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A COMPLETE GUIDE TO HERALDRY

the employment of these conditions, a new coat can be based upon an old one which shall leave three original charges in the same position, and upon a field of the original tincture, and yet shall produce an entirely different and distinct coat of arms, has led to this particular form being constantly repeated in modern grants.

Fig. 87.—Pale invecked.
Fig. 87.—Pale invecked.

Fig. 87.—Pale invecked.

Fig. 88.—Pale embattled.
Fig. 88.—Pale embattled.

Fig. 88.—Pale embattled.

Fig. 89.—Pale raguly.
Fig. 89.—Pale raguly.

Fig. 89.—Pale raguly.

Fig. 90.—Pale dovetailed.
Fig. 90.—Pale dovetailed.

Fig. 90.—Pale dovetailed.

Fig. 91.—Pale indented.
Fig. 91.—Pale indented.

Fig. 91.—Pale indented.

Fig. 92.—Pale wavy.
Fig. 92.—Pale wavy.

Fig. 92.—Pale wavy.

Fig. 93.—Pale nebuly.
Fig. 93.—Pale nebuly.

Fig. 93.—Pale nebuly.

Fig. 94.—Pale rayonné.
Fig. 94.—Pale rayonné.

Fig. 94.—Pale rayonné.

Fig. 95.—Pale per fesse counter changed.
Fig. 95.—Pale per fesse counter changed.

Fig. 95.—Pale per fesse counter changed.

The diminutive of the pale is the pallet (Fig. 96), and the pale cottised is sometimes termed "endorsed."

Except when it is used as a mark of difference or distinction (then usually wavy), the pallet is not found singly; but two pallets, or three, are not exceptional. Charged upon other ordinaries, particularly on the chief and the chevron, pallets are of constant occurrence.