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HATCHMENT , properly, in See also:

HERALDRY

heraldry, an See also:

ESCUTCHEON (0. Fr. escucheon, escusson, modern dcusson, through a Late Lat. form from Lat. Scutum, shield)

escutcheon or armorial See also:

shield granted for some See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of distinction or " achievement," of which word it is a corruption through such forms as atcheament, achement, hathement, &c. " Achievement " is an See also:

ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of the Fr. achevement, from achever, a chef venir, See also:

Lat. ad ca put venire, to come to a See also:

head, or conclusion, hence accomplish, achieve. The See also:

TERM

term "hatchment " is now usually applied to funeral escutcheons or armorial See also:

SHIELDS, JAMES (181b-1879)

shields enclosed in a See also:

black See also:

LOZENGE (from the Fr. losenge, or losange; the word also appears in Span. losanje, and Ital. losanga; perhaps derived from a word meaning a stone slab laid on a grave, which appears in forms such as Provencal lousa, Span. losa, the ultimate origin of whic

lozenge-shaped See also:

FRAME

frame suspended against the See also:

wall of a deceased See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person's See also:

house. It is usually placed over the entrance at the level of the second See also:

FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor, and remains for from six to twelve months, when it is removed to the See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish See also:

church. This See also:

CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom is falling into disuse, though still not uncommon. It is usual to hang the hatchment of a deceased head of a house at the See also:

UNIVERSITIES

universities of See also:

Oxford and See also:

Cambridge over the entrance to his See also:

lodge or See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence. If for a See also:

BACHELOR (from Med. Lat. baccalarius, with its late and rare variant baccalaris—cf. Ital. baccalare—through O. Fr. bacheler)

bachelor the hatchment bears upon a shield his arms, See also:

crest, and other appendages, the whole on a black ground. If for a single woman, her arms are represented upon a lozenge, bordered with knotted See also:

RIBBONS

ribbons, also on a black ground. If the hatchment be for a married See also:

man ( as in the See also:

ILLUSTRATION

illustration), his arms upon a shield impale those of his surviving wife; or if she be an heiress they are placed upon a scutcheon of pretence, and crest and other appendages are added. The See also:

dexter See also:

HALF

half of the ground is black, the sinister See also:

white. For a wife whose hus- See also:

BAND

band is alive the same arrange- ment is used, but the sinister ground only is black. For a widower the same is used as for a married man, but the whole ground is black; for a widow the See also:

HUSBAND

husband's arms are given with her own, but upon a lozenge, with ribbons, without crest or appendages, and the whole ground is black.

When there have been two wives or two husbands the ground is divided into three parts per See also:

PALE (through Fr. pal, from Lat. palms, a stake, for paglus, from the stem pag- of pangere, to fix; " pole " is from the same original source)

pale, and the See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division behind the arms of the survivor is white. See also:

COLOURS, MILITARY

Colours and military or See also:

NAVAL

naval emblems are sometimes placed behind the arms of military or naval See also:

OFFICERS

officers. It is thus easy to discern from the hatchment the See also:

SEX (Lat. sexes; possibly connected with secure, to cut)

sex, See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition and quality, and possibly the name of the deceased. In Scottish hatchments it is not unusual to See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place the arms of the See also:

FATHER

father and See also:

MOTHER

mother of the deceased in the two lateral angles of the lozenge, and sometimes the 4, 8 or 16 genealogical escutcheons are ranged along the margin.

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