. Flowers and heraldry; or, Floral emblems and heraldic figures, combined to express pure sentiments, kind feelings, and excellent principles .. . assumed, or had grantedto them, armorial bearings, it became ne-cessary to add to these ordinary charges,when they were found to be capable of re-ceiving upon them, beneath them, and oneither side of them, sundry natural andartificial objects, and thus their use facili-tates the multiplication of coats of armsin an almost endless diversity. Of these ordinaries there are two kinds :the first kind being distinguished as honour-able ordinaries J and th
. Flowers and heraldry; or, Floral emblems and heraldic figures, combined to express pure sentiments, kind feelings, and excellent principles .. . assumed, or had grantedto them, armorial bearings, it became ne-cessary to add to these ordinary charges,when they were found to be capable of re-ceiving upon them, beneath them, and oneither side of them, sundry natural andartificial objects, and thus their use facili-tates the multiplication of coats of armsin an almost endless diversity. Of these ordinaries there are two kinds :the first kind being distinguished as honour-able ordinaries J and these are in numbereight, though some heralds affirm thatthere are ten, and others twelve. Theyare—1. The chief; 2. The pale; S Thebend ; 4. The bend sinister; 5. Thefess; 6. The chevron; 7. The cross; 9. 52 THE FIELD. The saltire. Guillim makes the escutcheon,which is a smaller shield upon the field,and the bar, which is only a diminutiveof the fess, two of the honourable or-dinaries ; classing the bend sinister withthe bend. We proceed to speak, in the order inwhich we have placed them above, of THE HONOURABLE ORDINAKIES. Iliite. £L. CHIEF. Upon a shield of richest greenThree pendent cowslip-cups are saltire two, and one in pale,In hues with which they deck the vale :Above, au ermine chief is placedWith two faint-purple mallows graced :Pensive, beauteous, sweet and mild,Emblem meet of loveliest child. Anon. Roll of Aems. The Chief holds the first place amongthe honourable ordinaries. It derives itsname from its position in the shield, beingdans le Chef de Vescu, whence it wouldseem that it should be called the chef orhead, rather than the chief. It occupiesone-third of the shield, and is bounded onthree sides by the outer edge of the shield,and on the fourth by any one of thelines which have been already describedand delineated, the name of the linebeing given when it is otherwise thanstraight. Thus, when we say a chief 56 THE CHIEF. gu.^ it is understood
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