The central compartment contains the family arms, viz., Or, on a fesse, gu., between three pellets, a lion passant gardant of the field.

He was represented at full-length, armed cap-a-pie, and grasping a huge buckler, on which were emblazoned three lions passant.

"Nay, it was not of the Venetian lion that I spoke," said the Marquis of Montserrat, "but of the three lions passant of England.