Medal

Medal

Medal: in later coats of arms of very debased heraldry special medals or medallions, clasps, &c., granted for services in war have been frequently adopted. Sometimes a coin is introduced, e.g. a pagoda(i.e. a Madras coin), and in one old instance what is called a penny-yard penny. This is a coin which is said to have been struck in Penyard Castle, near Ross, Herefordshire.

Or, a lion rampant gules, a canton of the last, thereon pendant from a mural crown of the first a riband of the second fimbriated azure, a representation of the gold medal and clasp presented for services in the Peninsular War--MACDONALD, Perth.

Erminois, on an eagle displayed double headed gules an eastern crown or; a chief vert charged with pendant from a chain two oval medallions is pale, the one bearing Arabic characters and the other a dagger in fesse, blade wavy, point downwards, the dexter in relief gold--Sir Thomas S.RAFFLES, Lieutenant-Governor of Java, &c.

Gules, two estoiles, in chief argent a lion passant; in base or on a chief of the second a wreath of laurel vert, enclosing two swords in saltire proper, pomels and hilts or; in chief the medal for Waterloo--MCINNES, Charlton Kings, co. Gloucester.

Azure, three palets gules on a chief azure an many martlets of the first with a canton of the second charged with the medal presented to him by the East India Company proper--MARTIN, Wivenhoe, Essex.

Azure, two swords in saltire argent .... on a chief ermine a bee volant between two star pagodas proper--BLADES, Sheriff of London, 1812.

Azure, three penny-yard pence proper[i.e. argent]--SPENCE.