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FRET, Couped, Engrailed, Fleury, Charged, Double Fretted, Interlaced, Throughout, etc. P. 5, f. 19 to 28. (ELVN)

FRET, Bretessed, Espined, or Crossed. P. 22, f. 26. (ELVN)

FRET-KNOT. See Lacy Knot. P. 43, f. 11. (ELVN)

FRET-PER, or Parted per fret ; also termed barry per-fret. P. 21, f. 30. (ELVN)

FRET. Consists of two long pieces in saltire, extending to the extremities of the field, and interlaced within a mascle. P. 5, f. 19.

                It is sometimes termed a true-lovers knot, and sometimes a Harrington Knot. (ELVN)

Fret (1) дргое название штопора wine-piercer. Fret решётка a charge consisting of two narrow bendlets placed in saltire, and interlaced with a mascle. It was been supposed to represent the meshes of a fishing-net. Being borne by the family of HARRINGTON it is found called a Harrington's knot; and riddle-makers see a connection between the Herring-town and the net. Whatever may be the origin, the term fret, or rather fretté, occurs frequently in the ancient rolls, but in many cases probably only a single fret is intended. When two or more frets are borne in the same arms they must be couped, unless each occupies an entire quarter.

«Sable, a fret argent, charged with nine fleurs-de-lis gules» – HARRINGTON of Honington Sibble, co. Essex. «Sable, a fret or» – HARRINGTON, Essex. «Ermine, a fret gules in chief a lion passant guardant sable» – HUDDLESTON, Upwell Hall, Cambridge. «Gules, three lions rampant or; on a chief of the second a fret of the first» – JONES, co. Kent. «Or, a pale gules, in chief two frets and in base another counterchanged» – BOAK. Du bon Hue le DESPENSIER .... Fu la baniere esquartelée De une noir bastoun sur blanc getté E de vermeil jaune fretté.» – Roll of Carlaverock. «Aymer de ST.AMONT, d'argent frette de sable ung chef de sable» – Roll, temp. HEN. III. «Sire Johan de HOORNE, de goules a une frette de veer» – Roll, temp. ED. II. «Hue le DE SPENSER quartele d'argent et de goules, ung bend de sable; les quartres frette d'or en le goules» – Roll, temp. HEN. III. «Sire Laurence de HAMELDENE de argent fretté de goules e les flures de or e les nowe de la frette» – Roll, temp. ED. II. «Monsire TRUSSELL le Cousin, port d'argent, fret gules, les joyntures pomelles d'or» – Roll, temp. ED. III. [parc]