ON THE TUTBURY HORN. II 



error, so too apparently in stating that this horn was produced by 

 Walter Agard. The family of Agard held lands at Scropton, 

 Derbyshire, and at Foston in that parish, at a very early date, first 

 of the Ferrers and subsequently of the Duchy of Lancaster. 

 Walter Agard was living 1275-1294.* It of course possible, and 

 we think even probable, that this Walter Agard did produce this 

 horn as sole evidence of his claim, nay, that it may date to times 

 closely following on the Conquest, when the Agards first came to 

 Foston, for the pedigrees give five generations before Walter, 

 beginning with Richard Agard de Foston. But if this is the case, 

 the horn must have been re-set. The reason of St. Loe Kniveton's 

 mistake, who was usually a careful observer and shrewd annotator, 

 seems to have been that finding some account of Walter Agard's 

 claim, and knowing the time that one well-known Walter Agard 

 flourished, he hastily assumed that the horn in its present setting 

 (which he had evidently personally examined) was the one of that 

 date — end of thirteenth century — which was the time when 

 Edmund Crouchback was Duke of Lancaster, and therefore that 

 the arms must be his. 



The arms are quarterly France (modern) and England, with a 

 label of 3 points ermine, impaling vair or vairy, for the tinctures 

 are not given. The label in a coat of this size is necessarily on a 

 very small scale, and Dr. Pegge read the charges on the label as 

 being fleur-de-lis. Having examined it most carefully with a 

 powerful magnifying glass, we have no hesitation in agreeing with 

 the Archaological Journal in describing the marks on the label as 

 intended for ermine spots, though there are three spots on each 

 joint, and not two as shown in the Journal. With regard to this 

 ermine label as differencing the royal arms, we find it on that 

 monument in Lincoln Minster which is of altogether exceptional 

 heraldic interest — the tomb of Bishop Burghersh — where a shield 

 bearing an ermine label, is attributed to John (of Gaunt) Earl of 

 Richmond, in his infancy. t True, this is only a label of 3 



* Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 263. Egerton MSS. 996, p. 57 ; 

 Harl. MSS. 1,093, P- 57- 



t See "Marks of Cadency of the Plantagenet Family," Archaological 

 Journal, No. 26. 



