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thence through various ranks, down to four yards for 

 a simple knight. Four such standards have been 

 figured and described by the late Earl of Southesk in 

 the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scot- 

 land (1901-2, pp. 246-80): 



(1) The standard of Keith, Earl Marischal, carried 

 at Flodden by Black John Skirving of Plewland, 

 brought back to Edinburgh after the great day of 

 Scotland's dolour, and now preserved in the Advocates' 

 Library. It bears only the Keith Crest, a hart's head, 

 repeated thrice, with the legend Veritas vincit a 

 vaunt which it was not the destiny of the gallant Keith 

 to fulfil on that fatal 9th September 1513. The 

 standard is the subject of Plate xlvi. in the catalogue of 

 the Heraldic Exhibition held at Edinburgh in 1892. 



(2) The Huntly standard, taken in the same battle 

 by Sir William Molyneux from the Earl of Huntly, and 

 displayed, until the middle of last century, in the parish 

 church of Sefton. Grievous to relate, it has since 

 disappeared, but a water-colour drawing of it remains 

 at Croxteth, showing a scarlet flag, charged with a 

 variety of emblems and heraldic figures, and with the 

 legend Clame tot! which Lord Southesk interpreted 

 ' Summon all ! ' 



(3) The Percy standard, figured in Woodward and 

 Boutell's Treatise on Heraldry (ii. 649, fig. 100) as 

 having the red cross of St. George at the hoist ; the 

 azure lion of Louvaine on the fly, with the Percy badge 

 the crescent and fetterlock and sundry other 

 devices; while the Percy motto Esperance en Lieu 

 is repeated four times. I have not been able to trace 



