_Paly._ Divided per pale into an even number of parts, which all lie in the same plane, as in No. 88. _Paly Bendy._ Divided evenly pale-wise, and also bend-wise, No. 118.
_Panache._ A plume of feathers, generally of the ostrich, set upright and born as a crest. A panache sometimes consists of a single row of feathers; but more generally it has two or more rows or "heights" of feathers, rising one above the other. In the greater number of examples the tips of the feathers are erect; in others they wave, or slightly bend over. A panache may be charged with some device or figure, "for difference," as by the TYNDALLS, with an _ermine circlet_, a _martlet_, and a _fleur de lys_. In Nos. 283, 285, from the seals of EDWARD COURTENAY, and EDMUND MORTIMER (A.D. 1400 and 1372) the "heights" both expand and rise in a curved pyramidal form. No. 284, from the seal of WILLIAM LE LATIMER (A.D. 1372), shows a remarkable variety of both panache and mantling. Waving plumes formed of distinct feathers first appear near the end of the fifteenth century, and are prevalent during the sixteenth century.
[Illustration: No. 283.--PANACHE CREST: Edward Courtenay.]
[Illustration: No. 284.--PANACHE CRESTS: William le Latimer.]
[Illustration: No. 285.--PANACHE CRESTS: Edmund Mortimer.]
_Passant._ Walking and looking forward: No. 173. _Passant Guardant._ Walking and looking out from the shield, No. 174. _Passant Reguardant._ Walking and looking back. _Passant Repassant_, or _Passant and Counter Passant_. Walking in opposite directions.
_Pastoral Staff._ The official staff of a bishop or abbot, having a crooked head, and so distinguished from an archbishop's _crozier_.
_Patée_, or _Formée_. } _Patonce._ } Varieties of the heraldic Cross, Nos. _Patriarchal._ } 106, 99, and 95.
_Peer._ That general title, expressing their equality as members of a distinct "order" in the realm, which is applied to Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
_Peerage._ The hereditament of a Peer: also rank of a Peer; a list of the Peers.
_Pegasus._ A horse with wings--a classic as well as an heraldic imaginary creature.
_Pelican._ Blazoned "in her piety," when feeding her young with her own blood.
