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Two great birds standing on stone balls top the gate-posts. With a fine disregard of both ornithology and heraldry these birds have often been spoken of as martlets the martlet appearing in the Byrd coat of arms. They are evidently eagles, and pretty well developed specimens.
Barry of ten, an orle of martlets Valence. 5. A bend, cottised, between six lions rampant Bohun. 6. A fess, between six cross crosslets Beauchamp. 7. Quarterly, in the first quarter a mullet Vere. 8. A cross moliné Paganel. 9. Barry of ten, three chaplets Greystock. 10. Billetté, a lion rampant Bulmer. 11, 12, 13 and 14. Three water bougets Roos. 15, 16. Five fusils in fess Old Percy.
Bearings that may be seen in divers places at Westminster Hall, rebuilt by that monarch. Vide MIRROR, p. 98, Vol. iii. I have subjoined the proper blazon of the arms, which is azure, a cross patonce between five martlets or, impaling France and England quarterly, 1st. and 4th. azure three fleurs de lis. 2nd. or, 2nd and 3rd Gules, 3 lions passant guardant in pale, or.
Its martlets were generally fortunate in their connections; and its chiefs had supported the character of moderate reformers, each in his generation. At home, they were lenient magistrates and prudent landlords, never overtaxing their tenantry, and rarely enforcing the game-laws.
'Well! when I think of going home, the old red pediment with the white facings always comes into my mind, as it used to look up the avenue, when we came back for the holidays. Those old shields with the martlets see, Johnnie, like that holding up the crest on a spoon, 'where the martins used to build their nests over the windows, were such as I never saw anywhere else.
And from the midst were seen the Martlets and Cross of England's king, and the Tiger heads of Harold; banners which, seen together, had planted victory on every tower, on every field, towards which they had rushed on the winds. Retiring, then, to the central mound, the chiefs of the insurgent force held their brief council.
I know my limitations. A man can give out nothing better than is put into him. Well, so long as we give our best I don't believe the good God will be hard upon us. Now, then. "Martlets and Mullets? Villon, what do you mean?" "Have you forgotten our friend of the spiked thorn?" "But the Dauphin swears these were Tristan's men." "Tristan? Impossible!
And from the midst were seen the Martlets and Cross of England's king, and the Tiger heads of Harold; banners which, seen together, had planted victory on every tower, on every field, towards which they had rushed on the winds. Retiring, then, to the central mound, the chiefs of the insurgent force held their brief council.
Certainly the principal tower of the Castle, in its dark red stone, looked uncommonly fine and commanding, and about it flew the martlets that "most breed and haunt" where the air is delicate.
There too were Geoffrey D'Ardaine, a young Breton seigneur, Sir Thomas Belford, a burly thick-set Midland Englishman, Sir Thomas Walton, whose surcoat of scarlet martlets showed that he was of the Surrey Waltons, James Marshall and John Russell, young English squires, and the two brothers, Richard and Hugh Le Galliard, who were of Gascon blood.
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