Honorable Ordinaries. - Sub-Ordinaries

15 pages in this part of Dame Heraldry.

A COAT-OF-ARMS is not always colored, yet if properly engraved, every one familiar with heraldry can read at a glance the colors that it…

Now you will notice the first and fourth divisions of this little Keith quarter, and there you will see a sword crossing a sceptre, and…

Another decoration is the "Fesse," and crosses the middle of the shield like a sash.

Old Chester - but a short ride from Liverpool, and which every American whose eyes have never gazed upon a walled city is anxious to visit…

When several bends appear upon a shield, they are called "bendlets," as on Lord Byron's shield.

Sir John Chandos, one of the Knight Founders of the Order of the Garter, appeared upon the field with his maiden banner to be displayed…

Some of those most commonly seen are very beautiful, such as the Maltese Cross, borne by the Knight Templars, or the Knights of St. John…

Greek Cross.

The old Spanish family of Gyrons, Dukes of Ossona, assumed it with its name, oh, many years ago, and thus they say it happened that they…

Then there is the Fret, which sometimes looks like a knot, as on the Harrington coat-of-arms. The Harrington knot is thought to be only a…

The Tressure, we have already seen, is greatly beloved by every Scottish heart, and long and earnestly did Scotland strive to win the…

The Lozenge calls up gravestones, funerals, and such like gloomy HONORABLE ORDINARIES - SUB-ORDINARIES. apparitions, as when a wife becomes…

Queer little oblong ornaments that look like chips scattered over the shield are Billets, and may represent castles, or little camps, but I…

And this little shield, set in the very centre of the larger one is called an Inescutcheon; sometimes the arms of a rich wife are put…

The yellow ones are called Bezants, from some little coins of Constantinople that the Cru- Portugal. saders frequently brought home with…