Fess is in Charges.
fess. A horizontal bar across the centre of the escutcheon. From the Latin fascia meaning band.
Lisle. Or a fess between two chevrons sable. Source.
Lister. Ermine, a fess sable three mullets or. Source.
Camden. Or, a fess engrailed between six crosses crosslet fitchy sable. Source.
Craven. Argent, a fesse between six cross crosslets fitchée gules. Source.
Manners. Or, two fess azure a chief gules.
Coventry. Sable a fess between three crescents or. Source.
Roper. Per fess azure and or, a pale counter-changed and three buck's heads erased of the second. Source.
Fermor. Argent, a fess sable between three lion's heads erased gules. Source.
Tennant. Argent, two crescents in fess sable on a chief gules a boar's head couped of the first. Source.
Beauchamp. Gules a fess or between six cross crosslets or.
Walpole. Or a fess between two chevrons sable three cross crosslets of the field. Source.
Ayscough. Sable, a fess or, between three asses passant argent, maned and unguled of the second. Source.
De La Pole. Azure, a fess between three leopard's faces or. .
Watkins. Azure, a fess vair between three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys or. Source.
Bars. A horizontal line smaller than a fess.
Fess Argent
Around 1577 George Gower Painter 1540-1596 (37). Portrait of Richard Drake 1535-1603 (42). The heraldic escutcheon shows seven quarters as follows:
1: Drake of Ash. Drake of Ash in the parish of Musbury, Devon.
2: Argent, on a chief gules three cinquefoils of the first; Billet of Ash.
3: Gules, on a fess argent two mullets sable; Hamton of Rockbere and Ash.
4: Ermine, on a chief indented sable three crosslets fitchee or; Orwey of Orwey and Ash.
5: Barry of seven argent and sable.
6: Azure, six lions rampant argent crowned Gules, 3, 2, 1; Forde of Forde.
PAINTINGS/GOWER/Richard_Drake.jpg7: Argent, two chevrons sable (Esse/Ash of Ash); Esse or Ash of Ash.
Carteret. Gules four fusils in fess argent.
Fess Dancetté
Duff. Vert, a fess dancetté ermine, between a buck's head caboshed in chief and two escallops in base or.
Pulteney. Argent, a fess dancetté gules in chief three leopard's faces sable. Source.
Rolle. Or, a fess dancetté between three billets azure each charged with a lion rampant of the first three bezants. Source.
Rous. Sable, a fess dancetté or between three crescents argent. Source.
West. Argent, a fess dancetté sable. Source.
Fess Gules
Devereux. Argent, a fess gules three torteaux in chief. Source.
Fitzwalter. Or, a fess gules between two chevrons of the last. Source.
Acland. Chequy argent and sable, a fess gules. Source.