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 89
are continued throughout the shield, but that the Palesthemselves are romjm, or broken by a Bend, and that thetinctures of that Bend are exactly opposite the tinctures ofthe Pales. When a Roundle is counterehanged, it losesits distinctive name. In the following blazon,for instance, Per ])ah, or and… … Fig. i6i. CHAPTER VI. COMMON CHARGES. ~TT^ VERY device depicted upon a Shield, other than the-— Ordinaries already mentioned, is styled by Armoristsa Common Charge. It would be impossible to give a completelist of Common Charges : for any thing animate or inanimate,and even creatures which exist…
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