- medal

Medal В поздних гербах очень низкой геральдики часто используются ордена, медали, орденские планки (medals or medallions, clasps), жалуемые за военную службу. Иногда вводятся монеты, например, «pagoda» (т.е. мадрасская монета «Madras coin»), а в одном старом примере – монета, называемая «penny-yard penny». Это монета, которая, как говорят, чеканилась в замке Пенниярд (Penyard Castle, near Ross, Herefordshire).

«Or, a lion rampant gules, a canton of the last, thereon pendant from a mural crown of the first a riband of the second fimbriated azure, a representation of the gold medal and clasp presented for services in the Peninsular War» – MACDONALD, Perth.

«Erminois, on an eagle displayed double headed gules an eastern crown or; a chief vert charged with pendant from a chain two oval medallions is pale, the one bearing Arabic characters and the other a dagger in fesse, blade wavy, point downwards, the dexter in relief gold» – Sir Thomas S.RAFFLES, Lieutenant-Governor of Java, &c.

«Gules, two estoiles, in chief argent a lion passant; in base or on a chief of the second a wreath of laurel vert, enclosing two swords in saltire proper, pomels and hilts or; in chief the medal for Waterloo» – MCINNES, Charlton Kings, co. Gloucester.

«Azure, three palets gules on a chief azure an many martlets of the first with a canton of the second charged with the medal presented to him by the East India Company proper» – MARTIN, Wivenhoe, Essex.

Azure, two swords in saltire argent .... on a chief ermine a bee volant between two star pagodas proper» – BLADES, Sheriff of London, 1812.

«Azure, three penny-yard pence proper[i.e. argent]» – SPENCE.

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