so 



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discarded the Arms of Nassau. The shield then appeared as in figure 10. 

 The Eoyal Arms were thus retained until the accession of George I. 

 (1714). That monarch removed the charge (England and Scotland) 

 from the fourth quarter, placing there, instead, the Arms of his foreign 

 dominions, Hanover and Brunswick, etc. This reduced the Eoyal Arms 



Royal Arms, Temp., Quren Anne, 1707. — Fig. 10. 



to exactly the form in which they appear on the Placentia coat (See 

 figures 1, 3, or 18), and so they remained through the reigns of the 

 Georges, until the year 1801, when another change was made, as we shall 

 see later on. 



During the reigns of the Stuarts the custom prevailed of marshalling 

 the Arms (at least for Scotland) in the following manner, viz.: quart- 

 erly, 1st and Ith, Scotland; 2nd, France and England, quarterly; 3rd, 

 Ireland. (See fig. 11.) This custom was also continued (for Scottish 



Royal Arms for Scotl.\nd, Temp., Stuarts. — Fig. 11. 



coins) by William III. He, however, added the Arms of Nassau en 

 surtout as he had done on the English coins. Even the unfortunate first 

 Pretender assumed these arms and had a coin struck in 1716, giving 

 himself the title of James III. of England and VIII. of Scotland. 

 Although this pretension of the Stuarts was vain and merely theoretic, 

 still England permitted the use of these Arms long after the Union of 

 the Parliaments of England and Scotland. 



When in Edinburgh, in 1902, I copied a very interesting coat of 

 Arms from a fountain in front of Holy Rood Palace. The marshalling 



