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Handbook of heraldry, with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss., rules for the appointment of liveries, &c. (1893)

Cussans, John Edwin, 1837-1899 · London, Chatto & Windus · leaf 80

An illustration from Handbook of heraldry, with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss., rules for the appointment of liveries, &c., 1893, leaf 80 — ard, Earl of Cornwall, son ofKing John, were a Lion rampant^ witJiina Bordure bezante.Armorists formerly used several distinctive terms inblazoning a charged Bordure, to signify the nature of suchCharge : as Ena/uroji, if charged with Birds; Entoyre,with inanimate Charges ; Enurny^ with Lions ;… … ChARGBS 69 The Orle is half the width of the Bordure, and doesnot extend to the.extremities of the Shield (fig. 119). The Tressure is one-fourth of the Bordure, and isusually borne double, and Fleury co2inter-fieury,—that is,with eight Fkurs-de-lys issuing from each Tressure, as inthe Arms of…

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