Part 13 (1/2)

_Cinque-foil._ A flower or leaf of five foils: No. 227.

_Civic Crown._ A wreath of oak-leaves and acorns.

_Clarenceux._ See _Herald_.

_Clarion._ An ancient musical instrument, a badge, apparently, of the DE CLARES. By some this charge is supposed to represent a _lance-rest_, and is sometimes so blazoned: No. 228, which shows two varieties of form.

_Clechee._ A variety of the heraldic Cross: No. 105.

_Close._ With closed wings.

_Closet._ A Diminutive of the Bar, one half its width.

_Clouee._ Fastened with Nails, and showing the Nail-heads: No. 150.

_Coat Armour._ True armorial or heraldic bearings, duly granted or inherited, and rightly borne: so ent.i.tled, from having been depicted by warriors of the Middle Ages upon their _surcoats_, worn by them over their armour.

_Coat of Arms._ A complete armorial composition, properly what would be charged upon a s.h.i.+eld or Banner, but often used as an alternative for _Achievement_, _q.v._

_c.o.c.katrice._ A fabulous creature, represented in No. 229.

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 229.--c.o.c.katrice.]

_Collar._ One of the insignia of Orders of Knighthood, worn about the neck. Also any ornament or distinction worn in the same manner. Knights occasionally wore collars charged with their own badge. In addition to their badges of the Red and White Rose, examples exist showing that adherents of the rival houses of York and Lancaster sometimes wore collars, the former formed of alternate _Suns and Roses_, No. 230; and the latter, of the letter S continually repeated, No. 231. No certain origin has been discovered for the Lancastrian ”Collar of S.,” but it has been suggested that it represents the word SOVERAYGNE, the motto of HENRY IV. No. 230 is from the Bra.s.s to HENRY BOURCHIER, K.G., Earl of Ess.e.x, at Little Easton, Suffolk, A.D. 1483; and No. 231 from the Bra.s.s to Lord CAMOYS, K.G., at Trotton, Suss.e.x, A.D. 1424.

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 230.--A Collar of York.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 231.--A Collar of Lancaster.]

_College of Arms_, or _Heralds' College_. (See _Herald_.)

_Colour._ See Chapter V., page 41. The term ”_Colours_” is applied to Flags, particularly to those of infantry regiments, and to such as are displayed at sea. (See Chapter XVII.)

_Combatant._ Two lions, or other animals of prey, rampant and face to face.

_Compartment._ In Scottish Heraldry, ”a kind of carved panel, of no fixed form, placed below the escutcheon, bearing the supporters, and usually inscribed with a motto or the name and designation of the owner.” --_Seton._ Other objects placed below the s.h.i.+eld are met with under this description.

_Componee_, _Compony_, or _Gobony_. A single row of small squares alternately of two tinctures or furs: No. 66. (See _Counter Componee_.)

_Complement, In her._ Applied to the moon when full.

_Compound Quartering._ The quartering of a quarter, or division of a quartered Coat-of-Arms. (See page 34.)

_Compound Arms._ Arms formed from the combination of the bearings of two or more distinct coats, to produce a single compound coat.

_Conjoined in Lure._ Two wings united, their tips in base.

_Contoise._ A flowing scarf, worn attached to the helm before 1350. Two examples occur in effigies in Exeter Cathedral, and another in Westminster Abbey.

_Contournee._ Facing to the sinister.