[forwarded from James Nohrnberg]
I don't know about the family coat of arms, but Sir Philip's own arms would
have been displayed in his funeral procession, no? Theodore de Bry
engraved it in 32 plates, reproduced at the foot of the Notes in Katherine
Duncan-Jones' biography, Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet (Yale UP, 1991);
the shield of his knighthood is carried by the fourth of five heralds, on
pg. 322 of Duncan-Jones' book, and versions of this coat of arms appear
five times on his covered casket on the next plate/page, where the banners
borne by Henry Sidney, Edmund Walsingham, and William Sidney have all or
part of these arms. Sidney's device of an arrow head figures in the ending
of A&S 65.
--Jim Nohrnberg
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