MARQUIS OF HERTFORD.
Arms.—Quarterly 1st and 4th Or on a pile gu: between 6 fleurs de lys az:
3 lions passant guardant in pale or.
2nd and 3rd gu: 2 wings conjoined in lure or. Seymour.
Crest.—Out of a ducal coronet or, a phœnix ppr.
Supporters.—Two blackamoors.
Motto.—Fide et amore.
The heraldic term given to these partition-lines of the field is ordinaries. There are nine of these, termed respectively, chief, fesse, bar, pale, cross, bend, saltire, chevron, and pile.
Fig. 15.Fig. 16.
The chief, occupying about the upper third of the field, is marked off by a horizontal line (Fig. 15); the fesse, derived from the Latin fascia, a band, is a broad band crossing the centre of the field horizontally, and extends over a third of its surface (Fig. 16). The bar is very like the fesse, but differs from it, (a) in being much narrower and only occupying a fifth portion of the field, (b) in being liable to be placed in any part of the field, whereas the fesse is an immovable charge, (c) in being used mostly in pairs and not singly. Two or three bars may be charged on the same field, and when an even number either of metal or fur alternating with a colour occur together, the field is then described as barry, the number of the bars being always stated, so that if there are six bars, it is said to be "barry of six," if eight, "barry of eight" (Fig. 17). The pale, probably derived from palus, a stake, is also a broad band like the fesse, but runs perpendicularly down the shield, instead of horizontally across it (Fig. 18).