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Honorable Ordinaries. - Sub-Ordinaries: Bordure

Queer little oblong ornaments that look like chips scattered over the shield are Billets, and may represent castles, or little camps, but I should not wonder if they really meant billets, as letters and notes are sometimes styled, and as decorations on a shield were probably first given to bearers of important despatches. Then there is the Bordure; you remember Bordure.

Billets. that I told you that the High Court before which Scrope and Grosvenor tried to wrest the family shield from each other decided that the unfortunate loser might keep it if he would consent to edge it with a silver Bordure.