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Identifier: peepsatherald00alle (find matches)
Title: Peeps at heraldry
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Allen, Phoebe
Subjects: Heraldry
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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d is cheeky or powdered, the diaper is nevermentioned. In concluding this chapter we must add that one ofthe first rules to be learnt in heraldry is that in arrangingthe tinctures of a coat of arms, metal can never beplaced upon metal, nor colour upon colour. The fieldmust therefore be gold or silver if it is to receive acoloured charge, or vice versa. This rule was probablymade because, as we said above, the knights originallybore their arms embroidered upon their mantles, thesegarments being always either of cloth of gold or ofsilver, embroidered with silk, or they were of silkenmaterial, embroidered with gold or silver. CHAPTER III DIVISIONS OF THE SHIELD Although in many shields the field presents an un-broken surface, yet we often find it cut up into divisionsof several kinds. These divisions come under the headof simple charges^ and the old heralds explain theirorigin—viz. : After battles were ended, the shields ofsoldiers were considered, and he was accounted most 16 PLATE 3.
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2nd and 3rd gu: Z wings conjoined in MARQUIS OF HERTFORD. Arms.—Quarterly 1st and 4th Or on a pile gu : between 6 fleurs de lys az:3 lions passant guardant in pale or.lure or. Seymour. Crest.—Out of a ducal coronet or, a phoenix ppr. Supporters.— Two blackamoors. Motto.—Fide et amore. Divisions of the Shield deserving whose shield was most or deepest cut. Andto recompense the dangers wherein they were shown tohave been by those cuts for the service of their Kingand country, the heralds did represent them upon theirshields. The common cuts gave name to the commonpartitions, of which the others are made by various con-junctions. The heraldic term given to these partition-lines of thefield is ordinaries. There are nine of these, termedrespectively, chief, fesse, bar, pale, cross, bend, saltire,chevron, and pile. The chief, occupying about the upper third of thefield, is marked off bya horizontal line (Fig.15) ; the fesse, derivedfrom the Latin fascia,a band, is a broad bandcrossi

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