The MOUNTENEYS further difference their common arms, for Cadency, after this manner. Instead of _gules_, Sir ERNAUF DE MOUNTENEY has the field of his shield _azure_, his bend and martlets being _golden_: Sir JOHN bears these same arms, but charges his bend with a _mullet gules_, No. 371: Sir T. DE MOUNTENEY bears Sir John's arms, but with _a field gules_: and another Sir JOHN cotises his bend thus--_Gu., a bend cotised between six martlets or_, No. 372.
North of the Tweed, also, the same principle is found to be exemplified in Scottish Heraldry. "In Annandale," writes Mr. SETON, "the chief and saltire of the Bruces are carried (of different tinctures and with additional figures) by the Jardines, Kirkpatricks, Johnstons, and other families." The arms of BRUCE are--_Or, a saltire and a chief gu._, No. 73: those of JARDINE are--_Arg., a saltire and a chief gu., the latter charged with three mullets of the field, pierced of the second_: and the arms of KIRKPATRICK are--_Arg., a saltire and chief az., the latter charged with three cushions or_. This coat of Kirkpatrick is also borne by the JOHNSTONS, the tinctures differenced thus--_Arg., a saltire sa., and on a chief gu. three cushions or_.
[Illustration: No. 371.--Sir John de Mounteney.]
[Illustration: No. 372.--Sir John de Mounteney.]
Once more, returning to the southern side of the Scottish border, of RICHARD DE NEVILLE, the renowned "King-maker," we find it to be recorded that, so great was his popularity at Calais, of which city he was governor, that his Badges were universally adopted,--"no man esteeming himself gallant whose head was not adorned with his _silver ragged staff_ (No. 294); nor was any door frequented, that had not his _white cross_ (silver saltire, No. 121) painted thereon." This was an extravagant application of the earlier usage in denoting feudal alliance, such as was in keeping with the heraldic sentiment of the second half of the fourteenth century. Those good citizens of Calais, however, who were Neville-worshippers four hundred years ago, were not singular in exhibiting an armorial ensign at the entrance to their houses. Numerous, indeed, are the doorways in various parts of England, and particularly in the counties of Surrey, Sussex, and Norfolk, which in the "sign of the chequers" still display the insignia (_chequée or and az._, No. 68) of the once mighty Earls of WARRENNE and SURREY; and thus show that relics of the old feudal influence are endowed with a tenacious vitality, which prolongs their existence for ages after the feudal system itself has passed away. But no doubt some cases must be referred to the less romantic explanation of the reckoning board of the Steward.