These are the arms of Beaufort, since it has supporters and the College has no legitimised arms. The college arms are shared with St Johns and when Robert Cooke (d 1592), Clarenceux King of Arms made an Heraldic Visitation to Cambridge in 1575 he confirmed the arms of most of the colleges. Curiously he omitted to do so for either Christ's or John's. To have confirmed the right of one college would have meant granting a different version the another. As he himself was a graduate of St John's perhaps he could not bring himself to concede the arms of Beaufort to Christ's, being the senior college, knowing his own college would thereby be denied the use of them. St John's should have had the ams of John Fisher.
The arms shown here are those of Beaufort. Above the arms issuing from a ducal coronet or demi eagle wings displayed and inverted argent gorged with a ducal coronet or.
mantling gules double argent
supporters, Yales argent armed crined tufted spotted and unguled or.
Beneath the arms on a scroll the motto "Souvent Me Souvient"
Bewteen the mottos and the feet of the yales a red Rose of lancaster and a gold portcullis
Although blazoned as "Yales" they lack the curved horns, long tails and boar's snouts of true yales and look more like antelopes.
