Crowns and caps  Book III, Chapter 1, Section 1b
 



Crown mural
 


Crown naval
 


Crown vallarial
 


Crown celestial
 


Crown triumphal
 


Crown civical
 


Garland of fame and honour
 


Garland pacifical
 


Crown of ceres
 

Untranscribed item(s) Crowns (Other sorts of Crowns. )

Papal insula
 


Papal crown
 


Cardinal's hat
 XXXV. He beareth a Cardinals Hat, with the Strings pendant and platted, or fretted in form of a True-Loves knot, Bobs and Tassells.


Cardinal's cap
 XXXVI. He beareth a Cardinalls Cap. This is their usual wearing Cap.


Scotch bonnet
  Image from published plate
In the chief of this square is another sort of Cap made much after the form of a Scotch-Bonnet, or round Cap. A 3 such S. banded is the Cappers Arms in Chester. See numb.42.43.


Cardinal's caps
 XXXVII. He beareth a Cardinalls Cap of the order of St. Austin. Others term it a Monk, or friers Cap, of St Austins order.
In the Chief of this square is another form of drawing the Cardinals Hat.


Mitred crown
 XXXVIII. He beareth a Crown Mittered, Garnished with variety of Gems.
Such a Crown Mittered is to be set upon the shield of Arm of such a Bishop, as doth exercise Soveraign Jurisdiction: doth manage both the Temperal Sword, and Spriritual staff, & keep all Courts within his Diocess in his own name. Such of old I have seen in a Manuscript over the Bishop of Durhams Arms, see chap.5. numb.104.


Bishop's mitre
 XXXIX. He beareth a Miter (or a Bishops Miter).


Four-cornered, judge's cap
 XL. He beareth a four cornered Cap This is a chief Justice or Judges Cap, which he ever puts on his Head before he passeth Sentence on any Malefactor. This is also a Master of Arts his Cap, or a Doctors Cap, see the same born sideways numb.44.


Three cornered cap
 XLI. He beareth a three Cornered Cap.


Bonnet cap
 XLII. He beareth a Bonet Cap Lined: in chief an Egyptian Shooe. This Cap is termed in the Schools, a Students Cap, or an under Graduates Cap.


Egyptian shoe
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Scotch cap
 XLIII. He beareth a Bonet (or Scotch Bonet, or Scotch Cap): in chief a Laplanders Shooe. Before that the Invention of Hats were found out, this was the covering for the Head of all the Grandees and Persons of note and quality in former Ages, and this many ancient Pictures remaining amongst us to this day, doth inform us.


Laplander's shoe
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Cap
 XLIV. He beareth a Cap and Button turned up. This is used now, and also was in our Forefathers days, by all Labourers and Handicrafts Men who cannot conveniently work (especially in the Summer time) with their Hats on their Heads: and therefore are fitly termed Labourers Caps, and without Buttons, Caps or Night-Caps, as numb.47.


Doctor's cap
  Image from published plate
In the Chief of this square is the figure of a Doctors four cornered Cap set sideways, and in Heraldry thus drawn is term'd the Master of Arts (or Doctors Cap).


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