armorial bearings of the college of 

 Winchester, which is three Lilies on a field sable. 



