Sir John of Pabenham bears "Barry azure and silver, with a bend gules and three molets gold thereon," arms which Sir John his son differences by piercing the molets.
St Quintin of Yorkshire bore "Gold two cheverons gules and a chief vair.
Thus ifgules be the hue of the field any charge of that colour must thereafter be styled "of the first.
Simon de Montfort bore "Gules a silver lion with a forked tail.
But the commonest of these powderings is that with crosslets, as in the arms of John la Warr "Gules crusily silver with a silver lion.
Chetwode bore "Quarterly silver and gules with four crosses formy countercoloured"--that is to say, the two crosses in the gules are of silver and the two in the silver of gules.
Thus John Cromwell (14th century) bore "Silver a chief gules with a baston gobony of gold and azure.
I know my grandsire had our tapestry Marked with the motto, 'neath a certain shield, Whereto his grandson presently will give gules To vary azure.
To the vain world's eye All's gules again: no care to the vain world, From whence the red was drawn!
It is also wrong to describe it (as many writers have done), as Barry of six, gules and argent.
However, the proper arms of the town were--Bendy of six Gules and Argent impaling Or an Imperial eagle dimidiated, sable.
Greek cross gules upon a field argent, the field being represented by a narrow fimbriation in the ensign, or union jack, of Great Britain.
British Museum, we find the statement that "the armes of Irland is Gules iij old harpes gold, stringed argent" (as in Fig.
Or, a lion-dragon gules armed, langued and crowned of the first, is the Bretigni family.
Childebert, King of France, in token of his having taken captive Gondomar of Bourgogne, assumed the device of a tiger-cat or ounce behind a grating or troillis, gules cloue argent.
One branch of the family of Cole bears: argent, a fesse between three scorpions erect sable; and another branch of the same family, argent a chevron gules between three scorpions reversed, sable.
The insignia of the See of Hereford is: gules three leopards' heads reversed jessant-de-lis, or.
Party per chevron gulesand or, three lion-dragons ducally crowned and countercharged.
The family of Fada of Verona have for arms: Gules a winged chimera argent, the head and breasts carnation (or proper), and the wings and feet of an eagle.
The arms assumed by Sir John Darnall, who died 1706, were--Gules on a pale argent, a lion rampant azure impaling Gules a boar passant.
Shield: Quarterly, 1 and 4, sable, a bend chequy or and gules between six billets of the second; 2.
Per chevron gules and sable, in chief two swans respecting and in base a herring cob naiant proper.
Mantling ermine, lined gules (evidently a continuation of the crest).
Supposing the field of the first quarter is argent, and that of the second azure, in all probability the best colour for the label would be gules, and indeed gules is the colour most frequently met with for use in this purpose.
Wolfe, Camperdown, and many others; and when three lions passant guardant in pale or upon a canton gules are granted, as in the arms of Lane (Plate II.
Argent, a chevron gules between three bluebottles slipped proper"], and also in the more modern arms of that town.
That an argent field meant purity, that a field of gules meant royal or even martial ancestors, that a saltire meant the capture of a city, or a lion rampant noble and enviable qualities, I utterly deny.
Chapeaux, other than of gules lined ermine, are but rarely met with, and unless specifically blazoned to the contrary a cap of maintenance is always presumed to be gules and ermine.
The second step was made by changing to the following, “Gules on a fesse sable 3 mullets.
The earliest shields held “Gules on a barre argent 3 Cinquefoiles of ye first.
He gave the Company on their old sable field, a chief with gulesand vert thereon!
The collar is of gold, weighing thirty ounces troy weight, and contains twenty-six garters enamelled proper, in each a rose gules between; the garters are connected by knots.
Illustration: GULES] GULES signifies red: it is expressed by lines drawn from the chief to the base of the shield.
A demi-woman, hair flowing proper, vested gules holding in the dexter hand three roses, slipped and leaved vert.
Quarterly, gules and or; in the first quarter a mullet argent.
An eagle gules volant in a field argent displayed.
Gules (crimson): in the centre the Star of the Order of the Garter proper, ensigned with the Imperial Crown; in base the Sphinx superscribed Egypt.
Gules (crimson): in the centre the Imperial Crown; in base a grenade fired proper.
The same high-set windows let in bars of colored light, which slanted down through the dimness and lay across floor and furniture in billets and lozenges of gules and vert and azure.
Moreouer, the bishop had his penon there siluer and azure quarterlie, a freat gold on the azure, a bend gules on the siluer; and bicause he was yoongest of the Spensers, he bare a border gules for a difference.
Argent a Chevron Gules between three Bulls-Heads coupee Sable, afterwards his Mother’s Arms, Butler of Ormond, Or a chief indented Azure.
Or a Lyon rampant dismembred, Gules within a double tressure counterflory Azure.
Gules Semi de cross Croslets a cinque foil Or, over all a bend ingrailed Argent.
Stafford and Argent, a Cross ingrailed Gules between four water budgets Sable for Bourchier.
England a Label of five Points Argent, his maternal Grandmother’s Arms Plantagenet of Brotherton, his own Arms wasGules a Lyon rampant Argent.
Gules on a Saltire Argent, a Rose of Lancaster, i.
Gules two Lyons passant in pale Ermine crowned Or.
Quarterly Azure a cinquefoil Ermine for Astley, and Or two barrs Gules for Harcourt, over both a label extended of three Points Ermine.
Gules a Cross urdee voided Or, and pomellee as the Points Or, over both Coats a chief of Valette, viz.
