A Parliamentarian battle flag, back after 350 years. This ultra-rare English Civil War battle standard, due to go on public display for the first time in three and a half centuries, was kept and preserved by 11 generations of the same English country family. It will be on permanent show at the National Army Museum in London as from this coming Thursday. (National Army Museum).
Cary’s own troop’s cornet was red with a creature in a barrel and the motto ‘come out you cuckold’ (Illustration 1) referring to the Earl of Essex’s notorious marital problems. The creature might be a ‘fox in a barrel’ or perhaps a stag or reindeer without his antlers.
The major’s cornet simply bore the motto ‘cuckolds we come’ (Illustration 2).
So there’s actually a 400 year old tradition of reactionary shitheads calling their opponents cucks?