PRUSSIA, Kingdom of.

PRUSSIA, Kingdom of. Usually the following is made use of: — Argent, an eagle displayed sable, beaked, legged and crowned or, and with sachsen or holding in the dexter claw a sceptre and in the sinister an orb, and charged on the breast with the cypher F.R. Above the shield is placed the Royal Crown. The crest is seldom used, but is "out of a coronet a demi-eagle as in the arms." The Supporters are two savages proper, wreathed about the waist with leaves vert. Motto — "Gott mit uns."

The " middle " shield, which is illustrated, shows some of the quarterings. But the greater shield of the kingdom consists of forty-eight quarterings and three inescutcheons. The German method of numbering is different from the British, and the following description is numbered in the British way from dexter to sinister. The forty-eight quarterings are arranged in eight rows of six as follows : —

I. Westphalia, gules, a horse saliant argent. 2. Posen, argent, a Prussian eagle, on its breast an escutcheon gules surmounted by an open crown, and charged with an eagle displayed argent, crowned or. 3. SiLESL'V, or, an eagle displayed sable, crowned and armed of the field, on its breast and wings a crescent and crosslet conjoined argent. 4. The Lower Rhine or Rhineland, argent, the Prussian eagle charged on the breast with an escutcheon vert, charged with a bend wavy of the field, and surmounted by an open crown. 5. Saxony, barry of ten or and sable, a crown of rue in bend vert. 6. Engern, argent, three "Seeblatter" leaves gules. 7. MAGDEBURG, per fesse gules and argent.

8. HOLSTEIN, gules, an inescutcheon per fesse argent and of the field within three nettle-leaves, and as many passion nails alternately disposed in orle.

9. POMERANIA, argent, a griffin segreant gules, armed or. 10. LUNEBUKG, or, seme of hearts gules, a lion rampant azure. 11. SCHLESWIG, or, two lions passant in pale azure. 12. Bremen, gules, two keys in saltire, wards upwards argent, in chief a cross patee fitchee at the foot of the last. 13. Wenden, argent, a griffin segreant bendy sinister of six gules and vert. 14. JULIERS, or, a lion rampant sable. 15. Gelders, azure, a lion rampant or. 16. Cleves gules, an escarbuncle or, the centre thereof an inescutcheon argent. 17. Berg, argent, a lion rampant gules, crowned azure. 18. Casubia, or, a griffin segreant sable. 19. Thuringia, azure, a lion rampant barry of eight gules and argent crowned or. 20. MECKLENBURG, or, a bull's head and neck erased sable, armed and ringed argent, crowned gules. 21. KRO.SSEN, or, an eagle displayed sable, charged on the breast and wings with a crescent argent. 22. Lauenberg, gules, a horse's head couped argent within a bordure compony argent and sable.

23. Hesse, azure, a lion rampant barry of eight argent and gules, crowned or.

24. Ober-Lausitz, per fesse embattled azure and masonry or. 25. Per pale {a) Paderborn, gules, a cross or ; [b) Pyrmont, argent, a cross moline gules. 26. RUGEN, per fesse or and azure, issuant in chief a demi-lion rampant double queued sable, crowned gules, in base five stones fesseways conjoined in a pyramid, one, two and two gules. 27. NiEDER Lausitz, argent, an ox statant gules. 28. Oranien, or, a bugle-horn azure, garnished of the field, stringed gules.

29. East Friesland, sable, a harpy (jung frauen-adler) between four stars or.

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