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^ _rllustrated ale livery buttons made by Firmin for: 1. Archbishop of york;
2. Bishop of Dulharn; 3. Bishop of Inndon; 4. Bishop of Norwich.
The Chulch has no heraldic monopoly on the mitre emblem. It can as
well be the crest of a privat€ family as the badge of a prelate. The difference
between the two is clearly indicaLed,'holvever. a mitre creit rests upon a rvreath,
as should be ex1;ected. The mitre badge does not. rt stands free wifn the ribbons
unhampered. The u'reath positions the ribbons on a crest; or sometimes the
ribbons are completely tacking.
Among the familles having mitre crests are found the names Cleveland,
qpaldinC, Farvcett, Pettit, Hal'dy, Berkeley, Barclay and Harding. Crests of the
Iast three are illustlated.. No. 5 is the distinctive mitr.e belonging to the Earl of
Berkeley. It bea,r's a chevron between ten crosses pattee. Beikeiey (pronounced
bark-ly in England) is a name identif,ed rvith great wealth, porvei' and courage
from medieval times. Several of the no\\: very numer.ous branches of the
family claim a mitre crest. So do the Barclays of Scouand and those of Dork-
ing, England, but theirs is quite sLereotype. The motto ,,In cruce spero', (My
hope is in the cross) on button No. 6 conflrms the Barclay identification.
The names Berkeley and Harding ale connected in very early records. In
fact rvhen the Berkeley genealogy is carried back as far as undispuled records
extend, it arrives at Robert Harding, died 1170. Here, No. ?, is a Harding mitre
crest with the distinctive Berkeley chevron though different in other ways.

NEW STENtrIL PATTERNS FtrUND IN FLtrRIDA
HELEN SCHULER, and JANE FORD ADAMS
The preliminary u.ork w'as going well at the Florida State Button Show when
Mrs. Kathleen Bower, who .*'as judging, was handed a cal'd of stencils that made
her gasp. It held forty patterns, no less than twenty of which were unrecorded!
Naturaliy the other judges came to look and the great question was, .,Where
did they come from?" After the show opened, the owner, Mrs. C. J. Wilks of Miami,
told the story. In her words, "A friend of mine knew an old German woman and
flom her got my carton of buttons. The cards were filthy and stained. r regret
that r didn't know enough about collecting at the time to have at least saved the
cards or made a note of what was printed. My mother and r have tried our best
to think, but can only recall that they seemed to have French pdnting rather-
ttran German." Mrs. wilks reports fr:rther that the box contained some of the
$'ell known and plentiful stencils as well as the new ones and that many other
kinds of chinas were Lhere including calicoes, bird cages, bull's-eyes and mounds.