118 Notes on the Heraldry of Salisbury Cathedral. 



mere grace" in commemoration of his marriage with Jane Seymour. 

 2. Gules, two wings conjoined in lure or — Seymour. 3. Vair — 

 Beauchamp. 4. Argent, three demi-Kons rampant gules — Sturmy. 

 5. Per bend argent and gules, three roses in bend counter changed.- — 

 MacWilliam. 6. Argent, on a bend gules, three leopard' s faces or — 

 Coker. The shield is surmounted by the phcenix crest of Seymour, 

 and supported on the dexter by a unicorn argent, ducally gorged per 

 pale of the first and or, chained of the last, and on the sinister by a 

 bull azure, armed, unguled, ducally gorged and chained or. Beneath 

 this achievement is a lofty arch in the spandrels of which are the 

 coats of the Seymour augmentation and of Grey — Barry of 6 

 argent and azure, in chief three torteaux, a label ermine — to the north 

 and south respectively. Within the arch is a long latin inscription 

 detailing the merits of the earl and countess, surrounded by a 

 conventional genealogical tree bearing fifteen shields. Beginning 

 at the bottom on the north side is Seymour impaling Beauchamp ; 

 then follow Seymour impaling Sturmy ; MacWilliam ; Coker ; 

 Darrell — Azure, a lion rampant crowned or ; and Wentworth — Sable, 

 a chevron between three leopard's faces or. Next is the coat of Edward, 

 Duke of Somerset, " the Protector " — the augmentation and 

 Seymour quarterly, impaling Stanhope — Quarterly ermine and gules ; 

 and at the top of the tree is Lord Hertford's own quarterly coat 

 impaling Grey. Returning now to the south or female side of the 

 tree, and beginning at the base, we find Grey impaling the following 

 coats : — Strange — Gules, two lions passant argent ; Astley — 1 Azure, 

 a cinquefoil pierced ermine ; Ferrers of Chartley — Vairy or and gules ; 

 Widville — Argent, a fess and a canton conjoined gules ; Harington 

 — Sable, a fret argent, quartering Bonville — Sable, six mullets argent 

 pierced gules, 3, 2, 1 ; Wotton — Argent, a cross patty fitchy sable ; 

 and Brandon — Barry of 10 argent and gules, a lion rampant or, 

 croivned per pale of the first and second. Below the inscription is 

 the full 2 coat of Seymour, quarterly of 14, impaling Grey, quarterly 

 of 16, as follows: — Seymour, quarterly of 14. 1. The augmentation. 



1 Wrongly blazoned on the monument. 

 2 See the accompanying illustration, and the genealogical table of the descent 

 of Seymour and Grey. 



