A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES. 1 7 1
atus and invectus are too strait laced to breathe out their meaning ; wherefore he
says, that these lines are made or' little semi-circles, like half moons ; and therefore,
he adds to their blazon, Id est, ad oras in semi-lunulas delineatum, for ingraiUd, and
for invected, i.e. ad oras, gibbis (seugibbusisj liniis exaratum. For an example
of the first, he gives us the bearing of THOMAS Lord COLEPEPER of Thorseway in
Lincolnshire, son of John Lord Colepeper, which he blazons thus : Gerit baltbeum
hunuralem satiguineum-utrinque ingrediatum, in pat ma argent e a, i.e. argent, a bend
ingrailed gules ; and for instance of a bordure invected, he gives us the arms of the
Levant, or Turkey Company in England, qui gerunt navim deauratam, (cui vela fcf
vcxilla alba, cuncta crucibus rubeis insignita) mare inter duos scopulos {hac color is
nativi) transeuntem ; caput autem scuti est argenteum. \3 invest urn ; hoc est (ad or as)
gibbis, (sen gibbosis lineis) operatum vel delineatum, i. e. on a sea between two
rocks proper, a ship dr, sails and pendants ensigned \vith crosses gules, a chief invected
argent. This accidental form, viz. of the line invected or canelle, as the
French is say, not so frequent in arms with us as the ingrailed line.
CAMPBELL of Monchaster carries the arms of the Earl of Breadalbane, before bla-
zoned, within a bordure invected sable. PI. VII. fig. 26.
A bordure indented is latined limbus dentatus indentatns or denticulatus, because it
is nicked and cut like teeth, after the fashion of contracts or indentures of old ;
and is very frequent with the English.
Sir FRANCIS OGILVIE of Newgrange, descended from the Earl of Airly, Plate VII.
fig. 27. argent, a lion passant gardant gules, crowned with a close crown, and
gorged with an open one, within a bordure indented of the second ; crest, a demilion
azure, grasping in his dexter paw a garb, proper: motto, Marte IS Industria.
Lyon Register.
When the indentment or the teeth are large the figure is then said to be dancette
; by the Latins, denies decumani ; so that the word indented is borrowed from
denies, teeth ; whereunto the same hath a resemblance.
Sometimes we meet with plain bordures, which have two different tinctures
conjoined by indenting, or otherwise, such as by ingrailing or embattling lines in
the middle of the bordure, and then it is called a double bordure indents' of such
tinctures, or a bordure counter -indented ; by some blazoned, a bordure parted per
bordure indented and ; others say, as Holmes, a bordure azure, charged with another
indented or. Plate VII. fig. 28.
HAMILTON of Blantyre-Farm, a cadet of Hamilton of Boreland, a cadet of the fa-
mily of Hamilton, gules, three cinquefoils ermine, within a double bordure indented
argent, and of the first ; crest, a trunk of an oak tree couped in pale, sprout-
ing out two branches proper : motto, Non deficit alter. Lyon Register.
Here the bordure is plain as to the line that forms it ; but indente,
as to the
joining of the t\vo tinctures within, for which it is variously "blazoned, as before :
counter-indented bordures are frequent abroad, especially in Italy ; of which Sylvester
Petra Sancta says, they are taken from the hems of robes and garments of
princes, and are ornamental, and signs of patronage.
A bordure waved is formed on the inner side by a line,
the sea, of which before.
crooked like a wave of
HAMILTON of Ladylands, descended of the family of Torrence, a cadet of Hamilton,
now Duke of Hamilton, gules, a mullet between three cinquefoils, all within
u bordure waved argent. Lyon Office.
Bordure Nebule, when the inner line of the bordure is formed like clouds.
GORDON of Rothness, a second son of the family of Lesmoir, azure, a fesse
cheque argent, and of the first, between three boars' heads couped or, within a
bordure nebule of the second. Lyon Register.
Bordure embattled or crenelle is when the inner line is formed like the embattlements
of a castle or fort, for which the Latins say, Limbus muralibus pinnis incinctus.
HAMILTON of Olive-Stob, in East-Lothian, gules, a martlet between three
cinquefoils argent, within a bordure embattled or.
The bordure may be charged with all things animate or inanimate, and with
blazons mentioned in this
proper and armorial figures ; of which there are many
Treatise, which I forbear here to repeat. But I cannot but acquaint my reader,
that I do not follow the English in their fanciful words in blazoning of bordures,