The Answer 16:11 Jul 20, 2017
Petitavoine was right.
I have had a reply from the Research Assistant to Rouge Croix Pursuivant at the College of Arms, who suggests: "Quarterly 1 and 4 Or three Pallets Gules, 2 and 3 Or two Cows passant in pale Gules armed collared and belled Azure".
I was surprised at the use of Arabic, rather than Roman, numerals and have written back to ask whether this is a change. (Modernisation seems almost incongruous.) Apparently only bulls, unicorns and owls are described as "horned". |