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Honorable Ordinaries. - Sub-Ordinaries: Lozenge

The Lozenge calls up gravestones, funerals, and such like gloomy HONORABLE ORDINARIES - SUB-ORDINARIES. apparitions, as when a wife becomes a widow she must no longer use her husband's shield, but display her arms upon a Lozenge. Maiden ladies are compelled to use the same.

The Fusil appears upon the Montagu coat-of-arms, and illustrates the name - Fusil.

Sutherland.
Sutherland.

Percy, Duke of Northumberland. - Mont aigu a sharppeaked mountain. The Percys bear it also, but five instead of the Montagu three. This is the coat-of-arms belonging to the Earl of Northumberland.

Lozenge.

Burdett Coutts.

Burdett Coutts.
Burdett Coutts.

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