The third in a series of four volumes designed to aid historians,
archaeologists, genealogists, heraldists and antiquaries in the
identification of medieval British coats of arms. Listed in this volume
are entries from Chief to Fess.
This book is the third in a series of volumes designed to enable those
with a working knowledge of heraldry to identify medieval British coats
of arms. Listed in this volume are entries from Chief to Fess. The
project is the result of a bequest to the Society of Antiquaries in 1926
for the production of a new edition of Papworth's Ordinary which has
remained, since its publication in 1874, the principal tool for the
identification of British coatsof arms. An Ordinary, in this context, is
a collection of arms arranged alphabetically according to their designs,
as opposed to an armory which is arranged alphabetically by surname.
The present work is the third in a fourvolume Ordinary covering the
period before the beginning of the heraldic visitations in 1530. Its
publication will mean that the wide range of people interested in
medieval arms - historians, antiquaries, archaeologists, genealogist and
those dealing in and collecting medieval objects - will be able to
identify accurately the arms that occur in a medieval context. Even
those without a knowledge of the subject will be able, by means of the
index, to discover the blazon of arms recorded under particular surnames
in the Middle Ages.
