THE PALE.--Like the Fesse, this Ordinary occupies rather less than a central third of the field, but it is _vertical_ in its position instead of horizontal. No. 87, for ERSKINE, is--_Arg., a pale sa._ Its Diminutives, the _Pallet_ and the _Endorse_, severally one-half and one-fourth of its width, may be placed vertically in any part of the field. A Pale between two Endorses is “_endorsed_” but the term _cotised_ is also employed with this meaning. An _even_ number of Pallets of a metal (or a fur) and a colour set alternately, form the varied field to be blazoned “_paly_,” the number of the Pallets (which lie all in the same plane) always to be specified: thus--_Paly of six arg. and az., on a bend gu. three eaglets displayed or_, for GRANDISON, No. 88 (H. 3) Charges that are disposed one above another in a vertical row are “in pale.” This is the arrangement of the three golden lions of England. The CROSS (H. 3), formed from a combination of a Fesse with a Pale, in its simplest form is set erect in the centre of the field, and it extends to the border-lines of the Shield. If at any time it may be necessary or apparently desirable specially to set forth in the blazoning of a Shield, that a Cross charged upon it does thus extend to the border-lines, such a Cross is blazoned as a “_Cross throughout_.” No. 1, _Arg., a Cross gu._, the armorial ensign of ST. GEORGE, the special Patron Saint of England, may be blazoned as “_A Cross of St. George_.” Of this Cross, the great symbol of the Christian Faith, Spenser says-- “And on his brest a bloodie Cross he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord.... Upon his Shield the like was also scored.” _Faerie Queen_, I. i. 2. [Illustration: No. 89.--Cross fimbriated.] [Illustration: No. 90.--Cross pointed.]