1868.] Heraldry. HERALDRY. 2G3 THE TINCTURES: IN COLOR. AND IN ENGRAVING* From the Old Heralds at Large. OR,— IN heraldic engraving, is signified by small round dots arranged, equably, all over the field, or any charge ; and in '_ _ _ Tricking is deno- | } | ted by the letter O. The square | { escutcheon, here I given in lllustra- [ * tion, is that of a I Knight-ban-
neret. This rank
> " 1 ' 1 ' 1 ' 1 '"' 1 1 '" ' ' ' : i V "* must not be con- founded Avith that of a baronet. The banneret had a personal dignity, which expired with him : the baronet possessed an hereditary one. Bannerets belonged to feudal days,* being Knights of long- approved valor, who could and did muster a certain number of retainers for the wars ; baronets were not created until the reign of James I. of England, and comprised those gentlemen of an- cestry and large estate, who paid one thousand pounds apiece into the British treasury, for the maintenance of troops in the province of Ulster, Ireland; to say nothing of pretty heavy fees to the Herald's College. Bannerets ranked next to barons and before baronets ; and even after their husbands' deaths, bannerets' wives outranked the wives of baronets. Bannerets were allowed to bear arms with supporters; and anciently had knights-batchelors and esquires serving under them. The cere- mony of the creation of knights-ban- neret upon the field of victory con- sisted in the king, or the representative general, at the head of his army, drawn up in order of battle, under the royal
- The first account of them is in the reign of Edward I.
In 1773, at the review of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth, George III. created bannerets, Admirals Pye and Spry; Captains, Knight, Bickertoa and Vernon. See History of Knighthood, by Hugh Clark, vol. i., pp. 73-4. banner displayed, receiving the knight expectant, who carried his own forked, or swallow-tailed, pennon of arms, and was led between two other knights ; the heralds preceding, to proclaim the vali- ant deeds deserving a banneretship. The king, or general, then said " Ad- vances toy banneret," i. e., Advances toi banneret, advance [thou, or thee,] ban- neret ; and either himself rent, or cut off, or caused to be cut off, the forked ends of the armorial pennon, thus leav- ing it square. Then the new banneret, with trumpets sounding before him, was sent back to his tent, accompanied by the nobility and officers, whom he pres- ently entertained. Bannerets have no particular badge, worn on their garments ; but in Eng- land their arms are painted on a banner placed in the paws of the supporters of their arms. This banner, it will be un- derstood, from the above, is square. Porney is also our authority for a ban- neret's shield being square. The herald's declaration on present- ing the knight-candidate for banneret- ship is : " May it please your grace to " understand, that this gentleman hath "shown himself valiant in the field ; and "for so doing, deservethto be advanced "to the degree of a knight-banneret, as " worthy henceforth to bear a banner in "the war." OR, — Gold, or yellow, — from the Latin, aurum, through the French, or, Spanish, oro, Italian, oro, and German. gold. According to Guillim, the bright yel- low of gold is compounded of much white and a little red; and "such," says he, " is the worthiness of this color, "which resembles gold, (as Christine " de Pue holdeth,) none ought to bear "the same in arms, but emperors and " kings, and such as be of the blood
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