PE Test (A Basic Book Heraldry Test)

This is a basic test of book heraldry given to members of the College of Heralds of the West Kingdom. If you
wish your test scored, please send it to the College address given in the Page with a stamped, self-addressed
envelope. If you are on the roster of the College, or wish to be added to the roster, please give your modern
name and email. You may wish to prepare yourself before taking the test, but you are on your honor not to use
books during the test.
Name:
Email:
1) Everyone in the Society is entitled to a name and a device. Write your name:
, and give the blazon and emblazon of
your device if you have one (even if they are not registered).
2) The tinctures are divided into colors (C), metals (M), and there are other (O) ways of coloring fields
and charges. Mark each of these with the appropriate category, and translate into English.
Azure

Or

Gules

Vair

Pean

Argent

Potent

Purpure

Vert

Ermine

Proper
Sable
3) There are various ways of dividing a field. Draw the divisions described below.
Per Pale
Per Bend
Per Fess
Per Bend Sinister

Per Chevron

Per Pall

Per Saltire

Gyronny

Checky

Bendy

Quarterly

Barry

4) Lines of division do not have to be straight. Name the following complex lines.

5) Identify the following Ordinaries, Subordinaries, and variations.

6) Name and draw four different types of crosses.

7) Who are the following devices registered to? Give the correct blazons.
To:
Or

To:
vert

Or

Or
vert

vert

8) Draw the following charges.

Label

Fret

Mascle

Orle

Mullet

Fountain

Sun

Pheon

Escallop

Crescent

Cinquefoil

Lozenge

9) Assume that the stick figures shown below are lions. Name their positions.

10) Emblazon the devices whose blazons are given below. Artistic ability does not count. Clarity does.
Per pale argent and gules
a fret and a chief
counterchanged

Vert, on a fess engrailed

between two eagles argent,
three torteaux.

Azure, a sword proper

between flaunches Or.

Or, a unicorn rampant azure,

on a chief indented purpure
three fleurs-de-lys Or.
West v2.0 Dec 2007