Malta.
P.S.--Since writing the above, I have read three replies (Vol. ix., p.
84.), which do not appear to me to exactly meet the Query of DEVONIENSIS.
I understand the question to be, does any English family bear simply three
fleurs-de-lys, in chief, fess-ways--without any additional charge? And in
that sense my reply above is framed.
The first example given by MR. MACKENZIE WALCOTT would be most satisfactory
and conclusive of the existence of such a bearing, could it be verified;
but, unfortunately, in the _Heraldic Dictionaries_ of Berry and Burke, the
name even of Trilleck or Trelleck does not occur. And in Malta, I have no
opportunity of consulting Edmondson or Robson.
Your correspondent A. B. (p. 113.) has mistaken the three white lilies for
fleurs-de-lys in the arms of Magdalen College, Oxford. Waynflete, the
founder, was also Provost of Eton, and adopted the device from the bearings
of that illustrious school; by which they were borne in allusion to St.
Mary, to whom that College is dedicated.