Coronet or steel cap
XLV. He beareth a Coronet [or] a
Steel Cap. Some term it a Coronet Capped and a Cap set in Coronet.
All round headed Caps are generally termed
Steel Caps, or Morions.
Cap
XLVI. He beareth a Cap turned up
and open behind (in form of a Chapeau): Deckt
with a Feather in the frontlet or forepart.
Morion
XLVII. He beareth a Morion, or Steel
Cap, lined and
turned up.
Morion
XLVIII. He beareth a Morion, or Steel
Cap, turned up in point: set on each
side with a Crutch. Some term them a Crutch
Staff, or a Lame Mans Staff, or a Potonce.
Several ways of Bearing things on Caps.
Morion
XLIX. He beareth a Morion turning up in point (like a Chapeau) engrailed,
Billetted, or set with 6 Billets on the top.
Morion
L. He beareth a Morion of some called a copped hat or cap
turned up.
Morion
L. He beareth a Morion or Steel Cap
turned up, each side beset or adorned [with] two palms or tops of buckshorns.
Insula
LI. He beareth a Insula turned
up Chapeau like. Some term them an Insula
Cap or a Pyramid Cap, or a high copped Cap,
turned up.
Insula
LII. He beareth an Insula turned up,
on the top a Button
Insula
LIII. He beareth an Insula, turned
up and opened on the side.
Insula
LIV. He beareth and Insula: turned up, and open on the side, with a Button on the
top; reverted.
Insula and roper's stake
He beareth an Insula turned
up in point; issuant there from erect the side,
a Ropers Stake.
Related text(s) Turn ups
Saracen's hat
LVI. He beareth a Sarazens Hat, or an Insula, Garnished: enwrapped with a Towel,
tied in a knot with Nooses and ends pendant.
Capped tank
LVII. He beareth a Capped Tanke, Stringed. This is a certain cover for the Head, which
ancient Servile Romans used.
The strings are to tie it under the Chin that it be not apt to fall of the Head, as otherwise it would be. The difference between an Insula and a Tank is this: The first riseth to a kind of a point in the top; the latter is directly rounded there. The one wide at the bottom and narrow upward, but the other is of one widness all along from the bottom to the top.
Fool's cap
LVIII. He beareth a Fools Cap with a
Bell at the end of the flap: turned up.
Insula
He beareth an Insula gradually circled.
Insula
LX. He beareth an Insula imbowed in the top,
Garnished and Tasselled.
Insula
LXI. He beareth an Insula imbowed at the
end: turned up in form of a Chapeau, and
engrailed, with a Button and Tassel on the top.
Here note that when these Insula's are imbowed at the top, then they are made much smaller at the end then usually they are to be, when streight.
Insula
LXII. He beareth an Insula imbowed,
Button and Tassell, turned up, fretted.
Monmouth cap
LXIII. He beareth a Munmouth Cap, (or
a Ship Cap, or Boat Cap, turning up.
These Caps are often laced on the Crown, and Edges of the turn up: which you may either blazon Edged or Imbrauthered, so and so. This is also termed a Mountaro Cap, and a Munmouth Cap, as from the place where it was first made.
Knitted cap
LXIV. He beareth a Knit Cap, or a Mild
Cap, banded and buttoned, turned up
on one side. This is also termed a falconers,
or foresters Hat, being in former times much in use
with such, because the would bear out wet: but now are
wholy left off. By the Gallants of those times, the under
sides of the brim were richly adorned with Silver and
Gold, and bands of the same.
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