194 I'roccedini/a oj' the Royal Irish Academy. 



bound by the mydel with a chayne gold m a wreith gold and vert manteled 

 geules doubled ermyns.'" 



The last shield measures -{-| inch in length and \^ inch across the top ; the 

 joop for suspension measures about I inch (Plate X, fig. 6). The shield has 

 been elaborately decorated. The field has been silvered, and small incisions 

 made to represent ermine ; in the centre is a red champleve enamel cross, and 

 what are mtended for five escallop shells, gilt. The blazon is, therefore, ermine 

 on a cross gules five escallops gold. This coat is given by Papworth as being 

 that of the Wayling or Weyland family.^ The family of Weland was settled in 

 Ireland from an early period, and there are numerous references to the name 

 of Weland, Welaund Welond, Weyland, and Wheland in the Calendar of 

 Documents relating to Ireland^ of about the period during which these small 

 shields were worn. I think, therefore, that though the Academy's specimen is 

 unrecorded, there is every probability that it was found in Ireland. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 

 Plate X. 



Fig. 



1. Part of Brass of a lady from Luppitt, Co. Devon. (Eeproduced by kind 



permission of the Society of Antiquaries of London.) 



2. Monument in Ashbourne Church, Derbyshire. (Eeproduced liy kind 



permission of the British Archaeological Association.) 

 8. Armorial pendant with the Eoyal Arms. 



4. ,, „ „ Hastings Arms. 



5. „ „ „ FitzGerald Crest. 



6. „ „ „ Weyland Arms. 



Plate XL 



Effigy of a Knight in the Public Library, Ziirich. (Eeproduced from the 

 Archaeological Journal.) 



' "Tlie Ancestor," vol. xi, October, 1904, p. 183. 

 'Papworth, " Ordinary of British Arnjorials," 187J, p. 654. 

 'See volumes i, ii, iii, iv. 



