blazoned in the royal arms of England from a.d. 1299 until a.d. 1801 (see Introduction).
The Rose is sometimes blazoned and drawn proper; exhibiting the stem and leaves; the emblem of England is thus represented. The Heraldic Rose is shown in Fig. 137. The small points around it represent the leaves, of which it is said to be barbed. When a Rose only is mentioned in the blazon, it is always to be understood as the Heraldic Rose.
It will be remembered that a rose gu. was the Lancastrian badge, and a rose arg. the Yorkist. Edward IV., in 1461, surrounded his badge with the rays of the sun; hence the charge, Rose-en.so-leil, Fig. 138, which was subsequently adopted by his adherents.[1]
The Trefoil, Quatrefoil, and Cinquefoil (Fig. 139) are leaves bearing three, four, and five cusps, respectively. The former is
- ↑ Shakespeare alludes to the Rose-en-soleil in Richard III., where he says:
'Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.'
