The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Scotland. Hondescote. Greyby. Hastings. is more commonly used. Trussels fret is remarkable for itsbezants at the joints, which stand, doubtless, for the goldennail-heads of the treUis suggested by his name. Curwcn,Wyvile and other northern houses bearing a fret and a chiefhave, owing to their fashion of drawing their frets, often seenthem changed by the heraldry books into three cheveronsbraced or interlaced. Huddlestone bore Gules fretty bore Silver fretty gules, the joints bezanty
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Scotland. Hondescote. Greyby. Hastings. is more commonly used. Trussels fret is remarkable for itsbezants at the joints, which stand, doubtless, for the goldennail-heads of the treUis suggested by his name. Curwcn,Wyvile and other northern houses bearing a fret and a chiefhave, owing to their fashion of drawing their frets, often seenthem changed by the heraldry books into three cheveronsbraced or interlaced. Huddlestone bore Gules fretty bore Silver fretty gules, the joints Giffard (14th century) bore Gules with an engrailed fretof ermine. Wyvile bore Gules fretty vair with a chief bore Gold a lion azure fretty silver. Another Ordinary is the Giron or Gyron— a word now com-monly mispronounced with a hard g. It may be defined as the. Trussel. Giffard. Wyvile, Mortimer. lower half of a quarter which has been divided bendwise. Noold example of a single giron can be found to match the figurein the heraldry books. Gironny, or gyronny, is a manner ofdividing the field into sections, by lines radiating from a centrepoint, of which many instances may be given. Most of theearlier examples have some twelve divisions although laterarmory gives eight as the normal number, as Campbell bearsthem. Basslngboume bore Gironny of gold and azure of twelvepieces. 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
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