158 ARMORIALS OF THE SAVAGE FAMILY. 



is here again correctly differenced. For Page or, a fess dancette 

 between three martlets, within a bordure azure (fig. 2). Here is 

 another mistake : as William Savage's mother was an heiress ho 

 ought to have borne his father's and mother's arms quarterly, 

 impaling his wife's. 



The third achievement is the most interesting of the set, consist- 

 ing of six quarterings and an escutcheon of pretence. This coat 

 belonged to Sir George Savage, son of the last named. It is 

 clearly an amateur display, containing serious heraldic errors. Sir 

 George adopts a martlet for difference instead of the fleur-de-lys, 

 though he was the eldest son of his father, who bore the 

 fleur-de-lys j and he quarters the arms of his mother, which he was 

 not entitled to do, as she was not an heiress. The first and sixth 

 quarters in Sir George's coat are those of Savage. The blazon of 

 the second is gules, a chief chequery argent and azure, with a 

 crescent or, for difference. From its position and from the 

 pedigree one would have expected the arms to be those of Willis ; 

 but that is not so. The arms are those of Hansted, of Worcester ; 

 but I have been unable to discover any connection between the two 

 families. Welsted, of Wimbornc, is the third quarter ; or, between 

 three leopard's faces argent, a chevron ermine. The chevron was 

 originally azure ; the ermine is either a mistake, or a difference for 

 a family branch. 



The fourth and fifth quarters are those of Ashley and Page, 

 already blazoned. 



The escutcheon of pretence is for Ann, daughter of Thomas 

 Bower, of Spettisbury ; or, a bend vair, cotticed sable. As Sir 

 George Savage bore this inescutcheon on the face of his shield he 

 treats his wife as an heiress ; and this is further borne out by his 

 son's armorials, in which Lady Savage's coat occupies the second 

 and third quarters. These arms (fig. 4) Savage quartering Bower, 

 have already been blazoned. The martlet is used instead of the 

 fleur-de-lys, and a label, of three points gules, is borne, showing 

 that Sir George Savage was living when this, his son William's 

 coat, was painted ; the said son being unmarried at the time. 



