When proud Edward went to Scotland, he took Baston along with him to sing his victories.
Baston lived in the fourteenth century, and wove verses in Nottingham.
However, Baston was a monk of the Carmelite species, and I hope he bore his agonies with religious bravery.
Changing the colours or varying the number of charges, drawing a bend or bastonover the shield or adding a border are common differences of cadet lines.
Thus John Cromwell (14th century) bore "Silver a chief gules with a baston gobony of gold and azure.
By the end of the middle ages the baston under continental influence tended to become a bastard's difference in England and the jingle of the two words may have helped to support the custom.
Henry of Lancaster, second son of Edmund Crouchback, bore the arms of his cousin, the king of England, with the difference of "a baston azure.
The "bar sinister" of the novelists is probably the baston sinister, with the ends couped, which has since the time of Charles II.
Here also it receiueth the Baston dreane, Longtoft dreane, Deeping dreane, and thence goeth by Wickham into the sea, taking withall on the right hand sundrie other dreanes.
Quarterly France modern and England, a border Gobone Argent and Azure, over all a baston sinister Argent impaling his Wife Herbert, viz.
Baston was stuck against his wall like a leech, rigid.
Having finished, Mali took her baston and her empty basket and began her journey.
Here also it receiueth the Baston dreane, Longtoft dreane, Déeping dreane, and thence goeth by Wickham into the sea, taking withall on the right hand sundrie other dreanes.
He is highly spoken of by both Baston and the Vita Edw.
Shield with curved bend or bastonof Henry de Laci earl of Lincoln, c.
A narrower bend which overlaid everything was known as a baston (see fig.
Soon after, Baston and some others were not wanting to persuade him to give to the Carmelites his palace at Oxford" (1317), where Richard Coeur de Lion had been born.
But we are inclined to believe that Baston died about four years before that great day for Scotland.
Scotland in 1304, took Baston with him, that he might be an eye-witness of his triumph over this country, and celebrate it in Latin verse.
Bishop Bale (in his Illustrûm Majoris Britanniæ Scriptorum Summarium) says that Baston was a laureated poet and public orator at Oxford, which Wood denies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baston" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
