ARMORIALS OF THE SAVAGE FAMILY.. 157 



I will now proceed to describe and blazon the several achieve- 

 ments of the arms of Savage as they appear on the walls of 

 Bloxworth Church ; and I will assume provisionally, for the 

 purposes of description only, that Kichard Savage, who stands at 

 the head of the pedigree, was a sixth son of the House of Rock-Savage. 



To make the descriptions clear and the references to persons 

 intelligible I have appended a pedigree of Bloxworth Savage, taken 

 from that of Hutchins, reduced in detail, but containing all 

 particulars bearing on my subject. 



The arms of Savage, of Rock-Savage, were argent, six lioncels 

 rampant, 3, 2, and 1, sable. Crest : Out of a ducal coronet or, a 

 a lion's gamb erect sable. 



A sixth son of the house would be entitled to these arms, with a 

 fleur-de-lys for difference during his father's life, and which he and 

 his descendants might adopt permanently, if he was able to set up 

 a house of his own as a distinct and self-supporting family branch. 

 This is what is assumed to have happened in the case of Richard 

 Savage, of Bloxworth, and at some time a fleur-de-lys gules has 

 been placed on the Savage coat for difference, as a permanent 

 charge. And so the coat is blazoned by Hutchins. In the 

 Armorials I am about to describe this difference appears in two 

 instances, while in four others the fleur-de-lys has been replaced by 

 a martlet (the difference for a fourth son) for no intelligible reason 

 and quite at variance with the lineage in the pedigree, a mistake 

 which could not have been made by a professional Herald, nor, 

 indeed, by any one possessing a moderate knowledge of armorials. 



The first escutcheon I describe is that of the arms of George 

 Savage and Mary Astley, of Sherborne, impaled (fig. 1). 

 The Savage coat is correct, with a fleur-de-lys for difference. The 

 blazon of the Ashley coat is azure, a cinquefoil pierced ermine 

 within a bordure of the last. Here is a mistake ; as Mary Ashley 

 was an heiress her husband should have borne her arms over his 

 own on an escutcheon of pretence, and not have impaled them. 



The second achievement consists of the impaled coats of "William 

 Savage and Joan Page, of Uxendon, co. Wilts. The Savage coat 



