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No. 283.— Edward Courtenay. |
Panache Crests: No. 284.— William le Latimer. |
No. 285.— Edmund Mortimer. |
Party, Parted. Divided.
Passant. Walking and looking forward: [No. 173]. Passant Guardant. Walking and looking out from the shield, [No. 174]. Passant Reguardant. Walking and looking back. Passant Repassant, or Passant and Counter Passant. 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.
| Patée, or Formée. Patonce. Patriarchal. | Varieties of the heraldic Cross, Nos. [106], [99], and [95]. |
Pean. The Fur, [No. 60].
Peer. That general title, 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 classic as well as an heraldic imaginary creature.
Pelican. Blazoned “in her piety,” when feeding her young with her own blood.