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Ordinaries.
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as it differs from it only in its width, which is one fifth of the field. It is never borne without some other charge.
The closet and the barrulet are severally one half and one fourth the width of the bar.
When barrulets are placed together in couples, they are called bars gemelle.
7. The Chevron is composed of two bars, one fifth the width of the shield, issuing respectively from the dexter and sinister bases, and meeting at the fess point.
The chevronel contains a half, and the couple close a quarter of the chevron. The latter is borne, as its name implies, in couples, and usually cotising the chevron.
8. The Saltire is formed by the intersection of a bend and a bend-sinister. It has no diminutive.[1]
9. The Cross, in its simplest form, is a combination of the pale and the fess, as in the cross of St. George; but this ordinary is capable of numerous variations, which ought rather to be regarded as common charges. Guillim mentions 39 different crosses, Leigh, 46, Edmonson, 109,
- ↑ The cross of St. Andrew of Scotland is Az., a saltire arg. (Fig. 48); and that of St. Patrick, Arg., a saltire gu. This ordinary may be justly considered as but a variation of the cross.
