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 Armes borne in a chiefe.

Now some men there be, who would haue these Armes which heere I haue set downe in this scutchion to be termed parted armes:

[illustration] blazon or coat of arms

but in this they erre very much, for that there is no equall partition of colours, nor any likenesse in diuid∣ing the same, for in Armes parted, it is alwayes requi∣red, that the colours should be equall in quantitie, which altogether faileth in this, because three partes of the sheelde be of one co∣lour: therefore this coate shalbe blazed in this wise, Portat de argento et caput scuti de asureo cum duabus maculis perforatis de auro, in French, Il port d'argent vn chiefe d'azure et deux mulletties partees d'or, in English, He beareth siluer a chiefe of azure and two mullets perforated of golde.

And moreouer, you shall vnderstand, that no Armes can rightly be called parted Armes: But if they be of two colours, once parted, and no more: for in these Armes paled, or party paled, as in this scut∣chion heere set downe ap∣peares, although they be of two colours:

[illustration] blazon or coat of arms

yet for that these Armes be diuersly di∣uided in the forme of pales, they be called paled armes, which coate is truely thus blazed, Portat arma palata de auro et asureo, in French, Il port palee d'or et azure, in English, Hee beares pale gold and azure.