_Rebus._ An allusive charge or device. A cask, or _tun_, to represent the final syllable “_ton_” of many surnames, is frequently found. I give a few examples of several varieties of Rebus:--JOHN OXNEY, Canterbury--An eagle (the emblem of _St. John_ the Evangelist, to denote “_John_”) standing on an _ox_, charged on its side with the letters _N E_. JOHN WHEATHAMSTEDE, St. Albans--An eagle and an Agnus Dei (the emblems of _St. John_ the Evangelist and _St. John_ the Baptist, to denote “_John_”), and clusters of _ears of wheat_. JOHN RAMRYGE, St. Albans--A _ram_, gorged with a collar inscribed with the letters _R Y G E_. WOODSTOCK--The stump or _stock of a tree_. Abbot ISLIP, Westminster--A man falling from a tree, exclaiming, “I slip!” and a human _eye_, and a _slip_ (small branch of a tree). WALTER LYHART, Norwich--_A hart_ (stag) _ly_ing down in _water_. An _owl_, with the letters _D O M_ on a scroll in its beak, for BISHOP OLDHAM, at Exeter. A church (“_kirk_”) on a _tun_, with a pastoral staff and the initial R, for Abbot ROBERT KIRTON, No. 295; and a _bird_ on a _tun_, and a _tree_ growing out of a _tun_, for BURTON and ASHTON, all at Peterborough. At Wells, with an initial T, a fire-_beacon_ planted _in_ a _tun_, for Bishop THOMAS BECKYNGTON, No. 296; and at Lullinstone, Kent, in stained glass, the shield of Sir JOHN PECHÉ, A.D. 1522--_Az., a lion rampt. queue fourchée erm., crowned or_--is encircled by _peach-branches fructed and in foliage, each peach being charged with the letter É_, No. 297; the crest-wreath also is formed of a similar peach-branch. _Recercelée._ A variety of the heraldic cross: No. 98. _Reflexed_, _Reflected_. Curved and carried backwards. _Reguardant._ Looking backwards: see No. 182. _Rein-deer._ Heraldically drawn with double antlers, one pair erect, the other drooping. _Respecting._ Face to face--applied to creatures not of a fierce nature. _Rest._ See _Clarion_, No. 228. _Ribbon_, _Riband_. A diminutive of a _Bend_. _Rising_, _Roussant_. About to fly. _Rompu._ Broken. [Illustration: No. 295.--Rebus of Abbot Kirton.] [Illustration: No. 296.--Rebus of Bishop Beckyngton.] [Illustration: No. 297.--Arms and Rebus of Sir John Peché.] _Rose._ Represented in blazon as in Nos. 298, 299, and without leaves. The five small projecting leaves of the calyx, that radiate about the flower itself, are styled _barbs_, and when they are blazoned “proper” these barbs are green, as the “seeds” in the centre of the flower are golden. Both the “red rose” of LANCASTER and the “white rose” of YORK, but more especially the latter, are at times surrounded with rays, and each is termed a “_rose-en-soleil_,” No. 300. The rose, the emblem of ENGLAND, is generally drawn like the natural flower; or with natural stem, branches, leaves, and buds, but with heraldic rose-flowers. In modern cadency the heraldic rose is the difference of the seventh son. _Roundle._ See page 72.