Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1829. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ments, when they explained and recorded the achievements of the knights sporters. To Blazon is to express in proper terms all that belongs to coats of arms. Blue-bottle is a flower of the cyanus. P. 5, n. 20. Argent a chevron, gules between three bluebottles or, slipped vert, name Cherley. Boar, though void of horns, is an absolute champion; for he hath weapons, which are his strong and sharp tusks, also his target to defend himself, for which he useth often to rub his shoulders and sides against trees to harden them against the stroke of his adversary. Boars, while young, live in herds for the purpose of mutual defence; but the moment they come to maturity, they walk the forests alone and fearless. They seldom attack unprovoked, but dread no enemy, and shun none. P. 14, n. 20. Argent a boar passant, gules armed or, name, Trewarthen. Bolt And Tun is a bird-bolt in pale piercing through a tun, as P. 1, n. 22. Bonnet, a cap of velvet worn within a coronet. Bohder, or Bordure. Borders were anciently used for the distinguishing one part of a family from the other, descended of one family and from the same parents. When used as a distinction of houses, the border must be continued all round the extremities of the field, and should always contain the fifth part thereof. T. 5, n. 9. N. B. If a coat be impaled with another, either on the dexter or sinister side, and hath a border, the border must finish at the impaled line, and not be continued round the coat. See an example P. 13, n. 14; also P. 16, n. 5. In blazon, borders always give place to the chief, the quarter, and the canton: as for example, argent, a border ingrailed, gules, a chief azure: and therefore the chief is placed over the border, as the quarter and canton likewise are. In coats charged with a chief, ...
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