The History Science of Heraldry

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Excerpt from The History Science of Heraldry: Concisely Explained, Together With a Glossary of Terms, The Whole Illustrated With Numerous Examples In addition to the division lines and ordinaries, the Heralds adopted nearly every object, animate, inanimate, and imaginary, that could be made available to their purpose. Birds, beasts, fishes, trees, leaves, flowers, insects, and crosses', peculiar monsters, such as the dragon, wyvern, griffin, and many others, and even portions of these objects, the paw, the wing, the head, &c., , were utilised, not only as charges or bearings placed upon the shield, but also worn upon the helmet to form the crest. Thus Heraldry embraced a sufficient supply of material which, by judicious variation, could be made to form an almost unlimited number of distinctive badges. Although any object, no matter how strange or peculiar, appears to have been available for heraldic purposes, nevertheless the place and attitude of each was accurately described, generally by one word and so exact and precise the rules of Heraldry became, that in a short sentence could be conveyed the detailed particulars of a fully-emblazoned shield of arms. Colour also plays a very important part in armorial designs, not merely added for the sake of effect, but thoroughly governed by rule and observance. Red. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.