| Show THE ROYAL ARMS THE ARMS OF WALES Cymric Origin of British Heraldry Morlen writes Thanks to Mr Leo Cullelon htrald Cranborne street London mho is I uncoun throughout 3 urit lie I mas on Tuesday plated < 1 It possession of extremelj IntciisHiiB mailer bearing on Ihe piesent contra xersy respecllng the heraldic cmblen of Wales I I bee to recapitulate my conlllItion given III former loiter 1 I contend that the existing Ituyn Aims wtre the old CamlroDrllon em helm of the empire The Saxons Jules and Angles had really no heraldic her-aldic symbols but sporttd the reveal and while horse They were too un civilized and savage to know anything either nf letters or heraldry Hut like tho Jews who entered Into the latter itance of the UcntlleV the Saxons Jutes and Angles entered by degrees Into the possession of England In Its labote of weakness after Its prolonged truRle with the Homn empire 2 Tile Royal Arm of the prevent ds were troavilred > down to the end ofth last iiwiuury by the royal heralds l as the royal arms of the Prince of Wales The three lion ot England the lion rampant of Scotland arid the harp 0 f Ilolan1 ere thrust Into the nll < 1nt IImhroIIrlton shield 1 hn the Fievardelys was dropped as the em hm as It was supposed ot France The lion of Scotland was placed In tile Huarttr Vacated by the withdrawal of the rieurdeIj 3 The shield of It rl tot with the unicorn and the lion on cither side of It symbolized the whole earth and peace and let llun Is I the Welsh for Image and the crescent moon was the Image of an ob Jcl of a sacred character nnlOlg tile ancient IIrlton and called fhult Ark In the Est and Arech In llrek The round target was the symbol of g the whole earth It Is 1 alsoralled the Quoit of Arthur which still dots the United Kingdom In the form of circles of which tile Gorscdd of the Bold Is I the chief one It seems that descend Ing Into tile Lion or the linage on the snieia was a figure usually now In hldr shovon an a doe descending Into a Thibet or riveted crenccntshaped boat on the Western ocean The sign of the nod dove Ion underwent several forms It 10 the signification OIh Trefoil When the Trefoil Is I shown In a circle tho latter M I the emblem the Suns orb as head the emblem of the head of Tallesun Bun find not nuanlni Chief as spine have supposed The sign Is also Implied by the thrcelcaieil Pham rock of Ireland Other fm of the om sacred sign are tile Brand Arrow the Three Plumes of the Bin lem of Wales ho I Tleurdeljs I hi cock Phoenix andthe openwinged Cock the very nndcnt national cin bIm 0 f Gold or France The wo11 tell Dlen on the plate or clasp or the crown of Wales so long supposed to man Ih lIermnn I serve have reference tu the Im of that Of which the Thieu Plulnen 00 nn emblem and signify Idiomatically Your strength Irving the rllo1lc cmhlm of tile mord of tire Creator Its Items I A Hli Uadorn or 1I1lnelhlo lIu pronounced 1 Ilea unit IdnUcnl AIth lu lit Jupiter or lit I = or 1uthr III Merlin London I 110 Inlvrfor lIrnldlo lmano for 17192 tit love sign In I bhown its viorn at tile rim of thu citmn of Great Britain And renting exactly nn the forehead sent Or III I telltIMmuunf the monarch All I Ills will be seen to bo xtrunely In retting robin we come to the conntc lion of iturd the Dlnck Prince of I Wales with the Three Ilumen Ili the accompanYIng Illustration of the llo > al Arlon which lien been sent to me by i Mr Le CuMoli It mill be seen that down to Von the 1I0al arms of the I InonnrollY of G rvott llrllahi vere facknouledged by the BOdI College 0 of Heraldry as the Anllo of the Prince of I Will It Is I of oJepet Intutest on 10 how came the royal arms of gallant mil WaiLS to be the unn of the mun8hy of thee Initial The nnswel I Is Plain enough Tin ancient Urlti ere highly civilized and had u iptondld gottrnment Uywodracth n Parll 1 incut llhallh and lllal I b > Jurj Even when Julius Caesar Invaded Dr total half a century prior lo the Christian mi Their seats of govClnmelit not sacied mounds like the Twny lad the HuU Hill of theCounlryln the cent cen-t of