Fer de moline

Fer-de-moline

Fer-de-moline, or fer de moulin(fr.), also inkmoline, mill-ink, millrind, millrine, (fr. anille), is according to Gibbon, "that piece of iron that beareth and upholdeth the moving millstone." Perhaps no charge has a greater diversity of forms found in ancient drawings; so much so that it may be reckoned amongst the conventional charges of heraldry. It is, indeed, generally drawn like one or other of the first two, but sometimes it appears like the third. The ordinary position of the fer-de-mouline is erect, but it may be borne fesswise, or bendwise.

Sire William SAUNSUM, de or a un fer de molin de sable--Roll, temp. ED. II.

Sir Robert de WYLEBI, de goules a un fer de molin de argent--Ibid.

Sire Rauf le MARESCHAL, de or a un fer de molin de goules--Ibid.

Paly of six argent and azure, a milrind of the second--PRICHET, Bp. of Gloucester, 1672-81.

Gules, a fer-de-moline argent--FERRE.

Or, a fer-de-moline azure--MOLYNERS.

Ermine, a fer-de-moline azure pierced of the field--MOLINS, London.

Argent, on a milrind sable five estoiles of the field--VICOREY, co. Derby.

Azure, fifteen fers-de-molines or; on a chief of the second a lion rampant purpure--Insignia of LINCOLN'S INN[according to GUILLIM].

Gules, a mill ink pierced argent--FERE, co. Stafford.

Gules, two bars argent; over all an inkmoline argent--PAUNERTON, co. Stafford.

Gules, a millrind bendways argent between two martlets in pale or--BURNINGHAM, Hants.