I was reading a bit about a family I was tracing and found out that in a small church in Gloucestershire there are a couple of this family buried in the floor of the church.
The monumental slabs show the arms of the family. They are described as "Quarterly of four: first and fourth, a fess engrailed between three annulets braced together; second and third, a chevron between three garbs"
Doing a bit of digging, I can work out what I think the chevron and garbs look like (image attached), but I'm having some trouble understanding the other bit.
Can anyone help with the "fess engrailed" bit?
The source that I got this from also wrote "I have been unable to determine the tinctures or to identify that family from whom the X's acquired this quartering."
I think tinctures refers to what colours are used?
Can anyone suggest some helpful books to read, or any other sources, that might be helpful in looking into this a bit more? Or just starting off with the whole heraldry thing?