For one thing, bordures or chiefs of England, although present, were not the only forms of augmentation. English augmentations could also be single charges added to the coat of arms, alluding to something which the armiger had done. One of the earliest of these augmentations, supposedly, is one made by Edward I to one Dodge-the addition of a woman's breast distilling gouttes argent, for his efficient tax collecting and nourishing of the king's coffers. Sometimes the augmentation was an entire coat of arms alluding to the deeds of the armiger. Azure three pelicans in their piety argent.
Some augmentations seem to have been a form of arms of office.
At the time, the Irish arms of dominion were neither the azure a harp or of the royal arms, nor the vert, a harp or of the Irish flag, nor even a grand quartering of the four Irish provinces, but yet another coat-azure, three crowns or within a bordure argent. Yet other augmentations, especially some made by Richard II and Henry VIII, were made simply because the recipients were near to the king in blood. Richard II granted the attributed arms of Edward the Confessor to the dukes of Surrey, Norfolk, and Exeter. Henry VIII granted the inescutcheon mentioned above that was composed from elements of the then-royal coat to the Earl of Rutland. He also granted augmentations to his in-laws after his divorce from Catherine of Aragon.