Chapter XV

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_Over all_, or _Sur tout_. To denote some one charge being placed over all others.

_Overt._ With expanded wings.

_Pale._ One of the Ordinaries: No. 87. _Pale-wise_, or _In Pale_. Disposed after the manner of a Pale--that is, set vertically, or arranged vertically one above another, as are the Lions of England in No. 187, page 87.

_Pall_, _Pallium_. A vestment peculiar to Archbishops of the Roman Church: in Heraldry, as a charge, half only of the pall is shown, when it resembles the letter Y; it is borne in the arms of the Sees of CANTERBURY, ARMAGH, and DUBLIN.

_Pallet._ Half a _Pale_.

_Palmer's Staff_, _Pilgrim's staff_, or _Bourdon_. No. 282. JOHN BOURDON (H. 3) bears--_Arg., three palmer's staves gu._

[Illustration: No. 282.--Bourdon.]

_Paly._ Divided per pale into an even number of parts, which all lie in the same plane, as in No. 88. _Paly Bendy._ Divided evenly pale-wise, and also bend-wise, No. 118.

_Panache._ A plume of feathers, generally of the ostrich, set upright and born as a crest. A panache sometimes consists of a single row of feathers; but more generally it has two or more rows or "heights" of feathers, rising one above the other. In the greater number of examples the tips of the feathers are erect; in others they wave, or slightly bend over. A panache may be charged with some device or figure, "for difference," as by the TYNDALLS, with an _ermine circlet_, a _martlet_, and a _fleur de lys_. In Nos. 283, 285, from the seals of EDWARD COURTENAY, and EDMUND MORTIMER (A.D. 1400 and 1372) the "heights" both expand and rise in a curved pyramidal form. No. 284, from the seal of WILLIAM LE LATIMER (A.D. 1372), shows a remarkable variety of both panache and mantling. Waving plumes formed of distinct feathers first appear near the end of the fifteenth century, and are prevalent during the sixteenth century.

_Party_, _Parted_. Divided.

[Illustration: No. 283.--PANACHE CREST: Edward Courtenay.]

[Illustration: No. 284.--PANACHE CRESTS: William le Latimer.]

[Illustration: No. 285.--PANACHE CRESTS: Edmund Mortimer.]

_Passant._ Walking and looking forward: No. 173. _Passant Guardant._ Walking and looking out from the shield, No. 174. _Passant Reguardant._ Walking and looking back. _Passant Repassant_, or _Passant and Counter Passant_. Walking in opposite directions.

_Pastoral Staff._ The official staff of a bishop or abbot, having a crooked head, and so distinguished from an archbishop's _crozier_.

_Patée_, or _Formée_. } _Patonce._ } Varieties of the heraldic Cross, Nos. _Patriarchal._ } 106, 99, and 95.

_Pean._ The Fur, No. 60.

_Peer._ That general title, expressing their equality as members of a distinct "order" in the realm, which is applied to Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

_Peerage._ The hereditament of a Peer: also rank of a Peer; a list of the Peers.

_Pegasus._ A horse with wings--a classic as well as an heraldic imaginary creature.

[Illustration: No. 288.--A Portcullis.]

[Illustration: No. 286.--A Pennon.]

[Illustration: No. 287.--A Pheon.]

_Pelican._ Blazoned "in her piety," when feeding her young with her own blood.

_Pellet._ A black roundle.

_Pendent._ Hanging.

_Pennon._ An armorial lance flag, pointed or swallow-tailed at the fly. No. 286 is from the Brass to Sir JOHN D'AUBERNOUN, A.D. 1279; the arms are--_Az., a chevron or_.

_Per._ By means of, or after the manner of.

_Pheon._ A pointed arrow-head, borne with the point in base, unless the contrary is specified, No. 287.

_Phoenix._ A fabulous eagle, always represented as issuant from flames.

_Pile._ One of the Ordinaries, in form like a wedge, Nos. 126, 127, 128. _In Pile._ Arranged after the form of a pile.

_Planta Genista._ The broom plant badge of the Plantagenets, No. 21.

_Plate._ A silver roundle.

_Plenitude._ The moon when full. See No. 166.

_Plume._ See _Panache_.

_Points of Shield._ No. 27. _In Point_ is the same as _In Pile_.

_Pomme._ A green roundle.

_Popinjay._ A parrot (H. 3).

_Port._ A gateway, as the entrance to a castle: No. 222.

_Portcullis._ A defence for a gateway, No. 288: the badge of the Houses of BEAUFORT and TUDOR, borne by the former with the significant motto, "_Altera securitas_" (additional security).

_Potent._ A variety of the heraldic cross, No. 108; also a Fur, No. 64.

_Powdered_, _Poudrée_. The same as _Semée_.

_Preying._ When an animal devours its prey. See _Trussing_.

_Prince_, _Princess_. In this country the rank and title of the members of the Royal Family. Their style is "Your Royal Highness." The Coronet of the Prince of Wales differs from the crown of the King, only in having a single arch instead of two intersecting arches: No. 289. The coronets of the Princes and Princesses, the sons and daughters of the King, are the same as the coronet of the Prince of Wales, but without any arch: No. 290. The coronets of the Princes and Princesses, the grandchildren of the Sovereign, differ in having the circlet heightened with two crosses patée, as many strawberry leaves, and four fleurs-de-lys, No. 291. Other Royal coronets have the circlet heightened with four crosses patée, and as many strawberry leaves. No. 292. For the arms of their Royal Highnesses, see