Bassingbourne bore "Gironny of gold and azure of twelve pieces."
William Stoker, who died Lord Mayor of London in 1484, bore "Gironny of six pieces azure and silver with three popinjays in the silver pieces."
A pair of girons on either side of a chief were borne in the strange shield of Mortimer, commonly blazoned as "Barry azure and gold of six pieces, the chief azure with two pales and two girons gold, a scocheon silver over all." An early example shows that this shield began as a plain field with a gobony border.
With the Ordinaries we may take the Roundels or Pellets, disks or balls of various colours. Ancient custom gives the name of a bezant to the golden roundel, and the folly of the heraldic writers has found names for all the others, names which may be disregarded together with the belief that, while bezants and silver roundels, as representing coins, must be pictured with a flat surface, roundels of other hues must needs be shaded by the painter to represent rounded balls. Rings or Annelets were common charges in the North, where Lowthers, Musgraves and many more, differenced the six rings of Vipont by bearing them in various colours.
[Illustration: Campbell. Bassingbourne. Stoker. Burlay.]
Burlay of Wharfdale bore "Gules a bezant."
Courtenay, earl of Devon, bore "Gold three roundels gules with a label azure."
Caraunt bore "Silver three roundels azure, each with three cheverons gules."
Avenel bore "Silver a fesse and six annelets (_aunels_) gules."
Hawberk of Stapleford bore "Silver a bend sable charged with three pieces of a mail hawberk, each of three linked rings of gold."
Stourton bore "Sable a bend gold between six fountains." The fountain is a roundel charged with waves of white and blue.
[Illustration: Courtenay. Caraunt. Vipont. Avenel.]
The Lozenge is linked in the heraldry book with the Fusil. This Fusil is described as a lengthened and sharper lozenge. But it will be understood that the Fusil, other than as part of an engrailed or indented bend, pale or fesse, is not known to true armory. Also it is one of the notable achievements of the English writers on heraldry that they should have allotted to the lozenge, when borne voided, the name of Mascle. This "mascle" is the word of the oldest armorists for the unvoided charge, the voided being sometimes described by them as a lozenge, without further qualifications. Fortunately the difficulty can be solved by following the late 14th-century custom in distinguishing between "lozenges" and "voided lozenges" and by abandoning altogether this misleading word Mascle.