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4. Green _Vert_ _Vert_ No. 55.

5. Purple _Purpure_ _Purp._ No. 56

(In French Heraldry, _Green_ is _Sinople_.)

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 57.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 58.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 59.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 60.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 61.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 62.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 63.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 64.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 65.]

EIGHT FURS (not abbreviated).

t.i.tLES

1. _Ermine_,--black spots on white No. 57.

2. _Ermines_,--white spots on black No. 58.

3. _Erminois_,--black spots on gold No. 59.

4. _Pean_,--gold spots on black No. 60.

5. _Vair_,--alternate divisions of blue and white, Nos. 61, 62.

6. _Counter Vair_ (note difference of arrangement) No. 63.

7. _Potent_ (note different shape of divisions) No. 64.

8. _Counter Potent_ No. 65.

Two other Colours, or tints of Colour, are sometimes heard of--_Tenne_, a tawny or orange colour, indicated by vertical lines crossing those of _Purpure_: and _Murrey_ or _Sanguine_, a dark crimson red, indicated by diagonal lines from both dexter and sinister, crossing each other. These two are sometimes termed stains, but their real usage was in liveries.

The Furs, Nos. 58, 59, 60, 63, 64, and 65, are of comparatively rare occurrence, and do not appear in the best ages of Heraldry. _Vair_ and _Ermine_ are common. A good early form of _Vair_ is shown in No. 62: and in No. 57A, I give a fine example of the treatment of _Ermine_, from the monument of EDWARD III.

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 57A.]

In order to avoid repeating or referring to the word ”_Or_,” the word ”_Gold_” is sometimes used. The Furs, Nos. 61, 62, 63, 64, and 65, are always _argent_ and _azure_, unless some other metal and colour be named in the blazoning. Animated beings and all objects, that in Heraldry are represented in their natural aspect and colouring, are blazoned ”_proper_” abbreviated _ppr._ Heraldic charges and compositions, when sketched in outline with pen and ink or with pencil, and with the colours _written_ thereon, are said to be ”_tricked_,” or ”_in trick_.”

VARIED FIELDS.--It is not necessary that the Field of a s.h.i.+eld, or of any Bearing, should be of any one uniform tincture: but varied surfaces are usually tinctured of some one metal and some one colour alternating; and the patterns or devices thus produced are generally derived (the Furs, Nos. 61-65, which are good examples of varied surfaces, being the exceptions) from the forms of the original simple charges that are distinguished as _Ordinaries_ and _Subordinaries._ And these varied surfaces or fields are always _flat_; the whole of their devices or patterns are _level_, their metal and colour lying in the same plane. It is evident that, in representing any examples of this cla.s.s, no shading is to be introduced to denote relief.

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