The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Courtenay. Caraunt. Vipont. Avenel. it will be. understood that the Fusil, other than as part ofan engrailed or indented bend, pale or fosse, is not known totrue armory. Also it is one of the notable achievements ofthe English writers on heraldry that they should have allottedto the lozenge, when borne voided, the name of This mascle is the word of the oldest armorists for the unvoidedcharge, the voided being sometimes described by them as alozenge, without further qualifications. Fortunat
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Courtenay. Caraunt. Vipont. Avenel. it will be. understood that the Fusil, other than as part ofan engrailed or indented bend, pale or fosse, is not known totrue armory. Also it is one of the notable achievements ofthe English writers on heraldry that they should have allottedto the lozenge, when borne voided, the name of This mascle is the word of the oldest armorists for the unvoidedcharge, the voided being sometimes described by them as alozenge, without further qualifications. Fortunately the difficultycan be solved by following the late 14th-century custom indistinguishing between lozenges and voided lozenges andby abandoning altogether this misleading word Masde. Thomas of Merstone, a clerk, bore on his seal in 1359 Ermine alozenge with a pierced molet Hawberk. Stourton. Charles. Fitzwilliam. Braybroke bore Silver seven voided lozenges bore Ermine a chief gules with five golden lozengesthereon. ,, Fitzwilliam bore Lozengy silver and gules. Billets are oblong figures set upright. Black billets in thearms of Delves of Cheshire stand for delves of earth and thegads of steel in the arms of the London Ironmongers Companytook a somewhat similar form. HERALDRY 323 Sir Ralpii Mounchensy bore in the 14th century Silver a chcvcronbetween three billets sable. Ilaggerston bore Azure a bend with cotices silver and three billetssable on the bend. Wilh the Billet, the Ordinaries, uncertain as they arc in number,may be said to end. But we may here add certain armorialcltarges which might well have been counted wilh them. First of these is the Molet, a word corrupted in modern heraldryto Mullet, a fish-like change wilh nothing to commend it. Thisfigure is as a star of five or six points, points being perhapsthe commonest form in o
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