[ANSTHRLD] CD for Color of Cotises?

Miriam Cook zahavabathannah at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 18 11:06:45 PST 2005


Thank you very much!!

Zahava

--- tmcd at panix.com wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Miriam Cook
> <zahavabathannah at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > When checking Armory for conflict, can you get a
> CD for changing the
> > color of cotises?
> 
> We can go to first principles for the answer. The
> CoA Glossary of
> Terms includes
> 
>     Secondary Charge Group. A group of charges on
> the field around the
>     primary charge group.  A design may have more
> than one secondary
>     charge group.  Each group may confer difference
> independently.  In
>     Gules, a pale between two mullets argent, the
> mullets are the
>     secondary charge group.  The secondary charges
> in Or, a maunche
>     between three roundels azure are the roundels. 
> In Sable, a
>     chevron cotised argent between three millrinds
> Or there are two
>     secondary charge groups, the cotises and the
> millrinds.  ...
> 
> It says that a secondary charge group is a group of
> charges directly
> on the field.  (OK, it doesn't say "directly", but
> it should: if
> they're not "directly", they're "tertiary" or
> perhaps "overall".)
> It says that cotises are secondaries.  RfS X.4.b, d,
> e, f, g, and h
> give various types of CDs to "charges in any group
> placed directly on
> the field".
> 
> Therefore, cotises get all the CDs of any other
> secondary charges.
> 
> > Example, A pale cotised vert vs. a pale vert
> cotised sable?
> 
> Exactly the same as "a pale between two mullets
> vert" versus "a pale
> vert between two mullets sable", which is to say,
> yes.
> 
> Daniel de Lyncoln
> -- 
> Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com
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