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14 Nicole Le Leu (? read Lou i.e. Wolf-B seems to have Lou). Gules, two heraldic wolves, tails erect, passant argent (C calls them, incorrectly, dogges).

15 Henri de Herice.-Or, three hedge hogs passant, 2 and 1, sable.

16 Water fiz Humfrey.-Quarterly, argent (or, C) and sable

17 Nicole de la Heuse (i.e. de la Hose, or of the hose). Argent, three men's hose, 2 and 1, gules.

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Richard de Welles.-Paly of six argent and gules (gules, two pales or, C), on a canton [of the second, C] a mullet of six points sable.

19 Henry de Perk.-Argent (or, C), a stag's-head (three-quarter) caboshed gules.

20 Will' Mantel (? read Mansel). Gules, a fess argent, and label of five points or (neither name nor coat given by C).

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Jon de [Staverton, A; Staunton', C]-Argent, frettée of six pieces gules.
Herbert de St quintine. Or, three chevrons gules, and a chief vair.
Fouk le Fitz warin.-Quarterly per fess dancettée, of three indents, argent
(or, A, C) and gules.

4 Renaude le Breouse.-Azure, two bars vair, gules and ermine.

5 Tebaud de Moletone.-Argent, three bars gules.

6 Walter de Donstaruile (Dota'vile, A; Dotanvile, C); i.e. Donstanvile. Argent, frettée of six pieces gules, and on a canton of second a lion passant gardant (passant, A, C) or.

7 Otes de Grantson.-Paly of six argent and azure, on a bend gules three escallops or.

8 Will' Dodingeseles.-Argent (or, C), a fess and in chief two mullets, pierced, gules (a third mullet in base, B).

9 Lorenz de St Mor.- Argent (or C), two chevrons gules, and a label of five points azure.

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Robert de Werfeild.-(Witefelde, A; Wetefeld, C). Sable, crusilly and a bend fusilly argent (the bend and crosslets or, A; C has same tinctures as our version, but the bend dancetteé, and crosslets fitchy).

11 Henri de Cockington.-Gules, nine (sic A, but ten C) cocks argent, 3, 3, 2,

and 1.

12 Baudwin Boliers.-Sable, billety and a bend argent.

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Rauf de Limsey (Limesey, C).-Gules, six eagles displayed or.

14 Yngeram de Brus.-Azure, a saltire and chief or.

15 Will' de Nereford.-Gules, a lion rampant ermine.

16 Will' de Lamborne. --Argent, two chevrons sable.

17 Rauf de Wodebuich (Wodeburch, C).-Barry of ten argent and azure, three lions rampant gules, crowned or.

18 Will' de Bouile.-Gules, three saltires argent, 2 and 1.

19 James de Byrun.-Gules, three bends argent, and a label of five points

azure.

20 Rauf de Kirketone.-Argent, six eagles displayed sable.

97-1 Hameril Leices (Hameris Leites, C).-Argent (or, C), a lion rampant gules, crowned azure, and a bordure sable platy.

2 [Godfraye, A] de Baseuile (Basemes, A; basenes, C).-Gules, an escutcheon within an orle of eight cinquefoils or (the escutcheon argent, A).

3 Jo: Males.-Gules, three Catherine wheels, altered to round buckles, or vice versa (three round buckles, thongs to the dexter, A, C), or.

4 [Elles, A; gyles, B] de Rocheford.-Argent, eleven barrulets azure (barruly azure and or, C), a chief dancettée, of four indents, gules.

5 Tebaud de Marelj.-Or, a cross gules, frettée argent, between four eagles displayed azure.

6 Ansel de vile.-Argent, (or, C), a fess between six mullets of six points, pierced, gules (the mullets of five points, C).

7 Stefne de Montioye.-Gules, three escutcheons or.

8 Wm Crepin.-Lozengy or and gules.

9 Guy de la Roce.--Or, three bends azure (azure, three bends or, C) and a bordure gules entoury of fleurs-de-lis argent.

10 Will' de Hornes.-Argent (or, A, C), three hunting-horns in pale gules, furnished sable.

11 Geffrey de Meremond.-Argent (or, C), two bars sable [and a mullet of six (five, C) points, pierced, gules, in chief, B].

12 Baudwin de Flandres.-Or, a lion rampant sable within a bordure gules. 13 Wallerain de Luceinboch (Lucemburth, A; Lucenborch, C; i.e. from Luxembourg).-Barry of twelve (sic A, but ten, C) argent and azure (azure and argent, A; or and azure, C), on a chief or, a lion passant gules.

14 Otes Traisine (Traiesane, C; de Traseme, A). Or, three bends azure (bendy of six or and azure, A, C), within a bordure gules (sic C, but the bordure engrailed A, B).

15 Rauf de nele.-Gules, two fishes (lucies, C) hauriant addorsed argent (or, A, C, and the latter has the field crusilly of same).

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Walter de Torpignj.- Azure, an escutcheon within an orle of nine escallops argent (the escutcheon argent, A, and no escallops in either).

