Heraldry English And Foreign With a Dictionary of Heraldic Terms
Heraldry English And Foreign With a Dictionary of Heraldic Terms
Jenkins, Robert Charles, 1815-1896
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The most important and easily recognized of the figures which mark cadence, and one which was generally employed in royal and noble houses, is the label (lambel), a horizontal billet having three, five, or more points, formed by zigzag embattled lines thus: M lm £a This figure has its points charged with various heraldic objects when the younger branches are again subdivided. * A kind of billet-shaped figure, placed transversely on the shield from the sinister to the dexter, is called the baton... sinister, and is found in the arms of the ille- gitimate descendants of French and English royalty. It is repre- sented as in the margin. The baton is sometimes gobonated, as in the arms of some of the de- scendants of Charles II. In our English peerage. Sometimes the label is an essential figure in the * The Cardinal of York used only the crescent in the centre of the royal arms, for difference. 88 HERALDRY field, as is the case in the great English family of Barrington. Grandmaison observes, "The label is sometimes apiece de Fecu, but this is rare.
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