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is bad heraldry, and they are said to be " mal ordonnés." I find that 

 while on the old coat of Arms in the church at Placentia the lilies are 

 placed properly (See fig. 1), yet on the bailiff's staff they are wrongly 

 placed or "mal ordonnés." (See fig. 3.) This is owing to the form of 

 the shield, oval, which would not allow of their being placed properly. 

 This form of marshalling is, however, sometimes permitted, where the 

 shape of the escutcheon demands it, as in the present instance. It is 

 then blazoned as " In Chevron." Originally they were actually placed 

 on a chevron. 



The claim of England to the Crown of France originated with 

 Edward III., who claimed it in right of his mother Isabella, sister of 

 the French King, who could not succeed to the tlirone owing to the 

 Salic law. After the Battle of Sluys in which he completely annihilated 

 the French fleet (1340) he placed the French Arms on the English 

 escutcheon, and assumed the title of King of France, which was retained 

 by the English Sovereign ever after, with a slight respite during the 



Arms of Mary Queen of Scots, 1558. — Fig. 13. 



Commonwealth, until 1801, when, on the Parliamentary Union of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, it was finally abandoned, and the lilies were stricken 

 out from the British escutcheon. This empty claim to a title, which was 

 purely fictitious, and had no real or actual dominion attached to it, at 

 least ever since the loss of Calais, 1556, the last French town held by 

 England, seems almost puerile in these modern prosaic àajs, but in the 

 ages of chivalry a good deal of store was laid by it, and it played no small 

 part in the moulding of British history. 



Mary, Queen of Scots, had married Francis, the Dauphin of France, 

 in 1558. She assumed the Arms of the Dauphin (quarterly, 1st and 

 41h, the Arms of France; 2nd and 3r(l. Or, — a dolphin embowed, azure). 

 These Arms she placed on the shield in conjunction with the Anns of 

 Scotland; sometimes by quartering them thus, 1st and 4th, the Dauphin; 

 2nd and 3rd, Scotland. (Fig. 13.) Sometimes they were marshalled 



