His Arms are often on the Steeple, which are an Escocheon within an Orle of Martlets, and also upon the out-side of the Gate, next the School-House.
The Tressure or flowered tressure is a figure which is correctly described by Woodward's incorrect description of the orle as cited above, being a narrow inner border of the shield.
Erpingham bore "Vert a scocheon silver with anorle (or border) of silver martlets.
Thus the martlets in the shield of Erpingham, already described, may be called an orle of martlets or a border of martlets.
The orle surrounding the bascinet is gorgeous with chased work and pearls; the head rests upon a ponderous heaume, shaped for the shoulders, and bearing crest and mantling.
The orlehas been previously noted, but the bascinet is provided with a bavière which is placed upon the camail.
An orle is about half the width of a bordure, rather less than more, but the proportion is never very exactly maintained.
Arms of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke: "Baruly argent and azure, an orle of martlets gules.
Though both forms are very seldom so met with, an orle may be subject to the usual lines of partition, and may also be charged.
The arms of Knox, Earl of Ranfurly, are: Gules, a falcon volant or, within an orle wavy on the outer and engrailed on the inner edge argent.
Examples of both these variations are met with in the arms of Yeatman-Biggs, and the arms of Gladstone afford an instance of an orle "flory.
The crest of Lord Kintore is an angel in a praying posture or, within an orle of laurel proper.
It is, however, usually depicted a trifle nearer the edge of the escutcheon than the orle is generally placed.
