| In English heraldry, we find examples of a lion passant on the upper trait of a barry field. |
| Some of the designs were very simple and graphic, looking like the two-headed eagles of heraldry, and some were much more elaborate. |
| Look for a simple text on heraldry by someone like A C Fox-Davies or J P Brooke-Little if you want to go into blazonry further. |
| Period armory seems to have considered the billet equivalent to the delf and no difference is granted between them in Society heraldry. |
| The barry field and ermine lion are from the heraldry of the Cecils, and Hatfield has been the seat of this branch of the family ever since. |
| The martlet in French heraldry is called the merlette, represented by a swallow, depicted without legs, and later usually. without a beak. |