the Isle of Man mill dot the land and there are moron of them tilt sites of belly courts of the thief llhallh In Glamorgan alone The name London Itself In a lorrult forma form-a r Ihe name llun Din or the holy hill often called Inn While Mounl In 1 Ingl Hull there Is no halite word for Part I am nt In Ihe mI11I1 enc Attached at-tached tn the name The Wllinngi tnote of the lIam man It Poems n rivers council of war That It did nol come up to the meanlllg given 1 In n representative assembly sums to be Indicated by tho adoption of the mine imilloniint or Talking Plate when a representative assembly was isttb Belied In England upon the ruins of Roxondom But the Normans arid Saxons agreed to apply the name Parliament 10 Ihe great Whit Mount Lien Dln on the summit or Parliament fill above mna Crovis Then ulken the sent of the British llhnlth or Pnillament was removed from the slid Italy While Hill I to Westminster West-minster the gieut authorities of tin realm called the new lornlllj White Hall In mimory of the White Hill be fore mentioned All voIsItors 10 West tnln8tI Abbey ore familiar nlth the circular hole there where the BrItIsh Parliament no held before Its removal re-moval to hi Htephe across the rondo 1 It Is I certain that the Saxons Jules nl Angles posserved neither nn nl phabet nor a system of heraldry 1 pWL They were simply 1 brave naked savages sav-ages from the foreman t of Germany etc derers They vere They plarrates stole robbers handsome and British nine I children nnd soill them Into the mnr fact of tile Continent Plopechally III Items aim the Venerable lId wrote In the eighth century It 10 true also that the Normnn of 1066 entered BrItain hlinglnn IlIh them some of the ancient heraldic emblems of i rranc hlch emblems hall sumired I the ancient oernnnt and elvilbru lion of Ihe Oauls mho states Caesar were educated by the Britons In course of time the llrllons of England amalgamated with the divers imtlonalllles which had nettled In I England and the result Is I Ihi lung nlflccnl race of today which goes un I tier the modern nom lIrltlh We In Wales are les I mlxul than the In hahllunls of the easlern side of the Severn Vt me the only pure Ilrlton and we Pileak the Inngun of the Caesars heard In England I tAoo thousand I thou-sand years rage And hlch the Phoenl clans beard and spoke In the Isles I afar off four thousand < years ago The CambrolIrlton brought over with them their holy emblem vibeat 1 tin I 1 r bravest Of them disdainfully i 1 left Eng land rather than melcome the Continental I Contin-ental 1 strangers tit that part of the Isles a Ja settled among their I fellow 1 ountr men In Wales and at Strait pI lide In the north of the Island Oovln to the reigns I of Queen RHcaheth md King James the ieorle of Wales I ind they alone wire called Brltoni U ly nngllth writers Since then writers have sought to make the name Ing land I slgnlff 1M whole I of IIrllllnnlli atilt the name Engllshmn olnlly I IIrltnn ltli I full time to lIoolltinu t Idiotic pracllcel lit II known tit nil flat It in I the illig of lite ancient Unions with their most nmhn I Lm Means of iho laigcl of Arthui 011 named bl ilenrgi und their symbol of Peace und war that ara emblazoned on the Royal flanlaid and the coin age I of the British lidm of IIrltllnnla llillnnnln 0 Is it I goddess and Is n K > nmici tom Iho clown of her hu1 to tile beds of her feet and she has today the proud satisfaction of acting her Hug and coinage from set 10 son un1 from the rher to the ClIII ot tit earth I It to I a proud < heritage < atilt orthy of tile hon rue of Wales In tile illustration nceOmlnnlng thin kitth will be Bien In the quarter facIng fac-Ing the unicorn the rleurdiljs of France In the present shield tho tutdes has lien taken out and he Lion lumpant of Scotland octu lilts the 10 I need < not icpclt 11 but the FlevardeIa rrnlly BMnbol I I memo but Invite Iortcullls uf the J College of lluinllr Quoin Victoria I street to enlighten us as tit wheat flat I linn hr Heollall1 sea removed from till of1d loltlnn till tin three lion 