By the Eer. E. E. Borling. 



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I that the King- Maker bore " Quarter/// of four : fist his Wives arms" 

 ! . . . (Beauchamp impaling Newburgh) ; " second, his Mothers 

 arms" . . . (Montacute impaling Monthermer) ; " third, Spenser, 

 • . . fourth, Clare, impaling Nevil, his paternal Coat . . . 

 differenced with a label gobonated Argent and Azure" 1 



The arms of Richard Neville's daughter Anne, Queen of Eichard 

 III., are blazoned in the "Warwick roll 2 as follows: — Quarterly, 

 1, Newburgh impaling Beauchamp, 2 Montacute impaling Mon- 

 thermer, 3, Neville of Salisbury, 4, De Clare impaling Le Despencer. 

 This lady does not enter into the pedigree of Cardinal Pole ; but 

 her sister Isabel does, and it may perhaps be presumed that the 

 latter also bore the last-mentioned coat. The writer would be glad 

 to hear from any reader who lias met with an authentic example 

 of Isabel Neville's arms. 



What, to modern eyes, is perhaps the most remarkable point in 

 this long series of armorials, is the way in which the arms of the 

 house are, one might almost say, slighted. The reason for this 

 would seem to be that arms yvere regarded as territorial or titular 

 rather than personal ; in other words that the bearer of a quartered 

 coat charged with the arms of many lordships marshalled them 

 according to their territorial and titular rank without regard to 

 the position in the coat which his own personal arms might occupy. 

 Or, to state the matter in another way, these great nobles and 

 their heiresses bear Beauchamp, Neville, and the rest, less as 

 personal insignia than as emblems of territorial dignity (this is 

 very clearly shown in the seal of the lordship of Glamorgan), and 

 it is noteworthy that the almost regal splendour of Warwick always 

 gives precedence to the armorials of its lords over those of the 

 holders of what even Wiltshiremen will acknowledge to have been 

 the less dignified earldom of Salisbury. 



When, however, we get to the Clarence group of shields of anus 

 we find that precedence is given after Clarence to Salisbury and 



1 That is, Neville of Salisbury. 

 2 "John Eous, a monk of Guy's Cliff", Co. Warwick, who died in l 191, was 

 author of a curious roll, with portraits, arms, badges, He. and of ;i full 

 account of these Earjs." (Complett Peerage, vol. p. 62, Qoti 



