scutcheon🔊

The Baronet's eye, as he raised it to the splendour, fell right upon the central scutcheon, inpressed with the same device which his ancestor was said to have borne in the field of Hastings,--three ermines passant, argent, in a field azure, with its appropriate motto, Sans tache.

The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of scutcheons, wax lights, black hangings, and mutes.