The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M.

Of bends borne in armes.

And now comming to speake of bendes borne in armes, you must vnderstand that it is called a bende which beginneth at the right corner of the sheelde and descendeth to the left, as here I shew in this scut∣chion which is a note suf∣ficient to shewe the diffe∣rence betweene a bende, & a fisure or little staffe of which it shall bee spoken of hereafter.

[illustration] blazon or coat of arms

And of him which beareth these armes it shall be said thus: portat vnam bendam de Reubeo in campo de aureo: in french, Il port d'or, vn bend de gules: he beareth gold a bend of gules.

And as I shewed you before of certaine little bars borne in armes, in the like manner are certain little bends borne in armes, and they bee called bendils or bendilets:

[illustration] blazon or coat of arms

and where a bend is charged in armes with two such bendils, as heere I shewe you in this scutchion, you shall thus blase the coate: portat vnam bendam et duas bendulas de au∣ro in campo de asuro: Il port

d'azure vn bend & deux bendilets d'or, hee beareth azure, a bend betweene two bendilets of golde. And these bends be sometimes florished as is shewed be∣fore in the coate of barres and sometimes the bendi∣lets be found inchained, & somtimes powdred with mullets, & somtimes with other differences which were needlesse to be shewed here.