Rd found on these escutcheons--_Houmont_--is still more puzzling. We know that the Black Prince was wont to sign himself _Houmont, Ich Diene_. Stanley explains the combination gracefully, but not very convincingly. "If, as seems most likely, they are German words, they exactly express what we have seen so often in his life, the union of 'Hoch muth,' that is _high spirit_, with 'Ich Dien,' _I serve_. They bring before us the very scene itself after the battle of Poitiers, where, after having vanquished the whole French nation, he stood behind the captive king, and served him like an attendant." [Illustration: T