Maheu de [Yrie, C; Try, E; but Walran de Irye, B].-[Or, B, argent, C]
a bend [azure, B. C].

Symon de Moloun.-Azure, six bezants (sic C, but plates, A), and on a chief
argent (or, A, C) a demi-lion rampant sable (gules, A, C) issuant.
-[Gules, C] a bend [argent, C].

Sire de Fineles (Fienes, A, C). [Argent, A, C] a lion rampant [sable, A, C].
Giles de Maili. -Or, three hammers with claws (mallets, A, C) gules.
Chastelin D'Aras (The castellan of Arras ?).-Gules, a chief ermine (Borne
by Davy, of Kent, Papworth, p. 558).

Will' de Rode (from Rhodes?).-Azure, a lion rampant or (only the tincture
of the field given in C).

Conestable de Flandres (The Constable of Flanders).-Argent (or, A, C), an escutcheon gules.

Roger de Rome (i.e. from Rome).-Argent, a fess sable, and in chief a lion passant gules.

6 Jon de Scorenci.-Argent, a chevron gules.

7 Sire de Audenarde (Oudenard).—Barry of six argent and gules a bend

azure.

8 Sire de Basipes (bacepeiz, C). Gules, three pales vair, and on a chief argent (or, A; gules, C), a demi-fleur-de-lis sable issuant.

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Sire de Susat (Susane, A; Susac, C).-Sable, on a chief argent a demi-fleurde-lis gules issuant.

Robert de la Bruere.-Chequy of 6x 4 [argent and gules, A; vice versa, C], on a chief [or, A, C] a demi-lion rampant [azure, A; sable, C] issuant. Sire de Wateribount (Waderibount, A; Woderizbount, B).-[Or, two lions rampant addorsed in fess gules A, BJ.

12 Sire de Ardene.-Argent, a lion rampant azure [and baston gules, C]. 13 Sire de Corane.-Argent (sic C, but or, A), an escutcheon sable, and label of five points gules.

14 Jon de Betune.-Azure, on a chief or (sic C, but argent, A) a lion passant gules.

15 Sire de Renci (Renti, A).-Gules, three broad-axes erect, 2 and 1, argent, edges to dexter.

16 Sire de Boterecein (Botencein, A).-Argent (or, A), three lozenges sable, 2 and 1, and a chief paly of six azure and gules (gules and argent, A).

END OF THE ROLL.

THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR SHIELDS IN ALL.

THE FAMILY OF COURTENAY, EARLS OF DEVON.

BY FRANK ORDE RUSPINI.

ENGLAND is proud of her nobility, and of the illustrious and historic families around whose pedigrees is gathered the lustre of her glory. It is indeed true that Great Britain owes her national prosperity to the muscular help of the toiling masses, and that her history is the progress of national thought and the development of national civilization, rather than a mere epitome of the biographies of crowned heads, or of the rise and fall of governing families; yet, as will be seen in the sequel, such families as the one selected for our notice on the present occasion, have given birth to men who have swayed political power not for their own private ends, but as exponents of great national principles and popular sympathies; and Divine Providence has, in the wise disposition of public events, brought about great and marvellous reformations and steps of progress by means of the individuals on whose shoulders have from time to time rested the responsibilities of state.

This being premised as a worthy reason for the treatment of a subject at first sight of limited value, we will turn to the family whose well-known and honoured name stands at the head of this article, and sketch the past history of the house of Courtenay.

The Courtenays, like so many others of our aristocracy, originated in France. They deduce their descent from a certain Athon, who was governor of Castle Reynard in the reign of King Robert the holy, in or about the year of grace 1000.

Athon was a man of high position, and not improbably a scion of the blood royal of France. He married a lady of noble birth, and lived at Courtenay, in Gastinois, a town in the Isle of France, standing between Sens and Montargis, on a hill by the side of the river Clairy. Athon, who fortified Courtenay, and was henceforth known by the name of his fortress, left by his wife an only son Josceline, though some writers have asserted, but without proof, that he had another son who, they say, was the progenitor of the English Courtenays. Josceline de Courtenay, married twice; first a daughter of the Count of Gastenois, and by her he had an only daughter named Hodierne, who married the Count of Joigny. Josceline's second wife was Isabel, daughter of Miles de Montleherry, whose sister married Baldwin, Count of Edessa. By this lady, Josceline left three sons:1. Miles; 2. Josceline; and 3. Geoffrey. Miles de Courtenay remained on his ancestral patrimony, but Josceline and Geoffrey, being seized with a desire for adventure, departed for the Holy Land.

At this time the Holy Land was in the hands of the ChristiansBaldwin was king of Jerusalem, and under him there reigned feudal princes-counts and barons, whose bravery and knight errantry form brilliant passages in the history of the Crusades, though there were exceptions of a dark and terrible character-men who used the power they possessed for ends at once revolting and inconsistent with their character and profession as knights and as Christians.

Baldwin de Bruges, Count of Edessa, Josceline de Courtenay's rela

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