Fourteenth Company

The Union throughout. In the centre the royal badge of King Edward the Fourth, viz. a falcon with wings expanded, argent, beaked, legged, and bellied, or within a fetterlock closed of the last, ensigned with the imperial crown. In the dexter canton the number of the company inscribed in Roman characters, gold.

Edward the Fourth, of the House of York, in addition to the badge of the white rose, which belonged to the Earldom of March, assumed "the falcon rising within the fetterlock," that being a device of his grandfather, Edmund of Langley, first Duke of York and fifth son of Edward the Third, on rebuilding the castle of Fotheringay, which descended to him. He shaped it as a fetterlock, and then assumed his father's falcon, placing it within the fetterlock, to signify that he was shut out from all chance of succeeding to the kingdom when his brothers began to aspire to it.

Fifteenth Company

The Union throughout. In the centre the royal badge of King Henry the Fourth, viz. a rose gules, barbed and seeded proper, ensigned with the imperial crown. In the dexter canton the number of the company inscribed in Roman characters, gold.

This badge was assumed in 1399 by Henry, the son of Gaunt, in right of his mother, Blanche, daughter and heiress of Henry, the first Duke of Lancaster, whose badge was a red rose. This flower became afterwards the general badge of the House of Lancaster.