The Cross _Patée_ or _Formée_ is represented in No. 106. No. 107 is the “_Cross of eight Points_,” or the _Maltese_ Cross: this example is drawn from the portrait of PHILLIPPE DE VILLIERS DE L’ISLE-ADAM, elected forty-third Grand Master of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, A.D. 1521; this picture is in the possession of the Earl of Clarendon, K.G. The Cross _Potent_, No. 108. The Cross _Avellane_, No. 109. The _Crossed-Crosslet_, and the Crosses _Patée_, _Botonée_, and _Potent_, are also drawn having their shaft elongated and _pointed at the base_: in this form they are severally blazoned as a “_Crossed-Crosslet Fitchée_” (or _fitched_), a “_Cross Patée Fitchée_,” &c.,--a Cross, that is, “_fixable_” in the ground; No. 110 is an example of a Cross _Botonée Fitchée_. Several of these varieties of the heraldic Cross occur but rarely; and there are other somewhat fanciful varieties so little in use, as to render any description of them unnecessary. The student of mediæval monumental antiquities will not fail to observe a certain degree of resemblance between some of the Crosses of Heraldry, and those that are incised and sculptured on sepulchral slabs. [Illustration: No. 111.--Le Scrope.] [Illustration: No. 112.--De Radclyffe.] [Illustration: No. 113.--Le Boteler.] [Illustration: No. 114.--Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford.] [Illustration: No. 115.--Sir Gilbert de Bohun.] The BEND (H. 3) resembles both the Fesse and the Pale in every condition, except that it crosses the field _diagonally_ from the dexter chief to the sinister base. No. 111, the Shield of SCROPE, is--_Az., a bend or_. A celebrated contest for the right to bear this simple Shield took place, A.D. 1385-1390, between Sir RICHARD LE SCROPE and Sir ROBERT GROSVENOR, which was decided in favour of the former. No. 112, for RADCLYFFE, is--_Arg., a bend engrailed sa._ Two uncharged Bends may appear in one composition: thus, for LE BOTELER--_Arg., two bends az._, No. 113; and for FRERE--_Gu., two bends or_ (both H. 3). The Diminutives of the Bend are the _Bendlet_ and the _Cotise_, the one containing one-half and the other one-fourth of its area. A Cotise is sometimes borne singly, when it is a _Riband_. A bendlet _couped_ is a baton. A Bend between two Cotises is _cotised_: thus, No. 114, for DE BOHUN,--_Az., a Bend arg., cotised or, between six lioncels rampt. gold_; this Shield is engraved from the Seal of HUMPHREY DE BOHUN, fourth Earl of HEREFORD (A.D. 1298-1322); in it the cotised Bend is very narrow, evidently to give more space for the lioncels. Charges displayed on a Bend _slope with it_--that is, they would be erect, were the Bend to be set vertically and to become a Pale: thus, another DE BOHUN, Sir Gilbert (H. 3), distinguishes his Shield by tincturing his Bend _or_, and charging upon it _three escallops gules_, as in No. 115. In No. 88, the eaglets also exemplify the disposition of charges upon a Bend.