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Jotcs on % grins of Carbinal flole. 



By the Rev. E. E. Dorling. 



j^N an old book in the possession of the writer of these notes, 

 ^ entitled " Epitome Pontificum Romanorum a S. Petro 

 usque ad Paulum IY." 1 there is, among hundreds of woorlcuts of 

 the armorials of Popes and Cardinals, a drawing of the shield oj 

 Reginald Pole, Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury. The fact 

 that this prelate was the son of the last tenant of the second of the 

 mediaaval earldoms of Salisbury may, it is hoped, be sufficient 

 excuse for offering these observations to the notice of the Society. 



Like all the other illustrations of the " Epitome," the arms of 

 Cardinal Pole are somewhat rudely cut, and of course no attempt 

 is made to mark the tinctures, but the various bearings and the 

 grouping of the quarterings are quite plainly indicated. 



The escutcheon itself is exactly 1 J inches high by 15/16 of an 

 inch in width. In the drawing which accompanies these notes an 

 attempt has been made to render the form of the various charges 

 more accurately than they appear in the original woodcut, while, 

 at the same time, the proportions of the various quarters, and their 

 position in the Cardinal's shield are preserved. 



It will be seen that the shield is divided equally into four parts, 

 of which the first contains the Royal Arms of England differenced 

 by a label of Clarence ; the second has three nearly equal divisions 

 containing the arms of Pole, Neville of Raby differenced with the 

 Salisbury label, compony argent and azure, and Beauchamp of 

 Warwick, respectively ; the third is charged with Newburgh and 

 Montacute, each coat occupying the width of a quarter of the 

 Clarence arms, and the fourth is divided like the second into three 



1 By Onuphrius Panuinius, published in Venice by Jacobus Strada of 

 Mantua. 1557. 



