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Rh SUBORDINATES.] HERALD 11 Y 697 Jolm de Baliol : &quot; Do goulos, ovc ung faux escochon d argent,&quot; that is, &quot; gules, an orle argent &quot; (fig. 65). Wilmington of Stanford : argent, an inescutclieon voided, witliin an orle of martlets sable (fig. 66). Fig. 64. Fie. 65. rig. 66. The Treasure is in fact a narrow orle, almost always borne double, and usually flowered. It is a favourite Scottish bearing, and is set with fleurs-de-lys placed alternately, the tipper and the lower half on each face of the tressure, when it is blazoned &quot; flory-counter- flory.&quot; This, in the Scottish royal arms, is said to denote the early alliance between that country and France. The bearing is, or, a lion rampant within a double tressure, flory-counterflory, gules (fig. 67). The tressure was a common grant of augmentation from the crown for services or in memory of an alliance. Scott of Thirlstane had it from James V. and bore or, a bend azure, charged with a mullet pierced, between two crescents of the first, the whole within a double tressure flory-counterflory of the second &quot; The tressured fleurs-de-lys he claims To wreath his shic .d.&quot; The Fret was originally borne fretty, representing a trellis. The single fret is very rare in ancient arms, but many of those families who at first bore fretty afterwards bore a fret. Fretty is usually composed of eight pieces. Malt ravers: sable, fretty or, which soon became and continued sable, a fret or (fig. 68). When nailed at the joints it is said to be clouee. Trussel: gules, a trellis (fretty) cloue&quot;e or. Harrington: sable, a fret argent, called also a Harrington knot (fig. 69). Yeriron of Sudbury : argent, a fret sable. The Gyroii, also an old bearing, is the lower half of a quarter divided diagonally. It is a Spanish ordinary, and said to come from &quot;giron,&quot; a gusset. It is seldom borne singly, and usually is gyronny, when the shield is divided per pale, per fess, per bend dexter, and per bend sinister into eight sections. If more, the number must be specified. In the earliest examples the divisions are twelve. Bassingbourne : gyronny of twelve, or and azure. Campbell: gyronny, or and sable (fig. 70). Fig. 68. Fig. C9. Fig. 70. Fig. 71. The Flosque, or flaunch, is the segment of a circle taken out of the two sides or flanks of the shield, the margin of which forms the chord. They are always used in pairs, one on each side. This bearing is not of great antiquity. The Voider, the diminutive of the flasque, has a flatter curve. The voider in defensive armour was a gusset-piece either of plate or of mail, used to cover a void or unprotected space at the elbow or knee joints. Frere : gules, two pards faces between as many flasqucs or (fig. 71), alluded to in Wliistlecraft by Mr Hookham Frere &quot; Two leopards faces were the arms he bore.&quot; When the bearer was asked to give some verses descriptive of his arms to be placed at the head of a history of the family, his answer was &quot; The flanches, on our field of gules, Denote, by known heraldic rules, A race contented and obscure, In mediocrity secure, By sober parsimony thriving, For their retired existence striving, By well-judged purchases and matches, Far from ambition and debauches. Such was the life our fathers led; Their homely lesson, deep inbred In our whole moral composition, Confines us to a like condition.&quot; The lozenge, the mascle, and the rustre are all derived from the fret or fretty, and do not appear originally to have been used -singly. The Lozenge is a square, set up diagonally like the diamond in playing cards. It is seldom used alone, and when the shield is covered with it, it is called lozengy. Fitzwilliam : lozengy, argent and gules (fig. 72). De Burgh : gules, seven lozenges vair conjoined 3,3,1. The Masde, or rather masculy, for originally it was so used, is said to represent a net. Rokele of Suffolk: masculy. gules nnd ermine. 1 oges of Stoke-Poges: masculy, argent and gules. De Quincy, earl of Winchester : &quot; gueles, six muscles d or, voyde s du champ ; &quot; and afterwards, gules, seven mascles or, conjoined 3,3,1 (fig. 74). The Rustre is of later introduction, and is not a common bearing- It is a lozenge pierced in its centre by a round hole, distance : or, a rustre sable (fig. 73). Fig. 72. Fig. 73. Fig 74. The Fusil is an elongated lozenge, from the French fusean, a spindle, and is supposed to represent a distaff charged with yarn. A very early example of its use is Montacutc : &quot; d argent avec ung fess engrail de geules d. trois pieces,&quot; which speedily became &quot; argent, three fusils conjoined in fess gules&quot; (fig 75). William of Waynflete and Wilson-Patten : f usilly, ermine and sable, a canton or (fig. 76). It has been suggested that the Percys derived their fusils from their lordship of Spindleton. Trefusis of Trefusis : argent, a chevron between three spindles sable. Fig. !,&quot;&amp;gt;. Fig. 76. Fig. 77. Fig. 78. The Roundel, if of metal, is a simple disk ; if of colour, it is convex, half a globe. It is seldom borne singly, and is named specially from its colour. If Or, a Bezant. If Vert, a Pompey. Argent, a Plate. ,, Tenny, an Orange. Azure, a Hurt. Sanguine, a GUKC. Gules, a Torteau. ,, Purpure, a Goipe. Sable, a Pellet, Gunstojie, or Ogress. The last four are almost unknown in English heraldry. Akin to these is the fountain, a disk barred wavy, argent and azure, to represent water. Although bezants, plates, hurts, and tor- teaux are given in early rolls of arms, their names do not always carry their colours. They are blazoned as roundels d or, pelottes d argent, torteaux de goules. The torteau is sometimes called a seruse. The pellet often stands for the roundel, and the bezant is called a talent, from a coin of that name current with the bezant in the East. Alan La Zcmch: Gules, bezanty. This was afterwards reduced to ten bezants, 4.3,2,1, with a quarter and sometimes a canton of Britanny, that is, &quot; ermine &quot; (fig. 77). Camoys : or, on a chief gules three plates (fig. 78). Wcllesley : gules, a cross argent between twenty plates, 5,5,5.5. Baskerville of Old Withrington : argent, a chevron between three hurts (fig 79), Hurting: argent, ten hurts, 4,3,2,1. Courtenay : or, three torteaux (fig. 62). Babington : argent, ten torteaux, 4,3,2,1, a label azure (fig. 9). Fulkyn: sable, on a cross between twelve billets argent three golpes. Greville : sable, on a cross engrailed or rive pellets. Bridgeman: argent, ten ogresses, on a chief a lion rampant of the second. Stourton of Stourhead: sable, a bend or between three fountains (fig. 81). Fig. 79. Fig. 80. Fig. 81. In early lists the annulet is blazoned as a false roundel ; thus Vipont is said to bear gules, six false roundels or. Guttes or drops are represented pear-shaped with a tail like a Rupert s drop, or the tears on funeral draperies. They are not found in the earliest coats. They, like roundels, are named from their colour, thus : or gutte d or ; gules gutte de sang ; argent gutte d eau ; sable gutte de poix ; azure gutte de larmes ; vert gutte d huile. Malory : nrgcnt, a cross sable, gutte d or. Wintei bottom : azure, gutte d eau. Kington : argent, guttd de larmes ; on a chief azure three barons coronets or (fis. 80). Fitz of Fitzford : argent, gutte de sang, a cross of the snme. Chichester city: argent, gutte de poix, on a chief indented gules a lion of England. Marshal : argent, on a fes, gules three drops ermine. The Billet or delve is a small parallelogram usually borne in numbers and set up on one end. Coudray : gules, bffletty or. Delves: argent, a chevron gules, fretty or, between three delves sable (fig. 82) XL 88