The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . earing than the molet, which wouldbe popularized when the rowelled spur began to take the placeof the prick-spur, is the Star or Estoile, differing from themolet in that its five or six points are wavy. It is pwssible thatseveral star bearings of the 13th centurj were changed in the14th for molets. The star is not pierced in the fashion of themolet; but, like the molet, it tends to lose its sixth point in armoryof the decadence. Suns, sometimes blazoned in old rolls as Sun-rays—rays de soldi—are p
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . earing than the molet, which wouldbe popularized when the rowelled spur began to take the placeof the prick-spur, is the Star or Estoile, differing from themolet in that its five or six points are wavy. It is pwssible thatseveral star bearings of the 13th centurj were changed in the14th for molets. The star is not pierced in the fashion of themolet; but, like the molet, it tends to lose its sixth point in armoryof the decadence. Suns, sometimes blazoned in old rolls as Sun-rays—rays de soldi—are pictured as unpierced molets of manypoints, which in rare cases are waved. Harpcdcn bore Silver a pierced molet gules. Gentil bore Gold a chief sable with two molets goles piercedgules. Grimston bore Silver a fesse sable and thereon three molets silverpierced gulcs. Inglcby of Yorkshire bore Sable a star silver. Sir John de la Hayc of Lincolnshire bore Silver a sun gules. The Crescent is a charge which has to answer for many idletalcs concerning the crusading ancestors of families who bear. Mounchensy. Haggerston. Harpeden. Gentil. it. It is commonly borne with both points uppermost, but whenrepresenting the waning or the waxing moon—decrescent orincrescent—its horns are turned to the sinister or dexter sideof the shield. Peter dc Marines (13th century) bore on his seal a shield chargedwith a crescent in the chief. William Gobioun (14th century) bore A bend between twowaxing moons. Longchamp bore Ermine three crescents gules, pierced silver. Tinctures.—The tinctures or hues of the shield and its chargesare seven in number—gold or yellow, silver or white, red, blue,black, green and purple. Medieval custom gave, according toa rule often broken, gules, azure and sable as morehigh-sounding names for the red, blue and black. Green wasoiien named as vert, and sometimes as synobill, a wordwhich as sinople is used to this day by French song of the siege of Car
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