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Notes on the Arms of Cardinal Pole. 



its associated quarterings, while the supporters, labels, badges," and so 

 forth refer to Neville — i.e., Salisbury — to the exclusion of Warwick. 



The Clarence label, it may be remarked in passing, was first 

 assumed by Lionel, third son of Edward III. At first he appears 

 to have differenced the Eoyal arms with a label (of Ulster) of five 

 points or, on each point a cross gules, in reference to his marriage 

 with Elizabeth de Burgh, the heiress of Ulster. In 1368, however, 

 his seal shows that he differenced with a label of three points argent, 

 on each point a canton gules ; and it is probable that he assumed the 

 latter, which thenceforth was recognised as the Clarence label, on 

 his elevation to that dukedom in 1362. This again had reference 

 to his marriage, his wife being grand-daughter of Elizabeth, co-heir 

 of De Clare. 1 



The use of the label charged with the three red cantons was revived 

 by the third Duke of Clarence, the Greorge Plantagenet with whom 

 we have to do, who was fifth in descent from the first bearer of it. 

 Duke George employed as one of his badges a black bull armed and 

 unguled gold, and his supporters were two similar bulls, all no doubt 

 adopted in allusion to his marriage with Isabella Neville. 



His son, the ill-fated Edward, Earl of "Warwick and Salisbury, 

 differenced Plantagenet with the Neville label, compony argent and 

 azure. He is said 2 also to have borne " Fraunce and Englande, a 

 labell of three points argent, on cache point l e a tort Plantagenet 

 with the label of York. This was probably in his father's lifetime. 

 Doyle 3 assigns a third very remarkable shield of arms to this 

 prince : — Quarterly ; — I., France Modern, II., England, III. 

 Beauchamp, IY., Newburgh ; over all an escutcheon of pretence 

 quarterly, 1, Fitz-John — Vairy or and gules, an inescutcheon of the 

 second 41 ; 2, Newburgh Ancient 5 — Lozengy or and azure, a bordure 



1 Glover s Ordinary gives Argent, a canton gules by the name of De Clare. 

 2 Harl. MS., 1156. 

 3 Official Baronage, vol. iii., p. 590. 



4 This is, almost certainly, a mistake for Quarterly or and gules, a bordure vair . 



5 This appears to be the arms of Mellent — Lozengy or and azure differenced 

 with a bordure platy, Henry de Newburgh, the first Earl of Warwick, being 

 the necond son of Roger de Bellomont by Adelina, sister and heir of Hugh, 

 and daughter of Waleran, Count of Meulan or Mellent. ' 



