The manual of heraldry : being a concise description of the several terms used, and containing a dictionary of every designation in the science. Illustrated by four hundred engravings on wood (1800)
Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL, Boston Public Library (John Adams Library) BRL · London : Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. ... · leaf 27
the pale, the bend, thebend sinister, the fess, the bar, the chevron, the cross,and the saltier. The chief is an ordinary terminated by an horizontalline, which, if it is of any other form but straight, itsform must be expressed; it is placed in the upper partof the escutcheon, and occupies one… … The chief has a diminutive called a fillet; it mustnever be more than one fourth the breadth of the chief. Ex. Or, a chief, purpure, in the lowerpart a fillet, azure. This ordinary may be charged with a variety offigures, which are always named after the tincture ofthe chief. It may be necessary to…
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