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gules, thereon eight plates, 3, Neville '|—Gules, a saltire argent and a 
label of three points or, 4, De Toeni— Argent, a maunch gules. Over 
I. and IT. a label of Neville of Salisbury. 
In many respects this coat is by far the most remarkable of the 
‘series which has been enumerated. The fact that France and 
England occupy only the first and second quarters of the main 
shield respectively, so that these important armorials only appear 
once each, is most unusual. This is one of the very rare instances 
of a personage of the blood royal not bearing all four quarters of 
the Royal Arms. 
And this shield of Edward Plantagenet’s appears to be the only 
ease in which a person of Beauchamp descent displayed, as has 
been remarked above, the ensigns of the heiresses with whom his 
ancestry were allied. 
Again the order in which the quarterings of the inescutcheon 
are arranged is quite unexpected. Since here they clearly refer to 
persons and not to lordships, the order which one would have 
expected is that of the matches, viz., 1, Newburgh Ancient ; 2 
Fitz-John ; 3, De Toeni; 4, Neville. 
It will be noticed that all Prince Edward’s quarterings in this 
interesting composition refer to Beauchamp alliances, and it is not 
unlikely that it was used on some ceremonial occasion after his 
succession to the earldom of Warwick in 1493. 
1 Doyle (Official Baronage, vol. iii., p. 586,) quoting the ‘‘ Beauchamp Roll” 
(? Rous) and MS. Lansd. 858, states that tbe King Maker differenced Neville 
with a label or ‘‘as Earl of Warwick.” 
A very learned heraldic correspondent of the writer offers the following 
suggestion with regard to the Neville coat in the ineseutcheon :—‘‘ Assuming 
that Richard Neville, the first Earl of Salisbury, bore the label gobony of the 
Beaufort (his mother’s) colours, argent and azure, how did his son during the 
father’s lifetime difference his coat? The father was Earl of Salisbury from 
1442 to 1460. The son became Harl of Warwick in 1449 and died 1471. If 
the son, between 1449 and 1460, used the golden label (I know no authority 
for such usage) it would perhaps explain the insertion of this coat in the 
inescutcheon, as it might be meant to show that the Beauchamp quarterings 
came in, not through the first Richard Neville (the Earl of Salisbury) but 
through the second (the Earl of Warwick). I cannot say that this suggestion 
satisfies me, but it is the only one that occurs to me at present.’ The sug- 
gestion is extremely ingenious and happy, and is evidently correct. 
