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 75
70 HANDBOOK OF HERALDRY Inescutcheon is always supposed to be a real object laid upon the shield, its outline must be drawn and shaded accordingly. The Lozenge is a diamond-shaped figure set perpendicu- … larly on the shield (fig. 124). It may be of any tincture, asin the Arms of Sir John de Creke (fig. 10), which wereOr; on a Fess gules, three Lozenges vair. It may also becharged. The Fusil is an elongated Lozenge (fig. 125). I am in-clined to think that the Fusil was originally the head of a
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