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INTRODUCTION. 6 9
In royal armoury, inescutcheons are frequently perpetuated, and even
multiplied. On the stall plate in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, of
Frederick II., King of Denmark, the father of Anne of Denmark, Queen of
James I., the arms of Denmark appear with an inescutcheon of the arms
of Holstein, upon which there is another inescutcheon of the arms of Oldenburg
while at Holyrood there is a contemporary painting of James of
;
Scotland and his Queen Margaret, daughter of Christian I., King of Denmark,
on which is emblazoned a lozenge containing the arms of Scotland
impaling Denmark, on which there is an inescutcheon of Holstein, over all
a second inescutcheon of Oldenburg. And the authorized arrangement
of the arms of the Prince of Wales consists of the royal arms of England
differenced with a label of three points argent, over all an inescutcheon of
Saxony.
Such augmentations and honours have been granted from time to
time. Henry VIII. granted, " for merit," to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, and
his posterity, for his victory at Flodden Field, September gth, 1513, as a
commemorative augmentation, the royal shield of Scotland, having a demilion
argent, which is
pierced through the mouth with an arrow ;
to be
placed
on the silver bend of the Howards.
Marlborough. Hmu.ird. Wellington.
In modern days there have been granted similar augmentations of
honour to the two great military heroes of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. To Marlborough, an inescutcheon argent, charged with the cross
of St. George gules, and therefore an inescutcheon of the arms of France.
To Wellington, an inescutcheon charged with the crosses of St. George,
St. Andrew, and St. Patrick conjoined, being the union badge of the United
Kingdom
When a lady was not an heiress (i.e.
one of a family of brothers and
of Great Britain and Ireland.
sisters), her arms were borne on the sinister
K
side of her husband's shield.