Note 2 — Chapter II · SIR THOMAS BODLEY AND HIS FOUNDATION, 1598-1613
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His arms were:—Quarterly, 1st and 4th argent five martlets in saltire, with a crescent gules for difference, on a chief azure three ducal crowns or (for Bodley), 2nd and 3rd argent, two bars wavy between three hone-stones sable two and one (for Hone). Motto, Quarta perennis (a reference to the three crowns, which were taken from the University Arms, presumably in 1604, when Bodley was knighted).