460 Proceedings of the Rojjnl Irish Academy. 



of two united Sees, like Derry and Eaphoe, or Down, Connor and Dromore, 

 are quartered, the effect is not pleasing. The arms of the Archbishops of 

 Armagh and Dublin, an archbishop's cross and pall on an azure field, are the 

 same as those of Canterbury and York ancient ; and, as Mr. Everard Green 

 has so ably shown, are all the same, and not the original arms of the Sees, but 

 the heraldic way of displaying the insignia of an archbishop who had 

 received the pall.' 



With regard to the personal arms of the bishops as displayed on their 

 seals, the list of names will make it apparent that some belonged to noble 

 houses, others were either entitled to arms by descent or else obtained a grant 

 from the of&cers of arms ; and if there were any not so entitled, they appear to 

 have followed the modern practice, and when they wished to use arms, 

 adopted those of some family of the same name with or without a difference." 



List of Matrices of Modern Episcopal Seals in the Academy's 

 Collection. 



Armagh, Archbishop of, William Stuart, 1800. 



Cashel, Archbishop of, Eichard Lawrence, 1822. 



Cashel, Emly, Waterford, &c.. Bishop of, Stephen G. Sandes, 1839. 



Eobert Daly, 1843. (Matrix 



engraved by L Parkes.) 

 Derry and Eaphoe, Bishop of, William Higgin, 1853. (The quartered arms 



of Derry and Eaphoe impaling the arms of Higgin.) 

 Down and Connor, Bishop of, Nathaniel Alexander, 1804. 

 Clogher, Bishop of, William Foster, 1796. 

 Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, Bishop of, Mathew Young, 1799. 

 Cloyne, Bishop of, William Bennet, 1794 (the other side of this matrix is 



engraved with the device of the Bishop's previous seal for Cork and 



Eoss, 1790). 

 Cloyne, Bishop of, Charles Warburton, 1820. 



.. „ John Brinkley, 1826. 



Cork, Cloyne, and Eoss, Bishop of, Samuel Kyle, 1835. 



^' Proo. Society of Antiquaries of London, second series, voL xvi, p. 394. 



- " In our own country [Great Britain] men of all ranks have always been eligible for the highest 

 ecclesiastical positions, and on attaining them have often, down to the present day, assumed armorial 

 bearmgs for use upon their seals, etc., though frequently the connection of the Prelate with the family 



whosearmswercadoptedwas, to say the least, extremely difficult of proof I have 



alluded to tl.e practice by which a Bisliop wlio possessed no armorial bearings by inheritance generally 

 assumed for himself either a coat borne by a family of the same name, from which he supposed he 

 nnsni be descended ; or, and with much greater propriety, an entirely new coat, and this is the 

 custom still both among AngUcan Bishops and those of the Eoman obedience." (Woodward, 

 Eculesiasticiil Heraldry," pp. 22 and 81.) 



