amount. Menestrier gives no less than 514 different devices,
founded upon the properties of the sun alone.

Though devices previous to the reign of Henry VIII. were seldom worn
in England, yet the insignia of the order of the Garter, instituted in
1350, in connection with its well-known motto and assumed origin, may
be considered a genuine device. The next earliest we meet with was
worn by Henry IV., and represented a blazing beacon, the motto, _Une
sans plus_ (One alone.) This motto has been termed inappropriate; but,
considering that beacons were always placed at considerable distances
from each other--one sufficing for a considerable district--we may
conclude that the usurping Henry implied, that there was only one king
in England, and that one was himself. Richard Duke of York, when he
took up arms against Henry VI., assumed, as his device, a sun, partly
visible only through thick clouds, with the motto, _Invitis nubibus_
(Obscured by clouds.) After his death, his son Edward, in consequence
of the success of the Yorkist cause, changed this device to a full sun
unobscured. This was the sun of York so frequently alluded to by
Shakspeare, and such a stumbling-block to his commentators. Henry
VIII., on the occasion of his visiting Francis I. at the field of the
Cloth of Gold, wore an English archer, dressed in Lincoln green,
drawing his arrow to the head, the motto, _Cui adhereo praeest_ (He
whom I aid, conquers); a very significant intimation to Charles V. and
Francis, both of whom were anxious for Henry's alliance against each
other. Ann Boleyn wore a white-crowned falcon standing on a golden
stem, from which sprouted red and white roses, with the motto, _Mihi
et meae_ (To me and mine.) This device of the fair and unfortunate Ann
has survived to the present day. Now, emblematical of her fall, as it
was once of her high station, it is degraded to be the sign of an
ale-house, and known to the village topers as the _Magpie and Stump_!
'The gentle Surrey of the deathless lay,' one of the last victims of
the tyrant Henry, wore a broken pillar, with the motto, _Sat super
est_ (Enough remains.) One of the charges brought against him, when
arraigned for high treason, was for wearing this very device. Mary,
when she ascended the throne, wore a representation of Time drawing
Truth out of a well, with the words, _Veritas temporis filia_ (Truth
is the daughter of Time); and Cardinal Pole wore a serpent surrounding
the terrestria