The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . eces. William Stoker, who died Lord Mayor of London in 1484, bore Gironny of six pieces azure and silver with three popinjays in thesilver pieces. A pair of girons on either side of a chief were borne in the strangeshield of Mortimer, commonly blazoned as Barry azure and goldof six pieces, the chief azure with two pales and two girons god, ascocheon silver over all. An early examole shows that this shieldbegan as a plain field with a gobony border. With the Ordinaries we may take the Roundels or P
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . eces. William Stoker, who died Lord Mayor of London in 1484, bore Gironny of six pieces azure and silver with three popinjays in thesilver pieces. A pair of girons on either side of a chief were borne in the strangeshield of Mortimer, commonly blazoned as Barry azure and goldof six pieces, the chief azure with two pales and two girons god, ascocheon silver over all. An early examole shows that this shieldbegan as a plain field with a gobony border. With the Ordinaries we may take the Roundels or Pellets,disks or balls of various colours. Ancient custom gives the nameof a bezant to the golden roundel, and the folly of the heraldicwriters has found names for all the others, names which maybe disregarded together with the belief that, while bezants andsilver roundels, as representing coins, mirer be pictured with aflat surface, roundels of other hues must needs be shaded bythe painter to represent rounded balls. Rings or Anneletswere common charges in the North, where Lowthers, Musgraves. Campbell. Bassingbourne. Stoker. Burlay. and many more, differenced the six rings of Vipont by bearingthem in various colours. Burlay of Wharfdale bore Gules a bezant. Courtenay, carl of Devon, bore Gold three roundels gules witha label azure. Caraunt bore Silver three roundels azure, each with threecheverons gules. Vipont bore Gold six annelets gules. Avenel bore Silver a fesse and six annelets (aunels) gules. Hawberk of Stapleford bore Silver a bend sable charged withthree pieces of a mail hawberk, each of three linked rings of gold. Stourton bore Sable a bend gold between six fountains. Thefountain is a roundel charged with waves of white and blue. The Lozenge is linked in the heraldry book with the Fusil is described as a lengthened and sharper lozenge. But
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