Heraldry

	This tile set illustrates terms used to describe in proper
terms armorial bearings and their accessories.  Tinctures (colors)
used are as follows: or, which signifies gold, and in color
yellow; argent, which signifies silver or white; gules, which
signifies red; azure, which signifies blue; vert, which signifies
green; purpure, which signifies purple; sable, which signifies
black, tenne, which signifies tawny or orange; and sanguine,
which signifies dark red or murrey.  Furs are also used in 
heraldry.  The word "proper" is used to signify that the figure
used on a shield is to be represented in its natural colors.
When describing a shield the background color is first given
then the various devices that are to be placed thereon.

1.  Gules, cross couped argent
2.  Azure, cross argent
3.  Vert, cross of calvary argent
4.  Sable, cross moline argent
5.  Azure, cross potent argent
6.  Vert, cross crosslet argent
7.  Gules, cross calvary argent
8.  Gules, cross patriarchal or
9.  Azure, cross raguly argent
10. Azure, crosslet potence or
11. Gules, cosslet crossed or
12. Argent, cross quarter pierced gules
13. Vert, cross quadrate argent
14. Or, a chief purpure with fillet azure
15. Argent five roundels gules in a cross
16. Argent, two bars gemels azure
17. Parted per pale, baron and wife, or chevron gules, barry
    of six pieces azure and argent
18. Ermine, two bars gules 
19. Argent, a pall purpure
20. Chevronny or and azure 
21. Azure, a pale or
22. Bendy of six pieces argent and azure
23. Barry of eight pieces gules and argent
24. Argent, three billets azure, two over one
25. Argent, a fess gules embattled grady
26. Gyronny of eight pieces, azure, argent and gules
27. Or, a lozenge vert
28. Paly of four pieces, argent and gules
29. Argent, a pile purpure
30. Counter changes, argent and gules
31. Argent, a saltire gules
32. Counter changes, argent and gules
33. Counter changes, azure and argent 
34. Argent, a label gules (denotes heir)
35. Azure, a bend argent between two cotises argent
39. Azure, a pale gules, walled on each side with three
    battlements argent