Sunday, March 8, 2015

Still Here


I have been steadily plucking away at my Yorkists, and here the results.

Men-at-arms, still missing a Lovell banner-bearer.

Archers, complete.


Billmen, complete.


Close-up of the flags.  The one on the right is a heraldic banner for Lincoln featuring the cadet form of his father's lion badge.  Both Lincoln's father and brother were known to have used such an emblem, so I think it's quite likely that he did as well.  The nearer flag is a more speculative adaptation of one of Richard III's banners, 'updated' for Lincoln.  It also carries the de la Pole lion (I believe it was inherited through the Chaucer line), as well as the de la Pole panther heads, the White Rose of York, and one of Richard's mottos.  In both, the lions have a forked tail. Lions were believed to beat their tails against the ground when enraged, and the "queue fourchE" represents the tail whipping back and forth in anger.

 I am very pleased with the face of the drummer, which comes out a bit clearer here.

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