Part 20 (1/2)

_Panache._ A plume of feathers, generally of the ostrich, set upright and born as a crest. A panache sometimes consists of a single row of feathers; but more generally it has two or more rows or ”heights” of feathers, rising one above the other. In the greater number of examples the tips of the feathers are erect; in others they wave, or slightly bend over. A panache may be charged with some device or figure, ”for difference,” as by the TYNDALLS, with an _ermine circlet_, a _martlet_, and a _fleur de lys_. In Nos. 283, 285, from the seals of EDWARD COURTENAY, and EDMUND MORTIMER (A.D. 1400 and 1372) the ”heights” both expand and rise in a curved pyramidal form. No. 284, from the seal of WILLIAM LE LATIMER (A.D. 1372), shows a remarkable variety of both panache and mantling. Waving plumes formed of distinct feathers first appear near the end of the fifteenth century, and are prevalent during the sixteenth century.

_Party_, _Parted_. Divided.

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 283.--PANACHE CREST: Edward Courtenay.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 284.--PANACHE CRESTS: William le Latimer.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 285.--PANACHE CRESTS: Edmund Mortimer.]

_Pa.s.sant._ Walking and looking forward: No. 173. _Pa.s.sant Guardant._ Walking and looking out from the s.h.i.+eld, No. 174. _Pa.s.sant Reguardant._ Walking and looking back. _Pa.s.sant Repa.s.sant_, or _Pa.s.sant and Counter Pa.s.sant_. Walking in opposite directions.

_Pastoral Staff._ The official staff of a bishop or abbot, having a crooked head, and so distinguished from an archbishop's _crozier_.

_Patee_, or _Formee_. } _Patonce._ } Varieties of the heraldic Cross, Nos.

_Patriarchal._ } 106, 99, and 95.

_Pean._ The Fur, No. 60.

_Peer._ That general t.i.tle, expressing their equality as members of a distinct ”order” in the realm, which is applied to Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

_Peerage._ The hereditament of a Peer: also rank of a Peer; a list of the Peers.

_Pegasus._ A horse with wings--a cla.s.sic as well as an heraldic imaginary creature.

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 288.--A Portcullis.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 286.--A Pennon.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 287.--A Pheon.]

_Pelican._ Blazoned ”in her piety,” when feeding her young with her own blood.

_Pellet._ A black roundle.

_Pendent._ Hanging.

_Pennon._ An armorial lance flag, pointed or swallow-tailed at the fly.

No. 286 is from the Bra.s.s to Sir JOHN D'AUBERNOUN, A.D. 1279; the arms are--_Az., a chevron or_.

_Per._ By means of, or after the manner of.

_Pheon._ A pointed arrow-head, borne with the point in base, unless the contrary is specified, No. 287.

_Phnix._ A fabulous eagle, always represented as issuant from flames.

_Pile._ One of the Ordinaries, in form like a wedge, Nos. 126, 127, 128.

_In Pile._ Arranged after the form of a pile.

_Planta Genista._ The broom plant badge of the Plantagenets, No. 21.