HORSE IN HERALDRY. 225 



HENRIETTA. 



Will you give us some examples, aunt/? 



MRS. F. 



Not only the sons of dukes and marquises, but even the 

 princes of the blood, arid sons of the king 1 , if accused before 

 they are made peers, must be tried by common juries. So also 

 would prince Leopold (the present king of Belgium), who, 

 having no peerage, ranks as the first commoner, and is ame- 

 nable to common courts accordingly.* But now that I hope 1 

 have made these distinctions sufficiently clear to you, sup- 

 pose we return to our original subject, the arms, or rather 

 emblems which have been adopted, at different times, by the 

 various rulers of England. To begin then by the Saxons, 

 what was theirs ? 



HENRIETTA. 



A horse; and it is still the arms of the county of Kent, 

 for we see the horse rampant, on all the pockets of Kentish 

 hops. 



ESTHER. 



And it has also re-appeared in the English arms, in the 

 running Hanoverian horse, which was added to the royal 

 achievement, in an escutcheon of pretence, on the accession 

 of George I. 



MRS. F. 



But gently; I have much more to say about the horse, be- 

 fore we descend to such modern times. 



FREDERICK. 



The Carthaginians had a horse upon their coins, and the 

 Agrigentines used to pay funeral honors to those horses which 

 were victorious in the Olympic games; and indeed writer 

 assert that they erected monuments to their memory. 



* Lawrence. 



