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 BORNE BY THE PLANTAGENETS. 159 azure ; Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, second sur- viving son of Edward L, bore England with a label argent ; Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, third surviving son of Edward I., bore England within a bordure argent ; John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, second son of Edward II., bore England within a bordure of France ;^ Edward III. having quartered France and England, his eldest son the Black Prince bore France and England quarterly with a label argent ; the label of the heir-apparent having, in all proba- bihty, been changed from azure to argent in consequence of the azure of the shield of France having required a different tincture for it;'* Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, the third son of Edward III., bore France and England quarterly with a label argent, having each point charged with a canton guies ; John of Ghent, Duke of Lancaster, the fourth son, bore France and England quarterly with a label ermine, while his son, afterwards Henry IV., bore in his father's lifetime England with a label of France ; Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, the fifth son of Edward III., bore France and England quarterly with a label argent, having each point charged with torteaux, while his two sons in his lifetime bore as follows, viz., Edward, France, and England, quarterly, with a label gides, having each point charged with castles or ; and Richard, the arms of his father within a bordure argent, charged with lions jrurpure ; and Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, the seventh son of Edward III., bore France and England quarterly within a bordure argent. This series of examples might be easily extended, but it will suffice to illustrate the nature of the differences used in the Royal Family during the 13th and 14th centuries. I have not specified the number of points of which the labels ^ He died, without issue, in 1334, and a label of France, on the brass of Sir J olui this coat is afterwards found boi-ne by the Levcnthorpe, are there inadvertently as- Hollands, Dukes of Exeter. Some have cribed to Henry V. when Prince of Wales, erroneously attributed to John of Eltham That prince first x'educcd the fleurs-de-lis the arms of Richard and Edmund, Earls of France in the quarterly coat of IMan- of Cornwall, the brother and nephew of tagenet to three, and bore France (so Henry III. ; which were argent, a lion reduced) and England quarterly, with a rampant, gules crowned, or within a boi*- label argent. The arms of Lancaster on dure, sable hezanty. the above-mentioned Br;i.ss, probalily had '' An incautious reader of Mr. BoutcU's reference to the fact of .'^ir John Levon- work on Bi'asses may be led to suppose, thorpe having held lands under the Dueliy that under the House of Lancaster the of Lancaster, (sec Wright's Essex, v. ii., label of the heir-apparent was again p. '2(f2,) which was then vested in the changed, as the arms of the Earls and Crown, first Duke of Lancaster, viz., England with VOL. VII, Y