Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York, E. P. Dutton and company · leaf 75
onet,a rank which was originally instituted as a reward forgentlemen \vho sent out their retainers as fighting menfor the pacification of Ulster. A HARP was a badge of Ireland, and is still a royalbadge for that country (Plate VIII, 13). A HARPY (Plate VIII, 12) was a badge of Richard II.It is an… … BADGES AND CRESTS 65 A hawthorn bush crowned, with the initials H.R.(Plate IX, i), was a badge of Henry VII. It is said tohave been adopted in memory of the fact that at theBattle of Bosworth Field, Richard III in despair at hisdefeat, threw away his crown and it fell in a hawthornbush. It was…
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