01 1glnnl and Placed In tina popition It I OCLUIle at present I now come 10 the lllack rlneo tit Wales In the year 1341 the Black prince votur created prince or WI1 < nt 11 elicie called the Bound Table hpld for the pUIIOM nt Wlnlool 11Y tilt loimuand of his father Edward Ill II WOK then the Order or the ourlr was Instlllilcil and the tnanSl of the order I rv given 10 the 1llght of tile Hound Tnbl Ili I HelILmher I 41 l The collar and adge merc or ill Order granted b > the lIt Toiler < King lInry VII In 1U7 And all were In honor tif Ibo Hound Table the llanllc 00101 of Klne Arthur of Uiuldhmi Ir Wr Charles IlJUlell M I Aso gnat work entitled llrralclrj lllalorlal anti < Popular It G a hi ill < tollming In hM will the lllack PtInve given direction di-rection tint in the oocalon or his funeral two distinct armorial com pliettlong houll be 11PPI1yed In the provemplon Immediately hdon him 10 11I0111011 for ivar of hli qunit treol drans and ill rather for POOL thr oolrIL leathern Thc word or the 1lack plhe tire fit Iautre plr in palkle nos ageu de lhIIllL dostruct Similar shields for war and I for penee niteri ate about the moncmtrtlf flat ItlackPrInce In Cnn I tiilurj Valh ul Each hlLhl or vent In dtotlleol till roll8On n saber Held three otrleh featheis elect tO and ono nig with the InhI or laspi hald tilt Ih wotdo Ih Ble The Crverlaarrick Catrhavar Unit tlcilletv 1l101 11 lint prlllL tit We rhu It is I conrd dora through the ages by the Black PrInce hlmA1t thol the Three Plunits of Teathri Imply Wale and Pence abd the mos important ambient of the 1m peilnl 1on I Britain The hlld of King Edward the confessor In the Lion lmng as n crescent hnRt with target nOlO iS and five birds Ibid p I 4111 MEETING AT CAUDirr A meeting of the protlslonal i om mittee In r1hrlnoco the move client for the Inclusion or Irmorl1 bearing representing Wnl em In the Royal Shield still < fltandnrd was held on NVedrivaday night nt Cardiff nnl elty college 51r T 11 Thonvas chalflnun Presided And Mr Ion Jnmeo and the tovo nclerk were alllonKet thlse present III the courne of discussion Mr Charles Morgnn hon eretar reported upon tile Progress tlIIII had Fit far been iliad In regard to 1 tie memorial 10 tile Illnce of IVidem und that 110 front pue bodies I to hr maJey In coulell1t Vma 10001vd 10 communicate with Mr J M Maclean MP and tile other Welsh members with n view of flu speedy presentation nf both memorials Absence from England Of the Prince Of Walis w cold It Avail pointed out retard re-tard UK Ietnllon 10 some extent and In tbla recct the liners of theO < the-O vons ympnthellally referred 10 Fill arrangements were made hy means of which the movement shaft not be undo I delayed The rIlIeo In numher and Importance 10 I he memo tat to his royal lilclinf are extremely I ex-tremely numOlu repentln evocry rank from the highest noblIfty downwards down-wards and they are taken ns affo < lln ground for hope that the expreHoed I lown of Into cabinet mill be onslder ably change In the Editor of the Western 7fall RlrTh IlIuchdlroI honge III the Ilctial Arnin 10 not Ithout Precedent In I the reIgn or another queen Queen IWahh got lid of the englo hltll tall hn ono air Ih UIItcrll In Bail provioult reign atilt Icatokud the tied I Druwm nr the ludorp which was horn by Henry VII and also loy lien ry VIII The nlTlO queen Rise mal I another chnnne lit I the royal arms toy lutrodurlrog the limit of freltand unit benthrar Mum at they have never bi en I borne hert or Place on three shields one on tire right quartied wllh the atm of lnqland unit Flours one on the left heating the emblem of Erin and the third below the other ton repres to-n the principality of Wales quartered In rid ae cold earn shield I I I binrlng lh lion countercharged Jnmei I 2 changid title 1 Tudor charger I i for the unicorn I nought thr at love front an old work fO royal Items and badges tnllhtill ant fill as lreedet I I tZoep n Food way and I for one would be Rind to Poo the n1 IJran ot Cad A alladur restored am Pie PieIVELSIL p Western AIntl Cardiff Walm 11 t |
