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Handbook of heraldry : with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss. : rules for the appointment of liveries, &c (1882)

Cussans, John Edwin, 1837-1899 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 73

An illustration from Handbook of heraldry : with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss. : rules for the appointment of liveries, &c, 1882, leaf 73 — ICHARD, EaRJj of CORNWALL, SOn of King John, were a Lion rampant, within a Bordure hezante.Armorists formerly used several distinctive terms inblazoning a charged Bordure, to signify the nature of suchCharge: as Enaluron, if charged with Birds; Entoyre,with inanimate Charges; Enurny, with Lions;… … CHARGES. 69 The Orle is half the width of the Bordure, and does notextend to the extremities of the Shield (fig. 119). The Tressure is one-fourth of the Bordure, and isusually borne double, and Fleury counter-Jleury^—that is,with eight Fleurs-de-lys issuing from each Tressure, as inthe Arms of…

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