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bonded gules, irrba/e an arrow or. The arrow, fo long xi fed 
in war, was in the earlieft tiir.es adopted as an heraldic 
bearing. The flight and, pheon, wheii of a different 
tinbture, ought to b.e-noticed in the blazon. . , 
Fig. 9. Or, a flag's attire fable. In this bearing, part 
of the (cull of the flag is generally adhering to the horns. 
Fig. jo .Vert, abalifla argent. The balfla and catapulta 
were warlike engines, tiled, before the invention of gun¬ 
powder, to annoy the enemy at a diftance, and to throw 
ftones of gre.it weight on the battlements of belieged 
towns. It was called anciently afweep. 
Fig. n. A?gent a barnacle, azure. This is an inftru- 
ment made of iron, and ufed by farriers, who place it on 
the upper lip of a horfe in order to keep him quiet, 
when they bleed or Iboe him. 
Fig. 12. Purpure, a bat argent. The bat, or reremonfe, 
is always dilplayed' in coats of arms, as it ufed to ap¬ 
pear nailed on the gates of 1 ancient caftLes ; and there¬ 
fore the word difplayed need not be added in blazon. 
Fig. 13. Per pale, argent and or, a baton Jinifler gules. The 
baton is a Itaff or truncheon, and a diminutive of the bend 
'finifter ; it has been varioully fpelt, baflon, batune , and 
is, in Englifh heraldry, a badge pf illegitimacy. The 
French admit it in their coats of arms alfo as a mark of 
confanguinity or difference between the branches of 4 
family. 
Fig. 14. Azure , a beacon argent, fired proper. A ma¬ 
chine formerly tiled to give notice of the approach of 
an enemy ; and alfo a tower erebted and lighted at top 
in order to direct the mariners at night when they coali 
a dangerous fliOre. • 
Fig. 35. Or, a bear ertB proper, nuzzled gules. This 
animal" is too well known to need a defeription. We 
ulhered him here on account of his pofition in the Ihield, 
which ought .to be mentioned in the blazon. 
Fig. 16. Gules, a bear pajfiant, argent, muzzled or. 
Fig. 17. Ardent,- a bear's bead erazed Jable, muzzled or. 
The colour ot the thongs*whicli lurround the nofe and 
head ought to be fpecified, as they are generally of a 
different tincture, by contyadiftinbtion. 
Fig. 18. Sable,a bear's foot or. 
Fie. 19. Argent, in-chief, two hawk's bells, inbafea church- 
bellfable. ' 
Fig.,20 .'Azure fix billets, three, twoj. and one, argent. Bil¬ 
let means a fmall oblong and lquare piece qt wood. 
Fig. 21. Or, three bird botis fable. Thefe weapons were 
anciently ufed to ftun a bird in its flight; the end of 
this fort of arrow being not Tufficiently lhaf-’p to enter 
the body. 
Fig. 22. Purpure, a' boar pajfiant argent. In heraldry 
we always by tills word underhand a wild boar. 
Fig. 23. Argent, a boar's head couped at the neck proper. 
Fig. 24. Sable, a boar’s head erazed argent. "i lie tuiks 
may be of a different tincture, but generally of-a metal. 
Fig. 25. Azure, a boar's head ere cl or, in a cup argent. 
This is a very ancient bearing, and may have originated 
from the cuffom of a noble hunter, prefenting the 
head of a wild boar on a charger to the principal lady 
of tire chace, as "Meleager of old did to the beautiful 
Atalanta. See Ovid. Metam. lib. viii. v. 423. 
Fig. 26. Sable, two thigh-bones faltireways in chief, and in 
bafe a fmall broken rib-bone, argent. Bones are borne by the 
name of Baynes, Da Cofia, &c. 
Fig. 27. Argent, two bows azure. We give in this Ihield 
two forms of bows: the one on the dexter is the moll an¬ 
cient.—See the article Archery, vol. ii. p. 54. 
Fig, 2 S. Vert, a crofis-bow argent. Arms which bear 
•tiffs weapon may fairly be conhdered as of very high an- 
quity ; lince the origin of the crofs-bow.is imputed to 
the Cretans, and was ufed both by the Greeks and Ro¬ 
mans. See Archery, vol. ii. p. 53. 
Fig. 29. Argent, in chief, two buckles (of different form) 
azure in bafe, a bugle horn fable garnifned or, fringed gules. 
Fig; 30. Sable, a bull’s head couped argent. 
