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passant gules (for Strange) ; 4, Silver a bend and six martlets 

 gules (for Furnivall), with silver helm garnished gold, and 

 covered with an ample red mantle with trailing flowering 

 branches of gold, ermine lining, and red and gold tassels. 

 The crest is a gold lion on a cap of estate gules." He was 

 killed at the battle of Chastilion in 1452, with his son, 

 John, Viscount Lisle, who owned land in Dorset (Child 

 Okeford). His eldest son, John the 2nd Earl, Lord Treasurer 

 of England, true to the Lancastrian cause, fell with hi> 

 brother, Sir Christopher, at the battle of Northampton 

 10 July, 1460 ; dead for the Red Rose. 



John, his successor, 3rd Earl, married Catherine, daughter 

 of Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham, and died a short two 

 years after Tewkesbury. 



A thought I venture : Was this old shield used in connec- 

 tion with Margaret's landing at Weymouth before that fatal 

 field, when she passed with Moreton over the hills to the 

 old Abbey of Cerne, seeking the hospitality of Abbot Roger 

 Bemynster ? 



Passing from these examples, we may say that many 

 were made like these shields for suspension by an eye at 

 the top, indeed one curious example in the Blackmore 

 Museum at Salisbury (fig. 7) has this eye worn through, 

 showing us why it fell in a Salisbury street long ago to be 

 found during recent drainage work there. Another (fig. 

 10) with the eye broken off was similarly lost and found 

 at Winchester ; others of similar shape were hinged, often 

 in pairs, by a projecting arm in chief, to an upright rod, 

 presumably constituting a head ornament (British Museum), 

 while a lozenge-shaped example, having a charge both 

 reverse and obverse, is figured in " The Proceedings of the 

 Society of Antiquaries," Nov., 1894, having the supporting 

 arm projecting from its middle. An unusual example in 

 the Mediseval Room at the British Museum is supported 

 from the lower corner (fig. 11), whilst examples from the 

 collection of the late F. T. Elworthy, Esq., F.S.A., are 

 suspended banner wise from a slanting standard or rod. 



