The king of Scots bore "Gold a lion within a double tressure flowered and counterflowered gules.
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.
If you will believe Boethius and Buchanan, the double tressure round the shield (mentioned above, vii.
Historical evidence, however, would seem to show that 'the lion is first seen on the seal of Alexander II, and the tressure on that of Alexander III.
The double tressure was an ornamental tracing round the shield, at a fixed distance from the border.
The double tressure might you see, First by Achaius borne, The thistle and the fleur-de-lis, And gallant unicorn.
The fabulous account of the tressure is that it was given by Charlemagne to Achaius, king of Scotland in the year 792, in token of alliance and friendship.
Now, although we must discard this early existence of the Scottish ensigns, it is by no means improbable that the addition of the tressure was made in commemoration of some alliance between the two crowns at a later date.
On the accession of James I it became necessary to add the arms of Scotland (or, a lion rampant within a double tressure flory and counterflory, gules) and in doing this James took the opportunity to add arms representing Ireland.
Scotland (the tressure not being continued down the palar line), and the impaled coat of England and Scotland was placed in the first and fourth quarters, France in the second, Ireland in the third.
Or a Lyon rampant dismembred, Gules within a doubletressure counterflory Azure.
Or a Lyon rampant within a double tressure flory counter flory Gules.
Escochion Or, therein a demi Lyon within a double Scotch tressure Gules, an Arrow transfixing his Mouth, of the last a label of three Points Azure.
Or a Lyon rampant within a double tressure counterflory Gules; third, Ireland, Azure an Harp or String Argent, over all a label of three Points Argent.
The tressure is also of doubtful origin, and is also very ancient; it is popularly supposed to have been given by Charlemagne in recognition of a league between that monarch and Achaius, King of Scotland.
Or, a lion rampant dechaussé, within a double tressure flory counterflory of fleurs-de-lys gu.
Or, a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counterflory gu.
Walpole, Earl of Oxford A Fess within a double tressure flory counterflory.
All within a bordure or, charged with the double tressure (flory counterflory) of Scotland, added by Charles II.
James put the ancient coat-of-arms of Scotland, or, a lion rampant, within a double tressure flory counterflory gu.
The double tressure is presumed to indicate that there were two treaties.
Within a tressure as before a sun of sixteen rays in place of limbs of the cross, the lions and crowns and the terminations of the limbs remaining.
In the space between the arches of the tressure and the outer petals of the rose are, alternately throughout, a lion and a fleur-de-lis.
Quarter-noble: an escutcheon with the arms of France and England, quarterly, within a tressure of eight foils.
A swan with wings expanded, within a double tressure fleury-counter-fleury; a chief charged with on a pale between two lions passant-guardant a rose seeded and barbed.
Second, or, a lion rampant gules, within a double tressure of the same, flory and counter flory.
The tressure is a border at some distance from the edge of the field, half the breadth of an orle: the tressure may be double or treble.
The arms of Scotland exhibit an example of a double tressure flory and counter-flory, as exhibited in the shield on the title-page of this Manual.
The tressure should be double, but in this instance it is single.
The first authentic illustration of thetressure in the arms of Scotland dates from the year 1260.
Tressure, the fleurs de lys are so disposed that the heads and stalks of the flowers point alternately in contrary directions: this is blazoned as a “Tressure flory counterflory.
This, the double Tressure of Scotland, is a combination of two such single Tressures as No.
One of the earliest instances of anything approaching the tressure in the Scottish arms which I have met with is in an armorial of Matthew Paris, which is now in the Cottonian MSS.
Sylvanus Morgan, one of the very maddest of the seventeenth-century heraldic writers, says that the tressure was added to the shield of Scotland, in testimony of a league between Scotland and France, by Charles V.
Seeing that at the time of this enactment the Scottish kings had borne the tressure for upwards of 220 years, it is difficult to understand the cause of this procedure.
When a bend and a bordure appear upon the same arms, the bend is not continued over the bordure, and similarly it does not surmount a tressure (Fig.
The frequent grant of the Royal tressure in Scotland, probably usually as an augmentation, has been already referred to.
Or, a lion rampant gules, couped in all his joints of the field, within a double tressure flory and counterflory azure, a bordure engrailed ermine.