Fig. 31. Or, a bull’s head cabojhedproper. 
.DRY. 
Fig. 32. Purpure, in chief, two caltrops, argent, in bafe a 
caduceus proper. Caltraps, a contraction of the word che- 
valirap, is a piece-of iron with four points, one of which, 
when it is thrown on the ground, (lands always upright 
and is made ufe of in war to gall the; horfes feet. Lat. 
murices, tribuli ; Fr . ckaujfie trape. The caduceus, the wand, 
ot Mercury, is an emblem of commerce and indultry. 
The ftaft alludes to fteadinefs, the two ferpents.to.faga- 
city and wifdom, and the wings to celerity and difpatch 
in affairs of trade. 
F'g* 33- Or, a carbuncle fable. This reprefents a com¬ 
pound jewel which ladies ufed to wear on their bread ; 
the gem efcarbundp, which glittered generally in the cen¬ 
tre, gave a name to the whole, which, in heraldry, is 
compofed of eight feeptres pomette and fiorette. The ro¬ 
mances of chivalry inform us that a dragon was'entruft- 
ed with the keeping of this gem, and that many an er¬ 
rant knight *ho attempted to (teal it by the defire of 
their ladies fell vidims to their temerity-. 
Fig. 34. Sable, three cafiles argent. We have exhibited 
here three different bearings of that name ; the one in 
chief, on the linilter, is generally called a tower, and the 
one in bafe a triple turretted caltle. 
Fig. 35, Argent in chief, two Catharine wheels azure, in bafe 
a chaplet of rofes proper. We, find in a "legendary Itory 
that the female faint of that name buffered martyrdom 
by means of a wheel armed w-ith fliarp pieces of iron, 
hence the origin of this bearing. The chaplet-, or gar¬ 
land of rofes, Lat. rojarium ; Fr. guirtande-, is a wreath 
compofed of four roles, the intermediate fpaces filled 
with green leaves. T lie word" chaplet is derived from 
the old French chapel, chapeau , a covering or ornament 
for the head. 
. "Fig. 36 a Vert, in chief two chefs rooks, in bafe a child’s head 
couped below the fhoulders, tied round the neck with a fnake 
proper. This hilt is part of the arms of Vaughan. The 
child’s neck enwrapped with a fnake, lias its origin in fome 
ancient event of the allegorical kind, which has not yet 
come to our knowledge. 
Fig. 37. Or, three cinquefoils gules This was originally 
intended to reprel'ent fome flower with five- petals ; per¬ 
haps the heart-eafe, or pa ; nfy.; 
Fig. 38. Azure, a cockatrice argent wings endorfed or. 
This is a 1 bearing of heraldry’s own creation. It differs' 
from the wivern or guivre, as the tipper, part rciembles 
exactly, the head .and neck of a cock: it was fuppoied 
to-be hatched" from a cock’s egg. ' 
Fig. 39. Argent, a Cornifh -chough fable. The beak and" 
' legs of this bird are generally blazoned gules, and are 
fo in nature. 
"Figi 40. Gules, a erfeent argent. The crefcent, by , its 
frequent recurrence in ancient armories, is an additional 
proof that this Icience received her greatelt luflre from 
the conflict of the Chriftian princes with the Mahome¬ 
tans in Paleltine. ' 
Fig. 41. Or, in chief a decrefcent , in bafe an in crefcent azure. ■ 
Fig. 42. Vert, three crejcents conjoined ) argent. 
Heraldry Plate V. - 
Fig. 43. Or, in chief on the dexter, a crofs. avellane, on the 
fnijler a trofs boutonne azure, in bafe a crofs calvary fable. ' 
The crofs avellane took its name from its being coin- 
pofed of four hazel or filbert-nuts enwrapped with their 
perifpermium ; the name of the be ft fpecies of that fruit 
being called in French aveiline ; from the Latin avellana. 
The crofs boutonne is a plain crofs with three fmall knobs 
at each end. The crofs calvary is a plain crofs erebted 
upon three fteps. In Roman catholic countries, at the 
.entrance of nearly every town and village, you meet 
with a high crofs erebted on fteps of ftone placed upon 
a rifing.ground, generally furrouhded with trees, and it 
is to this moment called croix du calvaire. Undoubtedly 
the name 'of the bearing which we deferibe took its ori¬ 
gin font that circumftance. It is alfo to be found in 
armories without fteps; as, for example, in the armo- 
a rial 
