724 HERALDRY. 
Heraldry. add that of the bearing granted to one Mr Tetlow, 
“"y~"_ which is so extraordinary, in respect to the coat as well 
Of round- 
lets, 
as the crest, that it is not, by any means, to be omitted 
in this place. In the arms are five music bars; and the 
crest is thus set forth: “ On a book erect gules clasped 
and leaved or, a silver penny argent whereon is written 
the Lord’s prayer ; on the top.of the book a dove proper, 
in its beak a crow-quill pen sable; in commemoration, 
as is said, of the brother of the grantee having written 
the Lord’s prayer within such a compass. 
Neither can any one greatly approve of a grant of 
‘arms, wherein we find “a troubled ocean with Neptune 
vising therefrom, holding in his sinister hand part of the 
wreck of the ship Royal George,’’ to indicate, that the 
uncle of the grantee had suffered shipwreck along with 
Kempenfelt ; or of a grant, wherein is introduced, “ a 
China porter, carrying on a yoke two faggots of cinna- 
mon,” to indicate, that the grantee had once made a 
voyage to the Dutch islands ; and yet all these absurdi- 
ties arise from the present or late system of charges 
adopted in the herald offices. 
But to return from this digression, if such it deserves 
to be called, to notice particularly all those figures 
which are even, by the most excellent authors, admit- 
ted as proper for the practice of heraldry, would be al- 
together inconsistent with the limits of an article such 
as this. The principal only can be noticed; and, in 
the first place, it is fit to observe, that of charges some 
are round in shape, some square. The former are ge- 
nerally called roundles or roundlets; and of these, which 
differ from each other in name according as they are of 
different tinctures, there are nine; seven of them be« 
ing perfectly globular, and two of them flat like a piece 
of coin. 
The Roundles, or Roundlets. 
(1. Or, 7 ( t. Bezants. 
» | 2. Argent, 2: Plates. 
24 3. Vert, 8. Pomeis. 
> | 4. Azure; 4. Hurts. 
S45. Sable, 5 ee 5. Ogresses, or Pellets. 
g | 6. Gules, 6. Torteauxes. 
= | 7. Purpure, 7. Golpes. 
=> | 8. Tenne, 8. Oranges. 
L9. Sanguine, } 9. Guzes. 
1. Bezanrs, when they are armorial figures, are flat 
pieces of plain gold, without any stamp or impression 
upon them. When introduced into heraldry, they had 
their name from the ancient coin of Constantinople, or 
Byzantium. 
2. Puates are likewise flat, as representing thin 
pieces of silver bullion when fitted for the stamp. 
The other seven figures are always globular, viz. 
8. Pomuis, which derive their name from the French 
pomme, an apple. 
4, Hurts, so called from their resemblance toa small 
blue fruit, named hurtle berries. 
5. Ocressxs, or PeLiers, resemble bullets for guns. 
In blazon, they are generally termed pellets, but some 
of the ancient heralds call them gun.stones. 
6. Torreauxgs take their name from the French a: 
pellation of a certain species of round cakes, which, in 
England, used to be called wastal-cakes, or wastals, by 
which name we often find them distinguished in ancient 
blazons. 
7. Goupzs, according to Gerard Lei h, are wounds ; 
and Guillin even. thinks they may be called so in bla- 
zoning. 
8. Oraness, the well-known fruit. ; 
9. Guzes are said to represent eye-balls; but these 
are of very rare occurrence even in English heraldry, 
When any of these nine yearn are in a coat, and 
countercharged, they lose their beforementioned re. 
spective names, and are all indifferently stiled roundles ; 
so that if we look at the painting of a our, 
which is blazoned per pale or and gules three roundles, 
we shall find, that, of the two figures in chief, one is a 
— and ae other = crops and that the solitary 
re in base bei! ivi r pale and or, the 
cnaihielt thereof 4s GaNbAle 4 si tac othee half a tor 
tea, When the field is strewed with any of the first 
five beforementioned figures, or if they are placed on 
crests, supporters, or any ordinary or charge, they are 
termed, bezanté, platé, pometté, hurté, and pelletté ; but 
if the field be strewed, or semée, with any of the four last 
mentioned roundles, we say, semé of torteauwes, semé of 
golpes, semé of oranges, and semé of guzes. 
oreigners have no more than two specific names for 
all these round figures. When they are of metal, they 
call them dezants, when of colour, tortedusx ; 
they say, so many bezants d'or, or d'argent; or so many 
torteauxes d’azure, de gules, de sable, &c. and when they 
are half metal, half hs jo if the metal hath precedence 
in position, they say dezant-torteaux of such metal and 
colour; and so, e contra, torteaua-bezants when the co« 
lour precedes the metal. 
The roundlet voided, is the annulet, or ring. When 
these pass into one another, the French say vires. 
Of Guttes... 
Another sort of charge very common in armorieés res Of gutter: 
ceives, in like manner as the roundlets, divers names of 
blazon, according to the variations of its tinctures. 
This charge is called guites, i, e. drops of things liquid, 
whether by nature or by art. 
o fF 1B guttes d'or drops of gold 
& | argent E guttes d’eau water 
>, J vert guttes d’olive (5. oilof olives 
& j azure { & ) guttesdelarmes{'*"') tears — 
2, 4 sable guttes de poix itch 
gules z guttes de sang lood 
Guillem, indeed, says these are seldom borne alone ; 
but Edmonstone differs from him, and instances among 
other examples of guétes borne as a charge, a 
Argent three guttes de poix; for Crosbie. ; 
But it is true they are much oftener borne strewed 
on fields, ordinaries, charges, crests, supporters, &c: { 
and in such cases whatever is charged with them is 
blazoned thus, Argent gutly de sang, which denotes that- 
the whole escutcheon is sprinkled with red drops, and 
so in regard to a crest, a lion’s head gules gulty d’ar« 
ent. 
’ 
There are three square figures deemed to be proper 
charges, the LozENGE, the FuziL, and the mascie. Of 
these the two former have been already mentioned and 
described as applied toa different purpose. The field ‘ 
or ordinary yf be covered with lozenges or fusils, and 
it is then called lozengy, fusilly. If fusils are borne in 
pale, as a pale fusilly, or six fraite in pale, they must lie 
fesswise, z.¢. their acute angles must be dexter and si- 
nister. But if a fess fusilly, their acute angles must be 
in chief and base. : 
The mascle differs from both lozerige and fusil in this 
respect, that according to the sentiments of all authors it 
must be pierced through, or voided, When any coat, 
