By the Rev. E, E. Dorling. 843 
that the King-Maker bore “ Quarterly of four : first his Wives arms” 
(Beauchamp impaling Newburgh); “ second, his Mothers 
arms” . . . (Montacute impaling Monthermer) ; “ third, Spenser, 
Jourth, Clare, impaling Nevil, his paternal Coat 
_ differenced with a label gobonated Argent and Asure.”’} 
The arms of Richard Neville’s daughter Anne, Queen of Richard 
III., are blazoned in the Warwick roll? as follows :—Quarterly ; 
1, Newburgh impaling Beauchamp, 2 Montacute impaling Mon- 
thermer, 3, Neville of Salisbury, 4, De Clare impating Le Despencer. 
This lady does not enter into the pedigree of Cardinal Pole; but 
her sister Isabel does, and it may perhaps be presumed that the 
latter also bore the last-mentioned coat. The writer would be glad 
‘to hear from any reader who has met with an authentic example 
of Isabel Neville’s arms. 
What, to modern eyes, is perhaps the most remarkable point in 
this long series of armorials, is the way in which the arms of the 
house are, one might almost say, slighted. ‘'he reason for this 
would seem to be that arms were regarded as territorial or titular 
rather than personal ; in other words that the bearer of a quartered 
coat charged with the arms of many lordships marshalled them 
according to their territorial and titular rank without regard to 
the position in the coat which his own personal arms might occupy. 
Or, to state the matter in another way, these great nobles and 
their heiresses bear Beauchamp, Neville, and the rest, less as 
personal insignia than as emblems of territorial dignity (this is 
very clearly shown in the seal of the iordship of Glamorgan), and 
it is noteworthy that the almost regal splendour of Warwick always 
gives precedence to the armorials of its lords over those of the 
holders of what even Wiltshiremen will acknowledge to have been 
the less dignified earldom of Salisbury. 
When, however, we get to the Clarence group of shields of arms 
we find that precedence is given after Clarence to Salisbury and 
1 That is, Neville of Salisbury. 
2 John Rous, a monk of Guy’s Cliff, Co. Warwick, who died in 1491, was 
author of a curious roll, with portraits, arms, badges, etc., and of a full 
account of these Earls.” (Complete Peerage, vol. viii., p. 52, note e.) 
