. Peeps at heraldry . skins/ he says, were used by ancient governors toline their pompous robes, sewing one skin to theother. Vair was first used as a distinctive badge by theLord de Courcies when fighting inHungary. Seeing that his soldiers wereflying from the field, he tore the liningfrom his mantle and raised it aloft asan ensign. Thereupon, the soldiersrallied to the charge and overcame theenemy. Cinderellas glass slipper in the fairy-tale, which came originally from France, should reallyhave been translated fur, it being easy to under-stand how the old French word vaire was supposed tobe
. Peeps at heraldry . skins/ he says, were used by ancient governors toline their pompous robes, sewing one skin to theother. Vair was first used as a distinctive badge by theLord de Courcies when fighting inHungary. Seeing that his soldiers wereflying from the field, he tore the liningfrom his mantle and raised it aloft asan ensign. Thereupon, the soldiersrallied to the charge and overcame theenemy. Cinderellas glass slipper in the fairy-tale, which came originally from France, should reallyhave been translated fur, it being easy to under-stand how the old French word vaire was supposed tobe a form of verve, and was rendered accordingly. Much might still be said about cc varied fields —,those which have either more than one colour or ametal and a colour alternatively, or, again, which havepatterns or devices represented upon them. We can,however, only mention that when the field shows smallsquares alternately of a metal and colour, it is describedas cheeky, when it is strewn with small objects— J5. Peeps at Heraldry such as fleurs-de-lys or billets—it is described aspowdered or sown. A diapered field is also tobe met with, but this, being merely an artistic detail,has no heraldic significance. Therefore, whereas inblazoning armorial bearings one must always state ifthe field is cheeky or powdered, the diaper is nevermentioned. In concluding this chapter we must add that one ofthe first rules to be learnt in heraldry is that in arrangingthe tinctures of a coat of arms, metal can never beplaced upon metal, nor colour upon colour. The fieldmust therefore be gold or silver if it is to receive acoloured charge, or vice versa. This rule was probablymade because, as we said above, the knights originallybore their arms embroidered upon their mantles, thesegarments being always either of cloth of gold or ofsilver, embroidered with silk, or they were of silkenmaterial, embroidered with gold or silver. CHAPTER III DIVISIONS OF THE SHIELD Although in many shields the
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