The arms shown in Fig. 97 are interesting inasmuch as they are doubtless an early form of the coat per pale indented argent and gules, which is generally described as a banner borne for the honour of Hinckley, by the Simons de Montfort, Earls of Leicester, father and son. In a Roll _temp._ Henry III., to Simon the younger is ascribed "Le Banner party endentee dargent & de goules," although the arms of both father and son are known to have been as Fig. 98: "Gules, a lion rampant queue-fourchée argent." More probably the indented coat gives the original Montfort arms. THE FESS The fess is a broad horizontal band crossing the escutcheon in the centre (Fig. 99). It is seldom drawn to contain a full third of the area of the shield. It is subject to the lines of partition (Figs. 100-109). {118} A curious variety of the fess dancetté is borne by the Shropshire family Plowden of Plowden. They bear: Azure, a fess dancetté, the upper points terminating in fleurs-de-lis (Fig. 110). A fess couped (Fig. 111) is found in the arms of Lee. [Illustration: FIG. 102.--Fess embattled.] [Illustration: FIG. 103.--Fess embattled counter-embattled.] [Illustration: FIG. 104.--Fess raguly.] [Illustration: FIG. 105.--Fess dovetailed.] [Illustration: FIG. 106.--Fess indented.] [Illustration: FIG. 107.--Fess dancetté.] [Illustration: FIG. 108.--Fess wavy.] [Illustration: FIG. 109.--Fess nebuly.] [Illustration: FIG. 110.--The arms of Plowden.] The "fess embattled" is only crenellated upon the upper edge; but when both edges are embattled it is a fess embattled and counter-embattled. The term _bretessé_ (which is said to indicate that the battlements on the upper edge are opposite the battlements on the lower edge, and the indentations likewise corresponding) is a term and a distinction neither of which are regarded in British armory. {119} A fess wreathed (Fig. 112) is a bearing which seems to be almost peculiar to the Carmichael family, but the arms of Waye of Devon are an additional example, being: Sable, two bars wreathed argent and gules. I know of no other ordinary borne in a wreathed form, but there seems no reason why this peculiarity should be confined to the fess. [Illustration: FIG. 111.--Fess couped.] [Illustration: FIG. 112.--Fess wreathed.] [Illustration: FIG. 113.--Two Bars.] [Illustration: FIG. 114.--Bars embattled.] [Illustration: FIG. 115.--Bars engrailed.] [Illustration: FIG. 116.--Bars invecked.]