Cantelupe gules, a fess vaire between three leopards' heads jessant fleurs-de-lis. The name seems to imply the dividing or cutting in pieces of the wolf, or other animal; and in the arms the pike, or fleur-de-lis, is shown thrust through the principal cantle, the head of the animal, in the manner it would be carried in triumph after a successful chase. Nicholas Upton, who wrote in Latin upon heraldry, terms the fleur-de-lis, flos gladioli. The Boke of St. Alban's in these very arms blazons "three floures in manner of swerdis," considering the fleur-de-lis in this instance as no other than the ornamental head of a spear or pike. It is this spirit of allegory which pervades heraldry, and which formed the very essence of Oriental poetry, the source of the romantic fictions embodied in sculpture and painting.

Godfrey, the son of Sir Richard Lucy the Chief Justice, was Bishop of Winchester, and rebuilt the east end of that cathedral, where, on his death in 1204, he was buried at the entrance of the Lady Chapel.

Gules, three luces or, were the ancient arms of the baronial family of Lucy.

These are found recorded in one of the most valuable of heraldic authorities, a roll of arms of the reign of Henry III. "Geffrey de Lucie, de goules, a trois lucies d'or." This roll, compiled between the years 1240 and 1245, was printed in 1829 by Sir Harris Nicolas from a copy which had been presented to the Heralds' College by Sir William Dugdale. Sir Geffrey Lucy died in 1283: his son and heir, also named Geffrey, was summoned to parliament in the reign of Edward I, and his descendants in hereditary succession have continued to enjoy the honours of the peerage.

A

very ancient shield of the arms of Lucy, in which the fish are

white upon a red ground, yet remains within a quatrefoil in one of the windows of Selby Abbey church, which was formerly enriched with stained glass of tasteful execution.

Sir Reginald Lucy, by his marriage with the heiress of FitzDuncan, acquired the Honour of Egremont in Cumberland; his two daughters married brothers of the Multon family. In 1300 Sir Thomas Lucy, having taken the name of his maternal grandfather, held the Barony of Egremont; and Thomas Lord Lucy, his grandson, held possession of Egremont Castle, the forest of Copeland, and the Honour of Cockermouth.

Henry, first Earl of Northumberland, of the Percy family, married the heiress of Anthony Lord Lucy, who died in 1369; and, her large inheritance devolving upon the house of Percy, the arms of Lucy continue to be borne quarterly by his descendants with those of Percy.

In a curious roll of arms in the heraldic library of the late Rev. Canon Newling, compiled during the lifetime of the Earl of Northumberland, towards the end of the reign of Richard II,⁕ are the arms of "Le Conte de Northumberland Sr de Lucy," quarterly, first and fourth or, a lion rampant azure, Percy; second and third gules, three luces hauriant, two and one, argent, Lucy. The present Duke of Northumberland, a Knight of the Garter, is Earl Percy and Lord Warkworth by creation, and by descent is Lord Percy, Lucy, Poynings, Fitz-Payne, Bryan, and La

timer.

⁕ Printed in 1834 by Mr. Willement.

The original arms of the Percy family, azure, five fusils in fess or, are still retained; but the lion rampant, now placed in the first quarter, is the armorial bearing of the ancient Dukes of Brabant. When Lady Agnes, the heiress of Percy, married Josceline of Louvaine, the brother of Alice queen of Henry I, he assumed the name of Percy, but retained the old arms of Brabant, which have been continued by his descendants.

His Grace's full achievement, in stained glass, is in the window of University College library, at Oxford.

Algernon Seymour, Duke of Somerset, having inherited part of the Percy estate from his mother, the heiress of the Earl of Northumberland, was created in 1749 Earl of Egremont and Lord Cockermouth, with remainder to Sir Charles Wyndham, Bart, who, upon the Duke's death in 1750, became Earl of Egremont, &c. George, the second Earl of that title, died in 1837, possessed of the castles of Egremont and Cockermouth, the ancient estate of the Lucys: with the remains of these castles the antiquary is well acquainted.

