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Honorable Ordinaries. - Sub-Ordinaries: Tressure

The Tressure, we have already seen, is greatly beloved by every Scottish heart, and long and earnestly did Scotland strive to win the coveted right-hand corner of the British shield for their beloved tressured lion, when the two nations were united under James I. of England; urging as a never-to-be-denied good ground for such a claim that James I. of England was James VI. of Scotland.

The Tressure is a species of wreath of fleurde-lys, and it is asserted that the great Charlemagne gave it to their king Achaius as a token of friendship and alliance, saying that he, as Emperor of France, would defend his fleur-de-lys, expecting, I have no doubt, that the Scottish lion would be Sutherland. as valiant as he. When Charlemagne gave the Tressure to Scotland, he also added to the Scottish crown four lilies and four crosses, as signs of their faith in Christ and of the fidelity of Scotland. The tressure on the arms of the Dukes of Sutherland is to show their descent from King Robert I. of Scotland. The family is one of the oldest in England.

Flanches.

Katherine Parr.

The Flanches, or little half-circles upon the sides of a shield, call to mind an old-fashioned mode of dress. We see them on a coat-of-arms that Henry VIII. gave to his not very well beloved wife, Katherine Parr. The Mascles - Fusils - Lozenges - and Rustres all more or less resemble each other.