[ANSTHRLD] Multiple peripheral ordinaries

[Bob Wade]

Thought there was a fair chance of a tressure, chief and bordure, but no luck in Papworth.  (Checked 'Base' [No entries], 'Bordure' [References 'Canton' and 'Chief'], 'Canton', 'Chief', 'Orle', 'Quarter' and 'Tressure'.
 
Unless you count labels, the maximum peripherals I could find was two.

--- On Tue, 11/9/10, Jennifer Smith <jds at randomgang.com> wrote:


From: Jennifer Smith <jds at randomgang.com>
Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Multiple peripheral ordinaries
To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 2:54 PM


On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Alasdair MacEogan <alasdair at bmhanson.net>wrote:

> Etienne de St. Amaranth <st.amaranth at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >  Are there any rules or precedents against or limiting multiple
> peripheral ordinaries?
> >
> >  I have seen arms with a base and a chief.  Or a chief and a bordure.  So
> I think pairs are generally fine.
> >
> >  But could a person have more than two peripheral ordinaries, within the
> rules?  And separately from the other rules, does period practice show any
> examples of three or more peripheral ordinaries?
>
> Would that be considered three or more charges in the same charge group and
> thus fall under the "slot machine" rule?
>

I don't think so; I think peripheral ordinaries are always treated as
individual groups, more or less. (Mind you, I don't have an explicit
precedent to hand for that belief.) "A chief and a base" isn't a single
group of two peripheral ordinaries, it's two groups. "A pair of flaunches
and a chief" is two groups, one with two items in it (a pair of flaunches),
and one with just a chief in it.

Thanks to Scottish cadency, you can slap a bordure on practically anything,
so that's where I'd start looking for examples of more-than-two peripheral
ordinaries. I personally would be surprised to find any examples, though.

-Emma
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