Tressure

Tressure

Tressure, (old fr. tressour, fr. trecheur): a subordinary, considered by some as a diminutive of the orle. It may be single or double(and some say even triple), but is mostly borne double, and fleury-counterfleury, as in the royal arms of Scotland, q.v., whence the charge is sometimes called 'the royal tressure.' When impaled, it is said to follow the rule of the bordure, and not to be continued on the side of the impalement, but several exceptions may be found. When an ordinary is described as within a tressure it should extend only to the inner side of the tressure.

Three owls within a tressure counterfleurée--Dr.John BRIDGES, Bp. of Oxford, 1618. Impaled with the arms of the Episcopal See. [From the brass in Marsh Baldon church.]

Sire Johan CHIDEOK, de goulys a un escouchon de argent a un double tressour de argent--Roll, temp. ED. II.

Azure, three mullets, within a double tressure flory and counterflory--MURRAY, Duke of Atholl.

Azure, a ship at anchor, her oars in saltire, within a double tressure flory counterflory or--ST.CLARE, Gloucester.

Or, a lion rampant sable, in the dexter forepaw a heart gules, within a bordure of the second charged with a double tressure flory counterflory of the first--BUCHANAN.

Or, a fesse chequy azure and argent, surmounted by a bend engrailed gules between two lion's heads erased of the last, all within the royal tressure of the fourth--STUART, Mains, Scotland.