Arms of w:Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516/1517-1547), based on a contemporary drawing of tricked arms entitled 'Howard Earle of Surry, for which he was attainted', British Library, Harl. MS 1453, fo. 69r. His offence was to use the attributed arms of Edward the Confessor, as used by King Richard II. He also did not difference the royal arms in the second quarter. (See: Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms, London, 1902, p.117[1])

Heraldry

Quarterly of 12:

• 1: Gules on a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchy Argent an escutcheon Or charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth by an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory of the first (augmented arms of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, with Flodden augmentation);
• 2: Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure (Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, the fifth son of King Edward I, should have a label of three points argent for difference, without which these are the royal arms);
• 3: Chequy Or and Azure (de Warenne, Earl of Surrey's arms);
• 4: Gules a lion rampant Argent (John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray's arms);
• 5: Azure a cross flory between five marlets Or (Attributed arms of Edward the Confessor, as used by King Richard II) with a label of three points argent for difference;
• 6: Azure three fleurs-de-lys Or within a bordure Gules charged with twelve lions passant guardant of the second armed and langued of the first (w:Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey);
• 7: Per pale Or and Vert a lion rampant Gules (Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk's arms);
• 8: Azure a lion rampant between five cross-crosslets Or (de Braose)
• 9: Gules a lion rampant Or armed and langued Azure (FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel's arms);
• 10: Gules a lion rampant Argent (Ranulf Gernon, Earl of Chester)
• 11: Sable a lion rampant Argent crowned armed and langued Or (John Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave's arms);
• 12: Or a lion rampant Gules (Ranulph Meschines, Earl of Chester)