[howley] the old royal COAT OF ARMS AT PLACENTIA 



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of Provence! Sad that it should have become the shibboleth of strife 

 and bloodshed, of hatred and racial antipathy, of internecine war, of 

 fratricidal feuds, of political and fanatic animosity and sectarian 

 intolerance, which for so many centuries have afflicted the once peaceful 

 shores of Ireland! Worse still, these old-world animosities have been 

 transplanted across the wide Atlantic into the free and pure atmosphere 

 of the New World, and efforts are made to force their noxious tendrils 

 to strike root in the virgin soil of America. But that soil has proved 

 rather uncongenial to such miasmic growth; its deadly roots have not 

 been able to thrive. Let us hope that the day is not far distant which 

 will see the entire extinction of this remnant of ancient feuds, so in- 

 compatible with the advancement and prosperity, and aspirations, of our 

 noble young Nation. 



William III., Prince of Orange, on ascending the throne of England 

 introduced another change in the lioyal Escutcheon. He marshalled the 

 Arms of Nassau, — Azure, semé of billets, a lion rampant. Or. This 

 coat was placed en surtout, or on an inescutcheon of Pretence in the 

 centre of the Royal Arms. (Fig. 9.) 



Royal Arms, Temp., Will. IIL, 1688.— Fig. 9. 



In the reign of Anne another change was made. During her reign 

 occurred, in 1707, the Union of the Parliaments of England and Scot- 

 land, under the name of The Parliament of Great Britain. At this time 

 also the celebrated Duke of Marlborough was carrying on the war in the 

 Netherlands, and making a sort of triumphal progress. The victories 

 of Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, etc., followed hard upon 

 each other. In honour of these victories Queen Anne made a change in 

 the Royal Escutcheon. She withdrew the Arms of Scotland from the 

 second quarter, placing them " in pale " with the British Arms, on the 

 first quarter, and gave the whole of the second quarter up to the Arms 

 0? Prance, as we see them on the shield at Placentia. (Figs. 1, 3 or 18.) 

 She left Ireland in its original place on the third quarter, repeated on 

 the fourth quarter the combined Arms of England and Scotland, and 



