VVorkes of armorie deuyded into three bookes, entituled, the concordes of armorie, the armorie of honor, and of coates and creastes, collected and gathered by Iohn Bossewell Gentleman.

¶ Of Armes parted per Fesse.

Euen (as next before) ye may reade of y^e Armes parted on the length of the Escocheon: So maie ye vnderstand, that there be partitions also made ouerthwarte the Esco∣cheon, euen in the middest of the same, equall, of twoo co∣lours from the righte side, to the lefte: and is termed in Blazon, Partiè per Fesse. Gallicè, Partie transuersee. As in example: H. beareth Argent & Azure, Partie per Fesse. And so descriuinge the colours of any Escocheon, ye may saie, as before, of the Armes parted per Pale.

• videlicet. Partie per fesse engrale,
• videlicet. Partie per fesse rasie,
• videlicet. Partie per fesse enueckye,
• videlicet. Partie per fesse dentie
• videlicet. Partie per fesse nebule,
• videlicet. Partie per fesse vndee &c.

Note also that these particiōs per fesse, are to be seene of∣ten charged with one tokē of armes, or with two, as the diligent searcher shal fynde, yf hee take hede therunto, in thys booke.

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Howe these particions maye bee in sondrye wyse char∣ged, take these fewe folowing for examples.

1. beareth Or, & Sable, parted per fesse, vndee ij. Lyōs Dragōs, trāsmuted of y^e field. I terme these lyōs transmu∣ted because y^e Lyō first placed in y^e fielde, is Sable, in Or, & the other is Or, in Sable. Thys maye be taken for ij. cote armoures, without breathe of any Rule in Armorye. And is called of olde heraultes lentallye: whiche wherefore it is so called,* 1.1 ye may reade in M.G. Leyghe hys Accidence of Armorye, where he treateth of sondrye particions mesles.

2 beareth Gules, & Sables parted per Fesse enuecked,

three lyons nayssant argente, crowned.

3 Yet I fynde an other particion, as thys example tea∣cheth, videlicet. S. beareth Sables, & Gules embatyled per Fesse three Fer de molyns d'Argente.

4 The sayde particions also maye bee charged conue∣niently with twoo tokens, and the same of two natures & kyndes, as thus it maye bee deuised .R. beareth. Sable, and Argente parted per Fesse nebule, two Faucons vo∣lante, and a Greyhounde cursante, contrechanged of the fielde. Here the Fancons are argente volante in Sa∣ble, and the Greyhounde is Sable cursante in Argente, & thys is good armorye. These examples may suffise for ar∣mes parted per Fesse, although there be sene diuerse other particions, as partye par Cheuron, par Pile, par Bēde &c. whiche are both auncient,* 1.2 and ryght commendably borne of diuerse in sondrie maners, formes, & ordres. Therefore here I ceasse to write anye further of them, vntill I shall speake generally of signes borne in armes.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Lentally.
• * 1.2

  Particions.