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served the adjustmeut by which it had been attached to the leather. It is 

 added that in a MS. in Trinity College, Cambridge, there is a drawing 

 representing a charger with a breastband which has a row of these scutcheons, 

 hung all around it. These small pendants were also worn by heralds, 

 messengers, and dependants of princes and great nobles, to show in whose 

 service they were engaged ; and it has been pointed out that there is thus an 

 analogy between them and the badges worn by the modern king's messengers.' 

 Some years ago a part of a palimpsest brass foimd at Luppitt, Co. Devon, was 

 exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries of London,^ and attention was called 

 to the fact that the brass, representing a portion of a lady i\\ the costume of 

 a widow, which can be dated to the second quarter of the fifteenth century, 

 has two small armorial shields used to fasten the cord of the mantle (Plate X, 

 fig. 1). 



Attention was also called to two monuments, one an effigy of a knight, 

 preserved in the Public Library at Zurich,^ dated about 1400 a.d. (Plate XI), 

 and another, a monument belonging to the fourteenth century, of a member 

 of the Cockayne family, in Ashbourne Church, Derbyshire* (Plate X, fig. 2), 

 in which small shields are used as decorations on the eamail of the knights. 

 These small shields appear therefore to have been used either for personal 

 decoration or for ornamenting horse-trappings, and may be attributed to the 

 fourteenth or fifteenth century. 



Mr. Gr. D. Burtchaell, m.k.i.a., Athlone Pursuivant of Arms, most kindly 

 examined the shields with me, and assisted to identify the arms upon them ; 

 he also supplied me with some information as to the family of Weyland. 



The first is probably one of the three from the Petrie collection, as it has 

 a label somewhat like those used on others of the Petrie objects ; though the 

 number is crossed out and does not agree with that in the catalogue, it is 

 probably Petrie 939 or 940 (Plate X, fig. 3). It is a small heater-shaped 

 shield, and measures 1-J- inches in length and \^ inch across at the top ; it 

 has a loop for suspension, measuring f inch from the top of the shield. The 

 field is dug out and filled with red enamel, and three lions are cut out in the 

 metal ; the lions are now covered with a fine green patina, but the exposed 

 metal was most probably originally gilt. The blazon of the arms would 

 therefore be, gales three lions passant guardant gold, i.e., the Royal Arms of 

 England. It is the best preserved of the three, and is a nice little specimen 

 of Champlev^ enamel. The next, which appears to have been the third from 



' British Museum Guide to the IVtediaeval Eooiii, p. 56. 

 - Proc. Society of Antiquaries of London, Second Series, vol. xxi, p. 479. 

 'Archaeological Journal, vol. six, p. 2. (Fur other foreign examples, see note, p. S.) 

 * Journal British Archaeological Association, toI. vii, Plate xxxix, facing page 375. 



