Part 2

Viscount Labouchere of Twickenham.

=Arms= / quarterly / =i= spotted before a beak several crafty mendicants exposed proper / =ij= inside a Westminster orle a British lion of rectitude dancette on a charter componee, charged with little games sinister under a cloud proper / =iij= on a ground party-coloured of revolt a primrose of nobility barred and erased / =iiij= in a pillory an heraldic pigott displayed in contumely / over all, on an escutcheon the family coat of Baron Taunton. =Crest= / issuant from a club +National Liberal+, a hawk-eyed lynx rampant in his glory, gorged with a banquet for popularity. =Supporters= / dexter, a classical figure representing Little England suitably attired, her defences somewhat neglected perhaps, statant on the pale of civilisation / sinister, an elector of Northampton proper. =Second Motto= / 'Britannia needs no bulwarks--they come too expensive!'

George Nathaniel, first Earl Curzon of the Pamirs 'specially granted'.

=Arms= / quarterly / =i= under a chief wavery ermine charged with a marquess's coronet for hauteur, a popinjay rising on a ground of undoubted ability / =ij= a Cretan lyre employed during the European concert charged with 'wires' strained improper 'probably wholly inaccurate' / =iij= a sun +of a peer+ in his meridian glory who declines to set upon the British dominions / =iiij= a lion erased, muzzled and depressed, regarding on a bastion the flags of the powers flowing in futility / over all, on an escutcheon of pretence 'as a minister of the crown' a slip verdant. =Crest= / a peacock in pride ruffled and displayed proper rising from a ministerial bench. =Supporters= / on either side an heraldic superior purzon erect omniscient pluming himself on a garb highly proper lined silk throughout. =Second Motto= / 'D.V. I shall go higher.'

Thomas, Viscount Bowles of the Bosphorus.

=Arms= / quarterly / =i= an heraldic cap'en or cuttle-fish sapient, holding in sinister tentacle a master-mariner's certificate / =ij= two pairs of ducks, worn alternately for distinction, displayed proper / =iij= on a mount arabesque a diminutive cavalier in his glory urgent +motto, 'Noctem in rotingro'+ / =iiij= an eastern khalif or sultan on a field sanguine, charged with a halo for benevolence. =Crest= / a demi superior purzon erect collared, semee of hurts displaying regal hauteur, charged in the middle with a nautical telescope effrontee. =Supporters= / two sea-dogs or antique 'saults' regardant timbretose, arrayed all proper, couped at the elbow and knee, and the limbs replaced by artifice.

Baron Bartlett of Sheffield.

=Arms= / quarterly / =i= sable a Turkish imperial star and crescent quixotically flaunted +motto, 'Without stain'+ / =ij= a Swazi chieftain dancette, labelled 'Silomo,' armed and accoutred proper, and habited--well, ahem!--suitably to a tropical climate / =iij= on an heraldic provincial platform a knight rampant and demonstrant charged with a peroration grandiloquent to the last / =iiij= a private chart proper, showing the principal ports and soundings on the coast of Poland, discovered and surveyed by the present baron. =Crest= / an American or spread-eagle bearing the union-jack displayed, over all a sun in splendour which never sets. =Supporters= / dexter, a more or less British lion in fury bearing a fire-arm proper periodically discharged at random / sinister, a Russian bug-bear passe and out at elbows, suitably bound for transport to the wilds of hysteria. =Second Motto= / 'Oh, Swaziland! my Swaziland!'

Henry, first Baron Hawkins of Tryham Fairleigh and Sentensham.

=Arms= / quarterly / =i= in a paddock vert, under a chapeau-de-soie jauntily poised with a rake chirpy, a seasoned sportsman of bonhomie endossed turfy to the last +motto, 'Frustum rectissimum!'--'A little bit of all right!'+ / =ij= an historic claimant adipose ortonee, brazen and effrontee in perjury, punctured, pilloried and exposed proper by counsel / =iij= under a judicial bench cosy but ennuyee and chafy in the dark, a fox-terrier proper of renown +since deceased+ constant in fidelity +suggested epitaph, 'Nox et foxterea nihil'+ / =iiij= under a sword of justice suspended in imminence by a hair proper a sinister scoundrel of criminality, chained cringeant and paly, appraised proper from the first, justly doomed and handed over damnee in charge to the jury. =Crest= / out of a wreath of laurels vert, a veteran hawk-eyed eagle of the law, robed sanguine and wigged proper poudree in horse-hair, collared, furred and laced, reguardant in pince-nez. +=Motto= / 'Aquila non capit muscas!'--'Flies don't settle on him!'+ =Supporters= / dexter, a typical counsel of the common-law bar guttee de larmes, robed silk, fairly prostrate in bereavement, and wielding with laudable vigour an heraldic mouchoir / sinister, an old bailey, gorged proper with causes celebres lurid and transpontine to the full, collared freely in advance for preference.

Mr. Punch.

=Arms= / quarterly / =i= in a field of drollery of his own, unique in satire and fertility, an artistic leech of renown / =ij= a knight-veteran of the pencil, or heraldic tenniel proper cartonee, historic in achievement and masterly in technique, most ably seconded sambornois / =iij= two hemispheres proper representing all the world and his wife purpure in mirth, reguardant hilarious a charivari of the town, under a dexterous editorial baton urgent burnandy, going strong / =iiij= in a gallery of the press an alert dog-tobee fleur-de-lucee reguardant watchful and wary a party-coloured parliament-house embattled nightly in session. =Crest= / leaning on a staff of permanence all jules, gorged weekly in conclave and rompy in debate, a hunch-backed polichinelle proper of embonpoint rosy and humpy to the full. =Supporters= / two publishers of geniality arrayed gaudy in their splendour / dexter, a thorough-bassed sportsman agnulee garbed chasy to the nines, adept in counterpoint / sinister, a connoisseur bras-de-buree in heraldry, ardent in golf, conversant with stymies, cleeks, and brassies with an occasional bunker for difference. +=Motto= / 'Sentio eadem!'--''E 'ave my sympafy!'+

=Additional Motto= / 'Si monumentum quaeris circumspice.'

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=.

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

The original is in a pseudo black-letter font. Some of the original text is in a red color.

The caption with each illustration is the motto on the coat of arms.

End of Project Gutenberg's "Mr Punch's" Book of Arms, by Edward Tennyson Reed