[ANSTHRLD] Primary secondary etc questions

[Doug Bell]

Primary charges - occupy the center of the field.
The central ordinary is going to be the primary charge if the device
has one.  These are bend, bend sinister, pale, fess, chevron, saltire
pall, pile.
If none of these are present then the primary charge is the charge
or group of charges in the center of the field.

Secondary charge - charges on the field that surround the primary
charge or are at the edge of the field.  Ordinaries that are
peripheral fall under this: chief, bordure, base, orle, tierce.

Tertiary charges are charges placed on other charges not the field.

Some examples:
Argent, a lion sable.  The lion is the primary.
Argent, a bend gules. The bend is primary.
Argent, a bend azure between three lions sable.
   The bend is primary. The lions are secondary since they
   don't occupy the center of the field and the ordinary has
   "right of way".
Argent, a chief azure.  This has no primary charge and is field
    primary armory.  The chief is a peripheral ordinary and can't
    be a primary charge.
Argent, on a bend gules a sword argent, and three lions sable.
    The bend is primary, the lions secondary, and the sword tertiary.
Argent, a lion sable between three mullets gules.
    Lion is the primary and mullets are a secondary group.
Argent, a lion and a mullet sable.  Both charges form a primary
    group with two charge types.

Hope the examples help
Magnus