Ecclesfield.
[E. V. has suggested a similar explanation of this term.]
"_Dieu et mon Droit_" (Vol. iii., p. 407.).--In Bishop Nicolson's
_English Historical Library_, part iii. chap. i., under the section
treating of _Charters_ appears the following paragraph:
"The same king (Edward III.), as founder of the most noble order
of Knights of the Garter, had his arms sometimes encircled with
their motto of 'Honi soit,' &c., that of 'Dieu et mon Droit'
having formerly been assumed by Richard the First, intimating that
the Kings of England hold their empire from God alone. But
_neither of those_ ever appeared on the Broad Seal, before the
days of Henry the Eighth."