228 NOTES ON ARMORIAL HORSE TRAPPINGS. 



Audley of Heleigh, 15 May, 1321 ; the heiress Joane, 

 daughter of James, Lord Audley, one of the most celebrated 

 warriors of the martial reign of Edward III., married Sir 

 John Touchet, and the grandson of this marriage, Sir John 

 Touchet, was summoned to Parliament as Baron Audley. 

 Gules a fret or." 



To return to our Wey mouth example, this is thought to be 

 of the latter part of the 13th or early 14th century, and bears 

 Gules a lion rampant or, within a bordure engrailed, differenced 

 by a label of three points azure. You will remember the idea 

 given by some, that three points should be used to difference 

 the eldest son while the father is alive, and five while the 

 grandfather, but it was not until the 14th century that 

 cadency became general, and three points are invariably 

 used now, although examples of two, four, and six are also 

 known. 



" And Maurice de Berkeley, 

 Who was a partaker in this expedition, 

 Had a banner red as blood 

 Crusilly with a white chevron 

 On which there was a blue label, 

 Because his father was living." 



(Englished by Thomas Wright from Cott. MS., Mus. Britt.) 



This does not apply to certain early coats, where the 

 label, originally perhaps used as a mark of cadency, became 

 a definite charge.* 



Who in those far away days bore this charge ? We find 

 that Gilbert de Talbot, the third Henry's justice itinerant 

 for co. Hereford, married Gwendaline, dau. of Rhys ap 

 Griffith, Prince of South Wales, and relinquished his 

 paternal arms, bendy of ten pieces argent and gules ; to 



* e.g., Prideaux, Argent a chevron sable, a label of three points gules. 

 Roll, circa, 1392-1397. Papworth, J. W., British Armorials. 



