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Hotes on the Arms of Cardinal Pole. 
By the Rey. E. E. Dorttne. 
¥gN an old book in the possession of the writer of these notes, 
BR) entitled “Epitome Pontificum Romanorum a 8. Petro 
on 
usque ad Paulum IV.” ! there is, among hundreds of woodcuts of 
the armorials of Popes and Cardinals, a drawing of the shield of 
Reginald Pole, Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury. The fact 
that this prelate was the son of the last tenant of the second of the 
medizeval earldoms of Salisbury may, it is hoped, be sufficient 
excuse for offering these observations to the notice of the Society. 
Like all the other illustrations of the “‘ Epitome,” the arms of 
Cardinal Pole are somewhat rudely cut, and of course no attempt 
is made to mark the tinctures, but the various bearings and the 
grouping of the quarterings are quite plainly indicated. 
The escutcheon itself is exactly 1} inches high by 15/16 of an 
inch in width. In the drawing which accompanies these notes an 
attempt has been made to render the form of the various charges 
more accurately than they appear in the original woodcut, while, 
at the same time, the proportions of the various quarters, and their 
position in the Cardinal’s shield are preserved. 
It will be seen that the shield is divided equally into four parts, 
of which the first contains the Royal Arms of England differenced 
by a label of Clarence; the second has three nearly equal divisions 
containing the arms of Pole, Neville of Raby differenced with the 
Salisbury label, compony argent and azure, and Beauchamp of 
Warwick, respectively; the third is charged with Newburgh and 
Montacute, each coat occupying the width of a quarter of the 
Clarence arms, and the fourth is divided like the second into three 
1 By Onuphrius Panuinius, published in Venice by Jacobus Strada of - 
Mantua. 1557. 
