346 Notes on the Arms of Cardinal Pole. 
Coming at last to Margaret Plantagenet we find that after 
Clarence she still gives precedence to Neville (her mother) in her 
arms ; but that, by way, apparently, of emphasising her Beauchamp 
descent,' she separates the Neville coat from its associated quarter- 
ings, Montacute and Monthermer, and places Beauchamp and 
Newburgh before them, immediately after Neville of Salisbury. 
Her seal? has a demiangel with wings expanded holding a shield 
divided into eight equal divisions in two rows, thus:—l1l and 2 
contain France Modern quartering England with the label of Clarence, 
3 has Neville of Salisbury, and 4, Beauchamp; in the second row 
are, 5, Newburgh, 6, Montacute, 7, Monthermer, 8, De Clare 
quartering Le Despencer. At first sight this shield has the ap- 
pearance of being properly quarterly of 8, but it is really quarterly 
of 7, three coats in chief and four in base. The engraver, 
with the object of giving as much prominence as possible to the 
royal arms, and perhaps with an eye to symmetry, has given two 
quarters to Clarence, and it must be admitted that the general 
effect of the arrangement is very pleasing. 
It is to this remarkable example of marshalling that we owe the 
arrangement of the coat which suggested these notes. For it will 
be seen by a comparison of the blazon of Margaret Plantagenet’s 
shield with the drawing of her son’s armorials that his shield is 
simply hers with the addition of Pole inserted between Clarence 
and Neville. 
1Tt can hardly have been for any other reason. It may, it is true, have 
been a kind of tacit assertion of a claim to the Harldom of Warwick, since, 
‘“‘on the death of her brother Edward in 1499 she was the sole heir, not only 
of her father, but of her maternal grandfather, Richard Neville, Earl of 
Warwick and Salisbury, and of his wife Anne (Beauchamp) swo jure Countess 
of Warwick . . . but no restoration (of that earldom) ever took place, 
and she is never (even in the loose form of description which prevailed) spoken 
of as Countess of Warwick.” (Complete Peerage, by G. E. C., vol. vii., p. 39.) 
The earldom of Warwick in fact was forfeited on the attainder of Edward 
Plantagenet, and though his Salisbury honours were restored to his sister and 
sole heir at her petition in 1519, the title of Warwick was not so restored and 
remained dormant till it was revived as an entirely new creation in 1547 in 
the person of John Dudley. 
2 Harl. Charters, 43, F. 8, 10. 
