The handbook of heraldry : with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss., also, rules for the appointment of liveries, etc. etc. (1869)
Cussans, John Edwin, 1837-1899 · London : Chatto and Windus · leaf 71
now obsolete; but, in the Visitations of theHeralds, and other ancient documents, these terms are fre-quently employed. The Orle is half the width of the Bordure, and does notextend to the extremities of the Shield (fig. 103). The Tressure is one-fourth of the Bordure, and isusually borne double,…
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