54 An Enquiry into the Name of 
‘¢ is proper to the most honourable persons only.” 
But that author says nothing farther, than that some 
kings having had the catharine wheel for arms, there- 
fore “ the bearer honoureth the thing that is borne.”* 
Perhaps what Dr. Ferriar thinks a catharine 
wheel, is merely an arbitrary embellishment; such as 
is the device upon the chanfrin fig. 7 and 8, pl. xxiv, 
of Grose’s Ancient Armour. 
III. Having shewn that the bend was never the 
arms of the family of Vescy, I shall endeavour to 
determine to whom the chevron probably belongs. 
It may not be unnecessary to premise, that, from 
the manner in which the monument is executed, it 
can by no means be reasonably supposed of much 
higher antiquity than the reign of Henry the third. 
Though the arms about the monument did never 
appertain to the Vescy family, it is probable that the 
person to whom the chevron belonged was posses- 
sor of Alnwick castle; and that the bend was either 
intended to allude to the castle, of which Tyson was 
the first possessor; or to express that the deceased 
held it on forfeiture of the descendants of Tyson. + 
* Accedens of Armorye, fol, 102. 
.t In Mr, Foxlow’s Horn, the coat of Ferrers is impaled 
with that of Lancaster: ‘“ because (says Mr. Pegge), it sig- 
nifies and expresses to us the title by which the house of 
Lancaster, proprietors of the honour of Tutbury, came by 
that honour, namely, by the forfeiture of Robert de Fer- 
rers, Earl of Derby, temp, Henry 111, on which occasion 
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