Five roundlets; two, one, two, in saltier.

[Illustration: Five roundlets in cross]

Five roundlets; one, three, one, or in cross.

[Illustration: Six roundlets paleway]

Six roundlets; two, two, two, paleway.

[Illustration: Six roundlets in pile]

Six roundlets; three, two, one, in pile.

There are seldom more figures than seven, but no matter the number;
they are placed in the same way, commencing with the figures at the
top of the shield, or in chief. If the field was strewed all over with
roundlets, this would be expressed by the word _semé_.

_Marshalling coats of arms_, is the act of disposing the arms of
several persons in one escutcheon, so that their relation to each
other may be clearly marked.

In Heraldry, the husband and wife are called _baron and femme_; and
when they are descended from distinct families, both their arms are
placed in the same escutcheon, divided by a perpendicular line through
the centre of the shield. As this line runs in the same direction, and
occupies part of the space in the shield appropriated to the ordinary
called the pale, the shield is in heraldic language said to be _parted