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Ex. Argent, a mermaid gules, crined or.
CROSIER. The pastoral staff of a bishop or abbot: a very frequent
charge in ecclesiastical arms.
[Illustration: Crosier]
Ex. Or, a crosier gules, in bend.
CROSS. An honourable ordinary, more used as a charge in a coat of arms
than any of the others. During the Crusades for the recovery of the
Holy Land, the troops of the different nations that joined in the
Crusade displayed crosses on their banners and arms: every soldier
bore a cross upon his dress; this was composed of two pieces of list
or riband of equal length, crossing each other at right angles. The
soldiers of France attached their national emblem, the fleur-de-lis,
to the ends of the members of the cross; hence the introduction of the
cross flory. The Crusaders from the Papal dominions placed transverse
pieces on each member of the plain cross, and by this means
transformed it into four small crosses springing from a centre,
forming what is now called the cross-crosslet. It would be impossible
within the limits of this work to give an example of all the crosses
that have been introduced as bearings in coats of arms. Berry, in his
comprehensive work on Heraldry, gives nearly two hundred examples,
without giving all that might be found. The following are the crosses
most used in English Heraldry.
[Illustration: Cross]
Cross
[Illustration: Cross potent]
Cross potent
[Illustration: Cross flory]
Cross flory
[Illustration: Cross crosslet]
Cross crosslet
[Illustration: Cross bottonny]
Cross bottonny
[Illustration: Cross pattee]
Cross pattee
[Illustration: Cross raguly]
Cross raguly
[Illustration: Cross patonce]
Cross patonce
[Illustration: Cross moline]
Cross moline
[Illustration: Cross quadrate]
Cross quadrate
[Illustration: Cross quarter-pierced]
Cross quarter-pierced
[Illustration: Cross of Calvary]
Cross of Calvary
[Illustration: Cross fitchy]
Cross fitchy
[Illustration: Cross patriarchal]
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