Families descended from the house of Lucy did not fail to retain the arms of that ancient family amongst the quarterings, thus forming an heraldic as well as a genealogical record of their alliance. This practice of marshalling, or disposal of several arms in one shield, has been used ever since the reign of Edward III, a monarch who deemed it right to quarter the arms of France with those of England, in consequence of his hereditary claims to the sovereignty of that country. An instance is shown in the arms of Thomas Earl of Sussex, K.G. Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth, in stained glass at New Hall, in Essex, one of the few Tudor mansions which has escaped destruction. This nobleman of the Ratcliffe family, to use the words of a contemporary, was "of very ancient and noble lyneage, honoured through many descents with the tytle of Fitz-Walters," and through the Fitz-Walters was descended from the family of Lucy. The eight quarterings borne by the Earl include the arms of the heiress whom his ancestor married, and those arms conveyed to her posterity by her heirship, arranged according to priority of descent. In this kind of heraldic display, very common in the large halls of the nobility, the lead-work mingling with the brilliant colours of the arms produces a fine effect, such as few painters, perhaps with the exception of David Roberts, R.A. have been able to imitate.

Arms, 1, argent, a bend engrailed sable; Ratcliffe. 2, or, a fess between two chevrons gules; Fitz-Walter. These are a variation of the arms of the house of Clare, from whom the Fitz-Walters descended. 3, argent, a lion rampant sable, crowned or, within a border azure; Burnell, of Acton Burnell in Shropshire. 4, or, a saltier engrailed sable; Botetourt, of St. Briavels in Gloucestershire. 5, gules, three luces hauriant argent; Lucy. 6, argent, three bars gules; Multon of Egremont. 7, or, semee of fleurs-de-lis sable; Mortimer, of Attleborough in Norfolk. 8, argent, an eagle sable, preying on an infant swaddled gules; Culcheth, an ancient Lancashire family.

The Ratcliffes were descended from William de Radclyffe, in the reign of Richard I, deriving his name from a cliff of red stone on his estate; who, after his marriage with Cecilia de Kirkland, assumed her arms, argent, a bend engrailed sable.⁕ Radcliff tower, referred to in the old ballad "The Lady Isabella's Tragedy," was founded by James de Radcliff in the reign of Henry VI.

The arms of the Earl of Sussex with the same quarterings are sculptured on the monument of his countess in St. Paul's Chapel, Westminster Abbey; and as founder of Sydney Sussex College, in Cambridge University, her arms were adopted by the Master and Fellows on their official seal.

The arms of Lucy are also amongst the quarterings borne by

* Whitaker's History of Whalley, p. 401.

the family of Lowther, one of great antiquity in Westmoreland, the head of which is the Earl of Lonsdale, K.G.

When arms were assumed by monastic institutions, they were generally those of the first founders or principal benefactors. The arms assigned to Calder Abbey in Cumberland are those of three great families who had contributed towards its aggrandisement. Argent, three escutcheons: 1, or, a fess between two chevrons gules, for Fitz-Walter. 2, gules, three luces hauriant argent, for Lucy. 3, sable, a fret argent, for Fleming.

The only remains of the former grandeur of this abbey, on the banks of the river Calder, are the tower of the conventual church and the tomb of Sir John le Fleming the tower stands in a deep secluded valley, the sides of which are adorned with hanging woods.

One of the most considerable branches of the Baronial house is that of the Lucys of Charlecote, in Warwickshire, where it has been seated ever since the reign of Richard I.

From Sir Walter de Charlecote descended William, who assumed the name of Lucy from his maternal ancestor, and bore on his seal in the reign of Henry III. three luces hauriant. His descendant, Sir William Lucy, in the reign of Edward II. bore arms the same as now used by the family. In the roll of arms of that period appears "Sire de Lucy, de goules, crusule de or, a iij luys de or."

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Sir Thomas Lucy, knighted by Queen Elizabeth, rebuilt the manor house at Charlecote on the banks of the river Avon, which winds gracefully through the extensive park. This mansion, a

*Printed by Sir Harris Nicolas in 1829.