Water-budget

A heraldic bearing, in the form of a yoke with two pouches of leather appended to it, originally intended to represent the bags used by the Crusaders to convey water acro the desert, which were slung on a pole, and carried acro the shoulders. The Trusbuts, barons of Wartre in Holder ne , bore Trois boutz d’eau , “ three water-budgets ,” symbolizing at once their family name and baronial estate; and by the marriage of the heire , similar arms came to be a umed by the family of De Ros, who bear gules, three water-budgets argent.