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above. A ring occupies the upper compartment, and the rest are 

 filled, as before, with hounds and beasts of venery, the lion and 

 unicorn being omitted, and a squirrel added. A third band of the 

 same breadth as the last, and similarly divided, carries the second 

 ring for the belt. Only hounds and deer are represented in these 

 compartments, accompanied by the huntsman and a person on 

 horseback. The mouth -piece is also of silver, with diaper work 

 between the edgings. 



The belt, which could not have belonged originally to this 

 horn, is a flat band of green worsted weft, mounted with en- 

 amelled silver medallions and other ornaments. The two ends 

 of the belt are attached to the horn by rings set on to flat pieces 

 of silver, which are fastened to the worsted band; on one of them 

 is the figure of a stag couchant, and on the other, a coat of arms 

 bearing Argent, three lozenges within a double tressure, flory and 

 counter -fiery, Gules, with two birds as supporters. 1 The two ends 

 of the belt are joined, at no great distance from the horn, by a 

 curiously shaped ornament, connected on each side by hinges, to a 

 medallion on the centre of the band. This ornament resembles in 

 shape and form a rather flat dos d' ane, only it is shorter, and the 

 wide end is round. In the triangular figure formed by this round 

 end and the lines running up from the extremities to the point of 

 the ridge, is a lion couchant; in the triangle at the opposite end 

 is a butterfly. The two sides of the dos d' ane are filled with a 

 lozenge, containing the figure of a heron ; and four smaller tri- 

 angles are filled with three leaves. 



The arms, as above, are repeated on fourteen medallions, set at 

 equal distances on the belt : between the medallions are silver bars 

 across the belt, with a hole in the centre to receive the tongue of 

 the buckle. 



There is also at Tottenham Park a magnificently illuminated 

 pedigree of the Seymour family, bringing their genealogy down to 



1 These arms, which, are on the belt, not on the horn itself, seem to he those 

 of Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, the Brace's nephew, who hore, Or, three 

 lozenges (not cushions, says Mr. Laing, Scottish Seals, Nos. 689, 090,) within a 

 double tressure ilory counter-flory Gules. There is an engraving with somo 

 account of this horn in Archaoologia, vol. iii. p. 28. [-Ed.] 



